If you want to take the cooling side of things seriously...

Get a case which has a 120mm fan hole at the back. Take the fan off the scythe ninja, and put it there. It should be close enough to the heatsink to draw some heat off it directly. Also you will have the PSU fan above that. This creates a proper air pressure inside your computer, where the air HAS to come in the front, and go out the back.

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Originally posted by excite331 I bought a 500w Seasonic for my DAW initially and had all sorts of problems because it's literally TOO much wattage for what I had.

what kind of problems?

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Also you seem to be looking for some very pricey, hot and NOISY (fans!) GPU cards. I went for one of these: http://www.oninocomputing.co.uk/gra...300_128_mb.html - runs both my monitors at high res (1600x1200 and 1200xwhatever). That is unless you want to play games or do graphics work of course.

i was told ASUS N8500GT/HTD SILENT 256MB DDR2 PCI-E was good enough and not noisy graphic card...and it's not that pricey, only 85.60 €.

Theres no such thing as "too much wattage". A 500W power supply does not supply 500W constantly, that is just the MOST it is rated to provide. Most basic computers won't go above 300W, which makes 400-500W a really safe bet.

The problem he was probably having is too high efficiency. When power supplies have really high efficiency (good), some mother boards won't boot up (bad).

For the record, silentpcreview rated the Corsairs above the Seasonics. The Seasonics were the previous leaders.

With a 500w Seasonic PSU I had to hit the power switch sometimes 4-5 times before it would actually start. Then, if I was lucky it would actually make Windows - there were occasions where it would just drop off before getting there. Replaced with an Antec 430w and it now works fine. There is information on silentpcreview.com about this sort of thing and I do trust their information....as well as having first hand experience.

[edit] notice someone who knows more about this than me has corrected me! So yeah, 500w seems fine but maybe be wary of the issues I faced..

Damnuok - I think that gfx card I mentioned is more like 60 euro's if not less.

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Hey guys, finally, I have my new PC!

it's really amazing, I can run 25 vsti + 100 vst effects (65tracks) @ ~50% (-293ms overall latency)

Any recommendation ?

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Originally posted by damnuok (-293ms overall latency)

So it can anticipate your input by more than a quarter of a second? Amazing!

lool xd

this is what i get:

Buffer Size: 128 Samples
Input Latency: 3.63ms
Output Latency: 3.58ms
Driver Error Compensation: -300ms
Overall Latency: -293ms



shall i make any change or smth?

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Originally posted by echosystm If you want to take the cooling side of things seriously... Get a case which has a 120mm fan hole at the back. Take the fan off the scythe ninja, and put it there. It should be close enough to the heatsink to draw some heat off it directly. Also you will have the PSU fan above that. This creates a proper air pressure inside your computer, where the air HAS to come in the front, and go out the back.

i have a antec p182 with 120mm fan on the rear and a fan (reversed)
on the scythe ninja, so the back fan is sucking and the other one is blowing, the ninja is in a kind of a wind tunnel, is this obsessive ?
gues not, if you watch at others with expensive watercooling.
it doesn`t even make much noise, only the psu is too loud.
never buy igreen :-P

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Originally posted by damnuok Hey guys, finally, I have my new PC! it's really amazing, I can run 25 vsti + 100 vst effects (65tracks) @ ~50% (-293ms overall latency) Any recommendation ?

So what specs you have?

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Originally posted by Octanesyco Greetings. My name is Casey. You can call me Moose. -Moose

I can run 100+ instances of One Ping Only on my 1.6ghz p4. Can you feel the raw speed emanating from my puter box?!