It's not just the cheapness, it's the convenience. I have many molex to molex + fan Y-splitters, and all I need is to daisy chain and all the fans are 5Ved with one customized splitter.

Not that I have many fans nowadays but... it makes for a quick quieting of loud systems with many fans.

Interesting how high-school knowledge can be useful here.

Can't wait for the results to be out. If it works maybe I'd join in. And stuff the HDD along with it too.

High Power makes decent PSUs for barebones and cases (normal or small).

And that PSU looks kinda familiar...

Lol why didn't I think of that one b4. :lol: Considering the size of the "cooler" surface area and the amount of heat a PSU can generate in real-life situations, and that the components can handle temperatures way above that of CPUs, this sounds practical and most importantly, easy (compared to the ...

Wow you can hear the difference between a ball-bearing and sleeve-bearing fan?

Teach me.

That aside, I think we now know how-many-bladed fan should be used on heatsinks.

Unless they are actively interfering with each other, why not use both? That way, if SpeedFan crashes, BIOS should take over. Of course, if BIOS does everything you want, just use that, but if that were the case why would you be using SpeedFan in the first place? Mine do interfere with each other -...

It wouldn't be nice if a CPU designed for notebooks would throttle @ 71C, since notebooks have poorer cooling. Anyway the max cover temp of notebook Core xxx is 100 so 71 looks safe to me. I wonder would it be possible to mod a Core Duo/Core 2 Duo to ULV, especially Conroes that would be best. I che...

Thermal tape. Good luck finding it though. Are you going to have any sort of fan blowing at the card? If you will, you should be okay without the ramsinks, but if the airflow is going to be that low, you should try to find some. I just found out, the Zalman sandwiches are not going to cool an X800 ...

After deciding that my X800GT runs too hot I've decided to use a fan, and I have 3 choices after considering that the heatsink has "fins" in the inner sides facing the card too: http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9599/1000321nc2.jpg http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/6092/1000322nm4.jpg http://img68...

Took it off some SFF?

Not too bad.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2005/04/0 ... age13.html

That's exactly the kind of buzzing I had with an Abit VA-20. Except maybe it was much louder (audible over a 5000rpm fan). :? For both my cases (PSU and mobo), undervolting or keeping the system cool helps, as well as certain cooler programs (programs that use the HLT command) like AMN Refrigerator ...

Apparently a few of the newer Seasonics are exhibiting coil buzzing under certain load (light, medium, heavy, or whatever combination), but yours sounds serious considering the volume. This is quoted from SPCR's own review of the M12: Surprisingly, our sample had an undue amount of buzzing electrica...

The integrated fan is bad yea, but the flower design is how Zalman make use of the sideward airflow to increase the effective heat exchange area.

There are other designs that are similar but have their fans mounted outside e.g. Vortex TX, but you see they're half as effective.

Because the CNPS-7000 was too powerful that's why. :lol: It was already available since, 2002? And it's so small (by today's standard), smaller than the 8000. (and by the numbers looks like they threw out the 8000 design for good) I'm thinking that the 8700 will be a killer. Because somehow I have a...

Can you list out the no name brands? Maybe there could be some good brands in there.

Like Enhance, Hipro or Delta...

Did Thermaltake ever need to wait for others to give them their design? Don't they just blatantly take without permission?

If you look at Desktop CPU power survey you can see S939 4800+ also idled at 8.8W; it's the full load consumption that is the real revelation. Might be slighly off-topic, but there's something interesting about the potential of how low those CPU can idle at... Consider the vcores of all the A64s wi...

I just wonder why they're bothering to use virtual rails. (or maybe those are there just in sticker) Because of some brands offering single rail PSU that appeal to certain groups of users, because of the ineffective use of the +12V2 (CPU-only) rail, and because some brands actually consider the lac...

Maybe they found out that pulling still works better than 90-degree pushing in this case where there are lots of stuff in the way

or that they need the space for the components that they have no space for the 120mm fan

I've had the opposite scenario before, except it was with an entire system. The said system has only the PSU fan and two weak, restricted 5V-ed 60mm fans for exhaust, until an extra powerful exhaust utilizing a 3.5" bay was added And the air coming out of that exhaust feels hotter than the air comin...

Fungi wrote:How did that work out for you?
I have a fanless 7600GS and it doesn't look like they make those exhaust-type blowers for it so I was thinking I'd need to do something about it.

It was a difference between overheating and not.

Amazing what a little airflow can do.

4 is still the best lol

So, basically if I buy your 750W PSU, I cannot expect it to meet my requirement, which is 750W?

We all know PCPC don't make their own PSU anyway.

Well that's not exactly a Solo-only mod , yea I've tried it with a generic casing that had no exhaust. Used it to cool my foamed HDD and a GF2Mx with a broken fan.

Firstly, WELCOME T... wait, I'll save that for some other people. :D Other than the Corsair (which is pricey and louder at your load level), the other 3 options are all good and which path to choose would really depend on you. There was a time when I also got stuck between the S12 and a fan swap but...

Have you checked the noise and temperature of the PSU? The lack of space for the fan is going to be bad for airflow and gonna cause a bit more noise.,I've had bad experiance with a previous case using this layout because my PSU had a 92mm intake which caused a hell lot more noise when it is installe...

300W linear PSU, 25A +12V output on a single rail, + cannot use existing power supplies (like the Silverstone ST56ZF)

Now I'm curious, what are you using it for?

Since it's in sleep mode most of the time I think it'd be quite safe. Don't worry about the 2504 as I have an 2514 and can testify that they run really cool compared to old-time favourite Barracuda IV that suvived life on foam. I prefer to put them upside-down since the bottom feels hotter than the ...

Any reason not to consider an open-frame power supply? Because I f***ed myself before with an open-frame PSU placed on top of my computer casing. And I live in 230V country. But maybe it would be much safer if inside the casing. :lol: I was thinking of getting one of those PCB boards from radioshac...

Some AthlonXP mainboards do use +12V to power CPU, characterized by many mosfets and capacitors.

aristide1 wrote:So CPUs run off of 12 volts regulated down? Sounds wasteful.

Using more current with the +3.3V and resulting in more power lost in transit sounds more wasteful to me.