that's pants MrSpork !!!!!!

facinating thread! not convinced about the gyroscopic stuff, gravity is a constant force. You need to add a force to the system to create precession. Also, as the disk is symmetrical and perfectly balanced, tilting it wont place extra force on the bearing in order to tilt it further and cause proble...

can only see implementation of on-board GPU's (9100 ect) on speedfans webpage so I think I'll strip down a digital sensor (you can remove the connector to make them slimmer) or buy the analogue kit.

Tim, mCubed gang (squares inna nother dimension )

TD, I also use the Tban and I think it is great. I have recently bought a x850 XT plus arctic silencer 5 and using ati tray tools (amoungst other programs) I can adjust the fan speed using the ATI onboard pwm controller and the temp info from the GPU. However, even at 4% ( the lowest non-zero amount...

not sure about the dampened stuff, but I just modded my zalman9500 with 100mm air ducting (spiral wire covered in thin white plastic) to front of case and then a detachable piece out of the window. The 100mm plastic ring you can buy mates up perfectly with the 9500 fins and at the other end I've squ...

how true that is! when I used to turn around with wires connected I had to turn right back else I'd get wrapped up. Now I can spin ceaselessly

I'm interested in buying a Nexus 120mm fan, but I want to run it at 5V. The problem is that I heard the Nexus has issues running at 5V? do the nexus have trouble running at 5v...or just starting at 5v? I'm using the mCubed T-balancer which starts all fans at 100% when booting up but perhaps some of...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article270-page1.html

Mutemat (not the plus stuff) might be the ticket

i hope this isn't too far off topic. Anyone come up with a material to stuff blow-holes with (or a system of doing it) so that noise is damped but airflow isn't? ```______________ ``/............................/ `/............................./ /_______________/ .\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ perhaps a ...

i have a compucase 6A19...essentially the same but without the CPU vents in the side-panel. I also had the zalman 7000b-cu. I made a cylinder out of acetate sheet which slid over the heatsink fins providing fresh air....idle dropped from ~50c to ~45c with fan at 570rpm (P4 prescott 3.2@3.8Ghz/1.5V 9...

thanks BrianE and slipnottin, I'll go ahead without worries then. the double-glazing idea is a good one mind....and can be added later on if necessary

thats a neat finish. Sticking them to the outside of an ordinary case should damp sound a bit too. And you get to choose an original pattern in the process . Mine is painted with black hammerite hammered finish, but I love marbling, I'm off to Homebase in the morning!

I want a quiet PC but also a window, I've just bought some polycarbonate but was wondering if anyone had used a better see-through sound-dampening material?

i guess photos need hosting elsewhere first then use that {img}url{img} thingy. Once my DSL arrives I should have webspace

if you open the drawer via software (Nero before a verify for instance) does the drawer open the door (and close it too? lol) or will it strain against it? I agree the noise factor is important, I had overlooked that, my drive only spins on bootup and when playing games which= headphones anyway. Pic...

the SLK3000b looks indentical internally to the compucase 6A19 and the acousticase C6607, though the C6607 comes with special feet and a full accoustic wadding kit. the SLK is different externally to some degree, I think it looks sleeker, but I've never liked doors on the front, they always snap off...

it depends on how they are supported i guess, my previous design just had a sheet rolled into a cylinder of the right diameter to fit on a zalman 7000cu and it pointed straight out of the case (297mm), the end of this indeed tried to collapse but I had some UV braid stuff so I made a loop and stuck ...

Ok, here is what mCubed had to say about the attenuator issue: The PWM noise comes mostly with high frequencies. We are working with frequencies between 0 and 200. Some fans do a little rumbling at low speeds. That rumbling can be diminished with our attenuators which turn digital voltage into anal...

that makes good reading. I'm off for a drink and a piez now

i had to look up canola oil....rape seed oil i spose

yes impurities are the problem.... though it would be such a messy job changing parts if submerged in oil....and then you'd have trouble with the electrical contacts I guess.

i use overhead transparency acetate. u can make any size cylinder or even make one/both ends rectangular. have just made a fresh air duct from 5 1/4" bay to new zalman firgure of eight heatpipe thingy then straight out of 120mm rear fan. who needs BTX lol!

i have a compucase 6A19 with quick-release brackets for the 120mm intake and exhaust fans. I bought a flexi-mount fan kit with these long rubber fan mounts but was stumped at first because removing the fan-bracket leaves holes in the wrong places. After some experimenting I mounted the BRACKET using...

I wonder if you submerged a whole pc without fans in distilled water would it work ok and have enough....umm whats that word....where water rises because its hot and colder stuff replaces it....convection currents? well I wonder if it would stay cool. you would need to make sure there were no impuri...

thinking back, I spread mine evenly too, so I apologise for my earlier comment. I do think the black packages the GPU cores are set in are unlike the athlon-style cores though, and are mostly bigger. Whether these packages are heat-spreaders is perhaps another question

i've made fresh air tunnels with sheets of transparency plastic (overhead projector stuff). you can make any diameter cylinders, chopped cones, or even rectangle one end or both ends different. And it lets light through if you have a window.

i think most GPU cores have heatspreaders anyway. Does it look like the athlons? or black plastic? I've never seen a GPU core that looks like an athlon core but i've radeon 9600pro is the best card i've re-pasted. If applying a blob then wiggle the heatsink (rotational) after attachment to help it s...

depends on the level of quality required really. The minimum pro-audio cards are about £70 which gives you breakout cables and hardware effects on many channels etc. If you need gaming effects too then an audigy of some kind is probably the path to take.... any card over £20 will be an enourmous imp...

i think you apply a voltage to the quartz...and it vibrates physically. It might be same technology as cigarette lighters where u press a button to get the spark (it squeezes a quartz crystal) in reverse. Perhaps the quartz is held tight so that its vibrations get turned into an a/c ripple. this is ...

does this mean we can pop round your office and find a fridge full of HDD's outside? put a coupla beers in too, there's a good chap

just modded my Micro$oft wireless optical mouse 2.0 with bluetak as per Alistair's original idea. Wrapped each of the 5 microswitches in tak and pressed it in with jewellers screwdriver, used what i had left to fill some of the voids, and the clicks are much muted. the good thing is retaining the ac...