People familiar with my posts know that I make some relatively esoteric choices when it comes to finding/building quiet products. :) I'm in the market for a 19" monitor and I've noticed that PC monitors have changed in their design over the past 5 or so years. One obvious change is the embedding of ...

Mike I suppose you are probably interested in relatively new models, so buyers can make informed choices with their next purchases.
But there's always used-monitor purchases, so I'll add mine to the list.

It's more than five years old now.
Samsung 570V 15" TFT LCD monitor.
Silent all these years.

...either way, such a tiny heatsink and screamer fan for the CPU, even being mobile, why not go all out? could easily go semi passive with one 500RPM fan to keep things in check. i also see a couple SATA connectors at the bottom of the board, you could expand on your storage and speed a lot with th...

...So, for fan control I use AA1 Fan Control. Very simple and works very well...you just set the temp that you want the fan to come on. I use 64C and it stays off 99.9% of the time, even watching movies. Thanks Treker this is good to know. I might consider getting an AA1. I had forgotten a previous...

edh wrote:Pics not working here.

OK Ed, you can get to the pics directly with these addresses:

http://www.geocities.com/noise_watch/100_4499.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/noise_watch/100_4498.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/noise_watch/100_4492.JPG

matcote wrote:you have to do this every time you wants to remove the front panel.

Thanks Mat for the info!

Hiya, Open the left side, and take it off. There are three plastic tabs at the front -- pull under them and the front will hinge open (the trick is to open the top or the bottom one first, and then the other two). Thanks very much Neil! So if I do this, will I then be able to gain access from the f...

Hi Folks, I have a P150 Antec case and would appreciate help from someone here on how to open the front part of the case to clean the filter. I see there is a hinge but can't for the life of me figure out how to open it! It's been almost two years so the filter probably needs a good cleaning. :) I c...

HD suspended

Infamous NeoHE430 PS !!!

OK after almost two years I figured it's about time to post some pics of my rig. :) Actually I was waiting until I needed to open up my case before I was going to take the pics (I had forgotten to take the finished build pics a couple of years ago). So these pics were taken a few months ago. I love ...

The AA1 is entirely different machine. Much better keyboard and larger sharper screen. I have no problems with typing or seeing text. The build quality is superior. Linpus is okay. I bricked mine one day after getting it by visiting a non Aspire repository looking for a solitaire game. That's when ...

Thanks very much quikkie and treker for your reviews!
Are you familiar with the Asus eeePCs?
If so, how would you compare the AA1 to them?

I have the eeePC 4G 7" screen model. It's great except for the smallish screen.

twoscoreandfour wrote:The Dell Mini 9 is fanless I believe

Not according to a Dell sales guy I just chatted with online.

It's been a couple of months since the last reply and I'm not sure if anyone here has bought/tried the flash disk models (instead of the HD ones).
They now have 8G and 16G flash models.

Does anyone know if these models have fans and what the temperature of the Atom gets to in usage?

TIA

NoiseFreeGuy wrote:

NoiseFreeGuy wrote:

NoiseFreeGuy wrote: Asking $1550 US.

Pic:
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/attachm ... 1205358111

Price drop to $1450 US.

OK, last price reduction, this is as low as I can go.

$1299 U.S.

OK man, I'm really desperate!
The price has been lowered to $1099 U.S.

...Maybe someone else can answer if you can boot up from compact flash on laptops that let you plugin cf cards. The card it self would need to support fixed mode. HP's had a notebook for over 15 years that could do that! The Omnibook series 300, 425, 430, 530, 600 etc. could all boot from a flash d...

ky wrote:What's the Samsung part number on this?

It's part number NP-Q1-V002

NoiseFreeGuy wrote:

NoiseFreeGuy wrote: Asking $1550 US.

Pic:
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/attachm ... 1205358111

Price drop to $1450 US.

OK, last price reduction, this is as low as I can go.

$1299 U.S.

NoiseFreeGuy wrote: Asking $1550 US.

Pic:
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/attachm ... 1205358111

Price drop to $1450 US.

wim wrote:yes, PSU fan should halt too

Thanks Wim.

... if you set in bios standby to go to "S3" mode, then HD and fans will spin down when you put the computer to standby. everything should turn off except the 5Vsb rail ... One question about the S3 mode. Will the power supply fan shut off too? I can't remember what I did way back to get it to turn...

.. if you set in bios standby to go to "S3" mode, then HD and fans will spin down when you put the computer to standby. everything should turn off except the 5Vsb rail (which keeps the ram alive) and its negligible power draw there Ah yes, you are correct Wim. Thanks for reminding me about that. I ...

i thought the soft shutdown is a function of ATX power spec.... ie, you cant do hard shutdowns without damaging something. if you want what you're talking about, i guess build a wayback machine and go back to 1993... Well I guess I discovered a way to get around 'damaging something' because I've be...

why don't you use standby and wake-on-keyboard or wake-on-mouse activity ? this is what i do, since i don't actually have a case.. just had to change some power settings in bios and then it's a double-click to turn the computer on I do have my computer set to standby and wake-on-keyboard or wake-on...

Don't know why your system is misbehaving - I use the same arrangement for my computers ... But here is another possible solution: (same question came up in another thread this morning) http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=396612#396612 ... The simplest seemed to be to put a capacit...

This is the real deal folks. It's the 32G SSD (Solid state disk) Q1 UMPC by Samsung in mint condition. This Q1 was purchased just a couple of weeks ago and used for a total of under five hours. There are no scratches or blemishes whatsoever. I am throwing in Samsung's USB keyboard and suede organize...

As I discovered with the first board, the supplied HSF is a POS, runs hot even with the fan at 12V. But it's very short, so you could fit it in a short case. The Zalman 5700 I'm using Glad to hear you finally got your RMA board and things are working out! I have the GMEm-LFS too, using a P-750 with...

Bluefront wrote:OK...I got it to boot up once more this afternoon. ...
I was adding a few more programs, and installed one that required a re-boot. Now the thing refuses to start again....crap.

Good to hear of your progress.
It sounds like the board is probably faulty though.

Bluefront wrote:Bad news for me anyway.......I got the board today but it has a problem. I get no video most of the time when I try to start. (

That's too bad. Sorry to hear about it.
Please keep us posted as to how you make out.