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a bit more powerful then a 8500GT and more expensive, but Bioshok should play better to
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- Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:58 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Making a new system... cheaply
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4182
- Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:17 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Custom case...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4516
Hi. I've made my own wood case but chose a different approach: bottom to top air flow. http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39383 Also there are a number of other cases built by spcr fans that use the same principle (you can search the "general gallery" section for inspiration). The ...
- Fri May 11, 2007 9:42 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: DriverHeaven's 11W ITX build
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5499
- Wed May 09, 2007 1:29 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My "Sleeper" Rig...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12009
Check the temperature on that HDD...I think it's running hot. You could check with Speed Fan. Other then that ...I really like old small cases...looks great... Also if you are planning to get a Geforce 7600GS I would suggest looking for a HIS 1650 PRO card, because thous take air from the case and e...
- Sun May 06, 2007 10:16 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Would more watts be better for system thats on 24/7?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4372
Mostly because they are expensive and people don't buy them...Also I've heard people complaining about failing Antec Phanthom's.bumthology wrote:Great.
Anyways i've noticed on a certain website i go to that they no longer stock FANLESS PSU's.
Is this because they are very inefficient? or have a high failure rate?
- Sun May 06, 2007 3:35 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: HDD Elastic Suspension... Show your pics!
- Replies: 447
- Views: 1217225
- Sun May 06, 2007 3:28 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: 3D models of my wooden case, input wanted :)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7819
Oau....that's something...I can tell by just taking the motherboard as a reference that it will be a really big case. Also it is quite complicated from my point of view. As far as the components place go's it's the same design as my case from my signature except the hdd : that design has a cable len...
- Sun May 06, 2007 9:45 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24569
Does having the optical drive vertcally affect it in any way..? Not really ...I have a feeling thou, it might write dvd's slower or it could have been because I used really cheap dvd's. Regarding flipping the dvd - the L shaped metal pieces I used to assemble the entire case together had an exact s...
- Wed May 02, 2007 12:13 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: custom wood case - questions
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8466
- Tue May 01, 2007 11:43 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: 24/7/365 very low traffic web server components
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7235
Why not use a second hand laptop? No PSU fan, main fan only comes on with heavy use. I don't think this is a solution...Laptops are not designed to work 24/7. Even after a few hours of idle operation the bottom of any laptop will get hot...that might not be a problem at first but the hdd will slowl...
- Tue May 01, 2007 11:43 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My Virtually Inaudible Lian Li AMD Rig
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13096
- Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:13 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Dell Precision 690 or ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8653
What about Alienware...they have workstations starting 2500 $. They "advertised" it as silent workstation.... Excellent Cooling - Three 120mm fans Maybe they come with some sort of temperature control...or you could ask for one...after all ... you are paying a lot of cash on one of those... http://w...
- Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:23 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: is power management bad for your monitor?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16206
surely the backlight undergoes a state change? that may be so...but you must consider the fact that a LCD monitor comes with a 3 year warranty...they must have thought of this issue...and if after 3 years the LCD does fail...oh well...by that time a similar monitor might cost 3-4 times less then it...
- Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:26 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24569
I'm using normal rubber bands...but since I don't use them to suspend my hdd and only my 2 fan's I really don't care that much if one fails...also they are really easy to work with compared with the wire's I used before. The fan grid from the PSU doesn't matter that much...I did stop the PSU fan wit...
- Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:46 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24569
UPDATE
** UPDATE ** I've made a few modification's to my computer! 1. Changed the Intel Box Cooler with Arctic Freezer 7 Pro (because is incredibly quieter and cools a lot better than the Intel one and because is 3 times cheaper then the Ninja). 2. Made a hole in the back through were all the cables pass. ...
- Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:33 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Thoughts on low power HDD storage
- Replies: 41
- Views: 38239
Since we are talking about green computing, 2 x 750GB HDD are the best solution in my opinion! Reusing 40G or 80G HDD's won't get us any were, because they will use just as much power as the 750 G. It is expensive but from a power consumption point of view is the best GB/W ratio :D. Hell, I'm still ...
- Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:19 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Toms Hardware Being Sold
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9740
- Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:53 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24569
My young padiwan...welcome to da dark side :P Thank you!!! It's good to be here...nice and cozy and dark!!! :lol: How does the DVD work having there? I was considering that position but was afraid it might hit the desk or something like that The case is next to my desk...it doesn't have much to hit...
- Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:55 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24569
AAAUUUUGGGGGHHH!!!!! You bent the video card backplane! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Ha ha! I guessed i did that, didn't I ? :lol: I remember the exact moment when I put for the first time the video card and it didn't fit. Without the slightest hesitation I just reached for the plier and it was done. :D . Since...
- Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:02 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24569
I'd place the HD under the optical drive, on edge of course, That is actually a very good idea! I wonder why didn't I think of that :D ! I think I will mount the HDD in this way! Thank's for the heads up! I'd be tempted to do a stealth job on the optical drive. A slot type would be nice, or a drawe...
- Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:02 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24569
Thank you all for your feed back! Is the top latched/locked on? The top is like 1-2 mm longer then the distance between the front and back plate so it stays fixed by friction and 4 screws that don't let it fall inside the case... The side panel is also held by friction alone... The top is really eas...
- Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:48 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24569
Thank you for the feed back! Possible improvements.... swap the HS for something like a fanless Ninja This is my idea to, No.1 on the to do list! the PSU -- it looks like a generic model that's probably not so quiet. Even a fan swap and grill snip might be enough. The PSU IS a generic model (it came...
- Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:56 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24569
WOOD Case - vertical airflow ( all black :D )
Ok...so I've wanted to do this for some time now! Initially I wanted a normal ATX standard case made out of wood, with the air flow from front - to - back, but after seeing some of the other Wood cases build by some of the users of this forum I decided that a down - to - up air flow would be best su...
- Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:44 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Fanless cooling of slow processors?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5728
Search Ebay for an old AMD K6-2 or Pentium III @500 Mhz with 64 ram or so. I have an AMD K6-2 @450MHz as a rooter useing Windows XP and I have no problem what so ever...most of the job is done by the two LAN Cards. I have it running for 2 months and only restarted him twice(Windows XP I presume... :...
- Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:39 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: can a computer case be made into a big heatsink?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 25328
"Pure silver has the highest thermal conductivity" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver) ... so if you can afford it ... an Al - Ag alloy could become an effective heat sink. However... with the use of a heat pipe and an increase in size of the Al heat sink (let's say the side panel of the computer ...
- Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:27 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: My latest case design... any other input?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8068
Re: My latest case design
Interesting design! I was thinking about an vertical design case my self. You could position the CD-ROM vertically so it would not block any airflow.
What is ABS by the way?
What is ABS by the way?
- Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:43 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Uberconductivity with new material/tech
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6541
At its core, IsoSkin heat spreader technology uses what's known as a planar capillary. This planar capillary provides the necessary amount of liquid (usually water) to handle power densities of up to hundreds of watts per square centimeter I think this is some kind of heat pump...or an array of hea...
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:55 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: independant power switch for drives?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2325
I have 1 WD sata hdd for OS and another PATA for storage(the last one is really noisy ). What I did was to setup the hdd to stop after 3 minutes. In windows you go to : Display properties / Screen Saver / Power / Turn off hdd : after 3 min. Other then that you just have to make sure that the program...
- Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:37 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Carbon-Fibre Computer Case
- Replies: 60
- Views: 42388
A gold case is not going to make it any cooler Andy It was more of a joke ... There will never be a commercial real gold case, and probably no one will build such a case for it's thermal properties and instead it will have a decorative roll :) . Some ventilation holes will probably have a bigger ef...
- Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:21 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Carbon-Fibre Computer Case
- Replies: 60
- Views: 42388
Lead is a great sound insulator but toxic. You could always use gold instead of lead...same weight...not toxic...great for heat transfer ... a little on the expensive side, but what don't we do for a silent PC... :). Probably a thick plate of steel (something like 2-3 mm) would have enough mass not...