I'm not sure whether they are still producing them, but Kodak used to go down the cheap-refill route for their ink-jets.

Annoying thing about laser printers is their possibly high standby-consumption and potentially (under research) nasty emissions from printing (ozone, fine-dust, etc.).

We could release a 250W SFX based off of our ST30SF for example, but the price difference would likely be less than $5 (something like $45.99 vs. $49.99) and you can probably see why we decided to release only the 300W version. With the right marketing and customer education, I'm sure one can estab...

I will wait and see what the true benefits of direct x 11.2 are. If any games even use them. Barely any even use direct x 11.0 properly. If microsoft can give me a compelling reason why I should spend 100 dollars I will. The way I look at it it is their fault for putting out a piece of crap product...

dan wrote:i think SPCR should offer fanless passively cooled builds

Hmm, considering that everything is free, I'm pretty happy with what Mike, Lawrence and their other helpers are doing.

Now I'm starting to wonder how Mercury would fare ...

igoring line 1 and item like chocolate, we are talking about a core temperature of 47 deg. C (for e.g., Prolimatech PK1) to 63 deg. C. (ThermalRight The Chill Factor) i.e., some TIM can do a core temperature of 47 deg. C, and yet some other can only do 63 deg. C. That's a 16 deg. C between differen...

If everyone thought like you then we wouldn't even get the option of having thunderbolt. And like firewire the interface doesn't consume cpu cycles like usb. I don't think that is how it works. True, the early adopters are important, however, the interface seems very much a private concoction betwe...

I agree with Steve. Don't quit your job. Last time I rejected a sure thing that I couldn't console with my happiness, I had to find out the hard way that 1 year of unemployment is a looong and even unhappier time. Also, jobcentres are full of useless people.

The bigger problem is finding an outer box 6" larger in each dimension than my current case box, as per Fedex recommendations, which would make it 29*26*16". I think I might have to just try and find a box around the same size as the case one, 23*20*10", but stronger and more suitable for shipping ...

Yeah, that sounds like a recipe for disaster, with a little bit of foil left behind and blowing the thing up as soon as he switches it on :roll: It could be. But you could make sure only the wrap the stabilising foam pieces with the heavy variant of the foil. Is your brother really that clumsy and ...

Yeah, go Scythe! Also some people have said that the PWM fans are smoother being worked with pwm signal, the motor is quieter and the fan is smother... this i cant confirm as my hearing isnt as good, but worth mentioning since you guys test on the chamber where it might make a difference. I am not s...

Aluminium foil apparently works well as anti-static surface. So if all else fails ... your brother just has to remember to remove all of it.

Show us some pictures when you're assembling you system in the table - sounds swell.

My solution was always a few coats with a black permanent marker. Not sure what's with the trend of super bright LEDs everywhere. In my local tube station, particularly the green train traffic light actually manages to cast shadows all the way to the other end of the platform. Most notice boards are...

CA_Steve wrote:Made me think of the huge wall fan in the foyer of the Men in Black HQ.

We'd have to get Mike and Lawrence to test that one first!

@magic_dog: Did you manage to put your build together?

CA_Steve wrote:

Cistron wrote:Are these the 1000mm FDB fans?

Uhh, brain fart - mm != rpm, hehehe.

After reading a lot of reviews, I'm weary about the stock fans for the R4. Are these the 1000mm FDB fans? I just got two of these off the bay and had a quick listen outside the case - sound pretty decent to me, that is I can barely hear them at ~7V from ~half a meter distance. I'd also wager you sh...

CA_Steve wrote:Or drop down to an ARM device. Browsing and music takes tiny bits of horsepower.

Yeah, tablet and cable (miracast/MHL?) for your monitor.

I just picked up the Asus gtx 780 direct cu card, and it seems pretty decent so far. My application is a little specialized, I'm using it for folding@home, and I don't think it's being pushed to the max yet. But it is pretty quiet, and it does stay pretty cool. I'm currently running it in a machine...

if you wanted to build a passive cooled pure silent pc, not gaming, what components cpu motherboard and cases would u use? A case that works as a heatsink and a motherboard that is ensured to work at elevated temperatures (e.g. 50 vs 38°C system temp). However, unless you are in a dead-quiet room, ...

Very cool, keep the photos coming!

You could always install another exhaust fan behind your hard-drives.

Scenario: There is a national pot of money that everyone invests into, and everyone receives money back from, a large part of the money put into that pot gets given to the children of the contributors. Is it right to give money from that pot to people who have never contributed money to that pot, a...

The UK is not a country with "open" borders, but has agreed to free movement of goods and persons as the most fundamental EU treaty. Semantics. 500-Million people in many different countries can legally move into each others countries, work, breed and use that countries services. This is a damned g...

So you don't recognise that millions of people from (most) EU member states have the legal right to move to the UK.? If you agree then you must also agree that must constitute "open borders", if you disagree then you obviously don't understand situation. The UK is not a country with "open" borders,...

I'm also thinking that anything more powerful is just an overkill in my case, since I only game on Linux, and only casually, and usually older games in any case (I have a tendency to play retro-games and get bored with the never ones quite quickly). Switch to an AMD Richland with beefy integrated G...

who simply want to win future elections by letting in millions of people who will then vote for them are to blame, whilst at the same time the unemployment rate is high, schools and hospitals cant cope and the country is bankrupt. How would this work? Without a citizenship you'd be hard-pressed to ...

Macs could do less (for the same money anyway) but they were less prone to breakage which is what pissed off the average user (as opposed to computer lab pranks). They certainly held on to that principle. So, I'd ask the question from a different perspective: rather than clock-for-clock, why is ARM...

Das_Saunamies wrote:It is hardly the perfect product, so I can see why it's not an Editor's Choice.

I'm also wondering why it needs such a massive hole in the centre, when it most cases (upright tower) this will be perpendicular to the convection direction.

How about you run a memtest, some benchmarks and monitor the temperatures? That should help diagnose the problem.

I've read these articles. In fact I bought the lían li case Two years ago. BUt is loud as hell in its actual locatión. I'm moving the server to a bedroom, it must be quiet. I think 6 hard-drives will be hard to get bedroom quiet. I use a WD20EARS, which has been tested as very quiet, however at nig...