dukla2000 wrote:At €0.36/m^3 it reminds me of the phrase "rip-off Britain".

Wasn't there a lot of stir-up about this on the papers recently; remember flying across an article on the tube - "heating costs on average to increase to £1000 p.a."?

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Try putting a ball of cat or dog-hair onto the shelf. Works pretty well with martens in Europe. Alternatively, there are more professional devices available that emit uncomfortable noise outside outside our hearing-spectrum.

Nick Geraedts wrote:Looking at your pictures, I'm guessing you have the same problem I've been having in my system - SATA power cables.

I'm completely puzzled as to why the design has been changed from Molex at all. Probably just to make everybody's life a little more complicated.

jaganath wrote:

Cistron wrote:*sigh* Still no DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort.

what would be the point of HDMI (or DVI even) with such feeble onboard GFX and no PCI-e slot?

Let me extend my statement: *sigh* still rubbish onboard graphics.

*sigh* Still no DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort.

Looks very nice set-up. Intel makes faster CPU's but considering that you want to build able budget machine 4850e will do its job wonderfully and it will take less power than Intel counter parts. My personal preference would only drive me towards an AMD processor to make use of the 780G IGP. The di...

Could the last one be an older dual platter version? It's not 00B3A0.

I'd also like to echo my 'colleagues' here, hard drives are simply louder than good, undervolted fans. YOu're much better off investing your efforts and funds in quiet hard drives than just turning off the fans and hoping nothing melts. I wished I had known that 2 months earlier. Funnily, the WD320...

I'd buy my own confocal microscope and have it built for quiet usage. Our current setup is a pain in the neck, those damn lasers just need too much cooling. Sounds like an airport.

edit: hmm a little off topic, I just realised.

There are plenty of HD3450/3650 cards on the market which don't break into sweat with HD-content, are passively cooled and are definitely cheaper than a 9600GT.

How do you think about the Rebel 12 w/o the side-fan. I think it's called the economy version. 12 5.25" bays on the full front, mesh intake, 140mm fan mounting frames, same exhaust size, bottom mounted PSU, dirt cheap. The quality neither the best (judging from my Rebel 9) nor the worst, but good va...

Nuage wrote:Thanks for the replies. I might upgrade the video card in the near future and I'll probably add 1-2 more HDDs later, that's why I was going for 600W. Or do you say even after I add that that stuff, 450w should be enough?

Indeed.

Hmm, let's see. A somewhat acceptable european diesel car runs at 5litres per 100km, that's roughly 56 miles per gallon. An efficient car 3 litre car, such as the Audi A2, will do 94 miles per gallon. That's of course with moderate driving around 2000rpm.

If you're eager you could try gentoo or Archlinux. I never managed to set them up properly, but if you manage there are perfectly adoptable to your resorces. Good luck

English farmers using Wheelbarrows now or what?!? cmon, we're talking about fuel prices here for Christ sake. I'm Austrian and any fuel used by our farmers is freed from tax. Cistron.... the soaring fuel prices affect much more than the cost of driving your car. The farmers are paying the same pric...

not all european cities are such havens of good transport policy. London, for example, is a nightmre. I suppose compared to NO public transport it's heaven. Shitty? - yes; daylight robbery? yes; but at least it's there. You can get to almost any place in London by public transport (even though it f...

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Silent? Are you sure about that? With all your hard drives plus 3 front intake fans... how many fans did you put up in your rig? Even with the foam... i'm doubtful about your silent rig... you might speak about a quiet instead. To be fair enough, no computer is silent, never. Ever since I started l...

You burn much more fuel running pure ethanol Not surprising. The energy density is far less than for fossil fuels. Backyard Ethanol production won't be efficient for a very very very long time. One of the major problems being that most yeast won't produce more than 10% of Ethanol in the fermentatio...

I have a HD3870 SCS3. The problem is that the cooler is on both sides of the card and it basically takes up three slots. Clearance to NB heatsink is usually not a problem. I haven't spotted any RAM heatsinks, which is a likely reason why the memory frequency is set lower than in other HD3870 cards. ...

Cistron, did you subtract out the hub area? :) No, my calculation was as easy as 70^2/60^2=1.36 (pi cancels out anyway). I suppose the bigger the fan the better, since the hub can stay at a similarly small size. However, it also means there is less air-pressure as this is related to the rpms (if I ...

Bluefront wrote:I'm new using 140mm fans......so trying to compare one to a 120mm fan with regard to airflow is somewhat guess-work right now.

If the airflow is proporational to the fan surface area, this would imply a ~35% difference.

Did you disconnect your PSU from the power line when you removed your CMOS battery?

Painters paper masking tape. Dirt cheap, no traces upon removal and judging from my door-frames at "home-home" the thing doesn't come off even after 15 years.

One question: How many fans did you test per fan-type? The number of samples is listed in the green portion of the data box for each model. The number varied, from one for a few to 6 for some. When there were many samples, not all were checked -- after you've checked a few and they all sound the sa...

One question: How many fans did you test per fan-type?

I'd go for the Rebel12. 12 drive bays with front-montable 140mm fans.

There is no need for RAM-heatspreaders, unless you run them at insane vcores such as 2.5V.

The new Noctua has half the heat pipe capacity of the Zipang, so I really do have to question those numbers. After reading a number of his reviews, he is indeed a big Noctua fan. Oops, bad pun. Quality > quantity, I'd say. After all, a lot will depend on how well the heatpipes are soldered into the...