What IS all this hype about the SLK-800? Reading through these posts I'd get the impression it's the only high performance heatsink on the market. Sure, from what I've read, it appears a fine heatsink. So is the Swiftech MCX462+. Which took my nasty, noisy AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53GHz Palomino down f...

What a fantastic survey. These were exactly the heatsinks I wanted to see tested n' compared. And the criteria by which they were judged were precisely those most meaningful to us, the intrepid sailors of the boiling PC cauldron, searching for safe harbor in the form of quiet and effective cooling. ...

Looks bad from the start, and thats exactly what they concluded Only providing you with 12" by 9.5" of material for a whole case is just ridiculous... This is somewhat akin to buying a suit and discovering, upon opening the box, that you’ve been supplied with nothing but some thong underwear. Sure ...

WE HAVE A WINNER!!! Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant! Thank you, ChiefWeasel! Y’know, funny thing is as soon as I read your explanation, I knew it was right. How could it NOT be? It’s the only possible reason why this hmmmMMMmmmMMM phenomenon was intermittent. I should have known better given my back...

As I’m a bit of a wanker with too much free time, I set out to measurably prove from where my humming was, ehem, coming. So I pulled out my handy Sound Level Meter and went to work. I wasn’t terribly concerned with ultimate spl, mind you. I simply wanted to get to the root of this cycling noise/vibr...

Good suggestions, quokked! But as a “Silent Apprentice,” naturally I’ve a bit o’ the “Noisy Idiot” in me as well. And I’ve no idea how to accomplish the tasks you suggest. I mean, will the computer even boot up without one or the other HD connected? Is the, erm, “post” period you refer to the comput...

'Allo to you, Rusty! You know, before I joined up with this sordid lot, I read a bunch o' your posts and glory be, your computer system is very nearly identical to mine. Given that's the case, I tried IM'ing you on AOL, as your profeel lists a handle... but you're never signed on, alas. Your suggest...

'Allo there, Nigel here. I've got a wonderful pair o' Maxtor D740X 60GB 7200 rpm hard drives. Faster n' Maurice Green, they are. Fairly quiet too. However, if I don't miss my mark, I think they may be responsible for a new and interesting phenomena within my very noisy box. It's a humming of sorts. ...