Are there any places that sell the VM-102 or Polar Freezer in the United States? VM-102 avaliable seems to be extremely limited and finding a information on the Polar Freezer is difficult via Google.

I am starting to buy parts for my new PC build and one of the parts I have brought so far is an eVGA GeForce 7600 GT CO. I have read that the ZM80D-HP will fit on it but I must ask, do I have any other options for passively cooling it?

It is avaliable at Newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136033

I agree with NeilBlanchard, you probably do not need more than a 200 Watt power supply. Keep in mind that many reviews measure power draw at the wall rather than between the components and the PSU so typically the necessary PSU wattage rating is vastly overestimated. By the way, if you are going to ...

Well you can turn the opening into a hard drive cooler chamber.....it'll hold a std drive or several suspended laptop drives. Plus it keeps mine practically at ambient temps. It's an intake in this HP case..... http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y159/Bluefront/drive4.jpg I take it that you are using ...

My Western Digital hard drive is still as quiet as the day I first got it. You might want to look at their hard drives.

I must have missed that. I recall reading about those delta bricks a while back. Hopefully there will be a review with one of them between now and my next PC build. That way I will know what to get to ensure that the AC to DC conversion is at maximum efficiency and that the passive power draw ceilin...

Does anyone else realize that this makes it possible to turn an Antec P150's thermals into those of an Antec P180? Heck, it makes it possible to give the separate PSU chamber advantage of the Antec P180 to any case as the AC to DC conversion is handled outside of the case and the DC to DC is so effi...

I am thinking of using it to passively cool Conroe in the build I am planning to do in June/July. This will be an Antec P-150 case with a 120mm TriCool case fan set to low as the only fan in the entire PC.

Could the Thermalright Ultra-90 be used to passively cool a CPU?

What benchmarks? The benchmarks for the processor that you won't be able to purchase for months ("sources" say 2H 06, and more recent "sources" say Q4) which were conducted by the company selling the product? There's another buzz word commonly associated with that type of product. MikeC's comment i...

You probably want one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6812156101

Meanwhile, AMD's "wide" approach, with it's nine-issue design seems to be the better one. They invented the x86 64bit instruction set, and a well set up for dual/quad cores with Hypertransport, onboard memory controller, etc. AMD has a three-issue design. If it had a 9-issue design, you would see t...

You could probably run a Pentium-M fanless with any decent heatsink; it does not have to be designed for fanless operation.

I cannot play Battlefield 2 or anything else for that matter and Media Center 2005 is disfunctional. With the cheap Radeon 7000 I brought, I can literally see Firefox repaint, as well as every other window load. This is urgent. The only problem is that Conroe is not out so I am waiting for Conroe bu...

I am planning a new system build for June/July; ideally, I would like to build it now as my AIW 9700 Pro died on me so I have no gaming rig but I want to build it around the Conroe and G71 processors and Conroe is not out yet. The specifications are as follows: Intel E6600 Processor Intel D975XBX Mo...

Being passively cooled means that it is being cooled without a fan.

My computer seems to have had mutiple hardware failures simultaneously. It all started when I was playing Battlefield 2 one week ago and my screen went blank. Today, I got a new video card (a cheap one to last me until my next major system upgrade this summer) and I have video again but I am getting...

Anyone noticed this about Accelero X1? not compatible to most 7900 GT boards (passive cooler for 7900 GT will be available from 06/2006) Unless I delay my building a new computer until June, the Arctic Cooling GeForce 7900 GT passive cooler will be too late for me to consider buying unfortunately.

Is this the same ZM80D-HP heatsink that is compatible with the GeForce 7900 GT?

http://www.bestbyteinc.com/index.html?f ... SK-ZAL-80D

By the way, frostedflakes, what thermal paste did you use?

TD22057, let me know what your results are. I want to know whether or not it is possible to do gaming on a GeForce 7900 GT passively cooled by a Thermalright V-1 Ultra so that I can make my plans. frostedflakes, that is encouraging. Are you running your GeForce 7900 GT at the stock 450/1320 speeds o...

I still have not ordered my GeForce 7900 GT (apparently everyone is sold out and I was planning to build my new computer in June) but my ATI AIW 9700 Pro died so I am accelerating the rate at which I build my new computer. So that leaves the question, can the GeForce 7900 GT be passively cooled? I w...

I want to build a new, fast and quiet PC for surfing, office apps, and Photoshop Elements. I have a Matrox Millenium P750 triple-monitor video card, and I can’t decide whether or not to use it in a new system. I love it for driving my two 19in. CRTs, but it has a noisy fan and it is an AGP card. AG...

The review showed that boot time was 9 seconds compared to 14 for the Raptor HD. I think the bottlenecks are either the SATA transfer rate, or Windows itself. There's a second version coming with DDR2 . I would think that software develops optimized their software to take up less space at the expen...

Windows is more of an administrator's OS while OSX seems more like an OS for users. It is easier to get around and do things in OSX. It is less cluttered than XP. OSX needs less fussing; you just get on the Mac and do your work without futzing with the OS. You are kidding, right? The last time I us...

Cool, thanks. I look forward to reading how things go for you two.

I am planning a major system upgrade (my PC's CPU, Motherboard RAM, and Video Cards are being replaced) later this year, and the card I want to put in my system is the eVGA GeForce 7900 GT. I will be upgrading from a ATI AIW 9700 Pro with a VGA Silencer Rev. 3. Is there anything out there that is ju...

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=32483
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4855
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/03/08 ... id_cooler/

I hope the partner Intel finds can make the thing quiet.

How important is the error recovery? Does it make a difference if it's 7 seconds or 15? I wanted to get the raid edition, but it's the error recovery thing that is holding me back. Does anyone know how important it is? Will I have lots of data error (reads, writes) if I got the raid edition drive? ...

I think the answer might be to get an Nvidia card and undervolt it. ATI cards cannot be undervolted (without keeping the warranty anyway) and Nvidia cards have dynamic clock gating technologies that would be complemented by undervolting. So in other words, get an Nvidia card and undervolt it. Then f...