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- Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:53 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Using thermal adhesive on the CPU?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3467
- Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:22 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: DG45FC looks promising for HTPC
- Replies: 156
- Views: 116300
- Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:18 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: DG45FC looks promising for HTPC
- Replies: 156
- Views: 116300
...I just want to keep the initial cost as low as possible until I can aquire more funds. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. It usually can't hurt too much to just try it out. If you get any problems, it will probably be in the form of system instability (ie OS won't install without crashing)...
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:37 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: mini-itx 780G board
- Replies: 128
- Views: 96622
- Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:28 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: mini-itx 780G board
- Replies: 128
- Views: 96622
- Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:12 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: mini-itx with both PCI and PCI-e?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5733
- Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:53 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: mini-itx with both PCI and PCI-e?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5733
If you check the MSI mini-ITX boards, you'll noticed that a few have a 2nd slot beside the first one. The second slot is not usable in any standard ATX form factor case but works if you have a bunch of riser cards going somewhere. The only other board make I've known that does that is Kontron (which...
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:44 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: DG45FC looks promising for HTPC
- Replies: 156
- Views: 116300
This place has had a good selection of PCIe risers for a couple of years now... I like them because they don't mind single orders and the odd custom part, I got them to make me a PCIe x1 to x16 right angle connector ribbon riser.Master One wrote:I mean, I have not seen any PCI Express* x1 riser-cards yet
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:10 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: FULL COPPER TRUE!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6121
Why bother with silver... go althe way to the gold ^^ Just slap a gold bar with grazy clue on your CPU... If we're talking about thermal conductivity, silver is actually better than gold, in fact copper is also better than gold. Of course this is all trumped by diamond which is something like 6 tim...
- Mon May 12, 2008 5:10 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Moon-Shine of Gasoline....
- Replies: 60
- Views: 23294
Re: The Moon-Shine of Gasoline....
Completely true!Bluefront wrote:...attitudes might/should change....
However I think overall it would be cheaper and more effective to just go to the electric car. I think ethanol production on the scale of fueling North America's great automobile will always be a pipe dream.
- Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:49 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Gasoline from wood
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5461
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:13 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 17mmx120mm Yate Loon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3052
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:56 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: TV censorship is getting ridiculous [Yeah, its another rant]
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10517
I am constantly astonished that in the media it is acceptable to show incredible violence and people behaving horribly towards one another, but flash a tit or utter some lame expletive and it's considered offensive and must be censored. What kind of world are we creating? I think it comes down to w...
- Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:03 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: mini itx psu's
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2182
Either will work if you have the right type of DC-DC power supply. The LinITX site you referenced has them under "Power Supply Boards", make sure you get a compatible output voltage on the AC-DC with the input voltage on the DC-DC. A lot of the DC-DC power supplies tend to be 12V in, but there are a...
- Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:04 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Bill Cosby explains the orange jump-suit.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 20840
I think you guys are starting to miss Mr. Cosby's point. It is not about how you raise your children, beating or no beating, but that you DO raise your children. My mother put me through a lot of things such as sports, music lessons, language lessons, etc when I was a kid to keep me busy and help me...
- Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:52 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: My rant on a freakin' nitwit...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6193
I think the Drudge Report is on the level of pure evil self interest, just as any good corporation should be. I had never really heard of Drudge until this Harry in Afganistan story, but now I have and if I were so curious, I would go visit Drudge to see what they are about and pass my own judgement...
- Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:03 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Graphene has >10x better conductivity than copper
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7866
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:19 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Dell DA-2 Power Brick Help
- Replies: 52
- Views: 156643
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:16 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Graphene has >10x better conductivity than copper
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7866
In SPCR terms, I think the benefits would be more subtle and come in the form of thinner fins (thus presenting less air resistance) and less need for heatpipes to distribute heat evenly across the cooling surface area. It would be neat to have a thermal super conductor, then you could do some silly ...
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:39 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: The theory behind fanless systems?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26104
I had a go at a completely fanless system. It is a lot of work to say the least and is very challenging to get enough surface area for any serious cooling. Here is a picture of my project, for a heatsink about 16" square with fins about 1" tall, I could only effectively cool a 100W system. The heats...
- Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:00 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: 2-PCI low cost mini ITX?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2102
There is a generic 2 PCI riser like this one . I've used it on an AMD Shuttle motherboard and it worked fine (the only thing is I think if you only have one card it has to be in the top slot or something...). The VIA 2 PCI riser is VIA specific, but the generic one should work on the Intel Mini-ITX ...
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:51 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: [Clarified] picoPSU's and bricks - Clarification
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5490
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:03 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: [Clarified] picoPSU's and bricks - Clarification
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5490
- Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:28 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: How to control VF-700 /w HD 3870? (3-pin vs 4-pin)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3505
The ATI connector is the same as the Intel 4 pin PWM connector, I know because I have my 92mm NEXUS fan hooked up to the same type of video card with an HR-03. The fan will run at full speed though as there is no automatic control without a 4 wire fan. I put a resistor in the power line, but ideally...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:49 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: My system whined: you will never guess why
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11024
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:07 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Threads get always locked...
- Replies: 97
- Views: 28736
One thing I have found reading and posting on various forums over the years, people who make contributions are rarely sold by another posters arguments, most of the time posters are trying to get something off of their chest. That said, I do appreciate reading arguments from both sides even if I hav...
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:56 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Anyone tried a 3870 with a passive HR-03 yet?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 19425
I briefly ran an HR-03 on a 3870 passive. It idles at about 50ºC, but loading with Crysis sent it into the 90s after a few minutes, I imagine it would break 100. This is all in an Antec NSK3400 with a C2D 3GHz with a Ninja and a Nexus 120mm exhaust. In the end I put on a 92mm Nexus fan (had to sand...
- Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:17 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: AOpen i945GTt-VFA mini-ITX - $102 shipped
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4685
This is a great deal! Too bad a CPU is still going to run you another $200 at least unless you go Celery. While this was probably some liquidation, I hope it is a sign of things to come. Hopefully Intel's Little Valley boards will increase the Mini-ITX installation base, and with more quantities we ...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:30 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Madshrimps reviews CPU grease (TIM)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 31405
Wish MS had tested this method too : carefully spread TIM all over the IHS, lightly draw a razor blade across the surface of the IHS to scrap off the excess TIM; repeat this procedure on the base of the heat sink. What you want is the thinnest and most evenly spread layer of TIM. You don't really w...
- Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:14 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 4-pin GPU Fan Connector & 12V PWM Fans?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3812
I can confirm that the ATI 38x0 cards have the same fan connector scheme (4 pin connector, just make sure you know which end is ground). My ATI card has a tiny little 2mm pitch fan header, but I found an old CD-ROM audio cable with the same mating connector so I cut that off and made an adapter out ...