I've got all my fans running at 5v. Four 80mm Panaflo L1As; intake in front of HD, cpu on SLK-800, exhaust, and PSU. Hmm... actually, I have the exhaust disconnected right now. But everything gets run at 5v, and I work with that to get the best cooling. I don't allow myself to see upping the fan vol...

I've only built two systems with the 4252, one for my parents and my main system. I'm quite often working and fiddling with stuff in my system, and the 4252 has been great and easy to work with. Sometimes I've wished for a tad bit more space, but for the price and ventilation abilities, its the best...

I've had this setup going since November. I've mentioned it a few times,but finally got some pictures. In the progression of silence and cooling for my video card I went from the stock cooler and fan (didn't make THAT much noise) to unplugging the fan and running the stock HSF passive. But the GPU g...

Hmmm... I wonder what kind of marketable stuff you could come up with if you were working at ARM Systems. You've always got some slick setups.

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Yeah. Dump 'em and use something else. Generally not worth the hassle trying to get rid of the whine. You'll save some sanity by just starting off with the quieter drives. Very much worth it.

Most any of them will probably do fine. Not sure I'd deal with a cordless model though, never seem to have enough power. If you're going to be doing lots of metal cutting, do yourself a favor and pick up a pair of metal snips. Check out this thread at the top of this forum, if you haven't already. I...

Yeah, about 3/16" to 1/4". I happen to have my 4252 open on my workbench behind me so I snapped some pictures.

Linked picture

That's with an old school Abit KT7A motherboard. You can see the support ledge for the PSU and the location of the upper mobo support screws.

Fu Manchu - King of the Road

The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

For what its worth, I successfully modded some super cheap Sparkle 250W PSUs I had laying around. Put a 5V Panaflo in them and had no problems. But, these were also in an AMD K6-266 and a P2-300; not exactly the most power hungry or hot-running systems. Used those for over one year. Had other proble...

Ah, life really is much simpler not worrying about what WU my systems are crunching away. Just let things happen as they may.

Does this mean its less of a hobby now? Dunno. Maybe.

Yeah, I made it a point to blend the graphic between the forum colors. I have to give credit to LiquidNinjas though for providing the tools and database to create the graphic.

I wanted a signature that looked a little less boring than the default. I used the SAP method(anyone familiar with SAP knows SAP=Slow and painful), meaning I browsed different f@h forums and looked at the different sigs ppl were using and picked one. Then I just did like Michael_qrt. Default? DEFAU...

Hmmm... was just recently thinking about my topic here. Curious to see that it is still going. I haven't checked my Dvorak speed recently, and not sure I need/want to. I can tell that I'm not quite up to the speed I had with QWERTY, but as folks just mentioned, typing is SO much more comfortable. An...

Lost points? I wouldn't know... I've actually broken the habit of constantly looking at the stats. Don't go to EOC but once every couple weeks now. Heck, don't even load up FAHStats that often anymore.

Not losing interest in Folding, just settled in comfortably now.

haysdb wrote:I am stuck in that never-never land of no overtakes and no threats. It's just CharlieChan and I, bobbing back and forth between 6 and 7.

Time to scrap it then and start over with a new username.

Wall mount setup can work just damn fine, if you have wall space nearby the desk. I currently have a rather ghetto setup (too lazy to make it look nice) attached to a piece of plywood hanging on the wall. I've got the PSU totally open with one fan blowing up across it. The AMD 1700 is cooled with an...

All depends on what you want. Personally, I don't care for messing with a system if its not going to be doing at least ~150ppw/~20ppd. My P3-566 is dead on at 150ppw, so it works (its also my backup server, so it would be on anyway). I tried putting FAH on an old Pentium Pro 200 dually system, just ...

1000ppd !!

Yeah me!

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SPRC? Silent Paul Reviews Computers?

I'd like to point that I would be 'Brown' now, even with the old point ranges. Currently at ~930ppd.

I'm back baby! yeah! :) but I'm not doing as well as I hoped - one of my targets was Zyzzyx , but he's starting to accelerate away.. and hot on my heels is BMWBMW Neener. When you mentioned that a bit ago, I thought I'd be on your 'list' as I remember you making a comment when I passed you long ago...

Its been quite awhile since I worked with the sig, but what I remember is that they calculate the PPW using data from the last two weeks. Thus, it would be slower to react to an increase or decrease in your production.

Zyzzyx has overtaken Mike_Chin and the #16 spot. Ayup yup. That I have. Feels wrong to be passing Mike though. Anyway, recovering from some temporary issues with work systems, and might be adding a couple new ones. I had dropped off the top 20 list, but should be solidly back on there now, and for ...

Ya know, I do think I heard him muttering something when I mentioned the DGromacs...

Something about, Precious?



(more hardware? ayup. should have a few more coming on soon as well)

Zhentar, tragus, tangled, Cosine, Zy xx yx, WarpedPlatter, all were active in the forum, keeping things stirred up, answering my thousand and one questions. Hmm, I must have cut back on my participation here recently. Zy zz yx :P (actually, I am trying to cut back, need to get more work done throug...

Brilliant.

hrmm... streaming tunes site just went down. had to delete my MP3s here at work for space reasons. no other music available.

So I'm listening to the whine of the servers and the chunkety-chunk of the copier's duplexer unit.

Its time to go home.

You will need a MASSIVE heatsink to run it completely passive, with the only airflow being from a front case fan for example (say a 120mm Panaflo L @ 5v). By massive, I mean something like an Alpha Pal8045. I definitely disagree with you on your sizing comment. Massive? No. Much bigger than stock? ...