Showing all articles by Mike Chin
Review: VIA’s Small & Quiet Eden Platform
Mike Chin
21 May 2002
Silent PC Review’s first “official” review, on the VIA EPIA-5000, one of the all-integrated Mini-IPX motherboards in the recently launched
Run a Power Supply without a Fan?
Mike Chin
22 April 2002
This is a question often asked but rarely answered. In this exploratory article, we present temperatures of an Enermax PSU’s
Hard Drive Sandwich – Revisited
Mike Chin
9 April 2002
A thorough update of an article first published in mid-2001, HS Sandwich Redux discusses a unique, inexpensive DIY hard drive
Get 12V, 7V or 5V for your Fans
Mike Chin
26 March 2002
This simple project describes how to rig up a switch that will let you feed 5 VDC to your fan(s)
Hard Drive Silencing: Sandwiches & Suspensions
Mike Chin
25 March 2002
Along with the CPU heatsink-fan and the power supply unit, the hard drive is a major PC noise source. It