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- Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:45 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Caviar Black: WD's Performance 1TB HDD
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11965
Microrant
YMMV... but I've had a horrible time getting my WD 640AAKS disks to work with any older (SATA 150) controllers. Even sticking a jumper over two pins to force SATA 150 mode still results in odd timeouts and disks dropping the SATA link. This is with an nforce3 board (So not new at all!), also tried w...
- Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:11 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Anybody gone HD-less?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 32161
NFS root
I've gone diskless in a slightly different way. This machine boots off another one downstairs with lots of disks in.
Boots fairly quickly over the (gigabit) network
Boots fairly quickly over the (gigabit) network
- Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:38 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Getting there...slowly....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2289
Getting there...slowly....
Hey all, Long time lurker, have posted a couple of times... My current setup is: P180 Case 2x Stock P180 fans on low Nexus 4090 PSU E6600 Core2Duo (Which idles at fifty-something C. Loaded never gets up to 80C (The motherboards temperature warning level)) Scythe Ninja RTL-8169 Gigabit card Audigy 2 ...
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:40 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: High hdd temps, even with ventilation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5705
I've noticed that hard drive temperature sensors really are not too accurate and ought to be taken with a pinch of salt....: doom@polaris:~$ ./hddtemp.sh /dev/hdc: WDC WD2000BB-00GUC0: 33°C /dev/sda: WDC WD5000AAKS-22TMA0: 36°C /dev/sdb: WDC WD2000JS-00MHB0: 52°C /dev/sdc: WDC WD2000JS-00MHB0: 50...
- Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:40 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Help debugging half-dead system
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4414
Solved!
Annoyingly, I'd left my USB->IDE adapter plugged in which slowed down boot massively. I didn't notice at first because I was pluggin in my mouse which is plugged in to a USB hub that lives behind my desk....and the USB->IDE thing was too. Thankies for the "Check for widgets" idea :) I might go post ...
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:50 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Help debugging half-dead system
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4414
Yep, tried each stick of RAM individually in all 4 slots with no luck. Not got any spare hard drives, but loading a ubuntu live CD seems to work fine. Tried just the CD drive and just the CF adapter, seemed to make no difference either. Don't have any spare mice, but the keyboard is PS2. Have tried ...
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:17 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Help debugging half-dead system
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4414
Help debugging half-dead system
Hi all, I've currently got a pretty nice Core2Duo system: -Core2Duo E6600 -Gigabyte P965-S3 -S3 Virge (Read on to find out why...) -Sound Blaster Audigy ZS -P180 -Nexus 4090 (With 20->24 pin adapter) -2GB PC5300 memory (Which has gone from £180 to £60 in about 2 months! DOH!) -DVD Burner -4GB Comp...
- Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:16 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Feisty on a CompactFlash (With NFS server providing /)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2132
Feisty on a CompactFlash (With NFS server providing /)
I just wrote this up and thought of you guys :lol: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/OnNFSDriveWithLocalBoot It guides you through setting up Ubuntu Feisty onto a root-over-NFS system with the /boot partition on a CompactFlash. Basically means you can eliminate hard drives from your des...
- Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:41 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Nexus 4090 + Intel Core2Duo = Fail?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2518
- Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:24 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Nexus 4090 + Intel Core2Duo = Fail?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2518
Nexus 4090 + Intel Core2Duo = Fail?
Hi all, I'm a long time lurker at SPCR and I've just bought some new shinys. The system is as follows: 4x 200GB SATA drives 1x 80GB PATA drive Intel Core2Duo E6600 Scyth Ninja 2x Stock Antec P180 fans (Top chamber) 7300LE Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard 1x Optical drive Nexus 4090 w/ 20->24 pin conv...
- Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:06 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: New Nexus PSU? NX-9003 SFB
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2612
- Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:59 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: New Nexus PSU? NX-9003 SFB
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2612
New Nexus PSU? NX-9003 SFB
Hi all, was browsing around the Nexus website and found This little thing.... To me, it looks like a regular Nexus PSU with some fancy fan stuff, but it'd be cool if SPCR could do a review of one...any chance of poking Nexus for it?
- Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: And now for something slightly different...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8675
- Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:03 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: And now for something slightly different...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8675
- Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:59 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Experiences with a Gigabyte 6600GT Silentpipe
- Replies: 87
- Views: 71982
Wow, I find it incredible that the temperatures you are reporting are so much higher than mine! Perhaps the heatpiping mechanism of the gigabyte passive card is not as effective as it could be, having the intake below the graphics card (Knocking out all the PCI slots, btw) seems to help an awful lot.
- Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:07 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Radeon 9600: ultimate SilentPC video card?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41454
heh, i've got one of these on sale right now actually (Radeon 9600 pro). It'd probably be very easy to slap on a huge ass heatsink and run it passive. Auction is here (Note to mods: I'm not sure if this is allowed, please say so if it isnt!). That card ran about 35C with the fan on its lowest settin...
- Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:09 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: And now for something slightly different...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8675
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:38 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Fanless Gigabyte cards.... how effective?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9465
With This System I get temperatures of about 55C Idle and 75C load (rthdribl for an hour, also folding@home to max the CPU ). So yeah, I think the passive gigabytes are pretty damned good but remember that i had an extra fan getting air from outside the case and blowing across the heatsink.
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:34 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: And now for something slightly different...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8675
- Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:48 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: And now for something slightly different...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8675
And now for something slightly different...
SPCR has made me spend all my moneys! ;) Well, heres some pictures of what i've come up with based on the know-how gathered from these forums. The system here is: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum with Blue Zalman Northbrige, trimmed to fit AMD Athlon 64 3000+ XP-90 with 90mm Nexus Nexus 4090 PSU (120mm fan) Ne...
- Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:06 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Experiences with a Gigabyte 6600GT Silentpipe
- Replies: 87
- Views: 71982
Well, I recieved my 6600GT today. Its quite a bit warmer than my Radeon 9600 pro was, Idle 58C and loaded its only 62C [Bots playing on UT2004, 1024x768 in a window so i could view temps easily]. I have an intake fan below the card and an exhaust above it, both 80mm Nexus' running at about 10 or 11V...
- Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:02 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Experiences with a Gigabyte 6600GT Silentpipe
- Replies: 87
- Views: 71982
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:32 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Experiences with a Gigabyte 6600GT Silentpipe
- Replies: 87
- Views: 71982
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:19 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Experiences with a Gigabyte 6600GT Silentpipe
- Replies: 87
- Views: 71982
- Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:57 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Discovered a new way to mount fans - Quieter! :)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9758
- Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:34 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Discovered a new way to mount fans - Quieter! :)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9758
- Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:50 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Discovered a new way to mount fans - Quieter! :)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9758
- Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:58 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Discovered a new way to mount fans - Quieter! :)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9758
- Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:39 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Discovered a new way to mount fans - Quieter! :)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9758
- Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:28 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Discovered a new way to mount fans - Quieter! :)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9758
Well, on the back of the little square things it says "Magic Removable Mounts" although a google search for those only brought up 2 results. I dont have a digicam that works / has batteries right now so no pictures
[Another] quick google later threw up these, although thats an american site...
[Another] quick google later threw up these, although thats an american site...