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...

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Heya,

I managed to get everything working fine thanks - The Core 2 Duo seems to overclock to 2.99ghz quite happily, having a few stability isues but I think that is due to the voltages on the CPU. I'll have a bit more of a play when I get home

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...

*facepalms* well in fairness i did do a search for "NX 9003" but it came up with nada....mods - feel free to lock the topic

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?

Actually, I used a slightly lower tech method of....wire cutters. I didnt bother sanding them, although I should have done because they are pretty farking sharp right now!

Sure, heres one. I took it just now (2am) so the lighting was poor and blurry because I suck with a camera Might do a better one for you in the morning!

Still....

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.

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...

I hadnt actually noticed that dust. Thank goodness for high res imagery, eh?

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.

hmm, I might have a go at hard drive suspension actually. Or just put the drive into one of the free 5.25" bays and lay it on some foam. I have to say, its very very quiet but there is a very very faint high pitched noise coming from one of the hard drives.

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...

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...

Just ordered myself one of these from Dabs.com, despite the nay-sayers in this thread . Will report back when i get it installed

Okay, thanks for the clarification .

Well, I was about to order myself one of these (The 6600GT Silentpipe)...but now....

Is the card stable? Did you have problems with it crashing, or any graphical corruption? If not then I say "Why Worry?".

Awww, sorry dude....

Its not quite double sided tape, its quite a bit thicker and provides a nice bit of padding

hmm, well next time im around a hardware shope I'll look out for some of that silicone sealant stuff. I'll see how long this somewhat ghetto method of fan mounting will last without falling apart (Literally)

heh, I'll have to remember to check my fans regularly. Or I'll know about it when temperatures shoot up

Cool, dont expect miracles but it reduced vibrations transferred from case-->fan by a LOT. Best of luck with it!

Amazingly, you just found exactly the same poster mounts as I used. Good job dude

And yes, they are what I used. If you wanted ExtraUltraUberDampening then i suppose you could stack a couple on top of each other but they might be less strong and prone to falling off...!

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...