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by Aracu
Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:16 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: question about video card fan
Replies: 1
Views: 1726

question about video card fan

You know how some video cards have very small noisy fans? Are they better for cooling than taking the fan out and positioning a larger sized quiet fan such as Nexus which blows over a much larger area of the video card? Is there a risk that the larger fan won't cool the card enough?
by Aracu
Sun Jun 22, 2014 5:17 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: question about silencing video card
Replies: 1
Views: 2321

question about silencing video card

I use a Matrox Millennium card. In the past, I removed it's small noisy fan and used a Thermaltake Schooner heatsink which worked fine. I had to do some troubleshooting and needed to temporarily remove the video card. In the process the Schooner was damaged beyond repair. My question is: can the vid...
by Aracu
Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:56 pm
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Help me find my perfect 120mm fan
Replies: 31
Views: 17602

One thing I figured out half by accident, with a Nexus 120 mm fan, which could probably work with other brands without breaking them, is that if you cut off one of the four surrounding sides of the outer shell of the fan, you can generate a considerable amount of airflow coming out that side, so if ...
by Aracu
Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:12 pm
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Help me find my perfect 120mm fan
Replies: 31
Views: 17602

I have found that the Nexus 120 mm fan is not ideal, in that when I set the voltage low a mechanical rubbing sound manifests itself. So that actually, in using them with a fan controller, they are quieter if placed somewhere in between 5 and 12 volts, rather than at 5 volts. On the other hand, the N...
by Aracu
Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:01 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Antec Phantom 500 --- more reliable than the Phantom 350?
Replies: 5
Views: 3455

I've just set up a new audio production system with a Phantom 500, mounted outside the case, 4 inches away from it, in the back. This allows the cables to reach everything easily, and opens up lots of space within the computer for placing more hard drives etc. I've got a Nexus 92 mill fan blowing di...
by Aracu
Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:34 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
Replies: 28
Views: 14658

Re: Which Matrox Millennium PCIe?

[quote="PositiveSpin"][quote="Aracu"]Well, I ended up getting a Matrox Millenium PCIe, since I need a card for high quality 2-D graphics that wouldn't use a lot of system resources, and I placed a Schooner heat sink on it, to replace it's fan. They are not really designed for one another, but fit we...
by Aracu
Sun May 29, 2005 9:04 pm
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: The Nexus 120mm fan corner cutting guide...
Replies: 64
Views: 203536

From chopping away at a Nexus fan with some tin snips, I found out half accidently, that if you cut out completely one side of the outer fan rim so that the fan blade is uncovered on that side, the fan still works, and a huge breeze can be directed at hard to get to spots on the motherboard by mount...
by Aracu
Sat May 14, 2005 6:50 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: placing multiple fans on one rheobus channel
Replies: 4
Views: 2705

placing multiple fans on one rheobus channel

Anyone know a good method for placing two or more fans on the same channel of a 3-pin fan controlling rheobus, in such a way so that they all rotate at the same controllable speed?
by Aracu
Fri May 13, 2005 9:46 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Mount motherboard isolated from case?
Replies: 22
Views: 15515

You made some insightful points and didn't need to express them in a negative way to get them across. It's funny how passionate we get talking about computer parts. The complexity and rapid change of the technology is unnerving. Our belief systems about it are constantly being challanged. Technology...
by Aracu
Thu May 12, 2005 8:29 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Mount motherboard isolated from case?
Replies: 22
Views: 15515

O.K., it looks like 1. we are not sure if new motherboards as a general rule need to be connected to the metal mounts of the case. However, 2. if the only cause of audible vibration from a motherboard is from cpu or other fans attached to it, it would make sense to isolate those fans rather than the...
by Aracu
Wed May 11, 2005 9:56 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
Replies: 28
Views: 14658

Well, I ended up getting a Matrox Millenium PCIe, since I need a card for high quality 2-D graphics that wouldn't use a lot of system resources, and I placed a Schooner heat sink on it, to replace it's fan. They are not really designed for one another, but fit well enough, luckily. The Schooner is a...
by Aracu
Wed May 11, 2005 9:28 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Antec Phantom 500's now for sale at the Antec website
Replies: 12
Views: 6354

Maybe better results can be achieved in terms of the fan not turning on,
and not having to have so much airflow inside the case, if the Phantom 500 is run outside of the case sitting on top. I've ordered one of the monsters, and will give it a try.
by Aracu
Wed May 11, 2005 9:17 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Mount motherboard isolated from case?
Replies: 22
Views: 15515

Mount motherboard isolated from case?

Has anyone had any luck with mounting a motherboard in such a way
so as to avoid that it transmits vibrations to the case, using a technology similar to fan isolators, or using any other means?
by Aracu
Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:20 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Can the Greenerger PSU be ordered in the US ?
Replies: 1
Views: 1789

Can the Greenerger PSU be ordered in the US ?

The 500 watt semi fanless Elan Vital Greenerger, in spite of it's name, looks to be the most promising power supply of it's type on the market at the moment. I have not been able to figure out any possible way of ordering it in the US. If anyone has any ideas about I would be very grateful to hear t...
by Aracu
Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:50 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: consistency in quiet 80 mm fans
Replies: 0
Views: 1208

consistency in quiet 80 mm fans

In making a careful but low tech comparison between a few quiet 80 mm fans (Nexus "17.6 dBA", SilenX "11 dBA", Pabst "12 dBA", and Yate Loon 8025M), they seemed to be surprisingly consistent with one another (except for the useless clicking Pabst) in that the louder the fan was, the more air it was ...
by Aracu
Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:24 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
Replies: 28
Views: 14658

That's a very slick combination, and high power for being passive.
How do find it's dual monitor function?
by Aracu
Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:06 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
Replies: 28
Views: 14658

O.K. I'm sorry, I need to chill out. I have been researching it, but find it confusing. In any case, it seems that the NVIDIA Quadro NVS PCIe is a passively cooled card, designed especially for 2D workstation use, with support for two DVI moniters in either horizontal span, dual view or clone view m...
by Aracu
Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:33 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: replacing tiny HSF with passive heatsink on Matrox P650 card
Replies: 2
Views: 2220

P. Spin, I've been trying to figure out the same thing as you are, because I'm interested in the Matrox 650 PCIe, and found out about it's 27 dBA fan. I cannot speak from personal experience, but the Zalman VGA ZM80-HP is said to be a good replacement for the heatsink on the PCI version of the Matro...
by Aracu
Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:10 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
Replies: 28
Views: 14658

"I dont have to specifically test a fanless PCIe card myself to know this is true."

Give me a break.
by Aracu
Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:51 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
Replies: 28
Views: 14658

Then you have tried every single one. Please give us an example of just one PCIe fanless video card which you have used yourself, with two monitors, in which you could divide your display of application windows between both monitors, and in which your mouse moved from one monitor to the other as if ...
by Aracu
Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:43 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
Replies: 32
Views: 16826

Tibor, I sent an e-mail to that same German site, and they said sorry they couldn't do it. Tried a couple more German and other European sellers, with no luck. I actually need that many hard drives, crazy as it may seem, to hold sampled orchestral libraries and stream from them. The Vienna library a...
by Aracu
Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:19 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
Replies: 32
Views: 16826

I was ready to order a Phantom, but first sent an e-mail to Antec describing the system I was planning for it (basically an AMD 64 4000 w/ Asus A8N-SLI motherboard not using it's sli function, 2-d PCIe graphics card, no gaming or overclocking at all, but streaming audio and low res video files using...
by Aracu
Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:51 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
Replies: 32
Views: 16826

O.K. I get the drift here, that "full range" means it will work with both US and European voltages (covering the "full range" of voltages), and that the Greenerger is actually full range and would work in the US if you could sneak it across the bordar in a refugee boat (just kidding but hey it's sup...
by Aracu
Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:59 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
Replies: 28
Views: 14658

I don't know much about graphics cards, but was under the impression that the PCIe ones mentioned were single head, and that they only played the same exact same thing on two monitors, without being able to vary the displays independantly of one another as in a true dual head monitor, and that other...
by Aracu
Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:36 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
Replies: 32
Views: 16826

I don't really know what "full range" means but it's written on the back of my Zalman. In any case, you're right, it very well might only run on the other type of current. Sooner or later someone will come up with a good one here (meaning, a good fanless power supply, without any obvious weaknesses,...
by Aracu
Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:59 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
Replies: 28
Views: 14658

Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?

Does anyone know if such a beast exists? There's the new PCIe
Millenium, for 2-d graphics with dual monitor support, which is cool but it has a 27 dBA fan.
by Aracu
Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:50 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
Replies: 32
Views: 16826

Does anyone know how a Greenerger power supply can be ordered
in cowboycountry U.S.A.? I would be most gratefull for any info in
regards to this.
by Aracu
Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:17 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: new solution for a quiet pc
Replies: 10
Views: 4489

Sure, mounting a power supply outside the case which has a noisy fan running would be counterproductive. Supposedly the Greenerger's fan runs briefly and not often, unless the computer is drawing close to the power supply's maximum 500 watt output which is unlikely to occur, and it is claimed to not...
by Aracu
Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:10 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: new solution for a quiet pc
Replies: 10
Views: 4489

That's a funny word "whinning", halfway between whining and winning.
Your solution sounds like a good idea but I'd rather get my my hands
on a high powered fanless PSU that has it built in. The less complicated
the better, right?
by Aracu
Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:15 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: new solution for a quiet pc
Replies: 10
Views: 4489

Thanks Ralph and Malcom...it's great to see that Mike C. tried it successfully. He just ran the cables through the power supply mounting hole. I agree with Malcom, that it's awkward for moving the case etc. with the power cables more vulnerable. A nice grill could be fastened over it. I wish that ma...