Wow, such a sad day. I've visited this site almost daily for several years and love the rigorous reviews and unique contribution to the hardware scene. It was a breath of fresh air to certain folks who were tired of every overclocker screaming to talk to his friend over his ridiculously loud Delta f...

I think people have found the much bigger Zalman NB47J to not be big enough for passive cooling on an nForce4 board. Yep, you're right about that, if I run it completely passive, it approaches 75deg C. However, the minute I put any undervolted fan near it the temps drop down below what the stock he...

I have an Ultra D and use a Zalman ZM-NB47J for the northbridge. I do have some airflow directed over it though (undervolted 92mm fan). It's WAY cooler than the stock hair-dryer fan/heatsink combo. I would be hesitant to use it in an environment without airflow directed towards it, as it gets extrem...

Unfortunately, I couldn't download your pdf (404 error), but I think I understand your tiered/chambered idea. I wonder though if it would just be making things a bit too complicated having each in a separate chamber. Your components are quite cool and would probably do fine with some directed/ducted...

Yep, I agree with the others, you'll be in pretty good shape with pretty much any quiet, slow moving fan. I have a Yate Loon at about 8 volts and it keeps my 2 HDDs at around 38 Celcius. Out of all of the cases I've worked with I'm tempted to say it has the best HDD airflow out of them all. edit: I ...

Excellent! Thanks for adding to the review. I wonder what they were thinking with that odd channel in the center...probably just for aesthetics. Granted I think I will be sticking with my 2 Ninjas given the fairly modest performance difference.

Hello, I'm wondering if turning the fan around (so it blows away from the fins) would work? Maybe covering the "hole" at the top (and maybe the bottom) would help? I was wondering the same thing. It seems a bit of cardboard or duct tape over the central gap might convince a bit more air to flow thr...

I have the original Scythe Ninja, and I'm having a bit of a problem with the backplate. It's kind of screwed up since I removed it from my previous mobo. The adhesive on the backplate was so strong it was a real battle to remove, and when I finally did, the rubber was all torn. I *have* since insta...

You're right, it's not really worth the gamble and the 30 minute drive to Fry's. I bought the egg deal yesterday. It had actually dropped $10 since Friday, it was previously at $89.99 -$50 MIR.

Just saw this deal in the Fry's ad today for Manhattan Beach, CA: $184.99 Antec Solo Gigabyte MA69GM-S2H Mobo *Free AMD x2 4800 Now all I really want is the Antec Solo. Have any of you had luck with returning parts of bundles in order to get one of the components at a steal? It seems that taking int...

Very nice, too bad the snowman in all of his stylish glory can't power it himself... So what were you planning on doing with the system, just using it for casual web browsing, office, etc? I suppose it would also work quite well as a low-power home server. Although you don't have much in terms of st...

It looks to me like the drive is counting down to "Old Age". I don't know if it will operate differently then or what :? I don't see any indication that they expect the drive to fail when the end of the countdown occurs. Right, I'm not necessarily expecting it to self-destruct at that time, i was j...

I'm posting this merely because I couldn't believe my eyes. I run Ubuntu on an IBM laptop as a home file server (quiet and low power requirements). I decided recently to set up cron job to log the output of the smartctl command which is a very detailed dump of the SMART stats on the hard drive. The ...

Just to update on my ka-chunking seagate...the other day the bios detected a SMART failure on boot-up and the drive made 6 or 7 painful noises. Checking the SMART stats showed that it had failed the spin retry count value. It's strange, but on my drive the starting value is 100, but the failure thre...

Thanks for the quick responses. @ andyb: That looks like a viable option. I've used Syncback in the past and that looks very similar to the program you mentioned. @ Bluefront: I actually own Acronic TrueImage, which has worked wonders for me in creating disk images, but i've never backed up the whol...

Hi all, I'm sure most people here are familiar with frequent and painful calls from family members and friends requesting computer tech support. In the past week I've gotten two from my mother (one dead toshiba laptop and one constantly rebooting home-built pc) and I'm about to lose my mind. How man...

another question- im my motherboards manual it says not to use a power supply less than 300watts, so even if all of my system components use less than 125 watts will this be a problem? Manufacturers often overestimate what the system may need--mostly to compensate for crap power supplies that SAY 5...

Hmmm, not quite a ping. You know, I just realized what it sounds similar to. I remember I had a really old DVD-ROM drive that I tried putting a fancy new DVD-RW into and the drive made this "ca-chunking" sound as the laser flew to the outside of the disk and then back as it tried to find the startin...

Do you ever hear anything strange on startup? I've noticed a strange sound recently, but it occurs only on startup (sometimes 5 or 6 times in succession). It's actually more like a click followed by a beep...like a "cha-weep". (And yes, i'm being serious). I haven't noticed anything during normal op...

CPUBurn is a utility that stresses your CPU and will generate the highest temps you're ever likely to see on the processor. This can be good for diagnosing an incorrectly installed heatsink (e.g. your temps are well above what might be expected) or just configuring your fan speeds etc for the worst ...

I have the exact combination you're referring to (see sig below) and although the power connector is a bit tight, it works fine.

Thanks for this! I've only used the basic fan speed settings in the past, but that's a great guide...can't wait to get back home to fiddle with it.

I just pulled up the Dell website. Wow, is that helpful! It says that I have 1 AGP 8X slot. So, the 7600GS is the card I want? Can this card do what is named Vista Aero Glass?? Thanks. The 7600gs is a great choice and it looks like it fully supports windows vista: http://www.nvidia.com/page/technol...

Is that the Seagate 7200.10? That temp is about right. How do you like that drive so far? I found mine to be unacceptably loud (high pitch whine drove me crazy) I just bought the same drive and it's driving me crazy as well. At first, it was relatively quiet (except for VERY loud seeks), but after ...

anyone? If you go to the Dell Support website you can punch in your Dell ID number and/or just look up your model # and then navigate to the specifications section. Then you can see what types of ports, slots, etc that it has. You could also attempt to go to their "upgrade" section and see what it ...

fmriguy, if you get the E3Cs (good headphones, those) be careful if you have pets, especially dogs. See, things that go in your ears start to collect earwax, and something nasty like that is naturally irresistibly tasty to dogs. I had my pair for only seven weeks... :cry: As a matter of fact, I DO ...

I have a Scythe fan (the one that comes with the Ninja) that makes a very quiet, rapid ticking sound, but I've never heard of a Nexus making that sound...perhaps it was damaged in shipping? Did it start all of a sudden or ever since you installed the fan? Maybe you could try stopping the fan with yo...

If you search for NB47J and ultra-d on this forum or google, you'll see full pics of people who have modded this heatsink for use on the ultra-d. It involves some creative cutting and bending of fins. However, you only need to mod it if you really want to use the top pci-e slot or are going SLI. If ...

Wow, didn't expect this thread to become a stage for political commentary...I just wanted to see what random things people wanted. :roll: I’m torn between either a new pair of slippers or world peace. I gotta say, I'd go for the slippers. World peace definitely wouldn't last as long as your new sl...

After missing out on a cheap new laptop on Black Friday (I guess getting up at 4AM is too late...), I was curious to see what everyone was hoping to get this season. I debated about asking for a complete upgrade (core 2 duo) but thought it might be a bit much to ask considering the family helped wit...