BIG warning on these air filters! these are not just cotton filters, they are oil impregnated cotton filters. you don't just wash them. you use a cleaning product, wash, dry, then re oil them. i would strongly not recommend one in a computer. in a car, the oil will breathe out over time and coat the...

not sure if this is off topic for this but if you want to monitor your load temps get rthdribl http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/ it run a windowed real time renderer so you can watch your software temp gauge while under load. if your games don't corrupt or crash while playing then i wouldn't ...

i'd say call or e-mail ATI and ask them. they probably know the answer, or can figure it out quickly.

i had no problem taking apart my pny 6800gt. you do need a small eyeglass screwdriver and a bit of force for some of the screws. its a whole lot easier to take one apart than to put it back together. my first waterblock didn't fit the 6800, so i had to put it all back together, order a new waterbloc...

i wish they showed it with a regular video card. i hope that works, i really don't want to ditch my 6800gt when i upgrade my motherboard. although i imagine my waterblock would snap the card right off with the added part

suppose he could try heating it with a torch? though you're probably screwed. i have to bend hollow tubes of emt (electrical metallic tubing) its thin steel. and once bent, its very difficult to straighten them back out. the metal wants to warp and kink

i just bought the same hard drive and would agree with rtsai. it is much quieter than my old 80gb western digital drive i replaced. not silent, but mellow and inoffensive. right now it's hard mounted and it does vibrate a bit, still less than the old drive. i'm debating right now over how i want to ...

yeah , what Mar. said, the product is "3M™ Fluorinert™" theres been a few crazies on the various overclocker sites who have submurged their computers in it. they usually misspell it flourinet. only a couple problems with it. first you have to keep the hard drive out of it so it can breathe. second, ...

yay! time to rant over percieved differences. not just audiophiles, but things that make your engine run better, your cellphone battery last longer, or your water taste better. to justify the difference between two things you have to do a double blind test. you have the listener not be aware of whic...

a home improvement store should sell regular feet, like for couches or tables. they come in wood or plastic, with felt or rubber pads on them, etc. personally i think most speakers could get along with them and not the expensive spikes, but i'm also one of those crazy people who wont but a $500 powe...

one of my best friends has a plexiglass case, no metal in the entire thing except for the screws. he has his entertainment system right next to it on one side. a 3 foot tall speaker on the other side. his crate amp for his guitar about 5 foot away with all its assorted pedals and crap. and we haven'...

here's 2 cents from my knowledge. im an electrician. i deal mainly with mains power, building hotels and such. i'm not so hot diagnosing a circuit board. the transformer on the pole is hot. it's got oil flowing through it to huge fins all exposed to the air. a 480 to 120v 200amp transformer just has...

finally got around to opening up my comp and finding out where that noise was coming from. i was figuring that one of my fans was going out, or my waterpump was damaged. of course it couldn't be that inexpensive of a problem. my hard drive sounds like a 52x cd drive, even with a wierd spin down whir...

my water cooling loop is one such wierd situation. since it has video, cpu and northbridge in one loop and all the background tasks running, the idle temp of the cpu is rather higher than most others with watercooled cpu's. but the load temps don't rise much because of the efficiency of the radiator...

looks great for notebooks, tho i dont imagine the emf pump really has enough strength to work for a multi block full tower. now that i think about it, you could always just run individual ones to each part of the system to cool. personally im not too concerend about what the metal is, it could even ...

cant rememeber where i read it, i think its an old thread here. someone tested their hard drives placing aluminum plates on the top, sides, etc, and found most of the heat is released through the sides of the hard drive, not the lid. they eventually made some neat rails that looked like long ramsink...

from reading many similar posts on various overclocking forums where people have tried this, the general answer is unless you're a mad scinetist type, "don't do it". the water has to be distilled and have anti corrosion / bacteria protectors. other oils and such were usually too thick or expensive (...

i don't know if you can do it with all boards, but i've read of many people removing their dps add on board and the motherboard still running fine. you could always monitor the fluctuations of your voltages before and after to see if it changes. i wasnt going to say anything at first. but its my opi...

really in our situation freezing/boiling point changes are unnecessary, unless your running some phase change/peltier setup. watercooling rigs need less additive than automobiles due to the fact that autos run much higher temps and have less restrictive/higher flow systems. i'm not sure how much thi...

from what i've read zerex racing super coolant or a similar "racing coolant" will be better than normal antifreeze. unless your water loop actually gets to below freezing temps. also there have been problems with water wetter. in large amounts it eats away at acrylic reservoirs, foams up and cloudie...

I have an Eheim 1250 on the bottom of my case and it vibrates the case. Right now its bolted to the floor through rubber grommets with a foam block compressed under it. I'm thinking about getting some vibration mounts like what chylld used in this post: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php...