Well, personally I'm a sucker for computers built into furniture, so I love this one.

I would build one myself, but I will be moving 13 times in the next five years... Yay, the joys of being a co-op student.

I love that keyboard. Is it ripped out of an old laptop or something?

2. Am I correct in thinking that PSUs with 120mm fans all blow air out of the bottom and suck air in the back? Wouldn't that heat up the main compartments in standard cases? I think I have seen some case designs with grilles on the top of the case. Er, no. Quite the opposite. The fan draws the air ...

Even 300 W is sufficient if you don't have dual video cards. Seeing as you only have one, and passively cooled at that, and also a rather energy-conscious A64, 380 W will be way more than enough.

Not if you build your own case that's too cramped to start with.

Floppies just take up space. Not to mention their cables mess with the airflow.

All right, thanks.

I understand the 1.35V chips possibly don't go as high as 1.45V chips without overvolting?

But at least now I don't have to waste money getting a 2600+ when something lower will suffice.

Am I right in assuming that all the Barton XP-Ms are basically the same chips, irregardless if they're marked 2200+ or 2600+ by AMD? They just have a different default multiplier setting, right?

Yeah, I saw that mentioned in Marko's write-up and I'm going to check prior to doing anything.

So I'd have to get it to the base, preferably over an extended length?

Hey, I have a rather big heatsink that will be located somewhere in the general vicinity of my new machine (<20 cm from both CPU and PSU heatsinks). I'm considering using its cooling capacities for the design revision after the one currently in production. The thing is 160x35x50 mm, the fans are 3~4...

I got the Seasonic from MikeC via the Clearance Corner (cheaper and easier than buying from a store). It's very quiet AFAIAC, my CPU's stock fan @ 5V is louder than this one. Depends on your standard of quiet though; YMMV. edit: just saw the price on Newegg. Eek! Nevermind the cheaper comment, altho...

scruzbeachbum wrote:By fake, do you mean where the dudes are selling remarked mobile cpu's as desktop CPU's?

Personally I'd be delighted if I got an Althon XP-M instead of an XP or a Turion64 instead of an Athlon64. Unless you meant the other way...

I'd say get the hard drive as well. My hard drive and the PSU (in signature) are sitting right next to next other on an open shelf, neither is suspended or otherwise decoupled. Even though I have a rather quiet PSU (of Breadbox PC fame), I have never heard the hard drive over it, except for the boot...

I use Opera's M2 (Opera Mail officially I think)... I know, I'm weird.

One thing you could do is unplug the motherboard power connector, turn on the power supply by shorting green and black pins, then measure the voltage on the 3.3V lines (orange wires). I'll have to do that eventually, as Speedfan insists my SS-200SFD is giving me 1.46V on the 3.3V line and reports -1...

People's experiences with sound levels differ. What one considers completely silent may be unacceptably loud to another person, or in another machine. (A 'completely silent' PSU in a machine with a leafblower VGA fan comes to mind.) Personally, I'd go with Brigitte's advice then, since she was able ...

Greetings, My family utilizes a computer featuring a Duron 750 MHz and a generic power supply. To call the thing rather loud would be an understatement, and I want to do something about it. (The CPU is Duron-750, Spitfire core, TDP 28W, MP 31.2W, Max Die Temp 90^C) Heatsink and fan are stock and the...

/me is listening to E.S. Posthumus - [Unearthed #09] Lepcis Magna [3:27]

Not sure if anyone here even heard of E.S. Posthumus, but hey.

/me is listening to Eagles - Hotel California.mp3 [6:32]

This just in:

Team 31574 has bumped General [M]ayhem for 20th overall


On a somewhat related note, I just borged a Duron 750 / Win98SE box

Well, my cheapo motherboard requires that I do plug in the P4 connection, even though the CPU is a Athlon XP-M 1900+. I've heard of other people that don't need the P4 connector with an Athlon XP 2500+, so I guess it depends on the motherboard.

Yeah, that.

So they're bullshitting when they say "when a PC is turned of the temperature of the CPU rises considerably because the active cooling has been turned off"?

Last possible concern then... With the heat of the operation still left in the heatsink, and not having a chance of being removed by the fan, won't some of it turn back and overheat the CPU core?

Meh, doesn't sound convincing even to me, but I want to make sure.

Well yeah, but the issue is it's sitting there at 55^C while being fanned. If I turn it off, the fan stops right there and then.

I don't know, maybe I'm just being overly paranoid, but I don't really want to break anything valuable at the moment.

Hey, a while back I saw a product that kept the fans in the computer going for about five minutes after the shutdown. My computer is folding during the day, but I sometimes shut it down at night. As the 100% load CPU socket temperature is ~50^C, I use a poor man's version of the forementioned commer...

Sure, might as well join in.

U2 - [Zooropa #05] Stay (Faraway, So Close!) [4:58]

Looks like a standard Zalman northbridge heatsink (I forgot the exact name).


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The time has come, my first WU is now done and qviri has contributed 69 points to team 31574.

On a related note, my temperatures actually go down if I fire up my trusty ol' FIFA '98. I guess the game can't stress the CPU as well as F@H does, but I just found it interesting.