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- Sun May 07, 2006 2:51 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: looking for guide/how to/or general advice on dampening
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5764
BrianE, from your post, it seems that I need to figure out how my noise is being generated and go from there. Its either vibrations, or fan/hd seek noise. I need to control the fan noise. So I should be in search of Acoustpack, Damptek, carpet foam correct? Thanks for the replies and if you have any...
- Fri May 05, 2006 3:21 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: looking for guide/how to/or general advice on dampening
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5764
- Fri May 05, 2006 7:57 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: looking for guide/how to/or general advice on dampening
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5764
looking for guide/how to/or general advice on dampening
questions 1) What are good/best materials for dampening? 1a) Will packaging foam that you usually get when you have something shipped work pretty well? 1b) If not, what is the bang for buck material I can buy? 2) How to correctly place the materials. Looking for a guide/how to place the materials in...
- Wed May 03, 2006 10:30 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: how much power does an overclocked opteron 148 draw?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2944
thx for the really really fast reply, yea my fsp 450 is pretty good on the rails im just curious as i had some errors with my hd and after running extensive tests on the hd, it passed! asking around my psu came into question, and you can see in my sig my setup, and personally I think it can handle i...
- Wed May 03, 2006 10:09 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: how much power does an overclocked opteron 148 draw?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2944
how much power does an overclocked opteron 148 draw?
i have an opty 148 at 3ghz with 1.55v on a epox 9npa+ultra motherboard how much power, and on what rails, is this going to pull alot of research later has really only gotten me closer, but still no clue please help a dumb kid out my rating using the TDP or tcasemax or whatever is 85w, but that doesn...
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:45 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: computer won't boot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9792
- Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:43 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: computer won't boot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9792
well i tried diff sata cords to no help, diff power connector no help need to reseat ram, try single sticks etc psu rails are good i found on maxtors website a harddrive diagnostics tool and ran all of the tests and it found no probs at all, its called powermax when im running windows repair, when i...
- Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:56 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: computer won't boot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9792
- Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:13 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: computer won't boot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9792
i do not really want to go the route of linux, its mostly windows and the programs i want to save more than just random files if you can think of that hard drive tool or if anyone else knows of a hard drive tool that might get my things back together that would be great also any other suggestions ar...
- Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:37 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: computer won't boot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9792
- Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:58 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: computer won't boot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9792
- Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:13 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: computer won't boot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9792
- Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:42 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: computer won't boot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9792
ok, a few times the windows loading screen would come up and then it would go black after a few passes (few being not sure didnt watch closely) no bsod errors now, it pretty much freezes as soon as the choice is made in f8(not safe mode though) in safe mode, the error is giveio.sys can you give me a...
- Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:16 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: computer won't boot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9792
computer won't boot
things are fine up to booting into windows, ive tried f8 and safe mode and last known config that worked as well as booting normally i was trying to install elder scrolls oblivion at the time when it froze i do not knwo what to do, i went into bios and changed everything to defualt (no overclocking)...
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:36 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: best prog to backup hd with
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11809
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:24 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: best prog to backup hd with
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11809
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:31 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: best prog to backup hd with
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11809
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:20 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: best prog to backup hd with
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11809
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:46 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: NV Silencer vs. VF700-Cu
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3411
if the VF700-CU is perhaps a few temps cooler on the gpu, and cools the memory better... this would give you the better overclocking possibility. it also though leaves heat in the case personally, i thnk it comes down to this if temps are great in your case with stock cooler, VF700-CU is the option ...
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:35 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: best prog to backup hd with
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11809
best prog to backup hd with
I basically know nothing about backing up my hd. I have a 300gb hard drive and want to make a backup if anything happens. I do have a random 120gb lying around, would this be big enough? What programs do you consider the best at making backups? Are they simple to use? Is there another thread/forum t...
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:13 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: wedging foam underneath hd........smart/stupid?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1914
wedging foam underneath hd........smart/stupid?
My hd is in the very last spot in my case and there is barely room for a pinky between hd and bottom of case. I have wedged some foam between the hd and the floor and this has reduced pretty much all hd noise that I had to nothing. I am wondering though if this might cause some kind of problem becau...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:38 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: great cooling, decently low noise vga cooler 7800gt
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1169
great cooling, decently low noise vga cooler 7800gt
obviously there is the nv5 silencer rev 3..... but then after that im not too sure what does a good job performance is number one for me, sound next, price last pretty much what would be say the top 3 that you guys would recommend does not need to be fanless though i will def take a look if performa...
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:32 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: temp monitoring program that can read gcard temps as well
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3521
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:29 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: temp monitoring program that can read gcard temps as well
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3521
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:28 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: temp monitoring program that can read gcard temps as well
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3521
temp monitoring program that can read gcard temps as well
i have a: epox 9npa ultra + motherboard evga 7800gt graphic card i was wondering if there was a program out there that could read and display the temps of these at the same time ive been through alot of temp monitoring programs and have yet to find one that does and im beginning to think there is no...
- Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:05 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: how do you guys feel about this case
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2974
- Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:07 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: how do you guys feel about this case
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2974
ok well i plan on cuttin out the back grill and either puttin in modder mesh or leaving open for the front, i still cant tell if the front is vented or if its completely sealed off, if thats the case it will be getting modders mesh for it and the noise comign from the side openings either will be fo...
- Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:28 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: how do you guys feel about this case
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2974
if you look at the picture where they are showing you the front ports, you can see the texture of the front area for the 120mm fan it looks to me to be open, but im not too sure the front drives have that same texture covering them, i do know from reading the reviews that a front 120mm fan does moun...
- Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:16 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: xp90 or xp120 or Ninja 1000?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2518
have you thought about the si-120 xp-120 but better check out reviews on it i got mine from, bestbyte computers i believe at 40 plus i htink 5 shipping pretty good deal, you should include that in your thoughts also no fan included, so you can add ur own japanaflo or yate loon to continue your quiet...
- Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:58 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: how do you guys feel about this case
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2974
how do you guys feel about this case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811147022 i will not be using the psu.. so thats not a worry definetly want usb ports upfront which it has and the ability for 2 120mm fans which it also has but how quiet do you think it will be, quiet is a concern but never a deciding factor.. j...