danimal wrote:thermalright ty-140:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cooler ... dup_9.html

Thanks! Ordered two of them, I'll see how they stack up against the 12cm Scythes.

I'm looking to quieten down my shinny new CoolerMaster 690 II and I'm trying to settle on a couple of 140 mm fans, one for the top (blowing up and out) and one for the front (blowing in, over the hard drives). I searched high and low and the opinions are split between the Noctua and the Noiseblocker...

~El~Jefe~ wrote:

theMAGE wrote: I have a Scythe Ninja Mini in my server...
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But those are out of stock everywhere, and they don't have mounting hardware for LGA-1156 anyway.

wait, which is out of stock?

The Ninja Mini is out of stock.

please use tinsnips and cut off the jaws. it is great ram but the jaws dont do much. That much is obvious - I always get a kick from the fact that other than FB-DIMMs, I haven't seen heatsinks on server RAM, but only on the "enthusiast" RAM. Can a grand kama cross fit? It has a VERY high height abo...

I am helping a friend quieten down his desktop. He had a i7-860 on a DFI P55 MI-T36, with 8 GB of G.SKILL Ripjaws RAM, all packaged inside a Silverstone SG05B case. Nice cute little system, but the Intel stock fan is atrocious, and there isn't much space inside. I tried a Big Shuriken, but the CPU h...

Go for the P183, in my opinion. Its cooling capabilities should be enough, and it will be a quieter build (given that you switch out the fans). The corsair supports EATX though, while the P18x hug the ATX quite well. SuperMicro boards tend to be larger and I might convert the case into a server at ...

I'm preparing to build a quiet workstation. Here is my current part list: Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X8SAX-O $ 250 CPU : Intel Xeon X5660 $1,250 Memory : Crucial 12 GB ECC PC-133 $ 670 PSU : Seasonic X-650 $ 140 HDD : Samsung F3 TB (reuse) Video : MSI Radeon 5770 (reuse) I'm looking for something t...

I have bought and returned a Xigmatek HDT-SD964 as it only comes with the 775 mounting system, not compatible with 1156.

Oh well, time to try installing the Big Shuriken. I have big fingers and small patience, but I'll give it a try.

Hello, I was gifted a i7-860 system in a small form factor SilverStone case with the stock Intel cooler. The SilverStone is nice, but it's too open and the noise of the Intel fan drives me bananas. I swapped the Atom D510 motherboard from the Antec NSK2480 into the SilverStone and placed the i860 in...

I replaced a WD5000AAKS with an AACS drive for use in an external enclosure, but OS X's disk utility reports that SMART is not supported with the drive. Sounds weird to me, but I can't remember whether it was the same case with the AAKS. SMART is supported, but something is fishy with it - it repor...

Based on Mike's review and on some other Internet references (mainly Solaris-related blogs) I bought an ASUS M2A-VM motherboard, an Athlon X2 BE-2400 and 4x1GB of OCZ DDR2 800 RAM. Right off the bat the motherboard had problems POST-ing with all four memory sticks installed (and auto memory settings...

one man's "working just fine" is another man's "slowly cooking itself to death". if you consider all the components, and the value of the time it takes to research, build, and maintain a PC, the cost of a replacement motherboard is a very small fraction. and when i said "dumped," i didn't mean it l...

Also, note the core temperature as reported by speedfan in your review, 14 C. Unless your test environment is really cold, this is obviously wrong. That is wierd. Speedfan on mine is reporting a much more realistic core temperature of 27C (idle). In Speedfan Temp2 seems to be the chipset temperatur...

many many other options here, you could get a nortel contivity 100 off ebay (we got 3 brand new sealed in box for $22 each incl shipping lol) and plug in more memory better cpu and atheros pci card to bring it up to spec. or ditto ebay a wyse 9450xe and do similar. or nokia ip1xx . Unfortunately th...

If you're looking fanless, the fsp zen 300w is that and 80plus too. Also it has a $50 rebate currently on newegg last I saw. I'm sure with your low power system, it won't be very taxing at all on it. I saw that one, but I have been put off by the comments. A bunch of guys, over some span of time, c...

Agreed, an 80+ certified 300w ATX power supply should be very efficient at low loads and they aren't too pricey either. Or if you can hack a FlexATX power supply in there the 220w Sparkle SPCR recently reviewed would be a good candidate as well. But that is not fanless, isn't it? Or just get a Pico...

So it probably wouldn't sell to anyone else than those who actually are aware of what a low power rig pulls, like people here. A question of viability I'd reckon. But there are many enthusiasts here, and many of them influence the computing decisions in their circles of friends. And coupled with th...

I have a burning question: is anybody making a high-efficiency 100-150W power supply in ATX form? I know about picoPSU and friends, but I have to use a microATX case anyway. My servers use 30W on idle, 45W on load and 50W at startup. I don't care for anything more than 100W, but I want something rea...

Now my only question is. While in the BIOS. I have an option to 'Increase AGP apeture size' and I have 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 and 1gig and another option is the VGA Vram. It is 32 and 64mb in size. So what's the difference between the two? The AGP aperture size is how much main RAM can be dynamicall...

I suspect the high power consumption is due to the generic power supply; most are probably not more than 50% efficient at such low loads. With the 80Plus power supply you should see much lower power consumption. With the 80+ PSU in NSK2480, the board, with 2 GB of RAM and two 4200 RPM laptop HDDs i...

Would it be possible to run a few games and see how it functions framerate wise? games such as: Quake III Arena Morrowind I only have Quake III, but do not have the time to install Windows on the box, as this will be a file server. However, I ran the povray 3.6 benchmark on Intel Celeron 650MHz, In...

The board came with a terribly annoying little fan, about 1.5" in diameter. Is there a replacement heatsink that would allow me to run it fanless in the Antec NSK2480? I am running the PIII fanles in an Antec NSK2400, using one of those server class heatsinks, cooled by the draft caused by the back ...

Just got my VIA C7 motherboard from ClubIt, and ran a few tests. I plugged 2 GB of DDR2-533 and a USB bootable stick, to run memtest and RIP Linux . The power supply is a generic 350W unit that I borrowed from a friend and was plugged in a Kill-A-Watt meter. When running the memtest and in BIOS, the...

I'm very interested in the In Win BK series / Mt. Jade BK623 for a future file server replacement. The BK is a tiny ~12,500cm³ (32.3×14.0×27.6cm), comparing to ~9,250cm³ for the Silverstone LC19 , and impressively can fit 4 full-height expansion cards. Availability isn't particularly good but t...

Does it have to be desktop orientation? Not necessarily, as long as it would function well on a side. The Antec 3480 is very small and can be made very very quiet (silent if you replace the PSU), but it's a tower case. It is similar in size to Antec NSK-2400, which I like enough to have bought two ...

I'm searching for something like Silverstone LC19, except at half price

Most small micro-atx cases come with dingy little fans. I will use it for a small VIA board: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS5305482907.html

Thanks!

Zig wrote: Will replace my D201GLY by this new board in the Morex 3777 at the end of the day, will plug a (new) SATA drive, and try Debian 64 (currently running Debian Testing - 32 bits of course - on the D201GLY).

How noisy is the fan in the Morex 3777 case?

I had a Phantom 500 in my P180 for a year and a half, and this week it died, oozing a few drops of something oily. A couple of years ago I had another Antec PSU die. I have 4 Antec cases and I like them all. I am not that impressed with their PSUs so far: 100% failure rate within two years (with a s...

NonServiam wrote: Do you know for certain if this is also the case with ASUS A8N-SLI Premium? Anyone?

I know for sure it won't work. The manual says you have to put the single video card in the slot closest to the CPU.

It works swell. The CPU does not "match exactly" but it is close enough to the top exhaust, but I chose to install the fan on the cooler. I have installed a Nexus 120 mm fan on the Ninja and indeed, there is very little clearance for the RAM, but it was enough. The hardest part was installing the Ni...