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by Woland
Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:54 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Fanless Power Supply PC Build Guide
Replies: 35
Views: 30236

Re: Fanless Power Supply PC Build Guide

This was an absolutely awesome article. Very well done, Lawrence. The component manufacturer's should throw you a bone, since I'm probably going to build the system you assembled for this article. @ickarumba1: I don't know if it helps you/reassures you, but I have a Seasonic X400 running in an Orige...
by Woland
Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:02 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Push pull in an HTPC case: finding a minitower HSF worth it?
Replies: 6
Views: 3447

Re: Push pull in an HTPC case: finding a minitower HSF worth

Come back and post your results from Speedfan. Most people feel that the C2D processors are still plenty fast for most tasks. If I was in the market for a new CPU, I would be buying a Pentium G840 for LGA1155. This cheap processor (listed at $75, selling at $85 today due to HUGE demand) will be fas...
by Woland
Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:57 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Push pull in an HTPC case: finding a minitower HSF worth it?
Replies: 6
Views: 3447

Re: Push pull in an HTPC case: finding a minitower HSF worth

You don`t seem to be in immediata need of better cooling so this is something you`d do to have the most elegant solution, not because you need to. Exactly right. This is tweaking for the sake of tweaking. I think it'll be fun to try to come up with a solution that is more effective at moving heat o...
by Woland
Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:09 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Push pull in an HTPC case: finding a minitower HSF worth it?
Replies: 6
Views: 3447

Push pull in an HTPC case: finding a minitower HSF worth it?

My HTPC runs inside an OrigenAE S10V that I really like. It can handle the frugal hardware setup, it's looks great as part of the home theater, the front panel display integrates nicely with WMC and the Soungraph software lets me use my Harmony remote. The case has 4x60 mm fans installed on opposite...
by Woland
Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:50 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: "Fully" Modular PSUs
Replies: 6
Views: 3729

Re: "Fully" Modular PSUs

Thanks for all the input, guys. The Seasonic X-560 is probably what I'll end up getting. It's the PSU I was tentatively planning to use, anyway--I'm pretty fond of Seasonic, so, whatever, they can have a little more of my money. I was hoping to save a few bucks, if possible, but if I have to spend a...
by Woland
Tue May 31, 2011 10:38 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: "Fully" Modular PSUs
Replies: 6
Views: 3729

"Fully" Modular PSUs

Does anyone have a suggestion for a fully modular PSU (one that has no captive cables at all) that's quite and relatively cheap? I have a Lian Li V350 case that's a little challenging for cable routing/storage, so I bought a Seansonic M12II-520 for it. It has a built-in PCIe graphics card power cabl...
by Woland
Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:43 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Core i7 launch
Replies: 47
Views: 48602

Re: Hello, Netburst!

I don't see any reason to want one of these at all, especially a 965- not for HPC, not for home computing, and definitely not for business use. With the G7's economies going the direction they are as of late, I don't even see where this will sell well to the narrow niche of spoiled children. You're...
by Woland
Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:33 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Superfetch
Replies: 5
Views: 3120

Superfetch really is a nice feature, and I'm not so sure that Superfetch is what is randomly accessing your hard drive late at night. It may be Vista's built-in defragmenter, but I have no idea. I'm 99% sure - it is LocalSystemNetworkRestricted = superfetch AND i heve defregmentation and indexing d...
by Woland
Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:50 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: RAID-0 Not Showing SMART Data
Replies: 5
Views: 3725

Maybe it's blocked then like you said. When I go into BIOS the Intel Matrix Storage options for RAID are nothing. It doesn't even show the drives in BIOS. It'll only show them in the RAID menu (Ctrl+I). So I have no option to even turn on SMART. Yeah, the RAID controller is presenting the two disks...
by Woland
Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:28 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: RAID-0 Not Showing SMART Data
Replies: 5
Views: 3725

Some RAID controllers will prevent you from reading the SMART data from the member disks when the drives are RAIDed. The curt answer to that issue is that if you want minimal pain, stay the hell away from low cost RAID setups, and way the hell away from RAID0. I wouldn't necessarly make anything of ...
by Woland
Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:41 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Shuttle X100 Complete SFF PC
Replies: 24
Views: 26382

The fact that the X200 will come with a remote just about guarantees that I'll buy one when it lands in November.
by Woland
Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:58 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Reverse HT on all AM2 chips?
Replies: 3
Views: 3267

That Inquirer article is pretty funnny. They're always so dramatic, as if every next piece of technology is going to be the nail in the coffin for AMD or Intel (depending on who's holding the hammer at the time). Anyway, just because you present two, three-issue cores as a single, six-issue core doe...
by Woland
Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:29 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB: Big Low Noise Champ?
Replies: 107
Views: 120181

I come here, see the article about the black P150 and think, "The only thing that stopped me from picking one up and building a computer around it was that it was white." Now that it's available in black, it's exactly the case I want. And I wouldn't have heard about it if not for SPCR. Then I see th...
by Woland
Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:11 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Pentium M: System Component Recommendations
Replies: 4
Views: 3110

The Scythe Ninja is waaaaay more heatsink than you need to passively cool a Pentium M. The airflow from the PSU should be more than enough even with a much smaller heatsink.
by Woland
Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:46 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: very powerful, almost silent computer...how to finish
Replies: 6
Views: 3497

I have a 3000B, but it doesn't hum. I have an idea to stop it though. Basically, I think the front bezel just has a little bit of looseness that only really comes to the forefront as fans ramp up. Get some really thin foam or just get some thick paper (index card). Open up the case and jam small st...
by Woland
Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:42 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: very powerful, almost silent computer...how to finish
Replies: 6
Views: 3497

very powerful, almost silent computer...how to finish

I built this: Antec SLK3000B Seasonic S12 380 Athlon 64X2 4200 and XP-90 with an 80 mm Panaflo. Powercolor X700 - a passively cooled, dual DVI jobby with a huge heatpipe-sportin' heatsinsink. Plus a ton of Ram and a Hitachi 250 GB hard drive. The drive is loud as hell during seeks...which I actually...