Thanks for the great list. It is the reason my machine runs what ot does for cooling.I have been running xp90 on a prescott and accelero (I recently found to be #1 on spcr reviews), I have no doubts about the testing and list. "no bias" just facts is the way to go.. I have been donating to spcr fold...

"If ya can't beat 'em, turn it into a screaming lunatic." That must be quoted from somebody at amd... joking aside, as a regular shmuck who dove into pcs when they started becoming real for regular folks like myself, no intense phd necessary... AMD's winner is the vid cards. The cpus, along with my ...

Given this cpu is as vaguely decribed as the day I started it 2.5 years ago.... if you are wondering what to compare to, the smallest core2 duos are close at the 1mb l2 cache to a prescott... The 2mb cache versions of course floats more... I attempted smp version with gpu running, the deadline was s...

bump ing an "old" thread altho just a year. I am wondering who did the inevitible reverse cooling with this heatsink in the old fatty cases like antecs lanboy, 2600amb and 3something amb etc would deal with ductwork and height. (8.75 inch wide atx tower cases)I am currently running an xp90, and in 8...

darn. it was almost real looking from a distance. ... my qualms with it are the base not going all the way up to the fantasy pipes. It is the fins cooling, pipes holding it together, just like the rest of them. Could make something easy enough out of it, but expect to see a model like it for duct de...

I looked around, was going to buy some, saw thier cheesy grade for a few bucks and then the extreme useless heatpipe on the ram chip setup and.... decided to make my own. Will post a photo, but it does involve some self adhering fake chrome covered plastic cut into the 32 sqaures I needed for each a...

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/soob87/pc_duct_outside.jpg Just look at the wee little accelero http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/soob87/pc_duct_inside.jpg This is the inside of my ductwork. It is made out of thin aluminum, primer coated (meant for a house faciure- 1.50 a foot!) and...

the retail heatsink for a 2.26GHZ p4 was good for a 1.7ghz pentium the heatsink retail for a 2.8e was good for the 2.26 the 2.8e has my hair standing on end four years and 12000 hours later, with a recent custom all aluminum ductwork precisioned to mate to the xp90 vibrationless with reverse cooling...

I could not for the life of me figure out how spcr was getting these insanely low temps...until I saw it was mounted at style. Are they (thermaltake) ever going to make old school discipline again, with the thin fins all on the BASE then going perpendicular? they can go back to thier ways of no conc...

after 12000 hours i decided to give my pc an updated vid card for working with HD video (ati 2600pro).. The case needed a few rivets near the power supply, and I made the vents smaller up front for the "twins" (wd800jb hard disks) to keep the temps the same, and force more "invisible" grounding (the...

I encountered one failure. Now whenever in doubt, I put screws as fat as the mobo holes will take (even a tad tight and THREAD it though). Ironically just reassured myself yesterday and took my 12300 hour system apart and made the heatsink retainer absolutely unforgiving... On another note...Did I t...

I am as obsessed with that crappy component called a fan as anybody, and read alot here... Upon an approaching meltdown to my 2.8e and the recent ati rv600 series vid card, I ran to the local store for pc parts and knew they were going to have nothing but generic junk for the cost of an online exoti...

I did figure it out afterwards... I have since run the pc at night, and set affinity for cpu and gpu2. From what I have read, the gpu2 has alot of cpu overhead. I let both run to just let both run, not a big performer. My first go at it was quite powerful, finishing a few units in 7 hours. upon a fu...

believing in reverse cooling, no fan on the heatsink, ductwork. Acheiving static pressure is a challenge. the xp90 meets that challenge. I have to fail the noctua :? was quite intrigued at first glance...then found this disappointing photo. http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/soob87/old%20subar...

Anybody not recommend this? I upgraded cooling for the hd2600pro, and my cpu is xp90 custom ductwork, and lastly, my psu is the friendliest "giant" 300w ever (upon remembering past mishaps, no need to discuss further) :roll: My name is bgd73 on the spcr team, I couldn't help but notice the active fo...

I just joined the folding stuff, decided to make it to spcr team My pc takes forever to do one unit of 500,000.... is that normal? I do not use the foilding stuff often, got it really for testing longevity (after 12000 hours I made some dramatic system changes) altho, can leave it up and running for...

that is alot of effort for all those mistakes by xigmazu, i mean xigmatek :) The heatsink is not functioning given those numbers. I trialed and errored with the accelero on a hd2600 (rv600 hotty) and got into the 60s C and new darn well it wasn't correct. So, I shined a light at the base, and it was...

I am keeping my xp90 for the next gen upgrade, no doubts about it. 12000 hours in an 80mm fan case with a 2.8e (Roaster!) just today hacked for a 92 mm to fit my reverse cooling, by opening the back up, using a grill, and making my own ductwork fit all back together in the antec 2600 case. Still onl...

I have had seven custom pcs to drive me acoustically mad, all mine, every piece altered in some way different than oem (no joke)except for solid state parts like the hdd... Of course i only learned to doubt everything. This topic is about heatsink of the box, and some old fashioned pc rules forgotte...

Friends don't let friends use pushpins. Just say no! the right heatsink does away with that hoax. there are thousands of hours and 66C full load cpus regardless of heatsink still alive with pushpins.... Friends don't let friends blow the cpu fan at the cpu, system, and memory :) the orb design is b...

Why couldn't they have included a S478 adapter as well? This would be great in my T7200 desktop system. <sigh> -D I agree, given the results.... I recently added a crazy agp card and the "old" p4 2.8e is hitting 65C on tight reverse duct and an xp-90 firmly in place on arctic silver.. and I am sure...

That is a nice psu. As I am killing the hoaxes now with my 12000 hour custom build with a 220w max sl300s (no pfc :roll: but happily apc ups :o ) in an antec powering: 2.8e p4 Ati hd 2600 pro 2 wd800jb HDD netgear lan onboard sound on my 12x9.6 msi mobo with 2 sticks of kingston, dvd rw and cd rom.....

the info about the wd800 (80 gb) is way off. In fact, I just bought another brand new because they are the most silent drives in my history of computing..cool fast, eide, and extremely durable, loves to hang onto a twin in a bad case very well.and further more...80gb is doing much less work. Anybody...

The vid card is erroneous... I would attack the whole concept of the zalman if it meant hacking/scrapping. The large fans are nice, I am envious as I still get away with an 80mm that has to work on my antec 2600amb (3 fan roaster- almost doesn't count) :) I guess for new stuff, the upside down box s...

It is nice to see these cards oem with passive coolers... But once again, I immediately spotted errors (from my years as a crazy pc builder) 1. The heatsink has no sealer around gpu edge.. (as far as I could tell by photo)with the mention of four metal spring loaded springs...not good. Once that 650...

"We also ran brief test results comparing the cooling efficiency and noise of the Scythe SFLEX SFF21F 64cfm/28 dB-A fan that was used in Thermalright reviews and the SilenX fan used in several of the most recent reviews. Cooling results were similar with either fan on the Noctua heatsink, with the ...

I have a nexus, a coolermaster, a powmax, an antec. Absolutely nothing special about any of them,all claiming SILENT. They dropped the A number to .14 and call it a winner (REPULSIVE). altho the now discontinued 3 dollar powmax led fan is my champion because of the fan blade design. RPM reporting is...

I finally broke down and tore my calmest 80mm fan apart. (never good enough, go figure). Lord knows the 10cent fans from china by the billions never do what is stated to be necessary, let alone, the facts. 12volts is a rock volt in a pc. It is a stubborn one...until a few years ago I encountered the...

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/soob87/pc_heatsink_acclroWeb.jpg waddyaknow, it does work. Added the accelero to the 2600pro AGP. I had to make a stud type setup, with tinsnips, a drill, a small bit of grinding, alot of bending. The studs are longer and bigger in diameter (3mm), and I had ...

I forgot to post before and after pics of cleaning stats http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/soob87/old%20subaru/aft_spring_cleaning.jpg Like Day One. Only better. I learned awhile back to drench my ati vid card in scalding water, take off the northbridge heatsink and put some arctic silver the...