Surprised nobody has pointed out this article....

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares to You
(why?!)

From what I can see, the reviewed version and Bluefront's are different.

Definitely, Bluefront. http://www.hanzismatter.com/

Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything
...Yeah, I like mainstream music. Please don't flame me for it.

I found an article on the Ever Lubricate Bearing, in Chinese. http://www.oc.com.tw/readvarticle.asp?id=7786

I believe Ever Lubricate bearings are like Protechnic's rifle bearings, but I'm not sure. http://www.aocusa.com/evercool/index.ph ... =EC-EGF-12 is the Evercool official page on it, better than the engrish at newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835119074
Looks decent, 800rpm at 12v puts it on par with a Scythe S-flex D, and it's RoHS too!

Oh, and don't use a Nexus Driveaway. It doesn't cool well from posts on the forum. The Seagate you have should be sufficiently quiet to use no drive enclosure. Or, if you can afford it, get a Grow Up Japan Smart Drive 2002 enclosure.

Hey, my French translation doesn't totally suck!

Nice. What case is that?

Did you remove the duct to get the 9500 to fit? I have an 8300 and I'm looking for a nice HSF. Did it snap into the Dell retentionframe? (sorry for threadjacking)

GlassMan: Definitely! Plug 115v into a 230v set PSU, you're not going to harn it, it just won't turn on. Vice versa, and you blow up the PSU and quite probably other components.

I'd not trust that XP480 with even 250W! It's probably just a rebadged 250w anyway. And Yes the Tt Orbs came out loooong before Zalman 7000, but the Golden Orb II and Blue Orb II are ZM7K-esque.

Looks like the 60mm in the Seasonic M12 is an Adda model, bodes well for noise. Enfin terminons par une très bonne nouvelle : Seasonic travaille sur une alimentation fanless mais aucune date de sortie n'a été avancée. Connaissant le sérieux de la marque, on peut se mettre à espérer à une ali...

Sorta does look like an LX-6A19 inside. And they know how to spell 'aluminium'. Really does remind me of a Chenming though. iStar make server stuff, replace the fan because it's bound to be loud.

Cool. The clip design seems like it's AM2 compatible. Can anybody confirm from the photos?

The Mine is compatible with AM2. It's designed more with fan cooling in mind, because of the closely spaced fins. It's not a good passive cooler because of that.

You have to wonder what the hell Lian Li were thinking. Why not just shrink the V series and make it a microATX board? Instead they had to put the PSU where it suffocates the CPU cooler.

LOL Absolutely right DrCR, I love my Model M.

For DC anyway, Mike_P. AC wattage = Volts * Amps * Power Factor. IIRC anyway. I have only an elementary knowledge of electrical engineering.

Absolutely right, IsaacKuo. Check this pic:



Arrows are where the ledges are.

Damn, Shadowknight, ‘gigantic’ is an understatement for that Cooler Master HSF. Note to readers: scroll down the page, there's a hot girl holding the heatsink as a scale referrence. It eighs 2kg.

Filters? What filters? I've never filtered an intake on my PCs, and I don't get much dust. What little I do get, I blow out monthly.

And I'll stick with the Freezer Pro til the 120mm HSF comes out.

4c is march 2004, they are not good fans. Dorothy Bradbury explained in an old thread that March-May 2004 the chinaflos weren't good - the factories got lazy and the management in Japan wasnt checking up on them so they were building stuff with worse tolerances. After the Minebea takeover the China ...

gfx switched tghe Gigabyte 7600GT. CPU switched to the sempron 2800+, I can just upgrade later when 65nm comes.

I'll already get the MSI motherboard; QuietOC is a member here on SPCR forums. I'm switching to this RAM because I'll not be needing 2gb and it's DDR2/800.

Supplier for CPU HSF switched to ZZF, why get a 7300GT instead of 7600GS? I was also told by QuietOC that the seeks on the WD are much less annoying than on the Samsung.

Ok, I'm switching the mobo to MSI K9N Neo F. I wasn't really thinking about buying the cpu from tigerdefect, I'll wait until Newegg carries it. I'm also switching to the Asus card.