I'm currently looking to get a hard drive to hook up to a USB port on a in car stereo head unit. The idea being I'll fill it with music, shove it in the glove compartment and shuffle through all the tunes whilst driving. Problem is most, head units have a single USB socket that can only provide 500m...

Quick update now I have the Palit 9400GT card installed. First things first, it gets hot, very hot. Ok, its upside down and has another PCI card directly below it, which I guess is not ideal, but going to be common in many cramped slimline cases. Without a case fan blowing directly onto it, the card...

Didn't take not of its speed, shall have to check that one and compare against the 92mm one. That said I think if I drill some extra holes I should be able to fit the 92mm one my case anywhere, which will probably be a better route all round. Only thing is my cases has rounds edges, so I won't be ab...

Just got a Nexus Real Silent 80mm fan, its the PWM series. OK first up I thought my mobo had multiple PWM header, but no, so I'm plugging this into a normal 3 pin header. Either way its really noisey!! Not at all like I expected. It produces a good loud hum, louder than my E7200 stock fan and the fa...

Just brought a Palit Geforce 9400GT graphics card. Single slot and passive. I've got a slim Silverstone LC04 case, where my soundcard will be sitting right next to it. Also it will be upside down to riser as well... I'll let you know how I get on in a few days. Got an 80mm Nexus case fan at same tim...

Tried yanking memory out and replacing it - no difference. However I tried another PSU and it fired up fine! So yep, must be PSU. Tried shorting the green'n'black wires to see it it starts up in its own right and nothing. At least I know what it is now, just need to source a new PSU. Anyone know any...

No beeps nothing. The only indication of life is just one LED on the PCI riser board. No LED's come on, on the front of the case (Power or HD). Don't have any diagnostic tools. :( A friends is bringing me a spare PSU into work tomorrow. Will try that. There's just two Geil 1Gb DDR2 sticks in there, ...

Had a nice PC built and working for sometime, however today it started booting up, died, and now won't post. Nothing, no power LED on front of case, nothing. Its an Asus P5K-VM mobo, Intel 7200, 2GB ram WD Scorpio HD and M-Audio Audiophile 192 sound card. I'm powering it with a Seasonic SS-300TFX, w...

Current have an E7200 in an Asus P5K-VM mobo, 2Gb ram, with stock fan. PSU is a Seasonic 235W TFX. I'm just using the onboard Intel X3000 graphics card (not great) and have just a WD Scorpio 2.5" drive and M-Audio Audiophile 192 soundcard plugged in. I run Fedora 9. Whole lot tends to idle at about ...

Interesting, I wasn't aware mobile P4's would fit my standard mobo, always thought they had a slightly different pin out and weren't compatible with the bios. Got any pointers/links, sounds ideal to be honest?

On the off chance anyones interested, I measured the Athlon slot-a 750Mhz rig the other day. With two PATA 250Mb Seagate Barracuda drives and an old, old ATI Radeon, it peaked at 120W during drive spin up, then settled at around 92W for rest of boot up and idle. FWIW the machine runs no graphical in...

Wow, given the prices on those Koolance kits, it probably wouldn't be that much more expensive to wait a bit and buy the next revision of the PS3 (with the GPU die shrink). That one should produce a lot less heat. Depends on what you use your PS3 for. Yes, if its just games and blu-ray. no if you l...

Got me a big old 12port 3Com Superstack 100Mbit switch, can't remember model off hand, but takes up about 20W all the time. Generally has just 5 ports in use. :( A list of recommended switches would be dead useful. Have been thinking of moving up to gigabit, so would be an ideal time to look at low ...

Well measured the P4 2.4Ghz with the Intel mobo, no drives and just a super basic Savage4 AGP card. During post, it fluctuated between 70 and 105W, but settled at 80W once it hit hte 'no operating system found' message. So with a pair of mirrored drives we'll be talking around 100W ish I guess, whic...

Fair enough, that doesn't seem so bad as I first suspected. Yeah don't think I'll be replacing the drives specifically to save power, just doesn't make sense.

Well just got myself one of the Seasonic SS-300TFX PSU's. Found a bargain one on ebay, quite lucky really. Popped it in, much better really, proper 24pin mobo power connector, the original Silverstone 'Enhance' one only had a 20 pin plug. Also the Seasonic has a couple of leads with the newer SATA s...

I've got a little server in the attic doing router, firewall, file serving type duties. Currently has two Seagate ST3250623A-RK Barracuda drives mirrored. I was interested in what power consumption they have, from the Seagate stats page all that can be gleaned is: "Maximum start current, DC 2.80 amp...

:cry: So do you think I'd be better off flogging the lot and with the (little) cash get some specifically low power? The box is a file server, router/dhcp, filewall, mail server etc. Currently running console based linux. The most taxing thing it does it transcode audio files it serves up. Don't bot...

I have a server that sits in the attic, on permanently. Its currently an ancient Athlon Slot-A 750Mhz chip in an early Epox 7-KXA mobo. I have a pile of spares left over from a recent upgrades, so was wondering what would be the most efficient out of this lot:- Athlon Slot-A 600Mhz Athlon Slot-A 750...

Stats for my new PC build. Intel P4 Core 2 Duo 2.5Ghz E7200 2GB ram. Asus P5K-VM mobo Western Digital 250Gb 2.5" Scorpio HD M-Audio Audiophile 192 soundcard DVD-RW drive, can't remember brand. Silverstone 250W TFX PSU. Using onboard X3100 graphics card. General idle is about 52W, full load is about ...

Cool bargain!!

Got this one from Maplin, does the job, but the LCD display has gone really faint and flickery. Can only read it from certain angles. Might just pop down Aldi Sunday and check this one out.

I just found a German retailer which carries SS-300TFX. I ordered mine already, now if only it arrives in one piece... Would like to dig this thread up again and ask you how you got on with his PSU and retailer? Considering it myself for my LC04 case. How quiet is it? Which Silverstone PSU did you ...

The other day I read a anecdote somewhere on the net of someone who upgraded the hard drive in the PS3 for a model that produced less heat, which made a reasonable difference to the overall noise of the PS3. Anyone tried this or experimented along these lines? Any suggestions for a really cool runni...

Yeah that's what I figured. I'll double check everythings wired up right and what not, then see how it is once fully setup with an OS and given some load. Been delayed a bit, wanted to reuse my old PATA drive and DVD on the single PATA interface, but can't physically do it, due to position of drive ...

Well got me bits together for new PC, just threw the cpu, mem and mobo together last night - no drives yet. Just booted it up into bios to confirm it was working and the health monitor in the bios reckoned the CPU was only 7°C! Its an Intel E7200 with stock fan in an Asus P5K-VM mobo. Room ambient ...

I've read that raising a horizontal PS3 up slightly by placing it on some small blocks/feet can help things. Although vertical placement tends to be better in general due to the vents on the side being more effective when pointing upwards. Bear in mind though, there has been many iterations of the P...

Minja is too high too !!!! Good thing about the 7200 is it's power consumption. You could check Artic Cooling too... like this one : http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=159&disc= Yep, that's why I got it. Should be pretty nippy and easy to cool. Yep that Arctic Cooler 7 LP is the cooler I wa...

I think the Samurai could be a bit tall really. Case is only 11cm tall in total. Not checked accurately, but I guess I'm looking for something around 6-8cm tall. The Shuriken comes in at 6.5cm tall.

Well is it any good? Can't find any write ups on it. Scrapped the idea of upgrading my old 478 mobo, so I'm now looking for a low profile, super quiet socket 775 cooler for an E7200 cpu. Basically I'm weighing up one of these, a Scythe Shuriken or one of the low profile Zalman flowers (although thes...

Thanks for the offer of the Zalman, but I'm really more interested in a cooler that blows up. Reading the review of the LC04 on this site, the figures show a blow-up fan cooled things down a lot more, than a similar Zalman blowing down (and outwards). That Arctic-Cooling Super Silent, does that blow...