Recently bought 4 Seagate 2TB drives ST2000DL003 via two orders and 2 out of 4 where DOA (one for each order). Newegg users report way too many DOAs http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-148-681&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=&VideoOnlyMark=False&Vend...

btw, we need some help with a bit of coding for our fan articles. Please see this: http://procooling.com/index.php?func=articles&disp=131 That type of interactive chart would be wonderful for us to use for measured fan data. Can anyone help us develop a similar function? I may be able to help you w...

OpenPGP/GnuGP is probably what you are looking for. Free secure encryption with sender and receiver certification (asymmetric cryptography). FireGPG is a Firefox Extension for encrypting and decrypting text on the web. It supports many web mails. http://getfiregpg.org/s/home If you don't have a webm...

RAID is not for backup, it is just for availability. If you want to be safe, just reschedule your NAS backup more frequently, or have a continuous backup from your pc to your NAS (many nas systems offer some kind of continuous backup or you can use third party software). What I would really invest t...

I second what DanceMan said, but there is no need for bending fins: just screw the fan in the upper right corner. It will help you cool the northbridge and your voltage regulators.
I've been doing this for years (since amd k6-2) and it is way better than any screaming 6cm fans.

In no particular order: worms reinforcements (aka worms+, an expansion for the first game of the serie) red alert 1 & 2 dune 2 master of orion 1 half life syndicate (NOT s. wars) doom 2 - other - double dragon 2 (c64) moonstone (amiga 500) chaos engine (amiga 500) tekken 1 & 2 (ps1... I don't like n...

Pay attention to the fact that the output of the picoUPS is not regulated. It is clearly stated on the picoUPS page of a reliable Italian online shop specialized in Mini-itx stuff, that you must use it with M1-ATX, M2-ATX, M3-ATX or picoPSU 6-24V, but not with picoPSU 120W. http://www.mini-itx.it/co...

Probably performance may be affected... see what can happen just screaming in front of your drivers

http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency

If they are the same shipped with cooler master cases (stacker or elite) they are good at 5V I'm using five of them among my computers both in vertical and horizontal position. One is running in my main PC and I can't hear it over two 8cm Nexus at 5v, but I think this is a particularly good sample. ...

there is also this thread viewtopic.php?t=39636&highlight=coconut+oil

Have a look there to find instructions on how to use the fan control daemon under Linpus.

http://the.taoofmac.com/media/Acer/Aspi ... notes.html

When I run my PC review site, I received some heatsinks with this fan http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=600138 6800RPM :shock: I once got a bleeding finger by inadvertently touching the blades while they were spinning. I think you can find some used unbalanced :twisted: samples if you sear...

I must admit I don't have enough chemistry knowledge to explain the reaction.

This was suggested to me by a plumber some years ago and I tried it with success.

To reduce acetic acid effect you can mix some drops of denatured alcohol in a small cup of silicone sealant.
This will help you reduce the bad small too, but will make it slightly less dense so first experiment to see how much alcohol you need.

Just my two cents.

Some years ago I used silicone sealant to attach heatsinks to some mpeg2 encoding chips that run hotter than I liked with nice results (don't try this with modern small chips).

It won't be affected by warm air.

I bought and installed a Vortex 752 and now that I finished moving to my new house I must say I'm very satisfied with it.

It is easy to install on socket 775 and the original fan with Asus Q Fan on silent mode (fan @ 920 RPM) is indistinguishable to me from two 8cm nexus running at 5V.

Hi,

most of the UPSs I've seen require proper grounding, so check before buying one.
I think an EMI filter or two could be enough for your needs.

BTW if you manage to obtain proper grounding from the landlord do yourself a favour and buy a UPS

You won't be able to play 3D games on vmware. Infact windows will see a vmware graphic adapter not your video card. I don't have experience with qemu, but you could google arount a bit. Anyway I would recommend to try wine first. P.S. I run 14 virtual machines with different windows versions (2000, ...

Did anyone try this case http://www.aerocool.us/htdocs/case/S9%20Pro/S9%20Pro_feature.htm or this other model http://www.aerocool.us/htdocs/case/V-Touch%20Pro/V-Touch%20Pro_feature.htm ? Apart from aesthetic considerations (dunno if I like it or not yet) I think the huge side fan could be quiet at 4...

This is the only one I know of: http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_series/m9120pluslpx1/ BTW Matrox' 2D image quality is usually better than ATI or nVidia so I think this would be a nice card for a HTPC. Unfortunately this doesn't have TV Out. Probably you can find some PCI ...

Ziphnor,
please let us know how the MTron Mobi performs and, especially, if it freezes during random writes as the OCZ CORE do (I hope it doesn't both for you and for me so I can buy a SSD too ) .

Thanks!

Indeed I chose to install Arch Linux after some Debian bad experiences and in more than two years I didn't reinstall on 8 PCs (I'm a systems administrator and I use Arch Linux on some workstations at work). Thanks t the rolling release system they just give updates when they are tested (think of dis...

I agree with both of you regarding performance, especially sequential writes are not a problem, but random ones could be (see the Core's freeze). I was just pointing it out because this reduction in performance after some use is something to consider when we see comparison of several SSDs with some ...

Hi, I think this is an import thing to share: a "factory clean" SSD is much faster than a disk where data has been written to!! in this Italian review http://www.hwupgrade.it/articoli/storage/2044/intel-x-25m-ssd-in-test-con-molte-sorprese_10.html you can see the graphs of the different reading and ...

Cooler Master advertises their use of small copper plates on the heatsinks as a means of increasing heat dissipation, since copper transfers heat faster than aluminum. Aluminum still dissipates the heat faster to the surrounding air , which is one reason the whole cooler isn't made of copper. Sorry...

Since I use Linux I didn't have the opportunity to try Chrome, but I'm afraid we won't see an adblock clone from Google

Thanks neumein for your reply. I will probably buy the Hyper212 because Triton 70 uses push pins and I don't trust them very much (long time AMD buyer). Or I could just make the big jump and by an Hr 01plus since the Hyper has the same height, but I would have liked a cheap and not very tall heatsin...

Hi everyone, I need to buy a cheap heatsink for my new E7200. I have the possibility to buy the following ones at my local computer shop: - Asus Triton 70 (20 EUR) - Asus Triton 75 (22 EUR + need to buy a fan) - Cooler Master Vortex 752 (16 EUR) - Cooler Master Hyper 212 (29 EUR) which one do you su...

Surely good CRT monitors do have a better color gamut, but what I really hate on CRT screens its their impossibility to get perfect geometry even in the most advanced models with lots of settings. Moreover I now use two screens both at home and office and two CRTs would just occupy to much space on ...

The Piaggio Mp3 (and the Gilera Fuoco http://www.gilerafuoco.com/ which is faster but IMHO ugly) are quite new scooters, but they are gaining market in Italy event though they are expensive. I tried it once and it was strange to stop due to a red traffic light and not have to put your foot down to a...