I hope you realise this thread is 5 years old

I just clicked the link in the first post, got to the Intel web site and it said
"This download is no longer available"

Presumably the download did something bad and intel withdrew it.

In general a single heat source is easier to deal with.
Which do you prefer a single large heatsink plus large fan or 5 heatsinks and 5 fans

Add a fan - take side of your case and use a desk fan, you will then know if the problem is temperature related.

This PSU appears to depend upon air movement within the case, hence all the holes.
If the POS was mounted externally, for example on the top of a PC case would it overheat, or would it still be capable of delivering 450/400W ?

Sounds like my PC, which has a static problem. Every 2 weeks or so, the mouse/keybord stops responding. 2 solutions Use a PS2 mouse/keybord instead of a USB or turn off the PSU but keep it plugged in, then hold in the power switch on the front of the PC for 10 seconds. It then works for another 15 d...

Hybrid drive = a normal drive + a small Solid State Drive
Effectivly a normal drive with a giant cache

So instead of 100GB + 16Mbyte cache, you get 100GB + 1 GByte cache

There is also Reserator 3
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_2641.html

There is also Reserator 3
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_2641.html

http://forums.kustompcs.co.uk/showthread.php?t=43110
attached to external HDs
is smaller, quieter and lower powered

The largest undervolt that is possible on my Asus board is 0.125V, I never see minimum voltages mentioned on MB specs, only max voltages

Auto OVERclocking has been around a while, but this thread is about UNDERclocking/volting.

"I'm seeing some Mobos from Asus .. that seem to have a lot of the Crystal CPUID powers built in"

I have not noticed that, could you give an example, do any of
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productli ... &subid=806
have it

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1475.html
The fan looks pointless,

Would be a good choice for a very low noise system

The 'integrated heat spreader' is only a fraction of a mm thick, I can not believe that it really does spread the heat.
In conventional heat sinks a thick base was considered good, but a very thin base HS, has a much thicker heat spreader than the 'integrated heat spreader'

I use

http://www.vectorengineer.com/

cheap/free not that good but it works

I do not think it is difficult, get an SLI bord, put in 2 graphics cards from the same manufacturer, set the cards to work in non-sli mode. This gives 4 monitor capability. SLI bords are not SLI-only you can still use 2 independant graphics xards. If you want to stick with Martrox then they have a 5...

95% PF from an APC PSU, you should be unhappy.
APC PSUs usually claim 99% PF

I see booster PSUs on sale, which power graphis cards, leaving the original PSU to power everything else http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1763.html I think they are fanless Any chance of a review showing how much quieter a standard PSU becomes if it has a booster to help it. The standard PSU...

Why bother having a case at all. You seem happy to have a pile of components lying on the floor, so remove the case to give the PSU a bit more air and you are finished.

FAT32. is not a good choice NTFS is much beeter

Regular heatpipes work very well, the difficult part is dissipating the heat, not moving the heat 15cm from the CPU.
A super-heatpipe does not achieve anything useful, a super-radiator is what is wanted.

lots of suppliers, just search internet in your country http://www.aalco.co.uk/ If you just want a good case, then I would get someone to make it to your design, but if you have the tools you could make it yourself. 2mm is a bit thin, Al cases usually do not have a frame, the Al sheet is strong enou...

In the UK several people have been jailed after taking their PC to be repaired. The repairers spend their time looking at images stored on the PC (more fun than actually working), when they find something particularly disgusting they report it to the police. You should assume that your HD contents w...

Almost the same system as I have.
You will not use 270W, but 350W is about the lowest power PSU that anyone sells, so the actual power does not matter.

Almost all HPs do use water. Yes the tubes can be made really small, but then very little water will be sucked through them. 0.2mm tubes will raise water by 14cm, but very little water can flow through a 0.2mm tube. Very little water flow means the HP provides very little cooling. http://en.wikipedi...

If we go back to the original example a good example is people with long jeans that touch the floor, if they stand in a puddle, the water will seep into the jeans upwards against gravity The water will rise a short way up the jeans, but will not reach the top. If the water only needs to rise a few c...

Heat pipes are a lot more efficient if the hot end is below the cold end, but they still do something if they are upside down.
A 6mm HP will conduct 20W, so if 3 HPs are the right way up, the other HPs are not needed.

If it is legal and profitable, then yes it is right that OCZ made made their own verion of the heatsink

I would like idle to be silent, but I want to hear HD activity when I save something