I have 3 of the original Nexus 'Real Silent' 80mm white fans, 2 have never been used and come complete in their boxes, 1 has had very little use. All fans come with rubber grommets to attach to case with. £16.50 for the three including shipping within UK.

Seeing as most people around here are sensitive to noise, I was wondering if anyone could recommend any decent, low noise ceiling fans (42" ideally) available in the UK. I am particularly worried about the humming that is endemic to some fans and would like to spend under £100.

I'm hoping someone here may have faced similar issues, hence will have some guidance regarding my issue/ideas to combat it. I live in a top floor apartment which is very well insulated, great in winter, but not so good in the summer as it gets unbearably hot. Heat seems to collect near the ceiling a...

Xeanor wrote:I'll just sell it to someone I think. Never any WD drives again for me. Samsungs and Seagates still work fine?

Well, I have had 3 or 4 Samsung 2TB HD204UI's through my hands now, all have had problems with data corruption and most had something rattling around inside them.

How easy is it to "fix" headparking on modern WD drives?.

Here is the screenshot of the second drive: http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9840/hd502hi.jpg Which seems to dip rather dramatically too, should it have such dips?. I think there must be some kind of problem with the boot drive, as when I tried a system restore I get this message: http://img822.im...

OK, So I installed Windows 7 and everything seemed OK. Decided to run Hddtune and was getting dips down to about 50/60mbs in the first 200gb or so of the drive. That didn't seem right, so I updated the motherboard chipset drivers and now I get dips down to 2mbs when running hddtune, in fact hdtune s...

The OS restore point idea doesn't work for the reason you've stated. OS in VM is not an option, because firstly I want to run Win 7 (which would need another license, presumably), would waste a lot of ram and certain parts of the OS wouldn't be able to interact with native hardware. This just for ho...

I'd use a backup for reversing changes. Windows keeps getting fatter but hardware gets faster even quicker and you can restore a image fairly quickly now. Even better: simply run the software you want to "cancel" in a throwaway copy of a VM. But if I use VM, I have to install/run a whole operating ...

Does anyone know of a decent freeware piece of software for tracking all (file/registry etc) changes that a piece of software makes during installation and hopefully one that allows all changes to be reversed (perhaps asking too much). Also, I'm late to the bandwagon with Win 7, but my 64 bit Profes...

The problem with anti-virus/malware etc software is that it is reactive and retroactive. There has to be a threat before it can act (hence constantly updated definitions) which means you're always vulnerable to infection and furthermore you have to be infected and in immminent danger before anything...

Anyone have any recommendations for a sata dvd-rw drive. Would like it to be quiet and have lightscribe and mostly be reliable reading/writing different types of discs. Is there much difference between brands/models?.

Slight problem, my Coolermaster case is only 18.5cm wide. I tried the Xigmatek in a case of similar width and couldn't close the case.... I don't suppose the sticky out bits on top of the heatsink can be removed or are they an integral part of the heatpipes?. I don't really want to spend money on a ...

Thank you, just the kind of answer I was after. In the interests of frugality, have you ever cut the corners (well, not the corners, the bit along the hole through the fan casing). Seems might be quite messy and difficult to do straight, though I suppose you only need a little notch into the barrel ...

So, I have my Sandybridge board and Xigmatek 1283 and find I need new fitments for the cooler. Since the 1283 has been it's packaging for a while, I realise it doesn't seem to want to take closed corner fans (as all my Nexus ones are!). So, what should I do...buy a kit to attach the 1283 to a 1155 b...

Rather than a PSU fan swap, Nexus makes their own power supplies, and SeaSonic has an excellent reputation for quiet to silent PSUs. I own both brands and can vouch for their low volumes. For you the Nexus Value 430 should be ideal as it's the quietest activly cooled power supply I've ever used and...

So, I'd like to build myself a system to use as a DAW, but want to do it on a budget thus: £80 or thereabouts for processor - thinking Phenom II X4 840, seems best bang for buck at this price £80 for Motherboard with integrated graphics (preferably with USB3 ports, though I'm not entirely sure what ...

The X4 6x series looks very interesting. Will a quad-core trump a dual core in programs like VMware (can't imagine running more than 2 OS's in VMware at once, at least not intensively) and whilst multitasking. As I'm likely to run this computer much like the last, for another 5 years or more, do you...

OK, given their prices SSD & quad core cpu are out of contention.

Also wondering about usefulness of tri-core AMD cpu...

OK, my current PC is a 754 Athlon. Not only is it getting long in the tooth, but bits are starting to die and replacement parts are as expensive as new fangled computer bits, hence the want to upgrade. Firstly, I'd like to keep the build as cheap as possible, say around £50 each for MB/CPU/RAM. I h...

Does anyone UK based have a working socket 754 Athlon processor that I could acquire for a reasonable sum?.

ICE ( in car entertainment ) is a cool hobby for a lot of people. Ah, so being a cool hobby makes it beyond reproach? The point is that having, hm, more possible distractions, doesn't raise the chance for error. No, of course not... :roll: Why not install some strobe lighting on the dashboard, that...

How about for police, fire, ambulance, forensics, contractors, repair technicians and anyone else that primarily works out of their vehicle? Fine, aslong as any screen is not used whilst driving or is used only by a passenger. How about for the passenger or the kids in the back seat, on long road t...

I don't know, how is a Carputer any different from the integrated entertainment systems in most newer cars now? Some are more complicated and do less than a purpose-built carputer. I the US, just about every minivan now comes with a DVD system and the newer luxury cars have joystick and touchscreen...

Do we really need this stuff in our cars, are they not for driving?.

I tend to think stuff like this and visual GPS provides an unneccesary distraction that will end in more collisions and ultimately death.

Now when I turn my computer on I can get into the BIOS Menu but sometimes the screen when it instantly boots is completely covered in underscores like this _ _ _ _ _ _ , as well as displaying the boot info behind the underscores. Think I know this one, as I had something similar many moons ago. Pul...

If that is true then just buy a monitor that runs off mains AC voltage instead of off a DC power brick. Unless the monitor is badly designed, they won't need to put an inverter in there at all. Are you sure there isn't a DC power supply inside the monitor?. I was of the understanding that all LCD m...

These days it's easy to create a very quiet PC, what with the proliferation of large heatsinks and smooth sounding fans. Yet with the moving of the power supply into the back of LCD monitors (purely to save money?), we now have a new menace to deal with...monitor squeal. For instance, my last monito...

Has anyone out there(in the UK) got a couple or perhaps just one fully working 754 board they no longer use that they wouldn't mind parting with?

Is there a significant difference in the power consumption of the various 780G motherboards,as I need 3 PCI slots, else I'd go for the Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM* board.

Any recommendations regarding boards with 3 pci slots/should I be looking at boards with other IGPs aswell?