How do you clean the old TIM off?

ETA: Never mind. You apparently just wipe it off.

Intel H55 Mobo Shootout - Integrated HD Graphics Showdown http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=6&id=3119 I wonder if the power difference between the Intel and the other boards can be made up undervolting an i3, which you apparently can't do on the intel board. Edit: I found a few post...

Can you replace the hollow-core door? Wouldn't a second solid door help?

yamahaSHO wrote:It looks like you could still use the bolt-thru kit to me.

The screw/spring thingy might be too tall to fit under the fins, or be close enough that you wouldn't be able to fit even your right-angle screw driver.

Does that mean that the cool &quiet technology is so power efficient that at idle the system consumes less than a undervolted and underclocked CPU with cool and quiet disabled? CnQ drops the CPU to 1 GHz. Underclocking disables CnQ, so the underclocked system is running faster at idle than the the ...

I remember the physics lab optics table was a heavy metal thing on inflatable rubber bushings. It measured in the tons range, if I recall.

I didn't have any soft mounts for a fan, so I cut a broccoli rubber band in two, folded each piece in three, poked a hole through it and used a twist-tie to mount the fan, with the rubber band piece between the fan and case. The twist-tie goes through the hole you poked in the rubber band. One at ea...

I tried for about twelve seconds to get them out without damaging them and then reached for the wire cutters The bolt-thru worked so well I don't anticipate ever wishing I'd saved the pins.

JVM wrote:The 45C you get at idle with ambient temperature of 82F is quite good!

What rpm speeds are you running the Nexus and Scythe fans?

I think they're both about 800.

There doesn't seem to be an easy way to soft-mount the top fan or a fan near the graphics card in the P182. How have people solved this, or does it not make a lot of difference?

I intend to use the top fan rather than block it.

Thanks,
Amy

Looks like it's supposed to hover.

I just replaced a fanless 512M 8600GT (MSI, DDR2 version) with a fanless 512M 9600GT (ECS w/Accelero2). Here's the power usage comparison, as measured full-system at the wall by Kill-a-watt. Idle at Windows desktop: 76W -> 92W Gaming, high poly count, low framerate: 96W -> 125W Gaming, low poly coun...

Just starting my P182 build and I have the following concerns... 1. There's no easy way to soft-mount the top fan (I had planned to use the top rather than block it). 2. There's no easy way to soft-mount a fan close to the graphics card. How are people solving this, or does it make little difference?

Is there a way to spin down one drive (of two or more) in WinXP? Will the "turn off hard disks" power option do this automatically, or does that spin all drives together? I have one drive that I want to spin up only perhaps once per week, so ideally any scheme to spin it down during non-use would be...

Its damn shame that Spakles 250W 80+ PSU is so hard to find... That would have been very good choice. Another good is Fortron Green 300W. The OP is in the US and so has several choices. Last I checked buy.com had the Sparkle 250W, and had the lowest price. I bought mine after reading the spcr revie...

I have both 4450E and E8400 systems and the processors are comparable in power usage. Undervolted they both have about a 30W spread between idle and load. The 45nm Intel chips use far less than their rated TDP. That said, I still love my 4450/780G system. It was cheap, runs on a silent picoPSU, didn...

what would be the point of HDMI (or DVI even) with such feeble onboard GFX and no PCI-e slot? Automatic recognition of display resolution? Sounds like not a big deal until a DVI monitor saves you from having to figure out why Ubuntu won't display on a VGA monitor after installing video drivers. In ...

I think a small form factor is worth a price premium. You put $100 into it and got a motherboard and case. Not bad, IMO. If it was mine I'd spring for a pico PSU and a 2.5" drive (to soft mount in place of 3.5"). If you thought this'd be a cheap, quiet computer, cut your losses and shelve it or retu...

As long as your non-audio applications are not running they won't cause any problems. Well, that's the problem. If you've installed Creative Suite and iTunes, there are apps running even when you aren't using those products. Just about everything these days wants to leave a task running, install in...

the Audio Latency is problem if you will use intgrated sound system in Gigabyte boards. However is it still present if you have discrete soundcard? The only people who are likely to notice will all be using sound cards, PCI or external. I don't think there is ASIO support for on-board audio. You wo...

I'm using the Logisys thingy with a WD GP drive. With that quiet, cool drive it reduces seek noises by perhaps half and reduces whine to about zero, and temperature is reduced 4C. So it seems to work okay with an already silent drive. You'd have better luck isolating vibration, though, by suspending...

Three drives is part of my plan to go triple boot with Kubuntu 8.04 at some point I have Windows and Ubuntu on one disk already. So I'd have three operating systems on two disks. Oh there definitely is an issue with P35 gigabyte boards with low latency audio People have had some success with older ...

Licaon wrote:more machines using http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ and not KVMs

The second and third machine will not have their own monitors. The unmentioned fourth machine (a Mac Mini) uses a 27" LCD TV. The two or three PCs need to share a monitor.

I think the best would to add wto 60mm fans to the back where the cpu is. if I can get some screws or something through the air-holes to stick a fan there it would be perfect. To mount a fan once I used twist ties and rubber bands :) I save the twist ties that come wrapped around cables in electron...

I can't decide if I want to build one machine with two operating systems (two copies of WinXP) or build two separate machines. Here's the situation... I've never been able to get low-latency audio working on any machine I've built. Part of the current problem may be my motherboard (Gigabyte P35 boar...

Would the PSU be better able to remove case air if it was flipped?

blackworx wrote:Oh, and Amy could you please PM me 6 numbers between 1 and 49?!

Sure, but if that worked for me do you think I'd have time from permanent vacation to be reading spcr?

Big SturL wrote:Type 3:
For sound-dampening in speaker cases. With 5 pieces of 40x60x2 cm, this seems as the best option.

I haven't opened any speakers built this century, but at least once upon a time speakers were lined or completely filled with fiberglass batting.

E7200 ... still 65W TDP. Too bad its not 45W CPU. Lower TDP is easier its to cool passively without tricks. I am planning to change my 65W X2 into 45W X2 4x50e-series. I wonder when Intel gets fully into 45W CPU's. I've seen graphs that say the E7200 consumes about 21W at load and the E8500 consume...

That system will work well with a pico PSU and will idle in the low 30's if you undervolt. Full load will be at most mid 60's. How do I know? I built that system without a hard drive. See "undervolted, stock speed" in this post: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47842 I didn't bot...