Hi, I'm looking at building a nice small, low power machine to act as a file server / download machine that will run 24/7. Obviously the lower the power the better and it doesn't need to be amazingly fast as torrent software and file sharing isn't exactly processor hungry. Also, a bit of a no braine...

The PSU does power on, infact my PC now appears to be running fine... after booting up saying the BIOS was currupt, replacing it with a backup BIOS (it has dual BIOS apparently?? bonus!) then I've reflashed it to the latest non beta bios and *touch wood* its been working for 30mins its all very stra...

The other day my PC randomly switched itself off... after that it would not switch back on... After consulting some IT guys at work they reccomended doing a wire trick to test my PSU, this was about 2 days later, before trying this I gave it one last attempt, and it came on... it lasted about 5 minu...

Hardly seems worthwhile for the performance hit!

Although look at the Atoms heatsink, it looks like the tiny thing thats on my South Bridge! Amazing that the chipset has a better cooler than the CPU!

www.scan.co.uk have them in stock now... mine should be delivered tomorrow :) I'm contemplating whether to lap my CPU and heatsink or not... I think maybe I will leave it alone, as whilst I've heard great story's of knocking off several degrees C, I'm rather worried I'd screw up my CPU :lol: But hop...

I would recommended using a can of compressed air over a hoover personally, probably best to take the fan guard off first so you can get better access...

and of course, I'm assuming your intelligent enough to realise to unplug it first and leave it to discharge for a little while

Jeez, that thing is HUGE!!! It looks like they took a ninja, turned it sideways and made it 50% bigger! I think I'll stick with my Ninja for now, I can't imagine it being much fun trying to install that thing! I've just bought a Thermalright 775 bolt thru kit to secure my Ninja to my mobo as I dont ...

I also have an 8800GT, thought I'd hijack this thread instead of creating a new one... Currently I'm using a Zalman VF900, but its running fairly hot under full load in my system... I was wondering, would a passive Accelero S1 be better than the VF900 in my current setup? ( A P182 with front fan blo...

I just want to use Speedfan to monitor RPM speed of the fans. I will be using Zalman FanMates to control speed of both front and rear fans. About the Ninja, from the picture it looked like it didn't matter which way because size is equal all around. I think, and correct me if wrong, the issue you r...

The gigabyte only allows you to control 2 of the 4 fans... I know, I have one ;) And yes the Scythe Ninja does fit on this mobo, but make sure you check which way your installing it, as one way the heatpipes will touch the northbridge cooler, if it does turn it 90 degrees! The 2 fan headers problem ...

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I have the following items up for grabs, can reduce postage costs if combining more than one item. The x1950 pro is a real bargain if you have an AGP system you want to keep running, its a very powerful card for the AGP bus and if you couple it with a 3rd party heatsink/fan it could be as quiet as y...

I expect most people don't have 90 GB of music though. What bitrate is that encoded at, anyway? At 128kbps (used by services like iTunes) that works out to around 25,000 songs. Even at 320 kbps that would be around 10,000 tracks. : ) Its mostly 320kbps or V0, theres the odd thing thats less, but mo...

One thing you should bare in mind is that you can really drop the voltage on the E8200, if you keep it stock speed you can probably drop it to about 1.05v, if you want to overclock it a little to say 3.2Ghz (400 x 8 ) you can still undervolt it to about 1.1125v :) The new 45nm chips are great for lo...

100Gb, mainly for music? I have approx 90Gb of music, I use a 1TB HD for storage of music, movies etc the Western Digital GP 1TB is a great drive, fast, quiet, stores a ton what more could you want from a HD?

Snowdog wrote:ARgh! more testing reveals I have coil whine, first time I heard this, but there is a wee..ooh... wee..ooh .... While runing the atitool rotating cube.

I get that also when running AtiTool, but I haven't had that noise running any other 3D program or game... so I dunno why ATITool makes it do it!

Damn thats a slow drive! I dont think I'd use one of those to cut out HD noise, I couldnt cope with that sort of speed! No wonder those fast drives with like 100mb/s read 80 mb/s write are expensive!

I've noticed different programs return different temperatures, Speedfan was reporting 5*C less than CoreTemp... anyways, I read an article on tomshardware forum the other day about calibrating temperatures and that Tcase should be approx 5*C less than your core temps, which is roughly what Speedfan ...

I've just suspended the first of my hard drives in the 5.25" area, and its really reduced the noise from my main OS hard drive, and whilst my WD GP drive is very quiet I can notice its vibrational noise even mounted on the rubber grommetted trays in the upper HD cage. I've just been sat with the low...

I've just recently built a new system, and when I bought my parts I accidentally purchased Arctic Silver Ceramique instead of Arctic Silver 5! So having not been terribly impressed with the temperatures I was getting I decided to do some research into thermal compounds and came up with many reviews ...

Its such an addiction that i had to not try and silence my own pc, but my gf's and my sisters. Also.. i have quite a heatsink addiction, the bigger the better i say LOL I too love chunky heatsinks, I currently have a Scythe Ninja Plus... I honestly dont think I could handle anything bigger, that th...

Heh, I have already ran it on 4,2 GHz. And I didn't put it on 4 GHz right away. Sorry, I'd misread! 4.2Ghz is a great OC :D I've got my E8200 running at 3.2Ghz, to be honest I'm not sure if I want to push it any further, I cant see any advantage really, its rather fast at 3.2Ghz, and its currently ...

If I was you I wouldnt' just jump straight to 4Ghz, thats just silly! you should do it a step at a time, as theres no gurentee that your chip will hit 4Ghz!

Overclocking (so its stable) is a lengthy process with lots of testing!

Just wondering whether people think building silent PC's is a bit of an addiction? For my latest PC I've been trying to get it silent as it resides in my room and I have to switch it off at night so I can sleep, which means I generally have to leave lenghty encodes/compiles/downloads etc going whils...

Hmm, I think I may risk it and give the 640Gb model a go... Those specs might be about right, the seeking is NOISY, or at least appears so compared with my WD GP which just has a low grumble when seeking... idle the Maxtor just seems to cause a lot of vibration and is noiser by far than the WD GP. T...

Assuming your BIOS has a similar layout to mine, there is CPU Smart Fan Control, which as you say is Enabled or Disabled. Then below that I have an option for Auto / PWM / Voltage. Assuming your BIOS has a similar layout to the one I have on my X38 based mobo you should also have that option, and I ...

In the article for the 320Gb WD SE16 it mentions getting a sample for the 640Gb version? Does anyone have any more info on the 640Gb version? Does it suffer from the same problem as the 320Gb version in there being two different types? Is it louder than the 320Gb? Is it going to be quiet? To be hone...

I've been thinking of getting an Asus Xonar as I use Vista x64 and I use my PC for both gaming, listening to music and watching movies... anyone here tried an Asus Xonar yet? They seem to be getting quite good reviews

Hard drives are one of the few components that dont increase in speed at drastic rates, the size keeps going up but performance is only creeping slowly...

The HD is the major bottleneck in almost every computer, especially those playing games etc, for video playback its not a major issue

Cistron wrote:Mine is from Scan.

Maybe I'll just get a WD GP then, unless the 640Gb model doesnt suffer from this same descepencies between batches?