How about the Tsunami or a pre-modded Tsunami ? I have been looking for new case with front/rear 120s with a door and room for my 4 drives and I am getting a Tsunami from Coolcases as I got my D8000 from them and I am also lazy. It is aluminum, but you were planning on dampening anyway I think. They...

Seagate SATA 7200.7

MBM reports-

Top 120GB 37
Bottom 120GB 37

They are washer mounted in front of my intake fan. No clue what the room temp is at. Hawaii - windows open good airflow - AC off - parlty cloudy outside. Maybe 75 F.

sthayashi Thanks. Yeah, I have read up and I do wish NETGEAR had WPA (at least I wish the model I am thinking on had it) It is a bit better than WEP with WEPs known weaknesses. But that is OK. I am moving to a pretty small neighborhood in a large house with a big yard so the street should be past my...

sthayashi Thanks. Yeah, I have read up and I do wish NETGEAR had WPA (at least I wish the model I am thinking on had it) It is a bit better than WEP with WEPs known weaknesses. But that is OK. I am moving to a pretty small neighborhood in a large house with a big yard so the street should be past my...

Considering ordering a LaCie Big Disk 500GB to connect to a Netgear WGT634U 108 Mbps Wireless Media Router This disk will probably sit on my desk as it comes with a drive stand for upright desktop use. Has anyone heard one of these operating and is this thing noisy to you? Also, outside of the noise...

Silicon News has an excellent article on this stuff. Included below the article are a few discussions that have some solutions for this type of thing.

I kinda like this solution.

Reading a few other post and decided to start a new one. Anyone been shopping at McMaster and would like to share their purchase info? 9216T2 Melamine Foam Sound Absorbing Ceiling Tile 24" X 48" X 39/64", White $ 6.32 Each Catalog Page 3267 8722K11 Volara Cross-Linked Polyethylene Foam 3/8" Thick, 2...

This thread has mostly died and probably should almost had it's own thread.... I have only lived in Japan 2 years but... can recognize four different accents (some almost different dialects). North - Hokkaido, Middle - Tokyo, Kansiaben - Osaka, Western - Kyushu. All the rest kinda blend together. I ...

I wish you had a category between the Japanese Anime and Normal girl voice - like "Classic Asian" so I defaulted to Japanese Anime as Asian women have the best voices hand downs. (But I may be biased.)

No worries about you replacing AP, you have some work to do to catch up to take that throne.

No idea what category to vote in, but I will go with a vote into "Public Service" as that is what I see my job as being in the end. Almost went with Human Resources as that is what I specialize in, but also Student as as I am part time. I am a Captain in the US Army working as the Human Resource Man...

Bundy, Thanks. OK... Copper it is, if I can only find one. Bonobo, Near Machida outside of Tokyo on the Odakyu line there are some shops but mostly mainstream stuff. I have been dragging my girlfriends into stores in Tokyo for translation as my Japanese is poor. No one has even heard of the copper S...

Bonobo, Where did you find the dipology? There are at least 7 other Hd enclosure brands/products in the AKI shops that I think may do the job better, for less price than the nice expensive black SD2002s. (I have not had the opprtunity to do any comparisons other than reading the labels and looking a...

Ok... In re-reading this thread, I may have been mistaken on the original purpose of the Raptor. As a main drive for OS, progs, etc.. then I would say YES it is a good solution if you are going for performance that you can tolerate heat and noise whise. My Maxtor is for my OS and progs, as I got a r...

7200.7 Raid0 would be my 2 cents. They work good, a little warm but I have them infront of the intake so All Good!

Yeah, all good points. I have the parts on the way. Guess I will start with an rear intake duct to the CPU and see what response I get from the PSU. No way to know what really is going to happen until I try it. :) What I really want (probably in my next system) is a heatpipe that works good in a hor...

gloopy... yet firm

Got a picture of it against a white background while hanging in open air or something that shows its gloppy yet firm nature?

I only use AMD for my systems but... I purchased one of these NCU-1000 a month ago for an acquaintance in England. In checking it out before mailing it to him it is really not all that heavy on top. Yes it is tall, which places more weight away from the board, but nothing the board should not be abl...

Tell me again what is your objection to blowing ambient air right onto the alpha using a duct setup easily made . I might just be taking this to far but...... I have seen most of your duct work. That is actually what made me think up this current project. My loudest component is going to be the PSU...

OK Totally agree with the ambient air from outside the case being brought to the CPU, but I have a question... I want to use an Alpha (suck mode) and that Thermaltake duct mod as an exhaust out to a blowhole to take any possible load off the PSU fan, but how do I do a duct to get the outside air to ...

I was going to use the spray adhesive but McMaster would not ship it overseas. I went with a general purpose (metal, plastic, wood) Goop adhesive in a tube. (Found it at a local hardware store.) It has a 2 minute drying time, which gave me time to place the foam and adjust it slightly before it bond...

On re-examinination, I may be using mine diferently than most. Isolation Mount Top - Wire Grill - Rubber Grommet Outside part- Case - Rubber Grommet inside part - 120mm JMC Fan - Isolation mount tip My isolators are stretched about as far as they will stretch, just being installed. Hence a few break...

I have torn 3 just trying to get them installed on my two fans. I cannot even imagine finding a way, including soapy water and wiggling, to not destoying these things should I ever remove them.

Thank goodness McMaster ships little baggies with plenty in them.

My advice is buy extra.

mrzed wrote:Not a chance. The slots on the front bezel are about 1/4 inch deep. Maybe if you have a small monkey.

Maybe a small monkey with a sharp stick, but no kid is going to get their fingers in there unless you do something like this and use cheap glue.

Thought I would throw this out. PSU Fortron - P300XFPN 300W Power Supply RET $27 at NewEgg I have the 350 version from Coolcases $55 Cannot beat these power supplies for value and quiet operation. Case OEM SLK3700 at Coolcase $59 but you can pay a bit more and save yourself some work with the dremel.

You know you could just do that yourself to the case you already have. I have to force my hand to touch a dremel to the case, and I feel that I slightly know what I am doing with that. When it comes to wood and wood tools I think that they frighten me. :lol: You, on the other hand seem quite comfor...

Pretty, Expensive, and makes me wish I did not already have a case for the new rig. And a review but not of the 1080 What do you think for silencing potential over the stock 1080? The outside has got to be dampend. Could use very little dampening inside if you enjoying lining your case with fun foa...

My D8000 is USB 2.0

Not sure about telling by looking, I just plug a 2.0 device in and see if I get the warning in XP that I get on my old machine about a "2.0 device in a 1.0 port".

I personally only use AMD now, but... VIA has a good slice of a section of the market over here. Almost every computer store stocks mini computers the size of a External CD-Burner, and even a little larger HTPCs based an VIA platforms and chips. Still incredibly small, but they get the intended job ...

OK. Sorry for causing the confusion. Here we go… 1) The AIW 9700 has push pins with springs and barbs in the plastic tip to stop from going back thru the mount holes in the card. I was being overly cautious by asking just to re-assure my actions. (I got the freezer idea that I was un-aware of so, al...

HL, Thanks. That guide is actually pretty good. The last system I built I used a Cyrix chip, if that tells you anything about what "experience" I have left in my head. I was using this and that and a few others to help bring me back up to speed. In all my searching around I could not find anything o...