Well fair enough, but they do go to all the trouble of having a recommended PSUs thread - why not recommend a few quality 350s like the Phantom?nici wrote:If they wrote "300W high quality psu minimum", who would decide what a high quality unit is?
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- Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:53 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Will the Phantom 500 be enough for my system in the P180?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7184
- Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:01 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Will the Phantom 500 be enough for my system in the P180?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7184
I really don't understand DFI's PSU recommendations. I've seen from a number of people - and even from DFI themselves - minimum ratings of over 400 watts. Everything on this site suggests even beefy systems aren't going to tax a quality 350W PSU overly much, so what is it about DFI boards that make ...
- Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:32 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: How quiet is the Arctic Cooling Silencer ATI 5 Rev. 2?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12442
- Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:55 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Humming amplifier
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10451
- Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:30 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: If you thought P4E was hot
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2517
- Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:58 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Noise Cancelling Equipment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3324
- Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:22 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Replacing the fan in generic power supply...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2507
- Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:23 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Powering PC with Solar Energy /:)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9025
Correct me if I am wrong, but the point of solar panels in a home setup is not to directly power devices, but to charge batteries to power an inverter? Nobody directly powers electrical goods directly from the panels. Instead, you charge up a bank of high capacity batteries and the inverter does the...
- Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:27 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: HDD vibration & noise reducing methods - ranked
- Replies: 196
- Views: 1377397
Curtis - I think you missed Wurly's point. It's not the foam that's the problem, but the fact that you have screws going through the foam and dirctly connecting the plates, pretty much cancelling any benefit of having the foam there in the first place. Try removing the screws and see how it sounds....
- Tue Feb 17, 2004 3:31 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: HDD vibration & noise reducing methods - ranked
- Replies: 196
- Views: 1377397
Wurly - yeah...I'm not too happy with the foam I'm using. It's pretty rigid and doesn't do much to dampen anything. I'm toying with replacing it with thick sponge foam - the stuff you wash dishes with. As for the screws, I don't think they are much of a problem. The foam should dampen the vibrations...
- Tue Feb 17, 2004 3:21 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Best cooling solution for studio computer?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8906
If fanless cases are too much, I'd probably recommend steering clear of watercooling solutions. Not becuase of the noise (I've never heard water cooling in action), but because of the potential electrical interference introduced into the studio environment by having a nice big pump motor in the room...
- Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:16 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: HDD vibration & noise reducing methods - ranked
- Replies: 196
- Views: 1377397
Well...finally got around to scanning a photo of my contraption. Have a look here for the interested.
- Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:08 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Toshiba notebooks, quiet or loud?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4190
- Fri Feb 06, 2004 4:29 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Two Hitachi 250gb or three Samsung 160gb drives?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8315
- Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:32 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: DTemp useless with Samsung SATA?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 44534
There is absolutely no problems associated with booting an XP based computer with a plain vanilla DOS bootdisk. There are plenty of sites that offer bootdisks based on various versions of DOS from ME to DOS6. It doesn't matter if your HD is NTFS formatted, unless you need to access files from that d...
- Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:54 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: New Asus optical drives claim low noise
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2805
- Mon Nov 17, 2003 3:16 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: HDD vibration & noise reducing methods - ranked
- Replies: 196
- Views: 1377397
Thanks. 8) I was thinking exactly along those lines - I didn't like the idea of sitting a device like a hard drive directly onto the foam. I was previously using the brackets in a suspension setup a while ago, but I didn't like the results (either cooling or silencing). The cool thing (pun intended)...
- Mon Nov 17, 2003 3:37 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: HDD vibration & noise reducing methods - ranked
- Replies: 196
- Views: 1377397
Very nice job! I have built something similar recently, though nowhere as elaborate. I'll try to get some photos together, but not just yet. Basically I've bolted two right-angled "L" pieces of thick aluminium to the sides of the drive so that the flanges point outwards at the bottom and the drive i...
- Tue Nov 11, 2003 3:03 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is Seagate 7200.7 80gig SATA quiet?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2014
- Tue Nov 04, 2003 2:57 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: How do you all feel about rounded calbes?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19500
I just wish there was an optical replacement for SATA - that's would rule all solutions. Wireless. :p That's quite a good idea, but I was thinking more along the lines of EM radiation, or the lack thereof. An optical solution would be immune from interference from other components and would also no...
- Sun Nov 02, 2003 2:22 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: How do you all feel about rounded calbes?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19500
I quite like rounded cables. I don't use them for HDD's anymore though since I got my SATA drive. Still, rounded floppy and CD-ROM cables are nice for neatness purposes. That said, a well done flat cable fold looks really good. I just wish there was an optical replacement for SATA - that's would rul...
- Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:46 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Diskless machines by using network booting?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9690
I've have "LAN" as a boot device on my Asus A7N8X Deluxe board and wondered about it's use... I've also considered using a USB memory key as a boot device, but the literature that I've seen suggests that they have a limited number of writes - somewhere in the order or 1 million - before they fail (c...
- Fri Sep 26, 2003 4:08 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Temp range for Seagate Barricuda 7200.7; whine
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4364
The temps you are getting are about average given that you aren't doing anything to actively cool the drive, and given that it's in a normal (ie. bolted to the case) position. It's about what I was getting with mine prior to me moving it to the bottom of my case, suspending it and putting it in fron...
- Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:06 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: radeon 9500 (non-pro)...can I get away w/
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5151
Heh - he actually said 9500. :) The 9500 might run a little hotter than the 9600, due to the .15 manufacturing process. You should still be fine - according to the review of the Zalman heatpipe , the reviewer successfully ran a low speed fan over the stock HS on a TI4200 (which I think runs hotter t...
- Wed Sep 24, 2003 6:58 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: DM9+ SATA, need adapter?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1744
- Sun Sep 21, 2003 4:22 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Rudeness...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5401
Why does it matter if he recommends a PSU that is over and above the maximum (theoretical) power usage of a dual athlon box? I don't claim to know your system specs, but whack in a 9800 Pro or 5900 Ultra, cold cathodes, high end audio card, SCSI controller, DVD Writer and you'll probably be pushing ...
- Sun Sep 14, 2003 4:53 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hard Drive transplant and transfer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6438
- Sat Sep 13, 2003 8:23 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: What have I done to my mobo?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3019
Thats possible, but what could I have cooked that would leave two specific RAM combinations working? All the soldering was at the CPU socket, and there is no evidence of any damage at all there. In fact, the only evidence of heat problems anywhere is the brown spot under my MOSFETs. I really have n...
- Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:22 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: What have I done to my mobo?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3019
- Thu Sep 11, 2003 2:51 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: ZALMAN 2HC1 Hard drive cooler / silencer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3459
I've seen these, but not used one. I'm a little confused about what the heatpipes are meant to do. Dont heatpipes transfer heat from a "hot" side to a "cooler" side? Aren't both sides of an HD more or less the same temp? :? Anyway, you'd probably see some improvements in noise levels since it looks ...