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- Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:43 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Challenge: quiet hot-swap fileserver?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3443
I hate to say, I tried numerous hot swap docks from icydock etc, but found that they were always noisy. So I gave up on that idea, and ended up putting everything into a P182 (the bottom hdd enclosure). Now everything is silent again, just not "hot swap". To answer one of your questions re: heat and...
- Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:46 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Easy way to lower CPU temperature by 5 degrees
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13870
- Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:24 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Easy way to lower CPU temperature by 5 degrees
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13870
The cat is back after eleven (11) days! :D Thats really nice to hear, cats really are amazing survivors. Scratch the cat a bit from me! :D I used to have cats but not anymore. But occasionally get strays meowing outside, so I feed them, and then they disappear. The last time it was a "stray" with a...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:27 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: 7700 just not cutting it
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3278
I used to have your setup (p180 w/AMD3200+ and 7700 alcu). My idles were high 30's (38-39) 'C (and I live in Singapore so ambient is 26-29'C at night and 33-35'C during the day, in this normally not-airconditioned room). So I'd say its probably your mounting+paste spread. oh, and I never had the 770...
- Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:12 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 9600PRO Fan: How much noise?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7752
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:34 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: NEW AMD stock cooler with 4 heatpipes and swapable 80mm fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12098
Hmm, that sounds like the same cooler I got with my opteron 175, very easy to install, and not that loud. I promptly stuck a Zalman 7700 on the opteron, though, and used the stock cooler for the AMD 64 3200+ for my wife's new PC (after getting rid of the normal thermal paste that comes with it). It'...
- Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:44 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Network Attached Storage rather than Drive Enclosures?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17546
I'll just plug centos here (although any of the linux distros will do as well, personally at home I use gentoo), if you stick a bunch of sata same size disks into the server together with a pata boot disk, you can select the sata's and raid+lvm them during the installation process, almost a one-stop...
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:11 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: My motherboard fan is by far the loudest thing in my box
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7133
- Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:14 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Pico PSU at CES 2006
- Replies: 81
- Views: 61342
Pico PSU at CES 2006
Saw this at bit-tech:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/01/07/pico_psu/
Company link:
http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/categ ... /id.417/.f
Is this for real?!? 120W, wow!
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/01/07/pico_psu/
Company link:
http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/categ ... /id.417/.f
Is this for real?!? 120W, wow!
- Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:00 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: RAID arrays: Portable between chipsets of the same Family?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9834
- Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:34 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: RAID arrays: Portable between chipsets of the same Family?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9834
Correct, RAID is HA, not Backup, so there are semantic distinctions... although with the cost of high capacity tape drives, I end up using a multi-tier backup-to-disk solution instead (multi-point backup to local disk using rsync, w/4 hour/daily/weekly snapshots, and mirrored via samba to the RAID 5...
- Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:03 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Remove thermal pad from Athlon 64?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10843
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:50 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: RAID arrays: Portable between chipsets of the same Family?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9834
Actually, you can put your boot drive on raid, e.g. linux allows you to build a degraded raid0 partition (i.e. with one drive), then on reboot you then rebuild the raid0 parition fully. I haven't tried it, but there are at least a couple of coherent and comprehensible writeups to be googled. Persona...
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:55 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Rate this system 1=SLOW, Airplane 10=WOW thats Fast, Silent
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6310
I have a very similar setup, prefix * for differences: CASE=SPCR p180 *Power Supply=Enermax Noisetaker 470W *HardDrives=2xSamsung 160GBs PATA *CPU=Opteron 175 (previously Venice 3200) *Cooler=Zalman 7700 stock *MOBO=MSI K8N Neo4 *VideoCard=X850 w/artic silencer Memory=Corsair 2 gig 3500LLPro The two...
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:50 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Rate this system 1=SLOW, Airplane 10=WOW thats Fast, Silent
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6310
- Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:19 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe: more passive cooling
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3368
Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe: more passive cooling
A review in vr-zone:
http://vr-zone.com.sg/?i=2993
looks like Asus is being realistic and providing a fan for people who run their CPU passive/watercooled
http://vr-zone.com.sg/?i=2993
looks like Asus is being realistic and providing a fan for people who run their CPU passive/watercooled
- Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:47 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: scythe kamakaze 2 - 120mm fan?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1620
scythe kamakaze 2 - 120mm fan?
anybody want to guess what this is derived from? yet another yate loon?!? http://216.147.36.17/livestore/product_info.php?products_id=2639&osCsid=3c7a3533b1f7b4c389b626b7a498276e apparently 700rpm @ 20.00dBA to 1600rpm @ 32dBA official site says: http://www.scythe.co.jp/cooler/20050308-132018.html s...
- Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:49 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Zalman 7700 AlCu installation problem. 55 degree idle???
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4090
Considering I'm running my venice 3200+ in a P180 in an enclosed room in Singapore (ambient 32'C during the day) with no air-con usually- just a room fan, my idle is about 38-40'C (with CnQ on of course). So I'd say: 1) either your MB is reporting wrong temps; 2) or you have definitely not got your ...
- Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My second mortgage - Dual core SLK 3000B
- Replies: 53
- Views: 43613
- Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:35 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Thermaltake Big Typhoon versus Zalman CNPS 9500 (xbitlabs)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6339
Thermaltake Big Typhoon versus Zalman CNPS 9500 (xbitlabs)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/ ... -comp.html
I'd ignore the Titan Vanessa's and concentrate on their findings on the big typhoon and the 9500.
Looks like the big typhoon kicks 9500 fuzzy posterior!
I'd ignore the Titan Vanessa's and concentrate on their findings on the big typhoon and the 9500.
Looks like the big typhoon kicks 9500 fuzzy posterior!
- Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:09 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Designed my new X2 4800+ system, thanks to SPCR
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9951
I can afford it, but like most people I aim for the sweet spot rather than get the SLI 7800GTX w/FX57 + dual raptor etc.... got more important things to buy with the money (like take my wife to nice restaurants and vacations :-) ) In singapore the x2's still command a hefty premium, the 3800X2 is SG...
- Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:23 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Designed my new X2 4800+ system, thanks to SPCR
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9951
- Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:08 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What's the problem with RAID 0?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 20938
here's my contribution, I'd like to call this my general theorem of probability: p=1/n where: p=probability of concurrence on calculation of probability n=number of people involved in the discussion :D I'll expound on my special theorem of probability at a later date... I've run out of variables to ...
- Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:25 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Centurion 5/530 or Antec P160
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10224
how often do you plan to carry it? :shock: bout the only 'PC's I carry often are the laptops, the desktops tend to stay put. Of course, I don't lan game much... if you are looking for lan gaming, then maybe you should consider an matx form factor, rather than mid-full tower. Don't try to do too much...
- Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:04 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Centurion 5/530 or Antec P160
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10224
The P180 is available in Singapore (note I'm in Singapore too), although if you are after bling then this may not be the case for you. I do have a CM5, as well as a P180. hands down the P180 is quieter (I'd assume that's why you are frequenting this forum anyway?). The CM5 has oodles of ventilation,...
- Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:09 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice sought - home NAS configuration
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15451
the way linux sw raid works, the array is first created in degraded mode, then rebuilt with the extra drive(s), apparently for performance reasons. so people have "exploited" this by creating a degraded raid1 array (i.e. one drive), switch their boot drive to it, then after reboot rebuild this array...
- Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:24 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: mATX s939 roundup/mobo list
- Replies: 38
- Views: 30907
- Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:39 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: P180 vs other Antec cases
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4442
if he's getting a 3000, and talks of water cooling, it's a sure sign he's planning to OC the poor CPU... in which case he may need that water cooling! does the sli premium have the passive NB cooling? the NF4 NB does get very hot, and I wonder how bad it gets if you OC, and if passively cooling the ...
- Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:35 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What's the problem with RAID 0?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 20938
sw raid5 on linux can be faster than a cheap raid5 card without a dedicate xor engine and cache. If you have enough spare parts to build a linux box, cost is not a factor either, just the time spent in setting up linux and understanding about mdadm. high end raid cards can garner better performance,...
- Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:12 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What's the problem with RAID 0?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 20938
hmm, on reading my post above, some other points did not come across: - raid0 implementations on motherboard are typically either not very well done (=> performance suffers, or data corruption occurs), or else will impact on CPU (in which case what you gain in I/O perf you lose in CPU perf). Hence, ...