I recently had the pleasure of building a system around an 8RDA+. The CPU was a 1700 JIUHB DUT3C running stock. Using a 12V 80mm L1A on an AX-7 attached with AS2, the CPU temp was only 2C over the system temp (28C and 26C, respectively). This was in an open case. These were the temps reported by the...

Has anyone that has used either the Fujitsu or Toshiba drives mentioned here also used an IBM/Hitachi 40GNX? I just purchased one of the latter for my sister's Powerbook (of which I am the "sysadmin" :wink: ), and it is quieter than the IBM 12GN it replaced and the Toshiba MK1214GAP in my Powerbook,...

http://mpja.com/productview.asp?product=14399+HS

Electronics surplus is your friend.

You might also try froogling. This notebook heatpipe came up right away.

Link is broken. Try dropping the "p1".

I haven't seen much discussion on SPCR about machines that are fast, quiet, and small, but maybe I missed some threads on the topic. Lots of people write in about trying to quiet SFF PCs, since they tend to use awful little 40mm fans for their PSUs. In the many hours I've spent looking for quiet, t...

I can't help but notice that no one in this thread has mentioned the various flavors of fanless PSUs as a possible solution to davsmith's problem. Sure, they're massively expensive, but if you want the very quietest off-the-shelf component, they're it. Of course, you'd still need some sort of an exh...

Joe and Dan have both done extensive enough testing and I have little reason to doubt their findings. They have tested many dozens if not hundreds of HS, and are generally quite knowledgeable about issue related to HS/cooling. Go have a read of what Dan has to say. He just rolls his eyes & laughs a...

I just read a new roundup at OCprices.com that reaches the same conclusion as the others: "[Shin Etsu G751 is] a bitch to use, it's a bitch to spread and it takes ages to cure, but once it does it literally slaughters the competition."

I think I'm finally ordering some today.

QuietMind wrote:How do I resolder its power cord to go from 110V -> 5V?

Nah, forget that, what you want is the latest in noise-free passive cooling technology for the kitchen-- the icebox!

I can't work out if it is m/b, cpu, gfx or memory that is at fault. Any ideas on what we should try next? Have you swapped out the various components you named for known good ones? It seems ridiculous, but have you tried a different mouse? Is the mouse PS/2 or serial, and have you tried the other k...

Just drop big cash and get a Soldam: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=3043 It seems that their US site doesn't sell them, though. Why does Japan get to have all the fun? I built a silent SFF PC for my sister to use in her dorm room, and wound up using a Panflo-modded full ATX size PS...

silent_bob wrote:I've read about the AAM lawsuit

Does anyone have any links to info on this lawsuit? I wasn't able to find anything on it.

Wow. That was quick. [gush]This forum is so great.[/gush]

With the addition of some new forums recently, I think the time is ripe to reorganize the current forum layout. The pupose of such re-design would be to allow users to more easily find the information they are looking for. Here's how the forum topics are currently distributed under the forum heading...

Honestly, GG, I think you know as well as any of us that each of the drives you presented has its plusses and minuses, and that whatever one is "best" will depend on the uses that the person wanting it has in mind. For example, if you are building a serious-use "workstation"-type PC, you'll probably...

At this time I am totally uninterested interested in doing ANY reviews on ANY samples from silenx.com. In fact, it is very possible that silenx.com will be banned from our forums. As you are the man who's heart and dedication goes in to every page served from SPCR, I can certainly understand the an...

Deliberate misrepresentation of a commercial interest on the SPCR forums is certainly unethical, and the folks at silenx certainly deserve strong condemnation for such actions. But when choosing how to respond to this offense, whether by taking your business elsewhere, or ignoring posts from silenx,...

If you are serious about wanting performance, you should get a Zalman ZM80A-HP ($25 at SVC ) and then attach it to either a Radeon 9500 (the cheapest one at newegg is $138) or a GeForce4Ti 4200 (as cheap as $115 at newegg). Without the Zalman you'll be stuck with a factory passively-cooled Radeon 90...

digitalix wrote:I do believe that's the exact same fans in the retail jaro components fans topic....and the silenx vs panaflo topic pg2...

Quite right. That's what I get for not keeping up with all the threads! Well, I hope folks interested in buying them do what I didn't and read this thread.

I was checking out the AddA fan models list (pdf) and I saw that in addition to the regular "L", "M", and "H" varieties of fans, they also have "U" and "D" varieties which are faster than "H" and slower than "L", respectively. (See here for a full explanation of their numbering scheme.) The specs on...

I had a Samsung FDD that made a God-awful racket when used (or checked). That's interesting. Someone in the "Quiet Floppy Drive" thread praised Samsung drives, and the customer reviews at newegg (which, granted, are not the most reliable source of information) specifically mention how quiet they ar...

Wait a second. Can anyone post a link to either 1) a person that says they've adjusted the rotational speed of their hard drive or 2) a program that definitely has this feature (I assume such a feature would be listed amongst its features)? The supremely excellent Hitachi Feature Tool allows you to ...

The problem is those tiny objects that get hot, what can you attach to them? Well for the absolute tiniest ones like the one resistor and the temperature monitor chip, you can't do much besides blow air at them. But lots of folks put heatsinks on their MOSFETs. For example, this page describes inst...

For anyone thinking of doing this, note that you need the "Thoroughbred B" XP1700+, not the "Thoroughbred A". Companies like newegg which don't specify which version you get could send you either one. Any processor with the "JIUHB" code is a revision B; "AIUGA" means it's revision A. There's an enti...

In Thailand, no way! You know how hot it gets there? I do. Lived there for years. No doubt the heat was what drove you to hang out with the " cynical alcohol-soaked tough-talking smart-ass Brit journalists ". :) But seriously, thanks for the sanity check. I was thinking that the whole Thailand thin...

Warning : this is a long post. The important questions I have are in bold . So I'm trying to build a powerful, quiet system on the cheap for a friend, and I was thinking of doing the following: 1. Get one of the "pauper's special" 120mm Fortron FSP300-60PN PSUs 2. Mod it so that the fan was on the ...

That read performance would not be unusual for a 7200RPM 80 GB platter drive. The only review of the 7200.7 I could find that provided throughput benchmarks was at digit-life.com (their servers are migrating today, so no link yet). The average read throughput they measured using HDTach was 47 MB/s. ...

Simple answer: It's not worth the trouble Long answer: Unless high temperatures indicate that you definitely need the greater airflow that you can get with a 92mm fan vs. an 80mm fan, I wouldn't bother modding the case. From what I can tell, no one is terribly enthusiastic about the 92mm fans that a...

Well, if money's no object, than I'd go with watercooling and some of these nifty innovatek water-cooled rubber HDD mounts. Just check and make sure you can get the right waterblock mounts for the Xeon CPU sockets. Also, I don't know which Cheetah drives you have, but the 15K.3 Cheetahs are supposed...

I recently got a Samsung ML-1430, which is a small personal-use laser printer. It's silent in standby mode, and not too wickedly noisy when in use or when cooling down, although the noise it makes is frustrating compared to my PC. At about $150US after rebates, the price is very agreeable. HP inkjet...