As far as i know the 6800 uses a NV41 core with 12 pipelines. Only early 6800's used a crippled NV40. how do you tell which one you have? i just got a gigabyte GV-N68128DH and for my quiet system and i am somewhat undewhelmed by its performance. its temperature rides somewhere around 55-57'C when i...

Slaugh wrote:Now I know they didn't use Pringles for their heatsinks!

this is the most clever and funny image i think i've seen here, ever.

Of the ones I've seen, the P80 series rotate at 7,200 rpm and the V80's at 5,400 rpm. I have no idea how it affects I/O performance, though. going purely by the physics of it, V80 will have a worse rotational latency than P80. regardless of other disk features that improve performance (bigger cache...

I wouldn't even attempt to use it unless you plan on running it in a desktop-style case so the mobo is laying flat. the pictures lower down on the page show this HS vertically-mounted. the height of the HS seems to be around 120mm. so it's not as monstrously huge as it may seem. with a shroud aroun...

Bill Owen wrote:I got some ideas, but I'm open to suggestions Ralf

could a heatsink designed for a side-mounted fan be ducted to that hole?

waiting to see what you'll do with that 60mm fan...

ronrem wrote:V-Tech cases have a lot of mesh

from looking at the photos of V-Tech cases, i am perplexed by the fan grills design. looks wrong for a good airflow. both V-Tech and AMS cases look like they'll require some dremel time.

The hard drive, after doing a little research, turns out to be a Seagate Momentus with 8mb cache does it make the high-pitched keening squeal? i have an older 40GB/2MB cache version of the drive, which i found unacceptably noisy. if yours isn't squealing, it's a great news for me. i was considering...

there's a touch of a high pitched whine that I find to be pretty annoying, even though it's fairly low in terms of volume. I haven't had a chance yet to see if it's the fans or the HD, and now that I see from the anandtech review that some of them are shipping with seagate momentus drives instead o...

regarding the fan in the mini: it's there. here is a sequence of pictures of the mini disassembled, fan included.

spec , from what I found, max power used should be below 25.6W. Not such a challenge to silently cool. It is also nice to note that this CPU has lot of powersaving features as well. probably not a challenge to cool in a big enough case with a big enough heat sink and a big, slow fan moving air accr...

acaurora wrote:Buy.

Reformat.

Windows XP.

Can you say, HTPC/Basic Workstation? ;P

XP doesn't run on PowerPC.

does that $500 price tag include the OS? apple's page suggests this, but don't think it states it explicitly.

I don't understand. Dedicated routers are generally silent. totally silent as opposed to as close to silent as possible that Viperoni is willing to settle for. $10 and near-zero time investment vs. time and money silencing an old fan-cooled PC, and you get not just close to silent, but completely s...

rather than use an HD, you might want to consider a CF card attached to a CF-IDE adapter. this will give you a bootable and silent device. there are a number of linux and BSD-based firewall systems that will run from a 32-64MB CF. that will eliminate the major source of noise a quieted system will h...

Anybody else? i have 60W versions of those PSUs in my fanless EPIA boxes. the PSUs are completely silent. i'll add another minus vs the full-sized fanless PSU: the limit of the total power it supplies. it can drive a lower-end graphics card like NVDA 5200 and probably an older low-end board like 42...

Pjotor wrote:Cheap, Clean, Cool and Quiet Case Cooling

Actually, most of it is semi-old news to SPCR regulars, but nevertheless a good starting point for newcomers.

7 fans?

As a side note, has anyone seen a PCI express riser card anywhere? I'm thinking that a 939 mATX board would go very well in this case http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-lc11.htm but it comes with risers, for AGP. EDIT: Bit of an update Silverstone have no plans for a PCI-E riser :-( upside-down...

grandpa_boris: I see that you have a 2.5" Seagate, tell me what you think about that one. I've heard two different ones and I think they are really low noise, no one here agree though. I have a feeling that ALL 2.5" Seagates got a worse reputation than they deserve. What do you say? the one i have ...

That's true even despite Storage Review's conclusion? an incompetently written driver or incompetent, immature firmware can defeat even the best technology. an incompetent implementation can turn the best protocol spec into a poorly performing product. you will see no improvement if your workload c...

NCQ is only helpful for servers, right? NCQ serves the same role as tag queueing in SCSI: if you have a lot of concurrent access requests to your disk, NCQ will make the disk perform significantly better for the aggregate throughput on all I/Os. where will this matter to you? if you are editing pho...

and here's another English translation babelfish is sooooo great ;) it's a laugh riot! "Carmelized sugar"?! "Chew"?! word "Кулер" in the russian review is a russified transliteration of "Cooler". i hope those of you who can't read russian don't get wrong ideas about the review. in russian, it's luc...

there are several reasons i got into silent computing. i dislike noise. if i am listening to music, high ambient noise makes it impossible to hear softer passages and robs the music of the nuances. and as i got older, i found that noise has irritated me more and more. high noise makes it harder to c...

i want to add my voice to the few that asked " are you sure you want athlon? " if the system you are building is fronting a typical DSL or cable modem connection, you can get away with a lot less. i had built mine using VIA EPIA. it's fanless, but not 0dB because i built it before the last 3 rounds ...

a friend had alerted me to an artlicle about shelton at overclockers. they reference an article on an HK site. i can't read what it says, but the table on this page compares shelton to VIA EPIA. shelton wins accross the board.

purplehaze wrote:directron can someone tell me how long they ship if they bought from these dealers

i have. they are reasonably fast. i think they processed the order in less than 24 hours and the rest was up to UPS.

So: very serious money for real power, exotic looks and exotic cooling... Sony's answer to the Power Mac G5, isn't it? i would think that it's more of an answer to HUSH ATX and zalman TNN 500A. the price is in the same range. does anyone have a first-hand experience with the sony box? how does it s...

Inexplicable wrote: Well, I did, and boy do I feel stupid. Turns out it was syslog after all. Here it is, the ages old entry for piping log messages to xconsole:

interesting. i didn't install and configure X on my debian system, but it doesn't mean it didn't have that same directive. great detective work!

reverting ext3->ext2 is not a big deal; you can actually basically just change the fstype in your /etc/fstab and remount. Lots of google references to this. just be sure that your ext3 fs is clean and there is nothing in the log. i'd probably do fsck of the ext3 fs, then change its type to ext2 bef...

Inexplicable wrote:Well, no pain, no gain. I'll figure it out eventually.

if you do, please post it!

any luck with this? I'd have to roll back to ext2 to try this out, so I'm not eager to dive in ... at this point, i wouldn't touch ext3 at all if i have any alternatives. i ended up having one or two bad sectors on the disk and after several failed attempts to recover the root fs, ext3 's fsck had ...