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- Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:50 pm
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: Dell 6400 w/ duo core: no thanks
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14284
Interesting; I just read an article on Anandtech claiming that the Duo Core has battery life comparable to the previous Pentium M chips. So I was optimistic that it might be just as quiet. There is also a Core Solo chip, which uses the newer technology of the Due Core, but with just a single core, i...
- Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:15 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Silent UPS?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3249
- Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:30 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: a slightly different approach to ducting
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2929
Hmm, your case has a window, do you care about aesthetics? :lol: What I did in a similar situation was make the duct out of paper. Not normal paper, something slightly stiffer, and I used duct tape to attach it to the case. It's ugly, but it works. You could make one out of paper just to test the id...
- Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:25 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Unexpected results for hard drive heatsink/suspension
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4710
- Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:08 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Unexpected results for hard drive heatsink/suspension
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4710
Unexpected results for hard drive heatsink/suspension
My computer had 3 fans: PSU (Super Silencer 350) CPU heatsink. The heatsink is by Alpha, so this fan sucks air from the heatsink and then exhausts it from the case through a duct. This fan is controlled by Speedfan. Hard drive. This fan was controlled by Speedfan. The hard drive is decoupled by grom...
- Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:42 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: UPS absolutely unacceptably noisy...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7895
- Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:18 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Galvanic Corrosion for muppets: Impress your friends!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 99163
Re: Galvanic Corrosion for muppets: Impress your friends!
A word of warning though: if you protect your anodic metal (by painting it, for example) and a small area of the paint is damaged, then you are left with an exposed anodic metal of much smaller surface area than the cathode, which means that it will corrode particularly quickly at the site of the c...
- Sat Dec 25, 2004 9:21 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Seasonic: Silencer vs. Tornado
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10449
- Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:55 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: How slow is your cpu fan running?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 17068
- Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:20 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Juggling the airflow demands of the CPU and PSU
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4489
- Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:48 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Juggling the airflow demands of the CPU and PSU
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4489
Juggling the airflow demands of the CPU and PSU
For a PC that I need to build soon, I'm considering using an Alpha 8055, and then ducting that output to the side vents on this Evercase 4252 . I also want to use a Seasonic Tornado PSU, which has a bottom mounted 120 mm fan. Will I run into problems by having the PSU suck from the bottom when the C...
- Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:38 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: I Need help picking components! (For stereo jukebox PC)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8678
All i can say is that the nf7 is an absolutely brilliant motherboard, the drivers are very stable, and it's great for volt adjustments. If you do get the mobile barton, or even one of the lower rated thoroughbreds, it would make that ram a lot more worthwhile. Memory bandwidth and good timings will...
- Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:35 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: I Need help picking components! (For stereo jukebox PC)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8678
Thanks for the video card suggestion wumpus. I looked into it some more and realized that the KT600 chipset is only single channel; oh well, no big loss. I'm also rethinking SCSI. While I really loved the performance it gave, I'm starting to really succumb to the PC silencing addiction. So if I'm no...
- Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:55 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: I Need help picking components! (For stereo jukebox PC)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8678
Yes, I am going to buy a real soundcard, but I'm not yet sure which one yet. For a HSF I'll probably get whatever Thermalright or Zalman is available at a good price when I make my order, and I'll probably spend around $30-$35 on that. Ok, so I'll probably stick with a 9200 or so. My last desktop ha...
- Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:06 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: I Need help picking components! (For stereo jukebox PC)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8678
I Need help picking components! (For stereo jukebox PC)
Ok, so I need to build a PC soon; I'll probably end up ordering parts and building it during the 2nd or 3rd week of August (around the time I leave home to head back to college). I already own a mouse, keyboard, FDD, CD-RW, monitor, 80 GB HD in an external enclosure I'll use for backups, and of cour...
- Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:30 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: The Truth about PSU power ratings
- Replies: 17
- Views: 51397
- Mon Jan 05, 2004 5:53 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Anyone transported arctic cooling VGA silencer yet?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2536
- Tue Dec 30, 2003 6:55 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Is There a God?
- Replies: 174
- Views: 122390
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. -- GK Chesterton If there were no unicorns, there would be no Aunicornists. I am about as staunch an atheist as you'll ever meet. I answered "don't know" because the question is way too vague. If the question had been "Does the Christian/Muslim/etc....
- Tue Dec 30, 2003 12:47 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: SPCR Crowd Employment
- Replies: 64
- Views: 45924
I'm an undergraduate studying mechanical engineering. I'm thinking of going into materials science and engineering; stevekim, did you study MSE in school? Any advice for someone looking at graduate programs in the field? :D Wasn't exactly sure where to cast my vote, so I cast it in "Technology". My ...
- Sun Dec 21, 2003 2:06 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec Super LANBOY
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19461
Oh, yes I know about the SLK3700-BQE. I'm a little worried about that side panel problem that you mention though, and I wish they would sell the case without a power supply (I would replace the one that is included). http://www.directron.com/slk3700bqe.html $77 stock $45 sans PSU Directron has an 8...
- Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:08 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Which northbridge Heatsink?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2158
I also have the Abit NF7-S 1.2, and I replaced the stock northbridge HSF with the Zalman heatsink, and it has worked perfectly fine for me, even when overclocked. I should mention that my CPU HSF is the SK-7, which exhausts some air right onto the northbridge, which might help a little bit. I used A...
- Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:54 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: How do you cool your hd?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6209
In my Sonata, I have a 160 GB Maxtor, 80 GB WD, and 18 GB Maxtor Atlas 10k III. I'm sure that's disgustingly loud by SPCR standards, but it's quiet enough for me. Anyways, I have a 120 mm Panaflo mounted on the front fan mount, running off the Antec PSU fan only connector. According to Speedfan, my ...
- Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:33 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: A question on the Zalman ZM80C-HP and the 9800 Pro...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7630
"paste should always be just enough to fill in the microscopic gaps between the 2 surfaces" When it comes to GPU cooling, the gap is certainly macroscopic- many GPUs are slightly concave, and furthermore some Radeons have a ridge around the side of the GPU that sits higher than the GPU (the Zalman m...
- Mon Aug 25, 2003 3:41 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quiet SCSI cooling... Zalman ZM-2HC1?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3771
- Mon Aug 25, 2003 6:56 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quiet SCSI cooling... Zalman ZM-2HC1?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3771
- Sun Aug 24, 2003 4:56 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quiet SCSI cooling... Zalman ZM-2HC1?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3771
Quiet SCSI cooling... Zalman ZM-2HC1?
In my Sonata I have 3 hard drives, 2 IDE and 1 SCSI. Only the SCSI really needs cooling. Would this be sufficient to cool my Maxtor Atlas 10KIII? I did a search but didn't find too much on the Zalman cooler. I'm a little skeptical that it can do much cooling, but if anyone has any experience with th...
- Thu Aug 21, 2003 11:24 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Sonata numbers
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9277
Regarding the Sonata intake vents...
I did a little experiment a few days ago with my Sonata. I ran Prime95 a few times, and compared the effect that closing the "Antec" vents had. As I expected, the PSU fan increased in speed by a few hundred rpm when the vents were closed as a function of increased PSU temperatures. As undesirable as...
- Fri Jul 18, 2003 11:04 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Help me decide: Sonata vs. SLK3700AMB
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3531
Help me decide: Sonata vs. SLK3700AMB
First off, I started reading SPCR a few days ago and am very impressed by the quality of reviews, and of the message board in general. What I've read has been very helpful in my search for a new case, but I have some questions. Here's the system to go in my new case: Abit NF7-S, 1700+ @ 2.1 GHz, 102...