http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2179650 anybody see a reason not to get this? I'm not a fan of bling but who cares if it's free, it could be a free backup PSU. I skimmed a few reviews and I didn't see any red flags. Loudness I guess isn't really a factor if I use it for a backu...

My friend found this, had to share it.

http://www.metku.net/index.html?sect=vi ... /index_eng

the exhaust out the top of the bottle is nice, hehehe.

hehe, not sure if it belongs in this forum, but better than the others I guess. I saw this in an ad http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t1000/?cid=718 in an ad. It starts at $2995 supposedly which actually isn't too far off desktop prices. They have a photo of the insides there. It has 4 little f...

haha. Yeah now that you mention it the doctor once said I had a lot of wax in there and that my ears would become clogged eventually. Getting water in my ear when swimming is more of a problem than it used to be so I tried ear drops to remove the wax but they didn't do jack. They ended up never clog...

ok well now that I know what IEMs are, they look cool and probably sound very good, but they still go in your ears. My ears hurt sometimes after wearing foam earplugs for a while and are at least uncomfortable, not just earbuds. It's weird, it's sore for the rest of the day. Also, I don't get how pe...

My grandpa (87) has trouble hearing (and my other grandpa did too for that matter), he has to use hearing aids and it's still not that great. (but he is still healthy and gets around well, has all his teeth, keeps a large garden, climbs on the steep roof to clean the gutters sheesh.) Since I plan on...

Booyeah MikeC! That's why I'm here.

yes, that's what I gather

My buddy bought this power supply (500w) so I thought I'd report what he tells me to get a little SPCR oriented info about this PSU in the thread. To give you an idea of my friend's perspective, he is amazed at the quietness of my Living Room computer but he is getting into quietness himself. I know...

I have a Jabil 440BX chipset motherboard in my (originally) Gateway computer. I just installed a Powerleap slotket and now have a Celeron 1.4Ghz in there, it works great, but I've never been able to get temp readings from anything in there. I guess my motherboard just doesn't do it?? since it was a ...

Usually it's lucky 13, a single column on the left side of my 1280x1024 19" LCD heheh, but right now I have some more. I often keep things I am actively working on or have just saved on the desktop, then move them to the right spot later. I only have my browser, "show desktop", and winamp in the qui...

thanks man, my bad

http://www.svc.com/psmg-500.html

That's a very nice efficiency claim, I'm skeptical. What do you think?

hahaaaa, that's awesome. Well done. It pays to lurk here :) You know you're a silent pc freak when heatsinks are one of the coolest parts of the computer. I mean, just look at those, beauty. I'm not sure about the hard drive, I have a 7200.7 myself. Personally I don't mind the seeks, it's the whine ...

Obviously you'd still want to keep the www.silentpcreview.com name. Here's something that nobody has mentioned. If someone new hears about SPCR, they type in www.spcr.com and get the squatter page. If they're not freaks like us they might not care to try harder to find the site. I guess most new peo...

wow, I might have been here two years ago reading up. I'll have to check when my first posting was, I believe I had been looking here a while before I registered to the forum. Hmm I tried looking in the memberlist but it looks like it would take forever to find my name there.

I'm a little late but it's great to see SPCR still LEADING THE REVOLUTION, BABY! The companies that don't send samples must be SCARED because they know the writing on their boxes spouts false promises :) Many thanks to Mike C and friends - especially friends on this one - for an OUTSTANDING review. ...

geez, now they're stealing intellectual property from Korea too. This crap has to stop if we want companies to keep up on R&D, and make stuff better like Zalman has.

lol, my favorite line is It will know the cooling effect of all the member vice- back easily and the hazard Sea which it sees phyu FSB over with 240 and 3 will grow and lek 3.6 width after making, the case becomes the open and it advanced a test from the interior which is shut tightly. Did you count...

nobody KNOWS if there is a god, God or whatever, can't prove or disprove, some people believe it. That's about as far as I got :) How about this one, I believe it is closely related. Are we more than the sum of our parts? If not then my brain is a state machine. If you knew every detail of my brain,...

lol Ralf look - Randy Newman - I Love L.A. I went to a Dodgers-Cardinals game in LA just over a month ago and they play this song after the game and everyone in the stadium sings part of it, kind of cool so I found it. "Hate New York City, cold and it's damp, and all the people dressed like monkeys....

that's what I call it. I figured why not post this. It was my first computer, my folks were nice enough to buy it for me summer after freshman year 1999. They said it was because I had been a cheap kid :) Originally it was a Gateway PIII slot-1 550 mhz and with minimal modifications it is a great si...

Yes, I agree that this should be a section as well, good idea.

I have a slot 1 PIII 550 Gateway that I took the fan off the aluminum heatsink and have been running it for months. It's the Living Room computer. I also swapped a 92mm panaflo as the PSU fan and put an 80mm panaflo on a zalman bracket pointed at the bottom of the CPU heatsink (the top is shrouded b...

hey maybe ridges are good, the ridges will actually be making contact with the CPU whereas if you lapped it, every part would have a small layer of TIM between the heatsink and CPU. But then again, I'm sure this has been tested.

Replacing the fan(s) sounds good to me, costs $80 or so less. I replaced the single 92mm bottom fan in the Living Room computer's 200w Astec PSU with a panaflo L1A and it is really quiet now. I have some concern with PSU heat though, is that an issue or would there not be any trouble pushing my syst...

My 7200.7 makes a kind of high air noise it seems like that can only be heard with my ear 6 inches or so away. The very high whine is even quieter. The seek is plainly audible (very much quieter than my old drives still) but the reason I came here in the first place was whine. Now when I hook one of...

all right, I've read the threads about the seasonics and various other PSUs. I'm in the market for one now and I need to know what to get. Here are some noise related stats of my system. Antec 3700AMB fanmated Zalman 7000alcu ATI Radeon 9800 w/ zalman 80c-hp, no fan but will put something on it soon...

in BIOS the choices for "CPU Voltage" are: default 1.472v -125mV 1.424v -250 1.44v -375 1.424v -500 1.424v +125 1.472 +250 1.504 +375 1.504 +500 1.52 +625 1.536 +750 1.552 ...yes in that order :) According to AIDA, my current voltage is 1.47 so the range is .97 - 2.20 if AIDA is right. OK, I tried ...

Well, if 500mv = .5V you should be correct. Have you tried increasing the Vcore to see if it actually goes up? Are you "saving changes" to the BIOS after you change the Vcore? Yes Ralfie I'm saving the changes... and it shows up as my previous choice on the next reboot. I haven't increased it yet, ...