My new Tyan Trinity i875 (S5101) appears to undervolt. I have the ANNRF but I bet the ANF is the same way. http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trinityi875p.html I haven't tried to make any changes yet. The manual doesn't show any negative choices for voltages but in BIOS the choices for "CPU Voltage"...

I graduated from the University of Illinois in May 2002 with a degree in CS, but now I work for a mortgage company. I couldn't get an internship while in school, the closest I came was a trip to Dallas, TX for an all day thing with HP. That didn't work due to very many reasons (probably would have g...

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my friend just got this and he likes it. He says it's quiet. I can't go check it out since he's in CA. He bought it for the high current on the 5v line.

After many games of AOM, no restarts!

I have a friend that has 4 of these on his 4 10k rpm scsi drives. The only part of the hard drive not covered by the sound absorption foam stuff is the sides. He says: well they work great for me, I have the Hard Drive encased in the foam and it stays under 50 degrees c inside. the foam fits between...

I'd like to see this reviewed, my friend has it and says it's quiet. He bought it for the high 5v current. http://www.coolmaxusa.com/product/product_ps_list_04.html CoolMax Taurus CX Series Silent Power Supply. It has a 120mm fan, open back grill style, SATA power, a fan switch with Auto, Low and Me...

Ralf, one question - do you think much noise is created from the 92mm L1BX vibrating on the heatsink? Ie. a 80mm w/a silicone grommet could be one solution. oh, and I've got to add this: if you reversed the CPU fan, the fan would not cool as well, but would no longer fight the exhaust fan for air. ...

Well success so far! I ran 3dmark a few times with other stuff running and fans on low, once with AOM. It got hot so I guess I did it right. I plan on putting a panflo on the side of it on a zalman arm bracket, I just need to bend it for it to fit. There are a few more things on the vidcard that get...

ok there was a poor job of goop on the core, it wasn't covered in some parts. Hopefully that was the problem. Now, the front base you put on it won't touch it at all since it doesn't have the lowered part like the stock HSF had. I guess it will take lots of goop. Well now that I look at it from the ...

I have had problems with my comp restarting, I talked about it in some old threads. I have a 120mm case fan and a Zalman 7000alcu which both have a fanmate on them. The restart problem occurs with high system usage obviously. I have gotten it to restart after a while of 2 Prime95s but for the most p...

ok, is this buzzing and ticking the seek noise? I hope you can tell if it's seeking or not. It does kind of sound like a (quiet ) buzz on my 7200.7 and WindowsXP does some drive use when you aren't using it.

Tyan really puts some bells and whistles on those things don't they. Check this out: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/g9800prom.html

much bigger heatsink, a software monitor, fan control. I wish I could do this with my 9800 pro.

Yes the stock bracket is plastic, but man I could really tighten mine up. That thing isn't going anywhere. The metal things work fine. exrcoupe, your 7000 fan STOPS when you put the fanmate at lowest?! That is strange. Maybe your fanmate has more (or shifted) range than mine.

so how hot is cold fusion?

Hey, so when an HDD has 2 platters, are they spinning independently or are they both anchored the same way to the um driveshaft? If they are both anchored then they are acting as one disk, but if they have some independence then there is the possiblity of mechanical resonance which wouldn't occur wi...

I just put the 3.6s on my computer im still worried though because it has the graphics card listed twice and they said that this was one of the signs. I always thought that this was because you can plug 2 monitors into it. I have the same thing with my 9800 pro and my 9000 pro. EDIT::Well I just co...

so has there been any testing of the Super Tornado 400 or does anyone have it?

My new Tyan Trinity i875 (S5101) appears to undervolt. I have the ANNRF but I bet the ANF is the same way. http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trinityi875p.html I haven't tried to make any changes yet. The manual doesn't show any negative choices for voltages but in BIOS the choices for "CPU Voltage" ...

I bought an 80gb 7200.7 8mb from Best Buy recently. I planned to get the Barracuda IV and expected it when I saw the price, $100 - $50 rebate, but amazingly it was a 7200.7 That was quite a deal. Sufficeth to say I settled for it instead of the IV.

pingu666 wrote:my beef is there friggin crap products most of the time
and i dont like sayin beef, cos i had some really nice beef for tea
its like insultin it :\

You had beef for tea? LOL oculdn't resist.

Well thanks Ralf for the info. I'm a little disapointed to hear about the Intel board. It seems like there is no 100% trust worthy company these days. They all seem to have their shit products, some just more than others. I had the same (limited experience) impression of Intel boards that Ralf had....

"just remember copper sands much much quicker than aluminium, so be careful and patient with aluminium!"

the base is part Al and part Cu so maybe it's for the best that I don't sand it. I understand that's what the flat surface is for but...

so why is it called lapping and not sanding?

ooooh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy. ya gonna die :) I was talking with a couple Finns a few weekends ago in a bar in Champaign, knew they had to be hockey fans and they turned out to be Avs fans. They said Blues suck and we got in a good hockey discussion and then I killed 'em. Well most of that is true...

Hey St. Louis :) what is the glass used for, I guess for a flat surface right? do you lay the sandpaper on the glass and then move the heatsink around on it? I guess I'll have to do this some other time, or just remember for the future since I don't have extra glass or the sandpaper and machine oil ...

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I bought the C but haven't installed yet. I did notice the slightly less dissipation area but the fact that I had a recommendation, it was newer, and the dark silver color would look $100 better on my red ATI card made me buy it even though I don't plan on opening my case up much.

ok, newbie question, what exactly is lapping? I've never heard of that word not used in the racing sense until I saw a couple threads here. I gather that it is smoothing the heatsink base for better performance. Do you use very fine sandpaper or what? Also, what kind of performance improvement would...

I use a wet (H2O) cloth on my LCD, I think the manual said to use water.

My parents use a HP 660Cse and it's fine but the inline (brick, or whatever you call them) power supply makes a very annoying buzz whenever it's plugged in no matter if the printer is on or not. I don't have a printer myself but my roommate has a Lexmark which is acting up, but it's ok to a bit nois...