Hey, I'm trying to find a way to suspend the HD in my antec sonata case. I have this suspend thing with elastics that will fit into a 5.25" bay. I've tried using that, and putting the hd under the dvd player. This works, but there is so little airflow down there, that the HD gets to 52 celcius witho...

I have a brand new p180 which does not have the vga duct. I've already taped up the holes in the bottom of the back of the case around the psu (per the p180 review done here), in order to make sure the fresh air for the psu comes from the front, along my hard drives. It looks like I'll be taping up ...

Hey, I've built a p180 + 6600 conroe, + ninja heatsink (passive) + a 7600gs passive videocard. I use the fan that came with the ninja as an exhaust fan (back not top, as I'm afraid somebody (probably me) will put a stack of books or something on the top). Now, I see that in the back of the p180 case...

Hey, I see people on the forums having a p180 case, with a s12 seasonic psu. Those psu's have a 12cm fan that blows "vertically"... I would figure that in a p180 case, you'd want a psu that blows air out the back. Am I missing something? I'm trying to figure out what would be a good PSU to put in my...

I do not know. Assuming you're using the case for a media based computer, I doubt you'd need an XP90 cooler though. I have the same case. It defenity is a hard case to temp-manage, but the problem (at least for me) is not getting the heat from the cpu into the case, its getting the heat out of the c...

Hey, I still have my Seasonic Silencer 300watt PSU that Mike has been so kind to put together for me. I'm looking to get a new video card, and it looks like it will be one from the 6800 series. I know 300watt is defenitely not on the high side, and that actual draw from specific rails matter a lot, ...

Hey, I've been running my samsung 1614n for about a year. All of a sudden I got more and more corrupted files. A chkdsk /f had to fix countless problems, and if I'd do it the next day again, there were more problems to fix again. I want to rma this drive, but would like to make sure it is absolutely...

Ok, so everybody always says its very dangerous to open a PSU. I have always figured this is because of "stored power". Whenever I open my pc, I make sure to turn off the power, and then press the turnon button, so that the psu loses its last bit of power in it. Is this the only reason opening a psu...

Hey. I've built a htpc system, in an antec overtura case, and the whole thing runs damn hot, much hotter than I like. Next to my normal components, my TV in/out card gets _crazy_hot. I'm wondering if someone has ever tried cooling such a beast with any of the cooling solutions intended for high-end ...

Heya Hal, Looks like I've got to brush up on my perl skills. I'm still a bit surprised as the fancontrol seems to be based around pwm, while I'm pretty sure controlling my fan under windows using speedfan is just done by lowering the voltage, instead of pwm. Anyway, I'll take a crack at seeing if I ...

Hey, I've got a panaflo l1a 80mm, and it doesn't report its rpm back to the mainboard. I've finally gotten temperaturesensing running on my (2.6.7) linux box. I want to use fancontrol to control my fans, but the setup program: pwmconfig won't run, because it gets no rpm input from the fan. Does anyb...

They're 80mm ones. The mobo manual doesn't specify how much power the connector can deliver. its an asrock k7s8x r3.0 motherboard.

Hey,

It feels like a bad idea. But is it? I have a mobo that can control the fanspeed of the cpu fan trough software. I want to control both my cpufan and my casefan...

What kind of bad things would happen if I would hook them up to the same connector?

(Both panaflo l1a's)

Bye, Lucas

I'd try to get a mainboard that supports setting the fan speed trough software. That way you can use a tool like speedfan (Don't know of any linux variant, they'll probably be there. I'm assuming linux here since you're running a server), to contorl the fanspeed for you based on the load of the syst...

Hmm strange. I disabled QFan in the bios (was required to get my cpu fan to work). Speedfan detects 6 settable speeds, 3 on isa, 3 on smbus. If I set all of them to 0% manually, both case fan connectors on the mobo still provide 12 volts (=estimate, but it makes the same amount of noise if I don't m...

Hey, I'm trying to get speedfan to control the speeds of both my cpu and my casefan. The cpu fan is being controller fine after messing around with some settings. However I cannot get the casefan to be controller by the winbond chip (W83627THF). The winbond chip itself can control two fans, but the ...

I've got the 3700amb too (really happy with it). I closed all gaps and holes in the case with tape, and am not getting dust buildup near my optical drive. I don't use a front intake fan either. I'm not living in a really dusty environment either, so that helps. Could you tape entrance points to the ...

Hey Jan, I like the idea of having all control being done in software on the host machine, with the device only executing commands.. I'm still looking for a fan controller, (633 sounds perfect, but is close to $120 for purchase&shipping). What I'd love to do is be able to read out temps & rpm's from...

The people at crystalfontz have nice controlling software (IMHO), which is opensource (don't know the license though), and runs on several platforms. I'm not up to date on what fancontrol's board does, but this might be a good starting point to build from, if their license permits. http://www.crysta...

Hey Bacon, What you might want to consider is the security measures taken by crystalfontz in their 633 fan controller, to protect your delicate computer components when the software might have crashed, (or accidentally turned off, or the system crashed alltogether). Basiclythe software makes all dec...

I can get a good deal on this combo: ASRock K7S8X (R3.0) + Athlon XP2000 + Cooler Titan TTC-D5TB/G. and am wondering if I can get this to be quiet. I'll happilly underclock quite drasticly, but don't know how to find out if this board+cpu will let me underclock. Does anyone know if it will let me un...

Hey, I'm deciding which CPU to get for my pvr box. It needs to be good enough to play mpeg4, so I was thinking around a 1000mhz celeron (I'll have a little room to play with then).. However these are the type of cpu that look like a pci card, and I'm not aware of any biiig heatsink I could fit on it...

Hey, So I built my quiet system. It's pretty quiet. The only thing I can hear is the ss300 that mikec was so kind to mod for me. I'm not really sure how quiet they're supposed to be, and I just don't know how loud 20db@1m is, but I'm very happy with this soundlevel. My reported temps are really real...

I've got the antec3700amb case. It is equipped with the PSU that came with it. The PSU's has all the wires I'd expect, but also a blue & black wire. Can't find anywhere on the psu what it does. Does anyone know? It looks like a fan connector. it's got two wires, but three 'female pins' in the connec...

Ok, I just spent a few hours browsing trough posts in the CrystalFontz forum, and thought I'd share what I came up with. This is all concerning the 633 model, all others are merely for display purposes. - The 633 allows for 32 temprature sensors to be connected. These are not delivered with the prod...

Hey DonP, I think we're talking about a different version of the device. This revision: http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/633usb/index.html claims to have user configurable fan control, based on its temprature readings, and fan rpm measurement. I couldn't care less about making my computer look l...

Hey, I'm looking for a device that will control my fans, measure my fan rpm's measure tempratures, display all of this, and lets me configure how fan power should react to measured tempratures. I found this review: http://www.bigbruin.com/html/crystal01.htm The crystalfontz device looks promising. A...

Damnit, I just made a decision to buy the "Seasonic SS-300FT Active PFC 300W ATXv1.3 oem" from koolnquiet. I didn't order it yet, but I was so happy to have finally chosen a PSU (took me a few weeks). Now I find this thread with people having lots of problems with it. Most messages are a few months ...

Well for anyone wondering if the mounting holes on the (gigabyte, don't know about others) radeon9000 cards would host the Zalman HP80-C well, the answer is 'sortof'. I checked the zalman website for the requirements, and it said I needed mountingholes on my card. I checked out my radeon9000 card, f...

Thanks for digging up that old PSU douglas, I'm reassured now , I'm getting the seasonic super tornado 300 from koolnquiet.

Thanks, Lucas