As opposed to replacing "just" the motherboard, CPU, graphics card and RAM in a desktop? edit: okay, being forced to upgrade the LCD -- now there's a drawback. Didn't think of it at first. Also the stuff you mentioned is about $600 for descent stuff. Thats still less than $1500. Plus I hate having ...

What are some recommendations for effective hard drive cooling solutions? Specifically, for a Barracuda IV or a WD 200GB Special Edition? I'd prefer a passive heatsink, as I would probably remove any fan from an active solution. According to the article, it is more important for the heatsink to mak...

The only ACPI setting that is available is *ACPI suspend to RAM* and I have it set to *enable* The computer enters Standby without problems. But the fans do not power down. I know exactly what you mean: this only works if you install windows with suspend to ram enabled in the bios. Enabling it in t...

Pjotor wrote:Using built-in software = less hassle.

(Yeah, I know, the hassle is not big, but it's still there, right?)

Not a big hassle and if you become a member of the SPCR folding@home team, you will support us

I read a german article about the Deltatronic in a special silent pc issue of ComputerTechnik, and they also measured some pretty high temperatures, that they (C'T) found unacceptable. I also think that quite some components, especially voltage regulators that have to deal with high currencies on ti...

Just joined the team with 2 computers: My P4 2GHz at home, and an Athlon 1800+ (1.54GHz) at work. Both running 24/7. Looking at the ranking, this is one hell of a strong team!

There's some confusion going on here: The Verax psu certainly is a modified Fortron, but I don't think the Engelking is.

Mercury wrote:The hose will sit on the cold concrete in my basement (under the carpet). I got the idea from someone who has tried it, and it worked for him, so I’ll tried it and if I find out that it doesn’t work, well too bad (anyway I got the hose for free ).

Great idea!

Actually I don't think you need a 1250. I have everything (cpu, vga, hdd, nb) watercooled, except the psu, and I use a 1046, which has half the capacity of the 1048, but I have 8mm hoses and a very, very large radiator. I estimate a 1048 is more than enough. More flow doesn't equal better cooling, a...

Hebrews126 wrote:try Engelking. They have a modded Fortron with a part-time fanless operation (specs @ http://www.engelking.de/power/pdf/ap2-6300sfc-a.pdf).

Is the Engelking really a Fortron? If that's true I'm amazed!

The idea is brilliant. Somebody suggested you could do something similar with a Zalman, but this is more sophisticated, because it uses heatpipes. I have just one thing against this psu: It's weak. t says 350 W, but if you look at the numbers for 3.3, 5 and 12 volt, they are quite low. Engelkings fa...

I've tried when I had one. Didn't work. Most Asus mobo's don't let you control the fans.

The mbm site is down for a quite a while, don't know why. There are no scripts to shutdown your computer, but you can have mbm start other software that can shutdown your computer. I use PowerOff: http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/ and let mbm start it with the following command line to let it go into...

Like the title says: Do hdd's have to share 'bandwith' with other devices on the pci bus. I'm asking this because of my reluctance to put a serial ata pci card in my computer, because if normal IDE channels don't share bandwith with the pci bus, I'm going to half the memory bandwith of my computer. ...

I'm really happy to hear that there are acutally computer buffs out there that take music seriously. I'm not going say things like:"This music is good and this is bad", I'm just glad that you all seem to listen instead of look (at a pretty singer or a videoclip). I'm into classical music mostly, but...

Hands down the Matrox G550 is the best fanless card if you don't want to do 3D gaming. It has absolutely the best 2D quality for office and content creation. Make sure you get the retail pak - not oem - so you get the TV adaptor. It offers some DVD acceration. The TV output is gorgeous. Sorry, no T...

Over the summer I bought a pair of Cuda IV's to go with my Abit BD7II RAID mobo. Once it all arrived I learned that in RAID 0 (two drives striped for performance -- correct me if I'm wrong) those two drives would be slower than if I had run them straight up. Seagate confirmed this. Said there was a...

Bit of a late reply, but I haven't been into harddrives lately. I ahve 2 Innvovateks cooling my harddrives. The cooling is really good, that's what I bought them for, but the silencing abilities are nothing to write home about. Now I must say that I have a completely insulated case and one of drives...

About the chirping and the (un)reliability of IBM drives: they are related. The early series of the IBM drives we're talking about crashed when they were idling for some time. The seeking arms lubrication would fail because the lubricant got stuck in one place instead of being spread by the movement...

gerwin, how much are the psu's? if not too much, mind buying two (or more if others are interested) and shipping them over to usa? :) i have paypal account. A complete watercooled psu is 260 Euro + shipping. Or you can send him yor Enermax and have it converted for 150 Euro. I know, that's very 'ou...

Those custom designed psu's are actually for sale. This guy built several of them and sells them upon request. They're not cheap, but for a 460 W it's better then anything I know, and from what I've read about it, it seems pretty well thought through. So I cannot help you with the design of a waterc...

http://www.low-noise.de/forum/upload/ct100/ Say I get myself a watercooled psu. Everything else is watercooled where possible: cpu, harddisks, videocard, northbridge even. My case is a Noisecontrol miditower completely lined with sound deadening material. I'd really like to go fanless, but with a co...

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/power/default.asp read this article it has a guide about calculating the power ratings of all your devices. having a look at your setup I'd say u'd *just* nudge into the power ratings for most of your devices, one thing that may be possible is to buy a higher ra...

As a perfectionist and owner of a watercooled pc, I feel a need to get rid of the last fan in my system. Not because it's noisy, but because I can. Aquacomputer (http://217.172.178.216/) sells watercooled psu's in Germany for 300 Euro (hence the word "silly" in the topic), and I feel the urge to buy...

I would like to see a spcr review on Noisecontrol products. I'm a user of these products (case and psu) and would like to see how they stand up against already reviewed products. Especially since they've released a new kind of noise dampening material which looks over the top weighing 13 kg per squa...

I don't think the motherboard is specifically quietpc unfriendly, but I reckon that 2 cpu's generate a lot of heat, and somewhere somehow this heat must get out of the case. Very often the psu exhaust is the only route out, so the air that comes out will be warm at least. Also, 2 cpus will need a lo...

hey one question... why doesn't anyone watercool their PSU? is there any difficulties? do heatsinks get charged during the usage of psu? just curious.... or is it because it's just too much trouble? thanks much in advance. Asmordean sums it up very nicely, and btw: heatsinks in psu are live! I foun...

haha it's time to take out the apexi intercooler from my car! water cooling sounds like a viable option... i wanted to build a case that is completely sealed and box it up with the sound muffling board and just have the radiator out. if i want to use something commercially made--pretty small that w...

That is impressive , indeed, but where does the brass bed headboard -- oh I mean copper radiator! :wink: -- go? Well, the copper radiator stays outside the computer case, behind my desk, and warms my feet in winter, but now that you mention the word "brass bed board", I just got an idea that would ...

That's an awesome setup you have there!!! I'm jealous! :P which pump exactly are you using? I'm building my custom case which will be tightly sealed and am thinking of cooling it with water + copper radiator. I was actually going to make the radiator little more compact than yours :) and will try t...