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by Stevo@ARM
Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:14 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: StealthPC Foundation Kit by ARM Systems available in uk?
Replies: 5
Views: 2706

Sorry about that hugekebab :oops: We make sincere efforts to respond to every customer and potential customer, but somehow I guess we missed your email earlier, :shock: so please accept my apologies. As for shipping to the UK, we would love to accomodate you but unfortunately we do not ship outside ...
by Stevo@ARM
Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:46 am
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: ARM Systems StealthPCs - Ask Steve
Replies: 56
Views: 33762

Hello mcree The sound level is actually extremely good on the StealthServer with the hot swap SATA drives. Especially when using the Samsung spinpoint drives. And our P4 model now has genuine PCI-X 64-Bit 66MHz slots which enable the SATA RAID controller to deliver the full performance of the disk s...
by Stevo@ARM
Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:04 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: I got my ARM Systems Stealth pre-built kit today
Replies: 20
Views: 11800

Hey guys, At ARM we have all been very busy in lately filling customer orders and designing new products, and though try as I might, sometimes I don't see all the threads on SPCR regarding our products. :wink: That said, JohnMK please give us a call so we can work with you on your issue regarding th...
by Stevo@ARM
Thu Jun 03, 2004 10:12 am
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: ARM Systems StealthPCs - Ask Steve
Replies: 56
Views: 33762

Is the same true for the Live-Drive from the Audigy's? I've not yet seen a black-bezel'ed Audigy Live-drive and wouldn't mind knowing if there can actually one be gotten ahold of in quantities of less than 1000 :). Ta. Great question shathal , I am not really sure if you can locate the black Live-D...
by Stevo@ARM
Thu Jun 03, 2004 10:02 am
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Is ARM ever going to offer an Athlon64 Stealth model?
Replies: 6
Views: 5475

If you purchase an ARM PC with no OS and no Video Card, do they still run the box through a "burn-in" phase or any other testing? Glad you asked ChrisM , Yes indeed, every single machine we produce gets a burn-in and a QA/QC process. And, all of our StealthPC's receive a special extended burn-in wh...
by Stevo@ARM
Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:23 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: ARM Systems StealthPCs - Ask Steve
Replies: 56
Views: 33762

i was wondering if anyone has asked where you guys get the blak trimmed evercase 4252's? Hello calam63 , Many folks have asked the same question about the All Black Evercase 4252 cases. They are an exclusive OEM case color made special for ARM Systems. Evercase manufactures the vast majority of its...
by Stevo@ARM
Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:07 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Is ARM ever going to offer an Athlon64 Stealth model?
Replies: 6
Views: 5475

My order will be forthcoming as soon as they do. Has anyone heard anything definitive from them? YES! your wish is our command :D ... and thanks for asking ChrisM :wink: I know they're working on it. I think they're investigating motherboards for highest reliability. As usual, you are correct MikeC...
by Stevo@ARM
Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:36 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: ARM Systems StealthPCs - Ask Steve
Replies: 56
Views: 33762

ARM Systems StealthPC News Update I just updated this thread under the SPCR Forum - Deals, Vendors & Classifieds to point out that ARM AMD Athlon64 & Athlon64-FX StealthPC's are now available for those that are interested: :arrow: ARM Systems: StealthPCs @ Much Lower Prices + FREE Shipping! Stevo
by Stevo@ARM
Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:32 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: ARM Systems StealthPCs - Ask Steve
Replies: 56
Views: 33762

Hmm - brings me to the interesting quiestion: How *DOES* one cool a 6800 Ultra quietly? (Excluding the answer "don't use one" :)). Sure am curious how ARM intend to do it... :). Still working on the 'Secret Sauce' shathal :wink: But will give SPCR readers the 'Full Monty' once we get it all worked ...
by Stevo@ARM
Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:17 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Interesting Races and Folders-on-the-Move
Replies: 975
Views: 640486

Aaaarrrghhh, I'm having all sorts of problems and people are catching up!!! My cable is down frequently, I can't upload my WUs, can't get any new ones, my Centrino is tinkered, people are shutting down the clients on the P4s, the pally is overheating at full speed, etc, etc. (btw, Centrinos it seem...
by Stevo@ARM
Sun May 23, 2004 4:16 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: P4 2.4B is disappointing
Replies: 12
Views: 5538

... Overclocks like a beast, however, the SATA drives vanish when overclocking which doesn't make sense to me :? maybe someone has a clue as to why this happens. A RAID 0 array will be toast after OCing. :shock: ... The SATA standard was developed with very specific and tightly defined timing speci...
by Stevo@ARM
Fri May 21, 2004 12:22 am
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: How are Dell's so quiet??
Replies: 53
Views: 61517

Re: Dell XPS unbelievably noisy

I spent about 4 hours setting this system up for a client and had to send it back. At idle, the fan noise was significantly noticable in a home office environment (sitting on the floor immediately beside the desk). Once you started using it, the fans kick into high gear and the noise became ridicul...
by Stevo@ARM
Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:45 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Quiet High-end P4 3.4C - is this possible? Your help please
Replies: 77
Views: 78473

Buy a Dell 8300 or build a computer on the Sonata platform. I am not going for complete silence just something that is not a jet engine like the computer I have now. ...Dells can be more of a crap-shoot. Sure some are quiet, but some aren't (depending on the vagueries of Dell's hardware kit) and I ...
by Stevo@ARM
Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:34 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Quiet High-end P4 3.4C - is this possible? Your help please
Replies: 77
Views: 78473

The difference will be very small. In any event I've shown that the Zalman CNPS 7000 AlCu cannot be ruled out as an effective cooling system, even at 5 volts, even on a P4 3.4GHz that's used for CPU-intensive tasks and gaming (ATI Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder). Very true JohnMK , and I am happy th...
by Stevo@ARM
Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:58 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Tinkers are a Folders New Best Friend!
Replies: 41
Views: 18344

... About the Chromies, are you sure your right? Only Dad keeps telling me, he's the way he is... cause of me! :shock: ... Pete. Newsflash! This just in... Important Folding Breakthrough by the Pande Group! The Pande group's folding efforts have discovered new human genetic material identified as '...
by Stevo@ARM
Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:35 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Looks Like A New Record Day!
Replies: 19
Views: 8762

... One aspect of the increased points that I mostly like, is that it will make it easier for active members to pass inactive members. Take Lockheed for example. Without degrading the immense contribution he made to SPCR's Folding team, the sooner he is out of the top 10, the better, as far as I'm ...
by Stevo@ARM
Wed Apr 21, 2004 6:19 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Quiet High-end P4 3.4C - is this possible? Your help please
Replies: 77
Views: 78473

...And let's also mention that Dells, while some are quiet, really aren't that quiet when it comes to SPCR standards. They just tend to be quiet er then the typical HP, Compaq etc home system. My "seat-of-the-pants" guess at the SPL of the newer Dell systems would be between 28-35dB+, depending on ...
by Stevo@ARM
Wed Apr 21, 2004 5:46 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Tinkers are a Folders New Best Friend!
Replies: 41
Views: 18344

A shout out to bill_amer If you catch this thread maybe you can help us get a handle on the new points system regarding Tinkers. Didn't you say you had a new AMD Athlon64 system? If that is true perhaps you could remove -advmethods from your flags and try to attract a Tinker. Then post up some frame...
by Stevo@ARM
Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:41 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: 239.0 pt monster!
Replies: 32
Views: 13669

...Something else that doesn't add up for me is WHY Tinkers would run better on Athlons?... David Athlons have a far superior native floating point unit, and a much shorter instruction pipeline to boot, plus a larger L1 instruction cache. Therefore when executing traditional FP instructions (read n...
by Stevo@ARM
Mon Apr 19, 2004 11:22 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: New nVidia GeForce 6800 -- DUAL power connectors
Replies: 52
Views: 26834

I spoke to my NVIDIA factory rep the other day about the 6800 Ultra and was told this card draws up to 150W at full load :shock: My guess is that this might be for the possible 512MB version down the road, which this GPU architecture does support. According to THG the 256MB version tested there is a...
by Stevo@ARM
Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:45 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: 2nd PSU poll: please VOTE AGAIN!
Replies: 117
Views: 61486

For a high performance high wattage draw system that can handle the heat a Zalman ZM400B modded with a quiet fan is what we use. Can't get much quieter than that when building a 3.2 - 3.4+ system with a top of the line video card. At high wattage draw the 75% efficiency of the ZM400B coupled with it...
by Stevo@ARM
Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:35 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Evercase ECE4292b
Replies: 22
Views: 11589

Stevo, I just noticed that the buyer of this new Evercase said the front bezel is slotted for "breathing". Does your comment mean that this newer version doesn't breath as well as the version you are using? I read it to mean that it doesn't have any venting on the sides. The 4292 does have breathin...
by Stevo@ARM
Mon Apr 19, 2004 6:04 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: sTinker queue
Replies: 10
Views: 5129

Hmmm... Maybe it has something to do with the points adjustments?

They did say that everything was getting re-valued - especially sTinkers. So perhaps some, or maybe even all, of the servers will be offline for a bit so they can get everything on the new points scale...
by Stevo@ARM
Mon Apr 12, 2004 6:42 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Evercase ECE4292b
Replies: 22
Views: 11589

Hey guys, I do like the look of this new EC, however, if you are building a higher end system, this chassis does not have some of the airflow characteristics of the 4252. 1.) We have noticed that without front fans in a very high end system, the hard drives do get much warmer. So you may want to con...
by Stevo@ARM
Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:31 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: 100,000 Point Club
Replies: 202
Views: 338793

Burp! Excuse me. It's all that beer. Sunday maybe. It's kinda hard to believe, really. This has been a goal of mine for a long time, that and getting to #10 (and staying there for more than a few days) and it looks like both could happen at about the same time. Let's pretend for a moment it's Sunda...
by Stevo@ARM
Sun Apr 11, 2004 1:13 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: You shall not pass!
Replies: 2
Views: 2923

Re: You shall not pass!

A friendly hello from Team EOC. We made a thread with photoshopped pics and all. You shall not pass, ever. Or for at least another 2 days..... Givin some love to SPCR After just gettin' whupped by MacOS yourself, you must be hurtn' for punishment if you think you want to scrap with SPCR now. Let's ...
by Stevo@ARM
Sat Apr 10, 2004 5:45 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Haysdb Promoted to Moderator!
Replies: 28
Views: 14559

haysdb wrote:When do I get my crown and scepter?

David
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Here ya go David

Stevo
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Just go easy on us mere forum serfs :wink:
by Stevo@ARM
Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:31 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Aphonos?
Replies: 14
Views: 7367

Thanks for the info, apologies for the way I forced your hand to deliver it. No hard feelings at all. Sorry again if my response seemed heavy handed. btw, that group hug smiley from Steve@ARM cracks me up. :lol: Thanks aphnos, as for me, man I try to keep folding fun, 'cause we all have enough stre...
by Stevo@ARM
Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:08 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Alert: Team EOC shows some life
Replies: 3
Views: 3010

Alert: Team EOC shows some life

EOC just started this thread on their Folding Forums a April 7th, seems like some of their members are upset that they got passed by MacOS X and they are trying to start a team ralley. As evidence that this is beginning to happen, EOC has added 21 new active team members to their roster in the last ...
by Stevo@ARM
Thu Apr 08, 2004 11:58 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Funky SPCR User Names
Replies: 28
Views: 17510

There are some goofy team names too.... Add this one to the list: Departamento de Informática da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa In about 600th place at the moment http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=34093 Stevo ------------- And you thought I had a long tea...