Not all MSI 5200's are passive, I think I even heard of one that had just a fan blowing at the chip! Ironically, some newer PNY 5200's are passive. It looks like this http://www.pny.com/products/verto/mainstream/5200agp.asp , right? Are you sure the heatsink is made of copper? An FX5200 does not nee...

My viewsonic 17ps used to buzz at 1024x768x100hz(but not at 85hz, or at any other resolution). I just checked that setting and it doesn't seem to buzz anymore for some reason.

According to the reviews, these http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-186-120&depa=0 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-186-116&depa=0 Are supposed to be $30, not $55? $30US is around what they are up here: http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=...

I think above the card is as good a place as any for the heatsink, the heat from it rises and then gets pulled out by the case and/or power supply fans. I have seen bent heatpipes, ones from a zalman hard drive cooler I think, since that was the cheapest source of heatpipes. So maybe if you have som...

Spinpoints are not supposed to generate a lot of heat on their own, but I think it's possible that they may not be able to endure much heat, baracudas run hotter but have higher warranties and MTBF ratings. This has been a worry of mine, I just got a 120 gig spinpoint, and it's above an 80G baracuda...

Keep in mind, not everyone wants to run at stock speeds. I see this posted all the time that 'the GPU temperature doesn't matter', but when it comes to performance (which usually does not mix well with silence), it DOES matter. Even so, some stock cards, unmodified the day they came out with the bo...

:shock: I heard first big zalman heatpipe heatsink, the ZM80 (pre-A) I think, needed to be toned down because it was too heavy. A 750 gram heatsink on a video card sounds dangerous, and even 440g seems like a little much, especially if thermal adhesive has a lower limit. Wouldn't a flower be suffici...

Those cube server cases make me wonder, how about taking two ordinairy cases and joining them side by side into one big case? Seems like the cheapest way to do this, and finding a pair of cases for this shouldn't be as hard as finding that one big case, though this must have a slew of it's own probl...

Aren't video cards limited to 3.3v and 5v power unless they're using supplementary connectors? AFAIK, one of those zalman "quiet mode adaptors" would take out a lot of power from a 5v line(due to higher amperage being neccesary to compensate or something like that), though my 92mm zalman fan still s...

I don't think it will be loud, but it'll probably be weak. It's only got a thin 60mm fan, the fins don't look very good, it only has one heatpipe while even the thermalfake versions have two, and the fan design looks horrible, look at how much of it is blocked by the metal thing holding it in place....

If the CPU heatsink's that close, I'd be a worried about that fan on the back blowing hot air from the CPU at it. It shouldn't be more than 1cm tall though. It's one of these: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/vga/vga/pro_vga_detail.php?UID=477 , right? There should be a VGA silencer that'll fi...

And here's the epoxy test in case someone wants to try something similar:

Here it is:

You might not even need the ramsinks, their usefullness is questioned. Normally I'd be more worried that with 16 ram chips, the heatsinks on some of them will interfere with the cooler, but since your ram already had heatsinks maybe it needs them, but 5900U's don't normally use the hot running GDDR2...

A common spec for fans is 10%. However, depending on the make that can be a "catch-all". I always assumed that was mostly to take into account power that's somewhat of. Mine's a little high, around 12.35V. o EBM-Papst generally 1-2% o Panaflo generally vary 1-1.4% For example, qty-100 1900rpm Panaf...

Tested it a bit more, goes up to 350(and the heatsink does not get very warm at this speed), not sure how much heat that is but I guess it's at least equivalent to an mx460 plus the difference between an mx440 and an mx460. I find it a little hard to believe that this heatsink can only cool this muc...

Done. No more high pitched noise. It was pretty easy, I didn't even need to heat or pry off the stock heatsink, although I'm not sure if I got the alumina proportions just right, it's rather annoying how the ceramique tube isn't see through with a ml label on the side like the alumina adhesive, but ...

I heard of some pluggins for motherboard monitor that do this, but most were designed for nvidia cards. I'm under the impression that usually if your card can monitor temps, it'll come with software than can do so. If not, maybe you could attach a temperature sensor to it, my motherboard for example...

I wonder if it's at all possible to transplant a GPU from one card to another, like from a 9600np, or even a 9600se or 9550 onto that one; sure is a pity to let the 600mhz ram, the TV tuner and the rest of that card go to waste.

"Order more" has a potential double meaning here. I assume you mean another tube, but at first I thought you meant one of the nice big 8ml tubes isntead of the regular 1ml ones. Kind of hard to find, but they seem like a great deal.

So were both your 9600's shorted out?

Thanks for the warning, I think I'll stay away from 9600xt's. And screws. And maybe the big zalman heatpipe coolers, 325-400 grams is a little scary. I just got a cnps3000 for my video card, and subjectively it feels heavy, though I know that at 150g it's one of the lightest CPU heatsinks available(...

To me that's a reason to cut out stamped grills and to have the CPU fan blow air away from it, although the cooling improvements of that are more than enough of a reason alone.

I find the 12v to 5.5v resistor that comes with some zalman products rather pointless compared to pluging the fan into the 5 volt line, plus it broke. Could I cut of 2/3 of it and reatach it together to make it into a 10 volt adapter? Edit: how stupid of me, it's not a "12v to 5.5v resistor". I just...

I have two 8cm vatnec stealths from before I heard of this site, and I've been wondering why for one the RPM readings are 2100 for one and 2300 for the other. Does this look like normal individual item randomness, an error in readings, or poor consistency due to low quality manufacturing? I doubt it...

As I remember it, seagate extended waranties an all their products to 5 years, would that also apply to any baracuda IV's that are still available? If I get one, I'm a little worried about the temperature this drive will reach if I place it (a few slots)over my current baracuda IV, so I though of pu...

I can't hear my old viewsonic 17ps, that's might be due to the noise of my PC, I'll listen to it with the PC off to confirm. Edit: I can't hear it over an old laptop either. Putting my ear right up against it, I can hear a slight low pitched buzzing sound. It's an invar shadowmask type screen. I've ...

I'd also like to put heatsinks on my harddrives. I though the best place to put them would be on the parts of the sides sticking out of the drive cage. I don't think I have enough airholes around the harddrives, I moved the beeper/speeker out of it's slot to use it's holes for airflow(at which point...

I had to resort to the avoid-solution, I have an LG 4320B, it's not very loud with DVD's, but with CD's it sounds very much like a dremel(and with only a 40x read rate). I tried alcohol 120% when I ran into a game that kept accesing the CDs, when the trial period runs out I'll probably switch to som...

Impresive. I though I would be first to attach a zalman flower to a video card, but you already effectively did that. For a two slot solution, I was thinking of doing the opposite of that, getting a CNPS3100 (280g copper version) and cutting down down the fins, to reduce the height from three slots....

I believe that the memory was clocked too high... but how did the overclocking rrom diminished from changing the core hsf??? Too late now anyway. Memory generally doesn't get very hot, ramsinks are nonstandard and disputed. 1. When you change hsfs, put everything back to stock speeds. Why not below...