Your Zalman is dusty! :lol: :P Mind showing one pic from the cable area? Sure, but I have to show you a few pictures for it to make sense... IMO it looks like a mess until you see it from a few angles. Side view. All I really did was tuck the PS wires up and velcro bundles of them together. I also ...

i have never seen a motherboard that was not extended atx that has 6 ram slots. what is the max you can put in there. It's capable of running in dual-channel mode with four slots of double-sided DDR. If you want to fill all six slots then only two banks can be double-sided, and the other four have ...

Weren't Silent Drives bad for HDs at 7200 rpm and above? Or was it Smart Drives? You're right, I have Smart Drive enclosures . I fixed my post to have the correct info. I tested one WD with S.M.A.R.T. hooked up to the regular IDE port when I first got the enclosures, and the temps are 2-3c above wh...

Time to show off the rig. I've put a lot of work into making this a quiet machine... and SPCR's articles and recommendations have been essential. First, the specs: Coolermaster 110 (drool) P4 2.4c w/ Zalman 7000Cu heatsink Gigabyte 8knxp w/ Zalman passive northbridge heatsink 1gb PC 3200 ATI Sapphir...

Just to be difficult, I'm going to suggest that my 7 year old Aopen beige box is a better example of case design than the new G5. Really. Oh please. :roll: The G5 is the ultimate example of what can be done when an engineering team can throw out the ATX spec and design for the new hot machines. All...

I'm running dual Raptors in SmartDrives and they're barely audible. The system has several things that are fairly quiet but contribute to a quiet but not silent system - Zalman 7000cu, four Papst case fans (the two in front are audible), Zalman 400w psu, 2 x 120gb 7200.7 Seagates (right behind the t...

OK, a better answer: I just dropped two WD Raptor SATA drives into SmartDrive silencers, and they fit perfectly. The connector is just short enough to fit inside the enclosure if you press the HD slightly in as you put the cover on. I can barely hear them. It rocks. When I formatted the drives for m...

Dremels are your friend.

Another data point... I've been using my WD 100 SE's in Smart Drives for two years straight, leaving the 'puter on 24/7, not a single problem. The Smart Drives are slightly warm to the touch, so I know the heat's being transferred. The 'do not cover' hole is to allow the drive to adjust for slight a...

It's a PS specially-made for server-class boards that draw a lot more power. The power cable to the mobo has 24 pins instead of 20, as well as another 8-pin hookup.

The IWill I'm looking at can take both kinds, but I'm more comfortable going for the beefier PS.

I'm looking into a dualie setup, and it'll be a pretty decked-out rig, so I'm considering getting an EPS supply. Anyone have experience with these? Are they OMG LOUD and there's nothing I can do? Or are they in the same ballpark as some of the quieter supplies on the consumer side of the fence? FWIW...

Personally, I love 'em. I've put the ZM80a-hp on two cards now (a Radeon 9100 and a 9700) and have beat the hell out of both of them with 3-d games and haven't ever seen a glitch. Installing it isn't difficult IMHO, it just requires patience and attention to detail. It has a lot of parts, but 90% of...

Hey, put some more crud in my box, and my 300w Zalman is still chuggin' away perfectly - additions are bold: XP1800+ 1.5gb DDR 2100 Radeon 9700 Pro (w/ Zalman ZM-80hp passive HS) CD-ROM CD-R/W 320Gb of storage - 2 x Western Digital 100Gb SE (RAID 1, in SmartDrive enclosures) - 1 x Western Digital 80...

They're both, at their core, Fotron power supplies with different fans. They may have different heatsinks as well, but I'm not sure about that, so don't take that as fact.

So, yes, they're very much alike.

This is a bit 'further back' but this struck me. mb temp is 30, cpu is 51!!! Honestly, that's not that bad. I get the same temp on a Palomino XP1800+ - the original, super-hot one that consumes the same amount of power as a Barton 2500+ - and the machine never crashes. The reason I don't mind a 51c ...

"Oh yeah, absolutely no threats implied, but I recognize a lot of names here on Arstechnica (yo GamingGod wassuuuuu)" Huh? Im not on any other forums under this name, im on the ocaddiction forum sometimes but thats under another name. Sorry, man. Your posting style reminds me of the guy with the sa...

Shameful, simply shameful. :roll: You have a good product guys, why did you have to go and act with such dishonesty? I don't care about your rationalizations... there are a dozen ways you could have gotten better press instead of masquerading as a legitimate forum member, trashing every other power ...

MY EYES, THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!!!! Ok, kidding. But hey, you learned, right? :D I'd say you could get those cables a LOT cleaner with just a bit of tucking here, looping there, some zip ties, etc... no much money, but some creative use of space and rearrangement will work wonders. I'd get some pain...

I emailed SI about that. They replied that they won't be carrying it anymore - they have another brand that's better that will replace it soon.

You know, digitalix, with how much you've been pimping silenx, and the fact that I'd never heard of them before, I was pretty convinced you were a 'guerilla marketer' for ExoticPC. In fact, I'm still somewhat convinced you are. :twisted: (Joke, man, joke.) BUT, considering how well they've been rece...

WD's are EVIL. They have a high-pitched whine that drives me to drink. I have two of 'em. I bought SmartDrives for them (dual 100Gb SE in a RAID 1) and it's made a huge difference, and the drives are no hotter than before. The SPCR review was right, the enclosures conduct away heat. SmartDrives are ...

I have the 110, which is the 201 with a door.

Both front fans in my box are elastomer mounted. It's tricky - takes some dexterity and a set of needle-nose pliers with a 'hook' shape - but it's do-able.

The drive 'cage' is not removable, it's part of the structure of the box.

HTH.

Be careful. Monitors are designed to run at a certain temp. Yes, they *need* to run hot. If you cool it down too much you may damage it.

If you swap the fan replace it with the same CFM.

On my 300w Zalman PS: XP1800+ 768Mb DDR 2100 Radeon 9000 Pro (w/ Zalman passive HS) CD-ROM CD-R/W 320Gb of storage - 2 x Western Digital 100Gb SE (RAID 1, in SmartDrive enclosures) - 1 x Western Digital 80Gb (in IDE pullout cartridge, not always in) - 1 x Barracuda IV 40Gb 2 PCI cards (USB2/Firewire...

The Zalman heat pipe isn't that fragile. I've taken my computer several places with it and it's fine... just don't *ship* the box or drop-kick it and you'll be fine.

My Radeon 9000 is fine with it. Temps are lower than stock HSF.

auxyone, you and I have almost the *exact* same setup.

Weird. Very, very weird.

I have a Coolermaster 110, and I used those exact same fan mounts on the front fans. I got a pair of angled needle-nose pliers from Radio Shack and was able to pop them in in about ten minutes. The angle allowed me to reach around the edge of the fan from the inside to get a grip on the isolators. A...

Huh, I guess my reply got eaten. Here goes again... your fan swap will do nothing to change the speed-up-and-stay-there behavior I was either going to use a fan with it's own thermal control (i.e. a Verax or those Papst w/thermal control on Silicon Acoustics) or just use a fixed-speed fan. My dilemm...

I bought this PS a while ago, and have found the 'accelerate quickly to a high speed and stay there' behavior annoying. I want to swap fans. Which fans would anyone recommend? Would a PapstNGL be enough, or should I put in another thermally-controlled fan instead? Any specific makes/models? Also, I ...

Actually, I plan on using Dynamat. The 'cork' was in relation to the original idea. The fiberglass idea is good. I'm thinking of using it as the 'filler' around the edges of the sandwich. I"ll have to do a bit of research to figure out the best way to construct it... I don't want dust and other crud...