They come in different sizes and models. I am sure you can find something you will really like and small enough to fit. With the digital panels, you will have no choice and they may be also too big to fit 3 into a single panel. If they are small enough, they will be hard to read. With analogue, the ...

I noticed that the RAID card I have (Promise) does not spin up the hard disks all at the same time. It seems a purposeful design feature and it is very helpful to avoid the overload at the spin-up. Hopefully, all RAID cards behave like that. Also, the cards (if you have more than one) are initialise...

Your temp goes from low 50 idle to mid 50 under full load? Well, congratulations! I do not think you need any more cooling than that. If you are satisfied with the sound of the system, leave it alone, it's perfect.

Actually, if I was doing this, I would use the analog voltmeters like the ones they use in audio equipment from some time ago. Amplifiers, lever meters and so on. I think those are easily available and they look much cooler than the digital screens. Plus, they are much easier to read at a distance.

Right, the system is as follows: Antec 3700AMB, fan mounting brackets and guards removed Zalman ZM-400B-APS Papst 4412FL 12cm fan exhaust Abit NF7-S, NB is cooled with Zalman ZM-NB47J AMD Athlon XP-M 2600+ Zalman CNPS-6000Cu Corsair PC3200 1GB Geforce MX440 3COM 3c9xx (?) HP CD-RW Promise TX2 Ultra ...

The catalogue of Papst fans can be downloaded from http://62.159.30.76/en/pdf/Luefter_DC%202003%20GB.pdf

You are looking most likely for DC Axial fans:
- 80mm : Series 8400N, e.g. 8412NGL and 8412 NGML
- 90mm : Series 3400N, e.g. 3412NGL
- 120mm : Series 4400F, e.g. 4412FGL

I think I found a "sweet spot" of my CPU :) Apparently, both the frequency and the FSB stress the CPU (surprise, surprise :roll: ). Well, I was pushing hard to get it run at 200 FSB all the time and that was not a good idea. The result of this was: - CPU heats considerably more - the northbridge hea...

You said you were able to run it at 1.1v, 200*5 to top at 51C. Curious what if another say 20% or so drop in speed at the same voltagee would actually drop that much further. It is really difficult to say. Dropping the frequency seems to help always. The CPU is very sensitive to the ambient tempera...

Well, guys, I hate to disappoint you... The board is Abit NF7-S but I run Linux. Anyone knows of a tool to drop the voltage under Linux?

It would go very gradually all right. In small steps, within a space of a few microseconds

Voltage does play a major role, but by my calculations, the power consumption should still be 33% higher at 1ghz/1.1v than 500mhz/1.35v. Well, that's the interesting part. The voltage seems to have much more influence on the power than I thought. That's why I am so keen on dropping the voltage as l...

Who would think that a CPU was so much like a car? This makes me wonder when they will introduce the injection CPUs :) Right, the idea is to run it 24 hours a day anyway, so it is not a big problem. Thanks for confirming it. The CPU will start reliably at 1.35 V but will fail at 1.3 V when cold. Whe...

Is there a known board that will work by default with the mobile barton (at the correct speed)? One board I now know of is the Soltek KT600 board. That one detects the Mobile XP CPU and runs it at correct settings. For 2600+ it is FSB 133 and multiplier 15. The problem is, this board will NOT let y...

I have the Athlon Mobile Barton XP2600+ (what a mouthful!) in a Abit NF7-S board (BTW, a great board!). The purpose of this setup is to run passively cooled. To acieve this end, I run the CPU at 200x5=1GHz @ 1.1V Vcore. This works fine and system is completely stable and reasonably cool (well, not t...

Welcome to SPCR!!! Also, compared to my current WD, aren't EITHER of these drives going to be a vast improvement? Yes, that would most definitely be the case. Either HDD will be a vast improvement over the WD. So, don't worry about it too much. I personally use Seagate, have Barracuda IV, Barracuda...

The idle temperature is nothing to worry about. What you should do is to check what will be the maximum temperature under stress testing. While monitoring the temperature, run CPUburn or Prime95 for an hour or so. You will see what the max temperature will be. That's the important one.

Right. THis will cool very well, no doubt. And it will be loud as hell too!

I would really like a panel like that, without any HDD cooling or whatever. Just a matching panel with a couple of thermometers. Like Lian-Li does. That would be really, really nice.

I finally decided to get the Radeon 9600 after all. The Matrox cards are an unknown for me while I had very good experiences earlier with the 9200 cards. So you will not get any review of Matrox from me :) EDIT By the way, I just noticed that the local shop put up a warning sign next to the Twinmos ...

APC's website says the BackUPS does line conditioning also. See here , where it is called power conditioning. Both the SmartUPS and the BackUPS claim power conditioning. There is another feature called "Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR)" that the higher end BackUPS models have and all the SmartUPS...

Ok, got it sorted out. I am ashamed to admit but I never actually looked at the PSU. And tinkering with the computer yesterday I suddenly realised that I am looking at the PSU label that reads ZM-300B ! To say that I was surprised would be a major understatement. I could not believe my eyes. So I go...

The Zalman 400B only has one "internal" grill that faces your CD drive. Here's the links and pics: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article153-page2.html and http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/view.asp?idx=76&code=015 That's exactly what I mean. My unit is different. And it seems to be a genuine Zal...

For video editing, you need a video card with good 2D video quality. AFAIK, the video software never uses any 3D acceleration features of the contemporary cards. The http://www.vcdhelp.com people suggest that any card is sufficient, even, as was mentioned, the MX440. However, the MX400 does not have...

This is a revision of the previous ZM400A-APS. The only thing known in advance about it is that it has SATA power connectors now. However, there are other changes as well. I did not compare them side-by-side but one difference is quite obvious and I did not like it. The "old" unit has only one intak...

I just got a 3700AMB myself - decided to try it out after all the praise I heard here. The case definitely lives up to the expectations. It is a very solid design and provides a strong dampening effect to any noise. The grills are improved, apparently, and they do not look as restrictive as in the r...

I have both BackUPS and SmartUPS from APC. SmartUPS at the office and BackUPS at home. The reasons are obvious: I do not want my machines to crash due to the power outages. The difference between those models is in the mode of operation. BackUPS feeds the AC power directly to your computer. If the p...

Yes, ok, I used the wire in the "blue" position. So, fine, I seem to have forced the higher multipliers. But I still cannot change them! I mean, I should be able to choose the multi of 13 or 14, right? But it is stuck at 15 and the change of multiplier is disabled completely, just like if it was a r...

Ok, I flashed the BIOS to the latest version from the Soltek website - no change. I made use of the wire trick mod to unlock the multiplier setting - did not change my multiplier handling in any way but made the mobo stick to the default voltage :shock: No idea how this happened, I checked and re-ch...

So, your XP-M 2500+ should normally run at 166x11? Aren't they supposed to run at 14 x 133? That's what you get, I think, when you put it into the MSI board. It probably detects the highest multiplier that the chip can do and locks it there. Mine is XP-M 2600+, so it is normally run at 15x133. That'...

NetTechie wrote:Update bios maybe? Search google for people with similar problems on that board. Also, what are the steppings on your mobile chip?

Do you mean to say that there are versions of Mobile XP that are multiplier locked ?

Hi, all! Just so maybe someone has a better idea than to go out and buy a new motherboard... Ok, I got a XP-M 2600 and I just came back home with the new mobo: Soltek SL-KT600-RL. It is sure a nice motherboard, lets me run my CPU at 1.1 Vcore. It runs quite stable now at 100x15=1500 @ 1.1V. Nice. Bu...