you can use a partitioning program to change it, my personal favorite is Partition Magic 8, although Swissknife should be able to do it too.

ah..ok, i stand corrected in that part.

well, the rear fan, top fan, and CPU fan are running at full speed because i'm unable to control them, but the side fan is on Low. i'm sitting right next to it, and i honestly can't hear the thing..when i had a 60mm fan on the processor, it was a little screamer, and you could hear it in the kitchen...

if you were to make the top fan intake, and the rear fan where that radiator is, how would that change your temps? sounds somewhat silly to go against the rising heat, but it might chill better that way, but that would be because the top fan would bring in cool air, and that would spread around the ...

but those pics are significantly large, i'd rather post them like that than be told to after wasting time doing that the first time.

its not hard to click a link..i'm not going to argue it.

ok, maybe tomorrow if i have time i'll see if my other PSU can support this board....its a 420W that i'd intended to use with an AMD system, but as the AMD system will replace this, its worth a shot.

not the metal heatspreader, i looked at the actual silicon. you have the metal on top, but you have the silicon where the pins are. the heatspreader can be banged up to a point without causing a problem, but if the silicon is damaged, it affects the processor the most.

i'd rather not do that, as i've been mod and admin at other forums, it doesn't take much to see how much bandwidth posting an image really takes...its not hard to click links either. i posted the links like that on purpose.

heres a test that i created when a similar event happened to my P4 tower...turn it off, remove the heatsink, pop out the processor, and check the edges of the silicon. if any edges look like they're starting to seperate, you've got yourself a problem. if all the edges look fine and crisp [you just n...

ok, so i've got this nice Blue cold cathode kit in my case here, and every now and then i turn it on to look where a cable goes before i put a second hard drive in for whatever reason, but lately, i've had a problem with the cathode...whenever i turn it on, my computer completely freezes, and some h...

Alright, i pretty much gave in and went to silence this computer, it went a lot easier than i'd though...there are just a few flaws i can't overcome with some hardware. 1) the PSU is loud and vibrates a lot, but with even quiet music playing, its drowned out, and i almost always have music playing, ...

thats pretty sweet...the temps are a little warm, but for how its cooled, i guess theres much worse too eh? as for the getting shocked stuff, i was shocked by 10,000v just a little vibration i suppose...a power washer didn't ground the first time i tried to shut it off...[btw, i'm 15...and not dead ...

yea, that stuff is really good. its made differently, but it does have the results anyone could want.

You should do fine with 2gb in XP,stay away from Vista,it's Ram hungry. welllll..in terms of vista, run vista on an older machine with only 384mb of ram, and you'll see something strange. the system may perform much worse than a newer system, but you'll see that it isn't using all the ram. vista sp...

rubbing alcohol with a cotton swap...its very effective, but do use sparingly.

ooh, i like that slot idea with the fan on the graphics card, thats pretty handy. the kama bay idea is good, i did that [but it only spanned two drive bays, but in this P4 system it didn't even scratch what the temps are. where the ram is, it just cooks. the duct on the heatsink to the rear fan, whe...

well, when i did it, i used my finger, but then the card fell off the desk onto my shirt...way to bump the desk..[my sister did] id suggest CAREFULLY sliding a razor over the surface for a smooth layer, and only on the elevated part..you want to avoid drip if possible..my old card had a little drip,...

well, standoffs screw onto the motherboard tray...its for grounding, and it also gives you room to put some cables under the board if you want to hide them... oh, thermal grease is fun, just don't get it on yourself...its pretty hard to get off clothing too, so thats a hint for you...my first experi...

being so close and also with the fans being set identically, i wouldn't expect much change. if they were high performance fans rather than low powered i might expect a difference, but even with that, two aren't better than one in this case, as its just moving the same amount of air with twice the po...

yea, i have a couple lying around...they have a wide base for support, but they aren't part of the motherboard tray, its just the company who made the computer being cheap and using plastic.

the CPUs are at 450Mhz standard, i have them over to 463, heating is under control i suppose. the lowest is 386Mhz, highest is 503. the CPUs are fixed rate, i can't change it anywhere but bios.

i can tell that some people are slightly unfamiliar with Pentium II Xeon processors in pair setups. http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g142/bonestonne/new%20computer/IMG_0818.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g142/bonestonne/new%20computer/IMG_0819.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g142/bones...

its strictly poking fun, and i realize it wasn't the first, but its not in a long line either. hence one of...i see it as mainly a toy/learning experience for me...with it being as old as it is, there are limits. yes, theres older, but those can't really be used to a far extent.

ok, so i've got a supermicro S2DGU, a 9 year old server running a pair of very hot processors. for a while i've been wanting to get better fans for it, and pull the number of fans down to 3. i have a general idea of what to use, but i want to know if people think slower would be just as good as fast...

reading that sooner could have changed things.

i'll say thats something new for me, but with my rigs being as old as they are, i'm not going to push it...it'll be harder to replace them than deal with their noise.

that clears that up.

its not that i'm against silencing it, but i'd like to know how you'd silence this coil whine. if i didn't have a processor fan in this, it would be silent, but i need one, its just a stock cooler.

realistically. yes, its annoying i realize that, and i understand silencing, but theres also a limit.

thanks for all the replies. i was looking at the zalman as a big possibility, but my issue is a lack of mounting holes [the reviews i read said it needed them] and also that there are capacitors right next to the CPU, so i need to keep away from them. Thermalright SI-97a. thats a possibility for me,...

its not that i don't respect having a silent PC, its that i realize the extent that a computer can be silenced. even if you could pin point coil whine, how do you propose preventing it? theres a limit...if i could silently cool my computer, i would, but with what i run, its just not possible. they d...

ok, so i'm in the process of building a computer that will be used for music editing, video editing [possibly] and playing the sims. i'll be doing the editing, my sister wants to play the sims. i've already decided on the processor and board and ram, and i need to assemble it all, but i need help wi...

if its coming from the case, its most likely coil whine...basically, it happens with age and current. don't bother with directional mics, the ones that would really get the job done will cost you the better part of $300, not to mention the cables to connect it to a computer or something to give you ...