IF when you get your 2.5" you find you still need an enclosure, you can make one using a Sony PSP case and some modelling clay. Jaganath, thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not really a DIY'er of any great expertise and so I'd be unlikely to go to such lengths. Is the PSP case really that small tho...

Wow, this thread feels like getting my regular dose of this page: http://www.penny-arcade.com/ Where the various musings of one of the co-authors, although amusing, sometimes becomes nearly incomprehensible... Reading this page helps me alleviate any worry that I tend to make my sentences "overwroug...

I use one of those oil-filled electric heaters that looks like an old-fashioned radiator type heater. It's dead quiet, heats nicely and is cheap to run. Something like this , but mine is about half that height. I was going to suggest the same thing. You can get smaller ones about the size of a cere...

But does'nt flash memory deteriorate with continued over-writes? It does, but the smart flash cards compensate by writing data to different physical locations each time data is written. Since access is virtually instant anywhere it comes from, fragmentation is almost irrelevant since there's no mov...

Heheh, I first read the thread title as saying "200W", but then I did a double take and noticed that extra zero!

Hexagonal pattern is the most efficient. If you're thinking of the stamped hexagonal pattern you find on the rear of PSUs, I don't think he would be able to reproduce that very easily? :?: The "most efficient" pattern is the least restrictive one, that is the pattern that lets in the most air. Basi...

It also depends on how good your speakers are. You'd need something pretty decent sounding in the first place to be able to notice much difference. I have a set of fairly nice Monsoon speakers and going from ALC650 to a (used) Audigy 1 didn't exactly knock my socks off. Oddly I seem to remember them...

Heavy snowfall my arse! :lol: Ok so it's the warmest novembet in years here now, and there is no snow here in southern Finland. We had snow for a couple of weeks a few weeks back though.. Now it just rains, and the sun is up for a few hours and the rest of the time its pitchblack. And wet, windy an...

:lol: I found that review hilarious to read. You don't get that kind of sarcastic tone in product reviews everyday you know! If nothing else it was a very good example to show the difference between flashy bargain basement parts and simple quality manufacturing. Like the author I've also seen smalle...

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I agree with Devonavar, I think with these components alone you may find that the power supply noise is the least of your worries. Best of luck with your build.

:shock: Well, not that this system is any more demanding than Bar81's monster ;) but here's what I've been running for a while, just to add a new/different power supply to the ones already mentioned: Fortron FSP FSP300-60THN A64 2800+ Newcastle (130nm) @ stock 1.8Ghz with CnQ only Asus K8V-MX 2x 512...

Maybe some quieting/damping technologies are there, but not mentioned or glossed over? I recently bought an Aopen DUW1616L Pro DVD writer mostly because it came with a white face plate, but also because of some of the noise reducing technologies that their drives seem to have. I read in a manual or ...

Having done things both ways I can offer my opinion that using the tin snips or a nibbler is a better way to go overall. I have found the Dremel method to be dusty, messy, surprisingly finicky, and more time consuming than you would think. Sure you can grind down the edges flush, but I'm willing to ...

Very impressive and shockingly hardcore. I mean everything, such as the amount of work and effort put into making this, as well as turning your kitchen into a workshop like that!

Amazing.

You have some of the key ingredients for silence in place, so it should be okay. The only things I am not up to speed on are the case and motherboard. Motherboard is easy: Passive cooling is preferred. Cases on the other hand can be trickier because of a multitude of design and airflow consideration...

NCIX is carrying them up here.... but I doubt that helps you since I assume you're looking for a local store.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but do you have the RAM modules plugged into the right slots? I thought generally the colours were supposed to be the same for dual channel mode.

Other than that, looks good.

Other than Plextor, I have both Aopen and Asus drives here that seem to work well for the price. My neighbour has the Samsung and likes it. Which Aopen drive do you have? I may need one with a white faceplate soon so I was looking at the retail 1616L model (which includes 3 different colours). Comm...

Hmm... I was going to ask if MikeC knew of where to find one of these adapters locally, but I don't know if this is always a bad idea, or just a bad idea if you expect too much out of it. I (hopefully) will have a project coming up soon with a single 80mm exhaust and I always figured that you could ...

Heh. I went through the Storage article section a little bit better and discovered that the SATA version of a very similar Fujitsu drive with two platters had already been reviewed by SPCR with somewhat disappointing results. No wonder it's not on the Recommended page. I also didn't notice the 120GB...

I'm looking at a couple 100GB laptop hard drives and they're both the same price. It's either going to be the Fujitsu MHV2100AH or the Western Digital Scorpio WD1000VE. They're both spec'd the same at 5400RPM and 8MB, so I was just wondering if anyone could offer any comments or comparisons between ...

Nice little project. :) For people up here, it's good to know that NCIX also sells the PC Chips version of that board for ~$77 if you search for it. For a while I had wanted to try to make a small ITX computer of some sort (inspred by MikeC's breadbox PC)... but it always seemed too slow for the pri...

I believe Felger Carbon likes his 120x38mm SilenX fan, but I have looked into this a little bit and I believe he may be the only (admitted ;) ) user of that particular fan currently. If nothing else they at least run at slower stock speeds than the Panaflo, so that would give you a better place to s...

dunno if u guys have said this (didnt read all) but the OCZ ram isnt compatible with the motherboard, only corsair is for some reason, just get corsair ram and u should be good Just how important is this? :? Unless this particular motherboard (which I don't know much about) has issues and/or is ext...

No matter what you said that may or may not have precipitated such a response, I always find it distressing that people like that with that kind of attitude own businesses and have employees working for them. Scary.

Run a search on the Silentmaxx enclosure. It seems to be the same product and one or two users have used it before. It seems to be good for drive cooling, but relatively poor for reducing noise/vibrations. This would make sense since there doesn't seem to be any soft foam or padding between the driv...

So how does this filter affect my computer? Ambient today of 28.5C. Computer idling at 1229rpms @35C. When I place the filter assy on the fan, after a few minutes the RPM rises slightly to 1300 @36C. Hi Bluefront, thanks for doing these tests - they are quite informative. One thing I noticed though...

BrianE, it would take a shockingly bad ground in your house wiring to make the ground fail. After all, if the third wire simply touches the frame in the wall of your house it is a better ground than the current going from the PSU to you to the house frame. But don't play with plumbing and electroni...

If you mean the other revisions other than the door, it seems like they are now applying them to all versions of the P180 (the "B" denotes Black colour, not a "version B"). On the P180 review Postscript it says they have revised the original P180 at the top of the article, and at the bottom you can ...

I agree your uncle was probably just being extra cautious (understandably so given the... ahem... "potential" consequences). I suppose if there were a fault with the PSU's earthing (grounding), even the outer casing might in some circumstances give you a nasty jolt. That reminds me... it's probably...