The document obviously was written for a rather tech-savvy audience. I´m not one of them. I´d like a simpler explanation of the "do this then do that" kind, without all them numbers and secret symbols at critical points. Don´t even know if my leds are "high power" or not. I know which colour they ar...

Is SPCR more interested in a totally silent, uber-nifty, mad-scientist setup or a very quiet looks-absolutely-normal-and-can-be-moved watercooled system? I have built myself a system in a G-Tower midi case. HDD home made watercooler for WD Raptor, wrapped up completely 2 x radiator with Papst 4412 @...

There´s lots of talk about how much power is in fact needed to run a computer. But all the tests I´ve read state very different readings on the different rails. Most claim that new motherboards, at least the P4 ones, draw most of the power from the 12V line. Still others claim a high demand for 5V o...

I shall definitely write an unprofessional review of some sort when I have tried it out. The black-box version, which I didn´t even know existed because nothing is said about it at Innovatek.de and it´s sold at very few places, can be mounted just about anywhere since it needs not be seen or touched...

Well, somebody´s got to try it out. I just ordered a "black box" version of it from frozen-silicon.de for 139 euro. Not exactly cheap, but it has some nice features: 0-12V analog on 4 channels 6 flat temp sensors to control the speed of the fans Gives 12V for startup User can set minimum speed/volta...

But that document sucks. Not very helpful at all.

Thanks!

(But the drag thing doesn´t work. Tried that. Have no printer either.) But of course the right way was to open in a new window BEFORE clicking on the link...

At http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/searchDirect/?searchString=3112&searchType=allwords&searchby=keywords&r=0.8905908 over at Silicon Image, the producer of the 3112 SATA chip, I found some sort of instructions for this. But I´m too dumb even to open the Acrobat reader which starts but just stays in th...

Now this has got to be the ugliest computer I´ve seen since the infamous vat-of-mineral-oil monster. Kudos to you Crisspy! (and Jim)

Looks like a winner. Anybody tried it? Anybody even knows of a test report in english? Even a description of it in english??

Please, has anybody found a vendor for Seasonic SS-400 in Sweden or even northern EU?

I run two 4412 at 5V. One horizontally, one vertically. Also tried with Innovatek fan controller. Not a click. Always starts. Even if placed standing on the desk there´s hardly any vibrations.
Seems there are some serious individual variations, quality-wise.

The seek noise is somewhat sharp but tolerable if decoupled. Idle whine not that loud but with a very high pitch. It´s definitely less loud than WDs other ATA drives but by no means quiet enough by SPCR standards. Temps get a bit higher than with 7200 drives so be careful how you shield it. I have m...

I use a Raptor. It isn´t that loud really, but has a sort of very high pitched whine. Seek noise is somewhat sharp. I´d say it isn´t, by far, as loud as WDs regular ATA HDs, but if you´re concerned about noise you´ll need to shield it some way. But keep in mind it runs a bit hotter than a 7200 drive...

People with poor leisure time quality sometimes spend too much time pondering problems normal people never even are aware of. Alas, I was inspired by an odd CPU cooling solution and came up with this. I modded five aluminum profiles to fit my watercooling tubes. The water is routed along the bottom,...

Anybody knows where I can buy a Sunbeam rheostat in Europe, preferably Sweden?

I use a setup with Eheim 1048 and Innovatek blocks, one Black Ice Extreme and one Innovatek radiator with undervolted, thermally controlled Papst 4412 fans, and Eheim 12/16 aquarium tubes. Eheim pumps are silent (and the very small sound they make is very pleasant and not annoying) but vibrates a lo...

One way to dispense a drive while still conducting heat out of the enclosure is to use copper springs i guess? Mount the drive with copper along sides, attach springs to copper, seal up in whatever soundproofs and hang it by the springs now sticking out of the thing. Could be that even copper is not...

Got rid of the Barracuda SATA, replacing with PATA version. No acoustic management for newer Seagates, yuck. System HD now a Raptor, enclosed in excesses of dampening materials and watercooled. (Very fast HD for money btw.) Whole case dampened with industrial (cheap & very good) acoustic panels, sid...

Ooops it seems it should be spelled Innovatek, sorry about that. Their english site is to be found here: http://www.innovatek.de/e-sites/index2.html A nice (swedish, but mostly in english) place were one can check up and compare most of these kind of nifty-feature-gadgets is: http://kylning.com/info...

About the DD5: Of course if the corresponding fan is all off, the DD5 turns it on. But in my box it isn´t there only to turn on any extra fans, but to turn the fan speed up if needed. This way I can push the undervolting limits with no worries. Further, the system can´t get caught in the on-off beha...

A hastily written, biased, unprofessional review of the g-Tower from AMS electronics with water cooling: My g-Tower comes modified with top blow-hole from http://www.cooltechnica.com/, where I bought the case. The modifications by cooltechnica are well made. I use it for my Innovatec and DIY water-c...

OK, seems like fun. I trust you enough to just transfer the money via my bank. Whats the end total nowadays? I want no fancy pressure reading thingies or such. You can write me the details, such as your bank account, when you expect the thing to be ready and how you want to ship it. I live in sweden...

This fan controller of yours seems to be just what I´ve been looking for. I never could find something to control the speed of fans depending on the temperature. Went the long way and parallell connected a DigitalDoc5 (stupid on-off thing but with 8 thermal probes) with an Innovatec manual fan contr...

That homepage made me happy! Just to my taste to use tape and an old plastic bottle. I made my own duct out of a hard sheet of paper and ugly cheap no-good tape - yours a real looker compared to that. Gotta get back in there...

RISC processors are faster than their SISC counterparts when at the same clockspeed. So Apple computer CPUs (Motorola) use less power than AMD/Intel CPUs when under the same workload. Same goes for IBM.

I have already fitted soft foam in between everything that moves and the rest of the chassis, water pump and cd-player included. Thanks anyway, I am in dire need of any tips I can get! Too bad about the turbulence - I just found a way to fit the bigger fan inside the psu. It isn´t running most of th...

Resently bought a Thermaltake Purepower 420W powersupply. It comes with all the goodies like active pfs and thermally controlled fans. Manufacturer claims it is quieter than the corresponding Enermaxes (at the time recommended here at SPCR i think), at least so said the guy in the store (which carri...

I have searched the net for Common Wealth fp108ms3 and it does not seem to exist at all. Does anyone have a suggestion where to buy the fan? I live in Sweden, btw.

/ Bjorn