Vihta wrote:I could get a PIII 800MHz XEON system for about 80€. Should I get it for folding?

just curious, what's so interesting of folding that you'd get another computer just for that.

I have that PSU in a big tower, and the lenth is that long I have a fan on my desktop cooling the external HDD.

only buy Samsung-spinpoints from now on because of their noise charactaristics and use them as swappable storage for a fast growing collection of digital photos. Problem is, the only Nidec-equipped drives I can find locally are the SATA version. I think PATA drives will become ever harder to come b...

well, maybe it's not very professional the ringtone idea.

anyway, thanks for answering

Cellphones would work..... ...if we all had the same brand, with the same ringtone, set to the same volume. yeah, yeah. That's why I said default ringtone at default volume. :P well, my point of view is, that I can compare very easily the volume of my cellphone against the computer, and it is that ...

I'd like to know why my idea of the cellphone ring is not considered by anyone. Is it soooo bad that does not even need an explanation?

I am working on several other reference sounds -- certainly more reference fans, including at least one noisy one. The thing I am looking for is a truly universal reference that is accessible almost everywhere, a sound that everyone is familar with and has in their house or office, but it's hard to...

I have the same exact situation with my Seagate SATA 200GB, Fitness is at 43%, temps drops to zero frequently.

Only using SpeedFan 4.14.

I made a snapshot: http://waqs.mine.nu/seagate-drops.png

so black cases provide unpowered USB :lol: I didn't say black cases have unpowered USB ports. I just said that they were pointing out on an upside-down mounted BQE that the ports are unpowered. I cannot confirm this, though, since those same ports managed to power up my USB hard drive. I never real...

thanks for the info

so black cases provide unpowered USB

ok, the real question, how do we know what usb ports are powered?

Searching I couldn't find any comment on this heatsink Revoltec Avalanche II. What do you think?

NOTE: ONLY vote if you *HAVE* had a harddisk die on you, *DON'T* vote for 40* - 1 year if you have a disk that is one year old and 40* and still works! This poll is only for those that have broken drives! ok, I voted "40* - 1 year" and have a working hdd, sorry, my screen resolution didn't let me r...

lenny wrote:Don't be too harsh - at least we get lots of pretty pictures that will help narrow our search for the perfect case.

yep, pictures in this page will really help me decide

acaurora wrote:DON"T GET THE 160 GB 7200.7s. They are noisy! Go for the 200 GB.

I have 3 7200.7 of 160GB and 3 of 120GB all of them IDE, and then another 7200.7 SATA 200GB, and I think this last one makes more noise. That's my subjective guess based on spontaneous "mmm... what's that noise?"

my two Seagates 120GB 2MB IDE have 40 and 43ºC. Some time ago I had them at 50, is it really a problem?

ok, thanks for your comments.

ah ok, I'll just wait then. Just wanted to know the exact position in the recommended list because that's the PSU I wanted to buy.


btw, nobody told me the typical blue welcome

I can't find Zalman ZM400B-APS on the recommended list of PSUs, only the Zalman ZM300A-APF is there. Is this for any reason?

note, that PSU was reviewed here:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article153-page1.html