I was concern about noise too. As such, my top pick at any day is the XFX 7950GT w/ silent pipes. No fan, no noise. And the price really drop. It was $400, now, less than $200 at newegg.

but as they said, warranty are NON transferable. See in all RMA I dealt w/ in the past 20 yr., the serial no. tells if the unit is under warranty, so it doesn't matter whether you have that receipt or not. Imagine it's one of those corp. purchase, the big co. bought a batch of say 200 video card, so...

Here's a simple question, what if it is a simple christmas gift from someone? What then? Call your friend and said, "Hey, I'm really sorry, but the christmas gift you gave me last year is defective, and in order to have warranty, I need the original receipt." You know what EVGA will then say? I bet ...

Thank you very much, I only got a c- in organic chemistry, so I'm glad someone knows this a lot more than I do.

I got the 3M fancy mask. And I also have my eyes on a spray booth with fan sucking the fume out directly to the windows. The concern is: 1) Even w/ the above setup, at the spray booth usage, assuming it is somewhat airtight, where you insert your hand inside the booth, there is still holes where the...

EVGA has a no. of US/Canada wide authorized distributors, (listed on their web site) which in turn, sell their EVGA video card to resellers, such as the one this Israel guy bought from. Clearly from the large batch that this dealer bought, that they are brand new sealed EVGA video card from his dist...

If you do airbrushing for hobby, can either one of the above paint type cause cancer if you breathe thru extended period of time, as in thru out the years?

http://www.evga.com/community/messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25610 this is hot. They have a series of card that's defective. So they cook up reasons for those who bought it at ebay, not to offer warranty. The guy who sell it is a powerseller, clearly a house office type dealer who bought in quantit...

I guess I wasn't clear on the subject. I have a few newsgroup reader. But this is the chicken and the egg. I need to find a certain subject, but I won't know which newsgroup it is hiding. So with binsearch.info, they find the subject for me. Except they are not very accurate. They missed a few subje...

it's not working.

On the tab where you enter

groups.google.com/group/alt.binaries.*

either I didn't get the syntax right, or none of the above group exists.

w/o entering the specific group, the end result has dozens of pages.

I have some problem w/ binsearch.info, some times it can find the listing, some other time, no. In fact, w/i the same session, 1 search show such and such item is on whatever newsgroup, and another search shows nothing. Can someone recommend some good newsgroup search engine? I prefer a search engin...

How about this one? (Shareware, I think) http://www.chithai.com/app/realmedia/realmedia.htm Or read this: http://www.jakeludington.com/dv_hacks/20060226_join_or_combine_rmvb_realmedia_files.html As of today, I finally manage to get my computer back up and fully functioning. There is a critical grap...

Need recommendation on simple graphics software without Layers I need to get a very simple graphics editing software that can do the following: -) simple cut & paste w/ the rectangle tool -) allow me to have a PASTE NEW button on top or some way to edit that button bar to include a PASTE NEW button ...

I have been thru hell on those video joiner. I first tried something called ALL video joiner, which didn't even support RM but I try it on WMV files. The Audio is off by easily 5 sec. Then I try something called Color 7 ...joiner. It creates a 22 WMV files to 200+ MB MPG, and just by joining 2 x 30 ...

Say I have a few RM files and wants to merge it, is there a way to do it?

I have seen some joined RM files under a signature saying "TMD joined," so I know it can be done. But how?

where are the spec. of the sharkoon and Silencio? FrozenCPU doesn't seem to carry ti.

I don't understand when you said identical spec.. I thought all 4 fans has different spec. From the far left to the far right, they all different: 120x120x38mm, 68.9 CFM @ 1700 RPM, 30 dBA, 2.16w, 180 mA, 12v DC, 3 pin Panaflo tail to standard 3-pin connector included. Our current stock of this mode...

I don't own a Nexus. But on that very first pic. at the corner (orange) there is 3 holes already, so why can't that work w/ the rubber mount? I assume the hole is hollow to the other side.

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/pa12ulqu.html If I have a fan that is also NMB MAT 120mmx38mm, but rated at 12V 0.4A, and I replace it w/ the above (link) at 0.24A. What would happens besides a reduction of CFM? Because the HP tower that c/w the above 0.4A NMB at 120mm x 38mm, I look at the spec....

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/pa12ulqu.html what about this guy? Panaflo 120x120x38mm, 68.9 CFM @ 1700 RPM, 30 dBA They have 4 of them, but the quiet one is the one above. Also don't enlarge the pic. and expect the photo to be accurate, they mix up the photos http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/...

Excellent article, I've been looking for something like that for months, thanks.

I'm aware of the Nidec series. But the replacement is much worse as far as noise is concerned. the old fan is only 68.9 cfm, I forgot what the old noise dB level is, but definitely much lower than 48.4 db I was thinking of this on a professional HP workstation: Kill the above 38 mm fan, replace w/ t...

LIkewise, on the 120mm side, this is a gigantic fan and a powerful one at that. So there is something that can do the same cfm, and silence, I'll go for it.

But I'm concern about the high current of 0.9, at that rate, I find it hard to believe any of those 0.25A fan can replace this 0.9A fan power.

I'm positive before I post that link that Sony is also the one who bundle their laptop w/ Samsung SSD. And yet I can't find the link. But if Sony can do it, and the fact that Samsung laptop also did, then the price should be in the acceptable range. $960 is high but it is a list price. Should be abl...

THanks, I heard of the first one, but never came across Young Lin, I'll do some digging at yahoo search and go from there.

It's a HP workstation. And it's 3 pin. It c/w the machine, but I'm more than happy to replace it if I can find another one w/ the same capacity or even a bigger fan w/ higher capacity as long as it is more quiet than this one.

At my friend's workplace, there is a 120 mm system rear cooling fan (measured from edge to edge of the black square is 125 mm). It's not extremely noisy, but clearly you can easily hear the fan noise. The brand name is called NMB, http://www.nmbtech.com/index_f.html and I believe the motor is from t...

Yep. But since the write cycle limit on most of these drives is something like 5 million writes, and since the drives reallocate portions of the disk which have been written to too many times, I read that from those web site. But how? There is no moving parts on the drive. So how does these "too ma...

http://handhelds.engadget.com/2006/03/10/samsung-shows-off-flash-laptop-drive-at-cebit/ I can't remember where I see that Sony laptop although it's in the engadget.com But the above link essentially said the same thing. 32 GB SSD on Samsung laptop. Looking at those prices you typed out, you know, fo...

I mentioned SOny because in their latest laptop, they bundled w/ SSD from Samsung in 32 GB capacity. Which is why I asked the question because I was convinced the "flash" will wear off from over 100K write. But if their 32 GB is that expensive, why would anyone buy them? Samsung is release the above...