This should be quiet enough for SPCR... :wink: HR-07 Not sure about the extra weight hanging off your RAM, although the motherboard clips should be ok. You can even stack a few of these together and mount a fan on top, if you're really worried about your memory. Those clip-on coolers, with the light...

I suggested a few extra questions added to the registration form- anyone that wants to join would have read a number of threads and articles already, so I dont think it's unreasonable to expect any new genuine members to get the answers right. My earlier suggestions involved which PSU would they cho...

Hello all, As I'm sure you're all aware, a new year means a new PC, and this time I've decided to go small, and also use up some 'spares' that I have floating around for a light gaming/HTPC/Web machine. I'm stumped as to what case to use, however. mATX cases cost a fortune locally, so I've pretty mu...

Two cores = twice the points!

Call that a small computer? That's not a small computer.
This is a small computer!

(in the style of crocodile dundee)

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First of all- sanity :lol: Next, will it fit on the motherboard- Yes, one way or another. Either it will fit (and you'll have to use a tall case with a short motherboard), or it won't fit but you can make it work anyway, You're pretty much resigned to losing every other PCI slot by going for this, b...

You could try deliberately using fans that stall easily?
You may get lots of failure warnings though

What zalman mod are you talking about?

Well, it now has one (a Zalman) instead of the awful stock cooler.

h0nke- Let us know what the tricools are like- a lot of people find them too loud, your work may not be done yet.

And had really crap hair.

For the original question, AnandTech have just tested a bunch of production cards, for heat/power/performance etc.
Sorry if someone else beat me to posting it!

Speak to your local Gas man (or "Climate Engineer" or "Temperature Technician" or some other euphamism {insult} dreamed up by marketing :evil: - sorry, micro-rant over :wink: ) about some smoke pellets. These are little things that they light and put in the bottom of your central-heating boiler, to ...

Someone will have, to save all of us the time and expense.
I believe Corsair are one of the many companies rebadging someone else's PSUs, and you can guarantee that they keep the quietest ones for themselves, lest they go out of business.

:!: This thread is on a knife-edge... I'll try to keep it on the light side: do we know if the 16cm fan is thermally controlled? I'd expect that it is, but it doesn't make much difference if it's always too hot :oops: (there were rumours of overheating consoles at the last few public demos) Doesn't ...

I'd suggest going for the VF900 instead- the better cooling power means that you can run the fan as low as it will go all the time, even when gaming. On my 6600GT, the card never broke 44c under extended load, with the lowest setting available from the ZM-MFC1. 8) It's a little more expensive, but I...

Basically, modern heatpipes don't rely on gravity at all- they use a sintered powder wick structure inside, that transfers liquid from the wet end to the dry end, regardless of orientation. This is why on some motherboards, the heatpipes can actually work backwards.
Hope this helps.

It sounds to me like there is cause for a good whipping (from both the customer and manufacturer) of the supplier! 1. For selling off their "Free Samples", which is almost certainly illegal :? 2. For telling the customer to buy the expensive case instead, because the cheap versions are all crappy :x...

Hmm... here's a crazy thought...
What if the second power connector is actually just a power pass-through for a second card; like an SLi Master/Slave Edition or something?
300w power draws don't make any sense at all, but making it easier to connect up two cards certainly does.
Hmm again...

You probably don't need to strip any wires. The first four channels use the standard 3-pin connectors, through which you can vary the speed. The final two channels use terminal blocks and these are set to be either 12v, 5v, or Off. I'd recommend only using the last two channels for extra case fans o...

...because the enclosure will not conform to the open side of the HDD, where the circuit board and black plastic is. This is the main area for dissipation of heat from the HDD. While you can mount a heatsink relatively easily onto the flat metal on the other side, this isn't as effective for cooling...

Sorry, I've aways wanted to do that

Very nice, and neat as well. What PSU is that you're using?
Is it getting enough airflow I'm not familiar with the case but I cant see any intake for the PSUs fan.

Update: The WU is finished! And slightly ahead of schedule too
Bring on the folding!

Incidentally, you mention your PSU is spinning up- is there an intake underneath it, i.e. a hole in the floor of your case? I cant see if the mesh continues right to the back of your case, or if it's centred about the middle. It looks like it could be starving your PSU, if the fan isn't getting enou...

It means, "Only remove cap when you're going to replace it with the CPU". Otherwise dust etc can get into the socket, and that's not good!

Ah, but there's another factor influencing my decision- through work, I get the newest premium edition of System Works, Firewall, etc for free

(and Norton is a nightmare to get rid of )

About NAV? Since installing it, it's caused pretty much every problem that I've had on my PC (Norton Ghost wasn't even funny- went from 30 seconds start-up to about 5 minutes, so that was removed :shock: ). I believe it was performing an update to itself, as about twenty minutes after I posted it po...

You know, it does seem to be improving...

I think NAV was choking it earlier.
I'm a lot happier, knowing that it should be finished this unit before I need to replace my PC

Thanks for the welcome!

They appear to be using two different models of card as well- the differences in the position of the cooler and the VRM capacitors are making me wonder whether their example shows an SLi system, or whether they've just put two test cards into the same motherboard to save time. With the difference in...

Hello all- I've been folding for SPCR for a little over a week now, and during that time I've finished 4 or 5 WU's. However, my latest unit seems to be a bit beyond my Athlon 3500+, and I'm wondering if there's any way to swap it for something a little more realistic? http://img144.imageshack.us/img...