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- Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:16 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: What to trust? BIOS or Speedfan?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3956
Re: cpu
Just touch the cpu sink close to the base. If your cpu is burning hot, the sink will be too. Regards. Its obviously burning hot. Which part of 77C and 99.5C says its not hot? sorry to resurrect, but that's not the point. it's like... if the TV says it's raining outside, does that mean it is? no. yo...
- Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Does epoxy containing steel conduct electricity?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5058
- Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: GPU Sound outside of Game Play
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2225
even with the stock hsf, in 2d you can underclock the card fairly low without getting artifacts and then reduce fan speed to 20% or so. at that speed the shuffling noise the stock fan makes is completely gone, can't hear it over the rest of my pc, and it idles at 56C. would imagine one of the third ...
- Mon May 23, 2005 11:20 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Stopping the Resserator from leaking gases/vapor
- Replies: 43
- Views: 21865
something else just hit me, Fluid XP allegedly has glycerin in it (and propylene glycol); if people aren't complaining about growth, then it probably doesn't matter whether or not any other component supports growth (more important that other factors prevent it, i mean). glycerin is an awesome energ...
- Mon May 23, 2005 11:04 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Stopping the Resserator from leaking gases/vapor
- Replies: 43
- Views: 21865
im assuming that biocides kill people :) yeah, but concentration is the important thing, you can find PCBs and perchlorates and heavy metals and crap in anyone in an industrialized country today. even in a pristine environment it's no big deal - most people get more cyanide from food (naturally occ...
- Mon May 23, 2005 10:24 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Negative pressure heatsink
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5038
using a single 120mm bottom intake here + 80mm PSU and 92mm exhaust, no problems with a 2400MHz Winchester, 3 HDs and an X800XT. i only use the intake fan to cool suspended drives. two fans on the PSU is probably kind of silly, you'd probably be better off just cutting out grills etc on the PSU to i...
- Mon May 23, 2005 9:02 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Liquid-Metal Cooling Loops
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20450
regular TECs already work like that, in that you can heat them to produce electricity. problem is that anything using heat like that will resist the heat transfer, not something you want to put on a CPU. otherwise it's like getting something for nothing, can't have that either. :P might be thinking ...
- Mon May 23, 2005 8:39 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Dust Kills Computers.....
- Replies: 67
- Views: 36142
I don't know if it's still the case, but I remember that HEPA filters on full tower and/or rackmount cases used to be grounds for bragging rights, just sort of a given in the same way that SCSI was a given in any halfway decent server. Lots would need to change for filters to become ubiquitous, thou...
- Mon May 23, 2005 8:21 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Apple iMac G5
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6249
shrug, no other vendor allows its users to do anything either, which is to be expected - most people shouldn't be allowed to use computers, let alone open them up. the only difference here is that building your own Mac usually isn't an option. :P Mac cases used to actually have plastic struts across...
- Mon May 23, 2005 7:55 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Strange non-hdd clicking sound
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3532
that's really interesting, because my old PC used to freeze every now and then in such a way that every update of the mouse position would cause a click, i assumed it was just some sort of weird forced seek on one of the drives. i know exactly what you mean (sounds like mine was louder though), diff...
- Sun May 22, 2005 10:52 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Sapphire's liquid metal cooling - fanless Radeon X850XT PE
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15793
- Sun May 22, 2005 9:19 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 9600xt build by ati - fan off?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3118
depending on the surface area/quality of the stock HSF, you could just replace it with a ZM-NB47J, or a generic huge $5-10 heatsink from somewhere like 1coolpc.com. about to do the same myself to a GF2 and GF4 4400. there's an article here from sometime in 2002 regarding this, someone stuck a random...
- Sun May 22, 2005 8:28 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: New 180mm case fans
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12730
And of course, there's a reason why "half-height" drives are called "half-height". Guess how high they used to be! Yeah, 2 full-height 5.25" drives on top of each other are pretty much the same size as a Shuttle case. I still have a half-height 2 or 3GB SCSI drive somewhere, remember our current dr...
- Sun May 22, 2005 7:35 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Fan Won't go as Fast Anymore
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4547
- Sun May 22, 2005 3:49 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Stopping the Resserator from leaking gases/vapor
- Replies: 43
- Views: 21865
heres something to consider: if one uses propylene glycol.... and it's edible yet non nutrative.... doesnt harm humans besides in large quantity or touching mucous membranes at high concentrations..... Wouldnt there be a chance for some massive bio-growth in it?? would be the same as the chance of ...
- Sun May 22, 2005 3:17 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: 'ghetto' watercooling - possible?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5819
"easier than phase change for short-term cooling" isn't phase change rather expensive too? didn't see this til now - i meant short as in an hour or so, so i was comparing it to liquid nitrogen, not a compressor + evaporator etc. n2 is fairly cheap, but er... gets expensive and labor-intensive (and ...
- Sun May 22, 2005 3:05 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Putting the fan on backwards
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6422
- Sun May 22, 2005 1:20 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Quiet Gaming PC - What's New ??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8597
- Sat May 21, 2005 6:03 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Western Digital drives: Raptor 74 & Caviar SE 250
- Replies: 64
- Views: 65503
I know the plural of anecdote isn't evidence, but I've seen/heard lots and lots and lots of SATA horror stories, no real problems yet myself though. Most seem to be QC issues, like the mb connectors snapping off entirely when unplugged since they're relatively small, or flaky connections since SATA ...
- Sun May 01, 2005 9:17 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: 'ghetto' watercooling - possible?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5819
- Sun May 01, 2005 8:03 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Maxtor DM10: should I worry about component design life = 5y
- Replies: 46
- Views: 17771
Not to be pedantic, but if you're willing to pay 3x the price, you could get far more than 5x the effective life out of your storage. Paying 3x up front is silly though, that's like buying one bleeding-edge $6K PC instead of 3, each a few years apart, for $2K each (since in a decade, there will be W...
- Sun May 01, 2005 6:24 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: next gen nVidia to pull 200+ W
- Replies: 65
- Views: 29001
What are the typical wattage consumed by current cards anyways?? For like 9600's, 9800's, 6600's, X800's, 6800's?? I just wanna compare the power used today and tomorrow. Try the search, look for the xbitlabs article I think. I forget exact wattages, but current ATI cards aren't that bad - I think ...
- Sun May 01, 2005 5:36 pm
- Forum: Consumer Advocacy
- Topic: Poor quality Antec SL350SPs inside 3700BQEs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21442
Easy enough to find their site etc, still doesn't mean I had actually been familiar with them at the time of writing. :) You better increase your dosage of Ginko Biloba homes. Channel Well's been doing Antec PSUs for a long time, and it looks like they still my be sourcing the new "True Power 2" PSU...
- Sun May 01, 2005 4:04 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: One-fan A64 w/ Reserator and Phantom
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7039
Interesting comment on the seeks. If the drive was empty when you bought it and you just installed Windows on it and basically used it like a new PC (without copying over tons of old files etc), all the data should have been physically very close together, on the outside of the platters. I would *gu...
- Sun May 01, 2005 3:56 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Temperature too high?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5475
- Sun May 01, 2005 3:53 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: 120 mm. front case fan to cool 3 hard drives
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9500
- Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:30 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Mounting Harddrives at odd angles
- Replies: 133
- Views: 353272
The head is mounted rigidly, and only moves in one direction. Gravity air cushion blah blah doesnt matter. Have a nice day. Er, in operation the air cushion does matter, but I know what you mean heh. Anyways, the heads aren't mounted rigidly, unless you're just talking about the assembly as a whole...
- Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:47 pm
- Forum: Consumer Advocacy
- Topic: Poor quality Antec SL350SPs inside 3700BQEs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21442
Fair enough, my bad. That's really odd though, as I definitely remember reading something very close to if not exactly what I said (well, I was originally paraphrasing anyways). Might well have been by Antec regarding another brand of PSUs, or another case manufacturer regarding Enermax, but I've ne...
- Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:58 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: optimizing platters for lower latency
- Replies: 0
- Views: 841
optimizing platters for lower latency
Sorry, I searched and couldn't find that thread from a week or two ago, regarding the impending switch to 2.5" drives, which devolved into a bunch of random ideas and hopes for things like higher/lower rpm or even copying the same data to multiple points on the same platter in order to reduce latenc...
- Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:16 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: SORBOTHANE - what is it, where do you get it from?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14214
I'm not sure that sorbothane is the ideal substance for this since there shouldn't be much/any vibration in the boat. The Sorbothane in that (and Dr. Scholl's insoles, and tons of other stuff) is different, it's like chopped up and mixed with foam rubber, or just used as an insert in some other typ...