I just got myself a new xbox - i see a lot of you have had success modding in a quieter fan, but there seemed to be no real consensus on hard drives. http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=7637&GroupID=3 I was thinking of grabbing this, the samsung SP1604N spinpoint (160gb, 2mb cach...

edwood - try grabbing radlinker. You can set custom profiles up for each game, you just make a new shortcut. Can set AA and AF and stuff as well, it's a great little tool.

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Fraid i don't have pictures at the moment, but i just wanted to share a really simple but effective mod i did. I started with an antec smartblue 380W - very loud at stock. Firstly, i removed the 92mm and replaced it with a cheap (99p) acrylic cover, with no blowhole. I then replaced the rear fan for...

Alright, i have a zalman CNPS6000 cooling a 2100+. With no fan directing airflow to it i cant even run stock speeds without overheating. So, my solution was to attach a large heatpipe to it, one salavaged from an old hifi amplifier. It has an aluminium plate at the bottom that attaches to the heatpi...

thanks for your answers, i was hoping somebody might know if evercool reacted well to pwm. Voltage regulation it is.

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Go for a mobile 2500+. They're available from cpucitystore.co.uk That'll give you high clock and low clock options, and is only £60. That geil ram is good, if not corsair and kingston value are both supposed to have quite quick timings. I believe a 9600 AIW card has everything you need, though i'm n...

nobody even have a preference between PWM and regulated voltage? What about rheoststs?

i dont know anybody who has bought a 2400 or 2500 mobile and hasnt been able to reach 3200+ speeds with it, most are reporting 2.4-2.7GHz when maxed out.

They underclock nicely as well.

I use the blue zalman northbridge on my abit NF7, which is an nforce2 board. Even clocked up to 220FSB it's perfectly adequate.

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If you have an ati card, i'd reccomend radlinker. You can have different clock speed settings for different pieces of software. I have my 9800 set to it's minumum stable clocks when windows loads, and when i game, it automatically speeds the card up for me. Not what you're looking for, but perhaps a...

I've been advised againt running my 120mm fans from the motherboard headers (and abit NF7) on current issues. Mine are evercools, rated at 0.28A, so that seems reasonable. Currently they're at 5V and audible, but i've had them down to 3 and they get very quiet. Anyway, i thought pwm would be better ...

Blue Tack would work. But I question how long any adhesive tape would last under heat conditions inside a computer case. -Ed I had some black pvc electrical tape holding some floppy heatsink fins to a metal strut for a few months - it left a sticky residue, but it held as well as the day it was app...

http://sound.westhost.com/heatsinks.htm nice article there, section 15 discusses heatsink colour. On the ramsinks and heatspreaders bit, i got better timing out of my ram when i installed them, was able to run cas2 at 200mhz instead of 2.5. I think it's a matter of balance - if there is a weaker chi...

@ralf - you have very similar music tastes to my dad. Any tangerine dream you're having trouble getting hold of? Thanks for asking. I have a TD collection that I've been working on for the past 30 years, and it's super-complete, including all kind of promos, boots and other rarities. Other than a f...

bah sorry - my isp has a habit of corrupting files occasionally, i do apologise.

Ah well, nvm.

http://www.gr13f.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/apps/DTemp.zip

And disable autoscans. I havent noticed any buzzing since i did this, but i'd appreciate a second opinion as i havent done very extensive testing.

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pitchshifter - www.pitchshifter.com (aka self replicating virus) Yes, that is really the title of the album, not just the bands website. i always wanted to see thgem live, cept they spllit up about 6 months before i heard any of them. Thought infotainment was a great album. @ralf - you have very si...

Therefore, christian heavan may well exist, as there are a great number of people who beleive it does, and a number who say it may. Very few have SINCERE and DEEP beliefs (not opinions) that it does not exist, and frankly, it cannot be destroyed by disbelief. How is this relevant? Belief does not e...

Firstly I apologise, i havent the time to read all of this thread, but i will give you my views, preceded by the reasons i formed them. Number one - the concept of infinity. Firstly, i do not believe in limitations. I have always been of the mindset that i can achieve whatever i want, with enough ti...

i do believe the average northbridge is rated up to 90 degrees.

Grab a wireless keyboard, and see how far you can get from the recieiver before it stops working. My budget one doesnt go far past 3 metres. I also keep a wired keyboard for gaming (lag on the wireless), or batteries out, bios, that kinda thing. Suppose you could just keep a wired keyboard, or buy a...

from what i remember, an nmb fan is quieter than a vantec, maybe you wantt to move one over to your cpu fan.

Geil is supposed to be the best budget:performance atm in the uk at least. Corsair valueram is supposed to be quite good.

Personally i like abit boards, the nf7 has convinced me. Excellent voltage control and clocking ranges.

fingafing - a double bass an a turntablist - suggest you check it out.

roni size - dirty beats (D Product mix)

apparently the speeze pin heatsinks work very well in sucking configurations, immsmc

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surely current is irrelevant, it's only temperature that matters.

I think that wattage trigger thing is a little bit of hype - people are obviously getting tired of thermally controlled fans.

I can image by suspending a HD by string would infer less vibrations than even the elastic would. The string would be allow to oscillate at nodes, and therefore, dissapate any energy transfered to it. The string vibration would not be transfered to the case. the elastic on the other hand, although ...

in my experience, roxio is inferior to nero and often causes very haphazard problems. It certianly shouldnt affect the bios though, sending it back is certainly your best bet.

right now, i have a 15" iiyama syncmaster and a 24" telly that wont switch inputs, so i cant see anything on it. I could hack it to accept a composite signal, but i simply havent done so yet. My budget is around 300-500 pounds, and i intend to have my 9800pro run two displays. So far i think either ...