Yeah...The type of paste that is used isn't really that much of an importance, it's more of how much and in what fashion it's applied that seems to make the biggest difference in temperature. I remember this one thermal paste roundup by mad shrimps (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) and the toothpas...

I love the front panel artwork. It's so Asian....like me!

The Mini Ninja is going for $19.99 with rebate at Newegg, so it shouldn't put much of a dent in your wallet. But then again the Ninja is only 5 bucks more there. =_=...And you can just snip the bottom fins off if they get in the way of auxiliary heat sinks. It shouldn't hurt performance too much. An...

The LEDs on the RAM modules make me smile

TT Tsunami case Oh lord, that case was probably as close to the computing devil as I want to get. Just thinking about how flimsy it was still gives me shivers. And the case wasn't mine. It was my cousin's. He sent his computer to me to see if I could figure out why it wasn't booting up. Apparently ...

Nice, but would be better if you cover the metal grills with wood ones, as the sides look ugly Well that is a matter of personal opinion. I kind of like the exposed metal grills. To me they give contrast and make it look a little more interesting than "just" a wooden case. I'm not as minimalistic a...

I find logitech products to be overall very high quality. I still use my quickcam 3000 from way back when . It's good to see that their customer service doesn't differ.

Ralf Hutter wrote:I don't have any friends, so I don't have to worry about that issue.

SoCal too gangster? It is for me. Too many illegal immigrants!
(sorry..I don't have any friends down here either...all up in CenCal)

Another great review. Maybe the unusually high ac ripple is because of the different manufacturing company?

Also, ECS has their own ATX form factor motherboard with a 780G northbridge. And its going for $70 not including the 10$ rebate. ECS A780GM-A AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard It Looks very promising, and the layout of components looks much better than many other motherboards out there. Now...

Ooh...Looks promising. Maybe this heat sink will revert back to something similar to the original mounting hardware, since the bottom fin corners are cut out, much like the original rev.A ninja. If this thing performs, I might just have to grab one for myself, when it's released...that is...

yamahaSHO wrote: I put in some Noctua fans and found that they now were the loudest part in my system.

Interesting, I though the stock cooler on the graphics card would make the most noise.

Very clean build by the way. Me like!

A concrete reason why Tom's Hardware is NOT the place to go for....shall I say, a good read.

An Interview with Epic Games

Call me crazy, but I find it difficult to pinpoint the purpose of this article, other than to waste a few gigs of bandwidth.

:shock: What do you get when you cross Snoop Dogg, a computer geek, lots of thermal paste,and a fat wallet?...Pimpin.. .:lol: ....But seriously, that's impressive. How much does it weigh? And I'm a bit curious on the performance of the hr-03+, since other than that one German site (sorry I forgot th...

"I cant hear anything"

....Wonder if this guy is another one of them peoples that blasts their ipod on maximum all day long, much like every other person at my school...

Doesn't it just feel wonderful to win lower temps? It's so...gratifying.

It also looks like the lga775 mounting system for this version is a 478 adaptation to the backplate. So theoretically you could use any heat sink with a 478 mounting system on lga775 sockets with this kit....theoretically . Although I wouldn't really know what use that would be.

gahahaha "b flat something"

cooper absorbs the heat better than aluminum but it doesn't dissipate the heat as well as aluminum. I personally would have to disagree with this. Logically, wouldn't a metal with higher thermal conductivity also dissipate more heat than a metal with a lower thermal conductivity? I believe that cop...

Leaf blowers? :shock: .....hmm...interesting ...idk about static production of the leaf blowers though. I would just opt to go for as much passive as possible. But that's just me, I'm uber lazy. When I clean out the dust in my system I just use my dyson. I haven't had any mishaps with static buildup...

I was listening to Michel Camilo's "Triangulo" ...Horacio Hernandez is the most insano latin/jazz fusion drummer ever.

The base on the cu ninja looks miles ahead of the rev2. Still wish they would soldier the fins though...But that would ramp up the price . And is that a new mounting system for the lga775 socket? woot woot woot

crossfire...oh boy....crysis player?

Ah yeah. I knew there was something missing out on my logic.

Errm.....Couldn't you just rotate the ninja 90 degrees instead of taking out your fury on the wider spaced heatpipes? Maybe I missed something but just rotating the heatsink would probably have allowed the ninja to fit without hitting the capacitors.

Personally, I think the thermaltake armor case resonates like Carnegie Hall. The chamber resonance seems to really penetrate through the plastic door panel.But that's just from my experience with my cousin's computer (his case is a Tt armor). It could be possible to quiet the case down a bit with a ...

Fayd wrote: Also, i'd go with a ninja as opposed to the U-120 extreme.

Erm.... I think it's an ultima 90, judging from the height and heat pipe configuration

Yes, the p3 runs very cool. But I prefer the cpu stay under 60c. The vf900 passive is fine when the cpu is at around 0-40% but since the cpu is a little underpowered (comparetivly to modern..er....cpus) so on average, for me at least, the cpu will be running at full load most of the time. And after ...

Are you sure you need fan? Errm....The procesor doesn't have a thermal sensor but judging by the heat of the heatsink with the fan off after around 10 minutes at 100% load, yes, without a doubt a fan is necesary for the vf900 (logicaly, since the vf900 is a relativly poor performing passive heatsin...

Well I was a wee bit bored last night and I had an old slot 1 pentium 3 card sitting on my desk and zalman vf900cu-LED sitting next to it. I wanted to make a deecently low power system for just browsing the internet and stuff. Then I got the idea that mabye, just mabye the zalman might fit on the pr...