But the only reason is to cool. If the 120mm fan cooler cools better then the 140mm fan cooler - well what good is the 140mm fan? Especially if in some cases it might cause some fitting problems. As pointed out, the Armageddon is significantly thinner than the Megahalems - it is far less likely to ...

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The howling is there even with the side covers off! Weird huh? If it continues to howl with the covers off then it's not a pressure or air flow issue. It's also unlikely to be a resonance issue. Have you gone through the standard procedure of stopping components individually to see if/where the sou...

Maybe he's trying to tell you something.

ces wrote:

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It looks like the private messaging isn't working. Don't you have a public email or phone number you can leave here? There may be others here who would like to talk to you.

ces - please go back and read the original post. Particluarly the part that read: ...fastest no 6-pin PCI Express supplemental connector videocard currently available It doesn't matter WHY it needs to meet this specification, just that it DOES meet this specification. Maybe the user doesn't have a 6...

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/minor-loss-air-ducts-fittings-d_208.html So a sharp bend increases velocity but a vaned bend decreases velocity? "90o bend, sharp 1.3 90o bend, with vanes 0.7" OMFG. Are you serious? Read the page again, it's titled "Minor Loss Coefficients". You have a 1.3 Coeffic...

1. Every cubic inch of air the goes in will force a cubic inch of air out. If the exit is smaller than the intake, it will just cause the air to flow faster through the exist to make up for its smaller size. The faster airflow, at leasst in theory, has the potential to generate noise. Right. But if...

for every 90 degree turn in airflow you will reduce the amount of flow by, IIRC, 12%. If you make your 17.5 sq-in hole be sure it's a direct shot into the case. If it's redirected air, like in a 3480, P18x, Solo, etc you should account for this 12% loss in your intake size. This, of course, assumes ...

PWM header, IIRC is GND, 12V, Sens, Sig. The three pin standard is GND, 12V, Sens. Why not plug your 3 wire fan into the PWM socket and use it? If you want controllability, look at getting (or making) an inline voltage reducer (err...resistor) on the 12V line to tune the fan to a speed you like, or ...

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Stupid metric system...

I measured 12mm to the frame, I just can't shift decimals correctly.

So the max limit of the heatsink would be 168.2

The Megahalems will fit.

No, the Megahalems will not fit in a 3480. I have a Mugen2 in my 3480. Scythe lists it officially as 157mm tall: http://www.scythe-eu.com/forum/mugen-series/767-mugen-2-dimensions.html I have 12 mm from the top of the heatpipe cap to the edge of the case frame. That maxes out the height to 158.2 mm ...

Oh - and the vast majority of my machine noise is now gone!

I had to use update-rc.d to remove fancontrol and then reinsert fancontrol into the startup subsystem. my fancontrol.conf looks like this INTERVAL=2 DEVPATH=hwmon0=devices/platform/it87.656 DEVNAME=hwmon0=it8720 FCTEMPS=hwmon0/device/pwm2=hwmon0/device/temp1_input hwmon0/device/pwm1=hwmon0/device/te...

Now I just need to figure out how to get it to start correctly...

Describe your ambient noise please. What kind of case is it in? Is the case isolated with silicone feet? 20' away from your workstation? It's unlikely that an open bay, hard mounted, WD Black is going to be acoustically acceptable to the majority of the membership of this forum. Recommending a quiet...

My guess is that the bios SmartFan is still enabled which overrides the software. Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner. I had enabled SmartFan so that I could set the header to be in voltage mode rather than pwm mode but hadn't turned it off after that. Once I did it greyed out my ability to change the...

Do you have photos or at least a description of your machine CES? I ask because the Blacks are considerably louder than the Blues, which are louder again than the greens. I have my Blue suspended in an upper drive bay and surrounded on all sides by two layers of 3-layer Acousitpac and I can still he...

I would opt for the 5850 - you are getting a considerable upgrade in both performance and pwoer management for the same price as you would have normally had marginal (at best) performance increase.

[sarcasm]Yeah, really! WTF are you people thinking with your whole IPS panel bullshit. I can see my email just damned fine with my TN Film panel, why on earth would I spend triple the amount for something that doesn't give me triple the performance? Take your high falootin' monitor and go screw your...

I'll cross post this from ubuntuforums.org... So I've been working on quieting down my machine... i3-530 on a Gigabyte H55M-UD2H. Ubuntu 9.10, Kernel 2.6.33 from the PPA so that my onboard Intel video works properly (more importantly, doesn't crash). lm_sensors 3.1.2 from the 10.04 repo's to actuall...

5770 then, or the 5830, depending on your budget. As pointed out, the higher numerical value the card is, the more heat it needs to dissipate.

It's a perfectly legitimate testing platform to calibrate LCD's correctly. I use many of these calibrations tools daily in setting up large venue projection systems.

Mike,

Have you considered the "selling price" of the review item as part of the cost to review?

For instance... If the cost of a heatsink is $200...

$50 for a donated heatsink

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$30 anticipated selling price of the reviewed product

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$120 in donations to review the product?

In reality there's a thousand web sites with a thousand benchmarks of each of those processors. Why not do a bit of research and take a look at the comparisons that are equivelant to the type of work you are going to be doing and see where they stack. Something tells me that the E8400 will always sc...

First, it seems your bottlenecks are related to a crappy OS. If all you are doing is surfing the web, scanning for viruses, indexing your drive and using OpenOffice then I might suggest a change of operating systems. Simply moving to Linux removes the overhead of scanning for viruses and indexing yo...

There are two ways to reduce resonance if you think of your case like a large drum... 1. Fill the drum with stuff to keep it from making noise when you bang of the head. The equivelant, is as pointed out, to throw some acoustic foam inside the case. My fear is that by adding material to the inside o...

Other than a 1-2 % difference in most normal, non-synthetic tasks - not much. As pointed out, it's really handy for overclockers. To take an i3-530 to 4 Ghz (common 30% overclock on stock voltage and air) you need 1200 Mhz RAM at the minimum dividers of most motherboards. Or you can underclock the ...

I did manage to get fan control running under Ubuntu 9.10. It required lm_sensors 3.1.2 which wasn't available in the 9.10 repositories (it had 3.1.0). I installed it from the 10.04 repos and got positive reporting on all of my sensors and fans. It appears as though fancontrol/pwmconfig can manage b...

30C in open air. With the case closed and only the top door open on the cabinet (last picture) it sits at 36C with the rear fan at 725 RPM. This is running all four threads at 2.93 GHZ with Fold at Home on Ubuntu/Linux. If I engage the IGP to watch a video (h.264, VLC, full screen) it climbs to 39C....