Thanks. The wonderous U-channel edge trim hides all! Seriously though, I must have spiraled out 1/8-inch at a time. It took forever but turned out nicely though. Lots of bonding time for me with my Wiss tin snips. My elastic is so loose, I seriously doubt it is hurting. My sorbothane is only compres...

Inspired by Pauli's silencing of his DirecTivo, I made a similar attempt. Mine is a Samsung, and it was loud. You could hear the 60mm fan droning on and the HDD seeking from at least 10-15ft away, even when it was "off." I say "off," because a Tivo is never really off. It is always recording off the...

How is this DFI better for you than an Ultra-D? Is it less expensive? I don't know much about it. Although the Ultra-D has two 16x VGA slots, don't think that implies SLI. Think of it as giving you flexibility in where you place your VGA, allowing for more cooling options of your nF4 chip. Unless th...

Do you realize that nobody here has the slightest idea what is in your system? We don't even know Intel vs. AMD, which video card, how many disk drives, etc. How can anybody answer questions about temperature?

I admit that I do not. Maybe that is a bad counter-counter example.

That same article contains some circuits for controlling LED current and hence brightness. There is no doubt those are superior to simply using resistors. ...because building a dedicated circuit to make the bulb dimmer makes a whole lot more sense than just changing the bulb (for free). :roll: Did ...

Looking at my photos, it is clear more of the fins would have be trimmed a bit where they would contact the bottom card. I doubt it would have a big effect on nF4 cooling. BTW, the NB47J is not symmetric. One side has shorter fins on it than the other side. If you put the longer side towards the top...

Changing Voltage is not the same as changing resistance. There are several different ways you can regulate voltage. The Zalman fanmate and most other Linear regulation methods will not alter the resistance. The Sunbeam Rheobus MAY change the resistance (I don't know the circuit layout, so I can't s...

I don't like the idea of epoxy. If the fan gets damaged/wears out, you cannot swap it. If I get around to a fan swap on my 7000B, I will probably do as others here have and use bolts or screws, probably with a layer of sorbothane between the fan and the HS. Either that or use some velcro with adhesi...

Perhaps you should have titled this "Venice & Asus problem." The DFI nF4 boards supposedly work fine with Venice with the originally shipping 1/25 BIOS according to DFI.

Just poke around and see what folks are using for Winchesters. I don't believe the power consumption of Venice is very different from Winchester. I've seen initial reports of Venice using more power than Winchester and some lower. I would think you could use a Nexus 92mm. I use a Zalman 7000B at min...

Tibors, here is the counter-counter example: Enermax and Antec do not actually manufacture the PSUs. If Antec could get it from the original OEM, why would they pay Enermax to put their label on it?

If we can get a mangled NB47J under the VGA on a DFI nF4, I can't see how any other board could present any more of a clearance problem. Search for "mangled NB47J" and you should find pics.

I have no hum. It is primarily a little wind/turbulence noise for me. Now that I think about it, I am pretty sure I have the 7000B at minimum Fanmate speed (hooked up to 12V). The VF700 at ~7V is louder than the 7000B. That would be my first fan swap.

Changing the voltage on an LED will not affect its brightness. Every LED has an effective operating range around its rated voltage. While inside this range, it will light up with its specified amount of output. Outside this range it will no longer light up. See my previous post about replacing the ...

Mine is pretty quiet now that it has broken in. I cannot hear it over a 7000B and VF700, both at about 7V.

I might as well post my HDD suspension here as well: http://www.sls.csail.mit.edu/ilh/pics/pc/img_0040.jpg Believe me, those SP1614Cs are absolutely silent! They are pretty quiet when hooked up too. :wink: The frame is made out of 1/2-inch MDF, the supports are 1/8-inch bungee cord (nylon covered el...

Does SpeedStepXP work for you folks with P-Ms? That's what I've used on my laptop (IBM T40), and it definitely changes clock speeds dynamically. I don't recall whether Vcore changes too.

Considering that the minimum fan speed in my S12-500 seems to be about 1000rpm, I think it likely has a D12SH-12 in it and not a D12SM-12. Mine is 5-blade.

It also doesn't have the closed corners of 120mm Yate Loons.

I believe the side panels are interchangeable per things I've read in this forum (maybe a post by Ralf Hutter?). I ended up removing the TAC duct and covering that opening on my system (cardboard for now). I left the bottom panel open because it helped my VGA and chipset temperatures. Try all the co...

I'm half way there!

I wanted the benefit of Striping, did not want the risk of Mirroring (twice the opportunity for failure of one big drive - if one drive dies you lose the data across both drives), and didn't want to buy 4 drives to do RAID 0+1 (Mirroring of Striped drives). Mirroring decreases risk, not increases i...

I use SpeedSwitchXP on my Thinkpad T40 laptop with a PM 1.4. I am happy with the application.

The top slot (closest to CPU) is a 4x physical PCIe slot. Some PCIe peripheral could go in there, but there aren't many of those yet. Altogether you have 4x, 16x, 1x, 16x physical PCIe slots top to bottom. The actual assignments of lanes is different though and depends on the setting of the SLI jump...

I believe you are supposed to plug both into two separate 4-pin leads.

Don't most PCIe VGAs that need a 6-pin connector come with such adapters? My eVGA 6800 GT did.

I think it might block the top PCIe slot, but that slot is not a VGA slot.

My Winchester 3500+ needs the 4% vcore bump (1.46V) just to be prime 24-hour stable at stock speeds. Maybe I got unlucky, but it doesn't sound terribly uncommon for Winchester from my reading around various forums. Others are clearly more lucky. It is really hit and miss with overclocking. Yes, the ...

I am looking forward to your followup and pictures. My VF700 is the loudest part of my system.

I have two identical SP1614Cs suspended 1in apart right in the airflow from the front 3000B vent with grill removed (no fan there). They are mounted "right side up". Consistently, the top drive runs about 5C cooler, presumably because the airflow is directed more over the bottom of the drive as comp...