halcyon's points & questions are right on, imo, but some of the responses in this thread already show the typical mindset. re-- "The rest is just eco-fascism." My reason for immediately dismissing his way of thinking is different. He makes the same mistake the eastern european communists made. Name...

This falls in the same category as e.g.: You are not allowed to travel outside your hometown unless you are a government official.

IOW not feasible.

I got a really "Strange music for Strange People" song now:

S.P.O.C.K. - Never Trust a Klingon

You never know what comes along on internet radio.

For me it's the same as most times. Except I haven't had a slow day like previously used to happen from time to time. But with only two evenenings since the migration, that doesn't really say anything. That it is faster for Mike isn't strange. Websites hosted in Amsterdam (were my ISP is) are mostly...

There are no "16 PCIe drivers". The piece of plastic is big enough to fit a large card, but there is only 1 (one) lane connected. (Like frostedflakes already said above.) That is what the "Compatible" part in the specs stands for.

Also, MikeC said it is IDENTICLE in every way to the seasonic 80+ certified version he reviewed. Can you show me where exactly MikeC wrote that? "high efficiency" != 80Plus The first is marketing speak, the second is certified. Since the other thread showed you bought one; did it have an official 8...

Aris wrote:the psu is the 80+ certified seasonic

People keep repeating that, but I still have not seen any proof that the PSU in the Antec NSK-3300 is realy 80Plus. Not all Seasonic SS-300SFD are 80Plus. There are several models with that number that are closely related.

Don't forget this is an European directive. In Europe a much larger portion of the solid waste is burned, not dumped in landfills. So whether the lead leaches from solder in landfills isn't that interesting. Most of it will end up in slag and fly ash, which will end up in landfills and which are muc...

That $300 card is PCI 2.2, so if you put it in your standard mobo (if there are no components that block it from being inserted) it will not get those advertised speeds, because it has to run in a legacy mode. Or you could buy an extra expensive industrial/workstation mobo were it does fit.

You can react all insulted. This just means you didn't learn anything from what I just told you. I can't smell from your first post if you know RAID 5 can't replace backups. I do know however that I lot of people think it can and from your first post it looks like that is exactly what you are doing....

You are planning to use RAID 5 for something it isn't intended to be used for. RAID 5 is NEVER a replacement for backups, this is a very common misconception. RAID 5 is a method to reduce downtime. A $150 RAID controller most probably doesn't have a chip on board that does the calculations, so it wi...

ADSL modems are a very specialized piece of hardware, you don't get those with routers. :lol: Have a look here e.g. All the products on that page (except the 330) are integrated modem/routers. The ones with an antenna have an integrated wifi access point too. P.S. I don't know how good these are. (...

The 100+Mb WiFi is (still) not standardised, so results are only guaranteed if you buy all your WiFi stuff from the same manufacturer. There is also no guarantee that a simple firmware upgrade will make it compliant with the standard when (if) it is finalised somewhere next year.

BrianF wrote:Probably rated to 25deg like all their other stuff (the NeoHEs are the only one rated to 50deg).

• Nope!

In the [url=http://www.antec.com/pdf/flyers/Earthwatts_US.pdf]Product Flyer[/url] Antec wrote:Operating Temperature 10°C to 50°C

Probably because these and the NeoHE's are made by Seasonic and all the rest by CWT.

NamNamBulu - Ignorance

Reforestation for use as a carbon sink is just fooling yourself. The carbon that is freed from fossil fuels and put into the athmosphere would have been locked in the earth for era's without human intervention. Keeping a forested area forested for the next century might work, but keeping it forested...

Why mount a fan then block it with HDDs? Exactly my first thought when I saw this case. To cool HDDs? :roll: Yes, the first cage is OK for cooling drives. There is nothing wrong with it. The second cage on the other hand is just immensely silly. The drives in it are placed as a wind shield that blo...

Another thumbs up from Europe. Choice is good.

It is nice now to finaly have some hard data as to how it compares to other SPCR favorites. Opinions I read on German forums are one thing, but this is better.

Osar - The Cowboy (axess_keyboard_cowboys_hacker_rmx)
Now playing on: .o0( Ultra Dark Radio )0o.

Inkubus Sukkubus - Vampyre Erotica
Reaper - Totengräber (Club Edit)

If anybody wonders about these titles and band names. It is friday the 13th special horror night.

NeilBlanchard wrote:1) the PS fans had to force the rising warm air back down through the PS

I'm starting to wonder if we need to hit people on the head with something heavy, before they start to understand that convection is a very weak force and absolutely no match for even the weakest fan.

A Western Digital SE16 or Samsung SpinPoint T 3.5" drive would be more economical and quiet enough. For a system drive plus simple document storage even the 60GB of the drive above is overkill. So even though the 3.5" drives in the same price range have more capacity, that doesn't make them more ec...

Thomas wrote:SATA offers RAID

No, it doesn't.

Your mobo chipset or a PCI RAID controller offers RAID. They can do that for SATA and/or for IDE. Maybe you have a mobo that only offers it for the SATA ports, but this is by no means general.

McBanjo wrote:Why mount a fan then block it with HDDs?

Exactly my first thought when I saw this case.

For folding a real cluster has no benefits. Clusters work for calculations that can be split into many parallel processes. Folding is a linear process that can't be parallelised. What is common to use for fanatic folders is called a farm. Like a cluster, a farm consists of several (or many) computer...

It's probably coil whine. It's nothing to worry about, in the sense that it is not a sign of impending failure. But it is annoying to solve if you want to get rid of the sound. There are three approaches. Get a new mobo. (Not really a viable solution, but....) Try to silence the coils with electrici...

Promotional pictures for ATX PSU's with 12cm fans always show them lying upside down. So if the picture shows the fan in the top, the fan will be in the bottom once mounted in a case.

If you want people to read your post, you might want to think about making it readable.

At least I just skip post that need me to scroll over three screens sideways.

I wouldn't have expected, that even the critical minds at SPCR would ignore this and rather talk about techicalities.

And at the same time, I'm wondering what would have been the amount of noise, if Tt had done the same.

Does eSATA have any provision for supplying power like USB does? Nope, they forgot that. So if you don't want to use a brick, then you'll have to fabricate something yourself. (And hope you can find the right connector to plug into the enclosure.) I think it is really stupid they didn't include any...

For people who can read German: Das Institut The "Österreichisches Institut für Wärmeübertragung und Ventilatorentechnik" is not some independent Austrian research institute. It's an organisation that is co-founded by the company that owns the Noctua brand. At least that's what their own website...