Two thumbs up for UBCD. It's a must have tool for any PC tinkerer.

Nice case you have there. 8) Also vote for window. Though, personally I must admit I've never liked that shape of window - make me feel like it's half-finish. I prefer full rectangular/square window. But that's just me. :wink: Btw, I would try a clear window then apply a tinted film - a reflective k...

...mCubed warned that using generic 3M thermal tape instead of theirs would result in a 2 deg C difference... Frankly, I've yet to see that difference - I've tried both thermal tapes on the same spot, the different is tiny enough to write off as sensor/reader normal fluctuation. :wink: If anything,...

I always use either mCubed or 3M thermal tape.

Don't use scotch tape on high heat area such as HSF it will get brittle and lost its glue quite quick.

IIRC, it cost me about the same i.e. USD 10 to ship via registered airmail (in bubble envelope).

It took almost a month from the day I sent it out to the day I got it back - not too bad considering airmail normally take 10 days to arrive, one way.

May be I'm wrong, but these 2 pic. do not speak 'quality' at all. Look more like a cheapo PSU that comes with cheap case.

Hopefully, Scythe know what they are doing.

rperezlo wrote:.., all the other LEDs in the T-Balancer are off even at start up....

Ouch...that's exactly what happened in my case when I have to send it to mCubed.

[ranting mode]For some reason mCubed has become much less responsive lately - may be there're many products now but not enough manpower to handle? victim of their own success?[/ranting mode] Sorry about the rant - back to your problem. I think the USB 1.1/2.0 thingy doesn't really matter. Yours soun...

The easiest way to remove fan header is to use a flat head screwdriver - the jewelry type. Press it in the the tiny groove on the fan header to push down the 'locking wing' and at the same time pull out the wire. Repeat on the remaining 2 wires. Yes, 7 volt trick works. However, you might want to se...

Space-wise, yes there's enough space to mount a thin fan underneath SI-97 fin - if you want to I think there's even enough space for a normal 25mm thick fan. However, I do not know whether the mounting bracket will be able to accommodate your fan in that position or not. You may have to DIY the wire...

...Looking at one of the fans, I noticed the sticker at the base of the fan (exhaust side, the sticker which doesn't spin) had a bubble in the center. For the hell of it, I massaged this bubble back down with my finger. The next time I turned the computer back on, the fan was dead silent. I tried t...

You should still calibrate those sensor reading. I use similar sensors, and remember that I need to take out more than 10% of the reading when I first installed T-ban a year ago. With the latest firmware/software update a week ago, I again re-calibrate all the sensors only to find out that this time...

And for anyone who still have a need for wire fan grill to protect your kids/pets, you can raise the wire grill from fan a bit (I use MB standoff between fan and wire grill), as well as taking out some 'rings' of the wire grill (I took out 2nd and 4th rings). I found this help improve airflow as mea...

Yes, GPU backplate seem to be the best spot. That's where I have my temp probe too. Using the stock HSF your temp is ok. My R9800SE@Pro with ZM80D; without fan - full load is around 62C, with fan - full load is somewhere mid 50C. :D Note: I consider my case having a good airflow, and all fans are te...

...getting the fan onto the heatsink securley and good enough to cool - BUT keeping the frame ON the Nexus Frankly, I think you should re-check on what went wrong with your previous mod, and re-do it properly. Putting the fan inside CNPS 7700 should be the optimum solution as it's designed for. Any...

Just a note from my past experience, Vantec Stealth for some reason will give a clicking noise when undervolt. IIRC, it was with the Fanmate1 when I tried this.

I think secretz means the plastic tab at the fan header, I recall Mike was showing as an example cutting out the tab in one of the earlier article about PSU fan swap. So as an answer - No it's not a must if your fan header fit with the male plug on PSU. Alternatively, you can also use the orginal PS...

Very good article Mike. I'm sure Frank will be very happy with it. As I'm living in Bangkok (which is a bit warmer than Chieng Mai in general) I can see that Frank's new PC will be plenty cool. Personally, I think you do not even need the 2 front fans and let the 3 remaining fans (VGA, CPU, and exha...

If you connect the fan using the normal PSU connector, you'll be bypassing the fan control circuit of PSU. As a result your PSU fan will always be on 12V or whatever voltage you set it on - unless you want to connect it through external fan control which require some work to set it up properly with ...

Snip off the sensor, and connecting the 2 remaining wires - in other word, shorting the sensor wires. This will give you full range of speed for the Globe fan.

PSU Modding Tutorials/Pictorials sticky thread. There're a few more stickies in PSU forum you should read before taking any action.

Personally, I would not recommend putting a thermally controled fan in PSU for a simple reason - temperature threshold for these fans are too low to be useful in PSU.

3dcool has it. Though I'm sure there's other.

...it looks like the the front bezel has reasonably airflow... I was looking for that, but cannot see how cool air could get in to front side of case - except through small opening at the bottom of front external bezel. Yes, the front fan grill looks to be open enough but it's all covered by outsid...

If I remember correctly (it's long time ago that I use MB with on board graphic), you have to disable onboard VGA through Device Manager -> Property of Display Device then choose disable it in one of the pull-down menu.

Might worth a try.

Totally agree with vertigo on No-No for installation when PC is on.

Just throwing a stupid/obvious question here - have you disabled the onboard VGA when installing the AGP card? Another thing to check is IRQ conflict.

What kind of thermal grease you use?

Anyway if other solutions don't work, consider this ArctiClean which seems to get good praise from many places. I've never used it myself as Isopropyl Alcohol always works for me even on external surface of my LianLi case.

Good luck.

hehe..if you mean to use those metal mesh tray..it would work well though not as good, airflow-wise, as standard wire grill. I used to use that for my PSU air channel - though I ditched it later because of the look.

Plenty of choices here.

although 30mb memory usage for the resident controlling software is a bit excessive imo... That's very true. :cry: In software 2.7.1, user has the option to turn off the various menu/monitoring option that one does not use. I have no idea whether that has any effect on memory usage though (*make me...

jayn , you havn't done anything wrong. In software 2.7.1, mCubed has moved the 'Firmware update' out of Option menu, it's now in another sub-menu called 'Extended setting' under Configuration menu. I just did my firmware update during the weekend and faced with similar problem. :evil: Other steps i...