Benefit from free trade, buy from somewhere in the EU! Some of those places have them in stock, and some of those have English versions of their websites, if you're monolingual like me.

Unfortunately SpeedFan doesn't have the ability to read temperatures from ATI cards. Alfredo has said that he wants to add that feature, but there's no telling how long it will take.

I'm not familiar with MySpace specifically, but in cases like this it is often possible to overwrite the original picture with a different one with the same name (replacing it with Goatse is good if you want to punish the people viewing the image).

I wouldn't worry about Asus EPU - I did some measurements and it saved exactly zero watts compared to Cool 'n' Quiet alone.

judge56988 wrote:...software controlled settings have reverted to "Smart Guardian"...

Have you disabled "Q-Fan" (In the BIOS, under Power->HW Monitor Configuration->Smart Q-FAN Function)?

qviri wrote:There is a quote I am a fan of and hope it will remain true forever: "The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

And when there are no free countries left to route through?

MikeC wrote:...The most common reason for not being able to measure fan voltage these days is PWM fan control...

The easiest way around that would be to buy a multimeter that can measure duty cycle, which will show you the fan speed directly as 0-100%.

If rich people somehow control all the votes, why do they have to pay all the taxes? Here in USA, we don't have that problem. The richest 1% have to pay 12% of all the money collected by the government, and the richest 10% pay out nearly HALF the money collected! source . We're so awesome that the ...

Mr Evil: Can you link me to some material? It's hard to find graphs that go all the way down to 0. The best I can find is Googling for images of " atx efficiency graph ", which gives as the first result a graph showing humps and bumps in efficiency vs. load down to 20% . Also a search for " switch ...

Such a PSU will probably be efficient at lower loads, but you can't tell for sure. If you look at graphs for efficiency of switch-mode power supplies over the entire range from 0 to full load, there are often all sorts of bumps and sharp dips at low loads. I just think it's silly that the minimum lo...

The "IDE, RAID, AHCI" options are normal, it's the manual that's wrong. Choosing "IDE" makes SATA drives behave like old IDE drives for backwards compatibility with operating systems that don't support the newer SATA features, e.g. Windows XP, which doesn't have AHCI drivers as standard will BSOD if...

Try changing the SATA cable. Maybe try a different power connector too, and make sure the contacts are all free of dust.

Sorry, but I dont follow, as far as I understand each vote is grouped by areas, so one area will be Labour and its neighbouring area Conservative. Are you suggesting that the areas are ignored and the MPs divided up by the total percentage of votes rather than by area.? Andy There are a number of d...

I think the strongest reason against compulsory voting is that those who don't vote because they are too lazy are also going to be too lazy to acquire the information required to vote rationally. They will at best vote randomly, and at worst vote in some arbitrary but non-random way, like voting for...

Sounds good so far. I've used those FTDI devices before; they're so very useful.

I wish they would extend it downwards to require a high efficiency at 10% load, given the increasing disparity between modern PSU power ratings and PC's actual power consumption.

Yes.

I had a quick search and found this page: http://powerelectronics.com/power_systems/dc_dc_converters/power_buckconverter_design_demystified/ It gives a pretty good explanation of how to choose component values. Fortunately the criteria are relaxed for a fan controller because it doesn't matter much ...

Glancing at the PDF that trident linked to, I realized that you need to use a high-side switch instead of the low-side switch that I put in that diagram above, otherwise the tachometer won't work. Like this: http://mrevil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/temp/buck2.png You'll need an N-channel MOSFET to drive t...

It would probably be a good idea to start a new thread if you want to explore the idea further.

An RC filter would not be efficient, so there is no advantage to doing it that way. A buck converter doesn't have to be complicated. It could look something like this: http://mrevil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/temp/buck.png You just need to choose values of L and C that give acceptable ripple with both the...

I am guessing the pc has the non-magnetic version inductor, non-ferrite...single windings. meant to stop noise, noise is never just noise..the whole pc is a screaming frequency. Hence stabilizer, as I thought? I am going to add a fourth one to the new mobo, from the old mobo. The toroidal cores wil...

...Trident chose claims ID of 19.1A but he says it will only practically handle 2A. How does that work? It's probably to do with power dissipation. Anyway, if I was making a fan controller from scratch, I would make it in the style of a DC-to-DC converter . This is much more efficient than a linear...

I've seen them used on a few things, such as a CF-to-IDE adapter I have, but generally they are useless today. Do you really need to remove it though? It's not as if it takes up a lot of space.

USB hubs do differ in quality - I've used some that were horrendously unreliable. Some possible solutions that spring to mind: Connect the cameras to different USB controllers on the PC (assuming your motherboard is one with multiple controllers). This should result in more available power (and band...

Olle P wrote:Protection from:
- Dust.

Dust. It gets everywhere and it's really hard to get it off of computer parts because of all the little fiddly bits.

For HT, I reckon the best solution is a graphics card/IGP that supports 8-channel LPCM out of the HDMI connector, and a receiver that has a suitable input for it. I say this is the best solution because everything else is either analogue, lossy or only stereo. The only problem is the stupid DRM, whi...

Front panel connectors like that come in two types that I have seen: 1) PCB mounted. The ports are soldered to a board mounted behind the panel, then the cable is soldered to that board too, or there may be a pin header on there so the cable can be detached. In this case, you would need a suitable F...

I would recommend masking off a few areas to ensure that there is still good electrical contact between parts. In particular, where the side panels make contact, and where the motherboard standoffs screw in.

I've been using a CF card (with a CF-to-IDE adapter) as the OS drive in my fileserver for some time now. It certainly saves power and noise, but it's also almost never used except when booting in my case, so I don't notice the speed of it (or lack thereof).