Leon here http://beta.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44 got his from a sheet metal place, I guess a bigger hardware store would have them. I'm planning on getting a die cast Aluminium case for about 30AUD and lining that with Car acoustic foam, sticking some thermal paste inbetween the to...

It's not THAT dangerous, as long as you're gentle, I've done it to heaps of stuff that I've thermal expoxied, there's a http://www.articsilver.com here and it advises u of a different ratio of the epoxy so u can take it off easier and stuff, my advice is be VERY careful, I killed a Geforce DDR tryin...

cool, I went to the local auto shop and got some sound foam and it seems to make a difference and it was light as, as well, not bitumen based, I stuck that into the other computer and it didn't do much all well, please tell us how it goes.

My favorite cheap video card cooling hack was to get a old pentium heatsink, this were the fanless pentium days, I stuck this heatsink onto my Geforce DDR with Artic Alumina. The sink goes into thermal runaway when the sink has no airflow on it, passive cooling couldn't cut it <IMG SRC="modules/phpB...

I took off the stock fan off my northbridge as well, a loud as coolermaster sleeve bearing fan, I have a hot northbridge (KT133A) so the computer kept on dieing from a Northbridge that kept on reaching 40c+ temps. What I did was rip off the small sink and thermal epoxy a large CPU heatsink onto it, ...

Why do u need the monitor on while you're sleeping? <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif"> Just get Windoze to cut out the monitors after a hour or so on idle and problem solved <IMG SRC="modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif">
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