I have a Legend AGP 6600GT GPU card, which I wished to silence. AGP 6600GT cards have a non-standard layout, due to an extra HSI chip to translate a PCI GPU to the AGP bus. I couldn't find a purely passive cooling solution. (I'm aware of an AGP 6600GT card supplied with passive heatsink - Gigabyte G...

I upgraded from a 9200 AGP to a 6600GT AGP to play Oblivion. Other than the fact that I've not silenced it yet (I've posted about that separately in this forum today) I'm happy with it for this purpose. The default video settings were conservative, and it was much prettier once I'd increased the vie...

I had a very quiet single fan system, then Oblivion came along and I needed a new graphics card - I got a AGP 6600GT. Now I'm looking to silence it. I've browsed this forum, and I like the looks of the Aerocool VM-102, but I'm in New Zealand, and I've been unable to find anywhere here or in Australi...

While browsing online for SFF cases a while ago, possibly following a link from forums here, I found one (Lian Li?) with an upside-down motherboard. It looked very good except that the PSU was positioned directly over the CPU. This prevented the use of any abnormally high heatsink (which includes al...

The site sucks, however. (1) Useless without Flash (2) I get essentially no information from it. I think there's a whole lot of text that isn't rendering on my computer. E.g. under the "Products" tab, the only text I see is "Products" and "Read more" (which doesn't give me anything more to read.) (I...

Article request: Performance/watt for common GPUs.
[Edit - nevermind - it is all in "VGA card power dissipation" in the "Cool & Quiet VGA" forum.]

Is there any chance of a graph showing power consumption, benchmark speed (taken from the standard hardware review sites) and possibly cost? Either one graph (speed/power on x/y, cost as text annotating each point) or two (speed vs power on one, computation-per-Watt vs cost on another.) These would ...

I'm looking to move to a passive heatsink in the near future (Ninja, unless the Thermalright HR-01 becomes available in NZ Real Soon Now, and at similar price.) I'm wondering about the best placement for case fans. I have an Acousticase C6607 case, which is a standard tower case layout with two 120m...

Using a 5 drive capacity cage from an Acousitcase C6607. (The same guts seem to be in several other cases, including an Antec one.) http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8301/mount1kh.th.jpg Materials are the drive cage, a bit over 1m of round rubber strip and four cable ties. I got the strip from a lo...

I'd love to see that great fan round-up. In the academic world, when faced with the requirement for a large amount of tedious data collecting, we know how to handle it - make a graduate student do it. Could you use cheap student labour, or collaborate with a university engineering or acoustics progr...

JDA on another thread has posted a URL which shows pictures of the process:

[url]http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main ... n_k8bp.htm[/url]

I asked on these forums how to remove the backplate, as it wasn't obvious. On the back, the pins have 3 sections. Push in the middle section, then the other two squeeze together.

(Caveat - I haven't tried this yet myself.)

I've had a Silverstone for about 6 months now, no problems. It was the first thing bought in a staged upgrade, and for the first couple of months it was running in a case with no case fan (old 900MHz AMD CPU, low-spec GPU, single hard drive.) It ran hot-to-touch (painful after several seconds) which...

I've got a Gigabyte GA-K8V Ultra-939, currently using stock cooler with undervolted fan. I'm thinking of replacing this with a Ninja, but doing so requires removing the heatsink retention bracket. It looks like it is held on by plastic rivets - there is no obvious way of removing it without cutting ...

Yes, Linux is able to use swap. You dedicate a disk partition (or several) to swap. I don't think there is any point in getting flash memory for swap. Swap is just virtual RAM, and given that flash memory is about the same price as RAM, you're better off with real RAM - it is faster, doesn't require...

I've got an AMD-64 3000+ (Venice) system, currently with stock heatsink, fan running at 5V, plus a 120mm case fan and fanless (Silverstone) PSU. I'd like to make it a one-fan system by replacing the heatsink. I can get the Scythe Ninja or NCU-2005 fanless heatsinks locally (quietpc.co.nz.) Any advic...

[quote]All fans, except the TT Smart Fan II, run on about 5V. The Smart fan is manually controlled to cool the hard drive when needed, but it's very loud. Since it clicks at low speed, I'm going to get another fan. [/quote] Likewise - a big disappointment. I used the manual control, turned it fully ...