Call it placebo effect if you wish, but I noticed a difference between a 75GXP (7200, 2MB cache) and an 800JB (7200, 8MB). The faster drive makes the system noticeably more responsive.

Ralf Hutter wrote:I cut it about 3/16' longer than I needed ( x=piR² )

Somehow, I doubt a 120mm fan hole needs 118cm² of molding. Maybe George Clinton's being a bad influence on you? Try x=piD.

PorBleemo wrote:...the 12v rail drops to 11.85v idling and I think this might be bad.

That's better than 2%, and the ATX standard is 5%. Shouldn't cause any problems.

Ralf Hutter wrote:

You know, I'd always thought you were Scandinavian, not Jamaican.

Aren't aluminum hats supposed to act as Faraday shields? So if you want them to protect you from more than sunburn, you'll need to ground them. Perhaps you could run a multi-strand wire down your back and fan the conductors out across the ground. Ralf, you'll need a wig with a wicked-long ponytail.

How about a Tagan PSU?

Did I understand this correctly or is there anything that would differ between a modded Applebread and a Barton? No and yes. The Applebred is actually a Thoroughbred core with some disabled L2 cache. As you mentioned, people have been activating this cache with some success, but it will never match...

I didn't say that negative pressure keeps it cleaner, I said it doesn't get any dirtier with negative pressure. In other words, the same amount of dust seems to end up inside my case whether it's setup with negative pressure or positive pressure. Please excuse my lack of clarity. I meant relatively...

Ralf Hutter wrote:More airflow = more noise, and perhaps more dust as well!

Exactly! You're now seeing about the same dust as with positive pressure and more airflow, so the negative pressure may not be keeping your box cleaner.

The Zalman comes with its own heatpipe-cooled PSU. I'd bet a cookie that's all the Voodoo uses.

silvervarg wrote:According to Panaflo specs (from the links Ephemeral posted) the nominal RPM is the same, as is the noise level.

Something's weird here. I looked at the Digikey pages, and the FBL120 is specced to use more power while moving less air and making more noise than the FBA120. Anyone?

This slight negative pressure is generally the coolest (temperature-wise) setup to run on most systems that I've played with and I see no particularly bad dust buildup either, certainly no worse dust buildup than on any of my older "positive-pressure" setups. But, then again, you are flowing less a...

I think you'd be a lot better off with a big paper filter like Bluefront uses.

bigred wrote:Hammer, Yeah I like that intake idea from the 6077. I wonder if that part is removable, and therefore orderable from Lian Li?

It is removable, because that's how you pull the filter to clean it. OTOH, the frame is awfully obstructed, so I'd think about DIY instead.

Pictured here is the original intake and here is the planned modification. That looks like a decent improvement. If I had a 6070, though, I'd be tempted to put a big filter in the floor, like the 6077's . Also the case only has a single 80mm rear exhaust. There is enough room on the mobo tray to ad...

I believe ducting is the key to sucking air off the HSF successfully. Notice that Alphas have the aluminum shroud around the top of the pins, which forces air to run across more of each pin's length. You can experiment on other HSFs with masking tape to achieve the same effect.

Click to Spode's Abode.

I've just been reading about NTFS disk volumes. The spanning I described above is NOT fault tolerant. I'm crushed. even though I should've seen it coming.

PhilgB wrote:Good stuff. Ill try that then.

Keep us posted. BTW, going back to your first post, doesn't the NF7-S have SATA RAID?

So how will windows view the drives? The first partition with windows as C:, then the second will be the leftover space of disk0 + all of disk 1 as D: ? Yes, unless you choose different drive letters. :D And you can map the D drive into a folder on the C drive if you wish as well. What happens if o...

MikeC wrote:Where's the market!?

That's easy! I'm going to build high-end HTPCs in these cases and sell them to everyone who owns Pass Aleph amps.

What I described is not a RAID. IIRC, Win2k offers it as well, but it's been a while...

Is there a way to mount everything to one folder for viewing the files, while keeping everything in separate drives? I'll assume you're running XP. You need to have the OS on its own partition, so don't use the whole drive if you're doing a fresh install. Go to Start/Control Panel/Administrative To...

I think that is true if you use a RAID controller card, because of the PCI bus limit, but what about my Intel Motherboard D875PBZ, which has integrated RAID support? While the ICH5R removes RAID from the PCI bus, there remains a 266 MB/sec bottleneck between the ICH and the MCH (aka northbridge). T...

Actually the $39 is too much. I found the slk3700bqe for $77 at Newegg and the 350 power supply that comes with the case is $43 if purchased on it's own. That leaves the 3700bqe valued at $34. Charging $39 for the very similar Compucase is too much. The real problem is Antec is charging too much fo...

Are you absolutely sure that drive has fluid bearings? I thought that the FDB drives were PB model numbers.

Seal, if you pull the drive bays, I can't see why you don't recommend the 3700AMB instead.

XPav wrote:Just the ATX.

What's that little white thing to the southwest of the CPU socket?

I've never heard of Sharkoon, but this HSF looks competitive with the Zalman 7000.

Adhesive putty (Fun-Tak, Blu Tack, etc.) works well for this. It's not strong enough for an aluminum Evercool 120 if you move the case, but plastic fans are no problem.