In my limited experiences, SMART data is not readable when drives are in a RAID 0 array. I've used two different controllers and SMART data was not readable from the drives. So I don't think you can just change a setting and get it. It is also possible you can't do CHKDSK in RAID-0? Because honestl...

Overall with my experience with most WD drives. They're all pretty quiet in terms of seek noise and idle noise. Even my external isn't so bad. They don't vibrate as much either. In comparison to the 400GB Seagate I have exteral, that thing is a huge vacuum cleaner. Very nasty seek noise. But in the ...

My favourite so far is the CoolerMaster X-Craft for eSATA. I have 2 them actually. The bracket that came with it works great too. I remember reading back 5 months ago that some people had problems with them but it seems like CoolerMaster has fixed the problem. Looks pretty good, and reasonably pric...

Some RAID controllers will prevent you from reading the SMART data from the member disks when the drives are RAIDed. The curt answer to that issue is that if you want minimal pain, stay the hell away from low cost RAID setups, and way the hell away from RAID0. I wouldn't necessarly make anything of...

I thought about the Scythe Quiet Drive but as you said its not an external enclosure. Maybe ill go with it anyway if "real" external enclosures cant dampen the vibrations enough from the HDD. Your English is just fine. Thanks for the answer. You're probably best off using a Scythe Quiet Drive if yo...

My favourite so far is the CoolerMaster X-Craft for eSATA. I have 2 them actually. The bracket that came with it works great too. I remember reading back 5 months ago that some people had problems with them but it seems like CoolerMaster has fixed the problem. I've also tried Vantec's Nexstar3 eSATA...

Recently I switched over to a RAID-0 with two notebook drives. Two WD160GB 2.5". About 2 weeks old now. After installing Windows XP SP2 everything seems to be working fine. But recently I've run into some problems but I can't tell if it's my drives or just a software problem with RAID. For one, I ca...

Does such a thing exist? Like I want to put my 2.5" HDD in a 3.5" rack. Just wondering if such a thing exists. I actually wanted to buy a solution where the 2.5HDD sits on a PCI card so that way it draws power from the motherboard. But the product called Upgradeware HD25-IS isn't sold in Canada for ...

Bories36 wrote:Listen to these temps. With the CPU fan on high~1100rpm, I get these sweet temps.

Ambient: 23c

Idle: 27c.
Load: 39c. (With Front Panel Shut!)

Those temps are really good. I can hardly even come close to getting those temps. My CPU is even slightly undervolted too.

I'd suggest the NeoHe line or one of the new 80+ PSUs they have.

I usually blow fast shots of compressed air and have the vaccum in the other hand to catch all the dust flying around. Also remember to crack open a window, compressed air isn't exactly Oxygen is a very deadly chemical if you inhale too much of it. If you can bring your computer outside. But really ...

Lightice wrote:I tried, but little avail - I fear that if I bend it too much, it'll snap off. Now that I think of it, would rolling some tape around it be an adequate insulation?

Electric tape would work and probably your best and only solution.

I noticed that the package it comes with the 775 bracket is a lot better designed. Looks like it won't get in the way of any capacitors this time. If that's the case, maybe it's time to take out the Ninja in my comp and put this one in since I undervolt anyway.

It seems like it's running at reasonable temperatures depending on the speed of your fan. My CPU runs idle at about 45C with fans running at 600RPM. About the same room temps, but the humidity is pretty nuts in my room; (Not a 100% how humidiy works into heat over the room temp.). But yeah, anyway s...

In my experience with the Universal Retention kit, it doesn't play nicely with 775 boards and a Rev B Ninja Combo. Mainly because, once you change you 775 to 478 the bracket used to mount the ninja 478 styles, is even larger than the 775 bracket, thus making it even more troublesome to attach it. In...

My newest Rig:

Seasonic SS-300SFD

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I doubt at all your heatpipes just stopped working, like everyone else said. With my Ninja my temps jumped a skyrocketing 10C in the past 2 weeks with my 120MM fans at 60% (I never change them from this) It's gotten a lot hotter in my area and I haven't cleared out the dust. You might want to try bl...

If you stock cooler is anything like the X1950Pro it shouldn't be that bad. Probably still the loudest thing in your machine but I remember the stock cooling not to be too bad. It's default at 40%, on my Pro I remember bring it down to 27% and the loads were fine during a rthdribl.

Nice review, thanks. About Speedfan: With my Gigabyte, I had to change the speed's option in the advanced options tab from Smartguardian to the other option. There was no such option for this board. Speedfan recognized 3 chips and there was no PWM option on any of them. In addition, on some boards ...

The 965 chipset has integrated graphics and is considered the best chipset for overclocking, with Gigabyte's DS3 as the most popular for overclocking by far. But it's not 945. He's looking for something that's good for overclocking; I don't think the mATX (the one with intergrated graphics) of the ...

You only have really 2 choices in boards if you're looking for the 945G chipset. Asrock (forgot model number sorry) or Asus P5LD2-VM I think all 945G chipsets only come in mATX flavour. As a personal experience I've been able to get the P5LD2-VM up to 350FSB Prime95 stable over 24 hours. The board r...

That's a cool cage but won't that still make a lot of noise during seek? The rubber is a good idea, but they're still solid materials, and will leak vibrations to the cage which would rattle against the case. You might want to switch up the rubber with sort of soft foam, or you could insulate the ba...

Why can't we Canadians get deals like these.

If all this is true: - No Noise Increase - Higher CFM - Better Cooling I'd love to try one of these on my Ninja. I saw those results at the top and they're very impressive if its all true. But I don't get how it wouldn't raise any noise levels? Wouldn't the air cause some sort of turbulance seeing h...

Chris Chan wrote:Bah, I should have been more observant. :/ Well, if the discombobulated SS300 works for you, then that's cool. But you still need to fix that it leaks out of the PSU front into the main compartment.

All done! 2 New photos added! Wiring is a lot cleaner now too.

Hey andaca. Nice to see you're happy destroying $60 heatsink ;_; What a waste. Hey and did you notice the * beside the "ok" and did you even bother to click the more* button? Seriously. Some people are ignorate these days, and have you even read around the forum for suggestions about this board and ...

If you're in the Vancouver area, get NCIX to pricematch DirectCanada. I thought NCIX and DirectCanada are the same company. They're willing to pricematch with themselves? Impressive. I believe NCIX owns DirectCanada, kind of like BestBuy owns Futureshop. But still they work independently from each ...

Awesome, a kludged rig right out of the early days of Silent PC's! I'd put an S12 in there; can't imagine that the discombobulated SFD is terribly safe. I like the looks of that case, and nice pics. I'd suspend the HDD, though, in the bottom 5.25 bay, and prop the bay door open for air. That way, i...

Thanks for that; I'm not looking for ultra-quiet, so as long as the stock CPU fan isn't particularly noisy unlike the Tornado I currently have cooling my 2600+ Athlon, which is by far the noisiest component in my current system, I'll be happy. P. If you set Q-Fan to silent in the BIOS the CPU coole...

Yeah, I would really get rid of that stock AMD cooler. Although I'd probably try and modify the 120mm exhaust a bit as well, so that it can just but put up with soft rubber fan mounts without touching the case, as well as make the hole bigger so you'd actually get some effect from having a 120mm in...