FYI--To my knowledge, the PSU does not need to be in a case to be grounded. The third wire in the power cord is your ground, at least in the US. That's why it's advisable to turn the PSU off but leave the plug in when working on the computer. I've run a few systems completely without a case. the po...

edit: One thing i did notice is that when the fan is spinning putting your fingers on the suck side,without touching the blades, does not increase noise. But if i do it on the Papst it starts to sound like a propeller airplane!! :shock: Does this mean the Glacialtech can be used with a grille witho...

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cnps6000, just underclocked my cpu til it ran stable at reasonable temperatures.

I never got round to makiing it, but if you know someone who does a little upholstery in their spare time, you could make wood framed cushions..

griff

Well it s not exactly -40c here :lol: More like -5, very dark, and heavy wind.. I have eperienced under -40c though, in northern Finland, and its pretty cold :lol: ... and, further OT, -40 is the temp at which the idiotic Fahrenheit scale and Celsius coincide. Does anyone know if the above link rea...

perhaps you need to suspend the power transformer :D On a slightly more serious note, i have seen a monitor modded with fans, so perhaps if it were soundproofed and a little airflow pushed through with some quiet panaflos? Ither that or you open it up and work out which component is causing the buzz...

Only issue I had with this method is that I wanted to put a cool pack on top of the drive (not only under it) but I decided against covering that "do not cover hole" on the drive. To my knowledge, that hole is only to ensure the air pressure is equalised in the drive. I doubt it'd make much differe...

When i had a hard drive suspended in my 5.25 bay, i added heatsinks to it because my temperatures were in the 40s.

However, when i moved them lower down the case suspended in front of a 120mm fan, neither of them have gone above 30 degrees.

griff

what is the relationship between pc cooler and zalman?

I'm not sure at all becuase i've never seen the heatsink in real life, but those heatpipes look flexible - perhaps the bulk could just be repositioned?

I expect the fortron will be of somewhat higher efficiency, and you wouldnt need to volt mod the nexus at all.

griff

Rather than a cd rom for booting an os, couldnt you do a network boot?

I've installed windows 2000 on a pentium 233 with appropriate hardware for the age. It took a while to boot up, but ran as well as 98 or 95. Rock stable too.

griff

Firstly, try blowing compressed air into the fan, if you have it.

If not, a number of people have found them easy to take apart, clean, and regrease.

griff

That truepower is going to be noisy at stock, and there's really no point buying really dfast ram then underclocking it - just go for some rated at the speeds you'll use it at. griff I think 533MHZ 240pin memory is probably a lot easier to find than 400MHz 240pin memory. As far as I know the FSB wi...

Have you tried setting it above or below 12.5?

Some motherboards can only access either the 5-12 mutlitplier ranger, or the 12.5-18 range and need to be switched between the two, either with a jumper or a wire in the cpu socket.

See if either range is accessible.

griff

That truepower is going to be noisy at stock, and there's really no point buying really dfast ram then underclocking it - just go for some rated at the speeds you'll use it at.

griff

Would it be worth using a regular PSU with reasonably high efficient and a voltmeter to find out how much power your system draws already? Or do you not have it built yet?

save your money!

Though i would suggest buying from a reputable company with a lifetime warranty, cos generic ram has been known to just go bad.

Someone on a forum i visit has had success with makign a huttle pretty quiet, he bought the silenx PSU and cut some fan holes where he put undervolted fans

I use a contact cleaner from maplin, comes in a spray bottle and promises to leave no residue. Seems to clean my heatsinks very effectively and is only 2 or 3 pounds for a can. Is there a lot of space around the northbridge? Perhaps a low profile, wider cooler like an old CPU hs would fit? You'd onl...

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bassdrive.com jungle radio, still the station i come back to most.

alright, the reason I'm going fanless is cos i'm modding for silence, looks, low cost, and clockspeed. Not a very good balance i know, but so far the compromise is actually working quite well. As for the peltier, if i do use it i will be powering it with a separate power supply, most likely just a (...

fraid i dont have any real answers, but I've heard nothing but bad reports from Qtec power supplies, a lot of ppl on my regular forum have had them explode after a month.

flo-w : i think the easiest way would be to buy a few heavy duty resistors and some heatsinks, V=IR and VI=W should be all you need to know...

Now you've removed the 92mm fan from your psu, you may want to try increasing the heatsink surface area, by gluing a couple of heatsinks on. I started a thread in psu cooling about this, a few of us have had good results from doing this. Secondly, perhaps you want to try a resistor instead of the 7V...

Just a thought - run a regular defrag and set your pagefile to a constant size (say, 1Gb) to reduce fragmentation. Is your hard drive on the same IDE bus as any other devices? Grab a copy of sisoft sandra and do some hard disc benchmarks, see if they're any slower than what you should be getting. gr...

The difference between 4x and 8x, at least up until the last generation of cards (9800/5900) series isn't very big at all. Secondly, you DEFINITELY need to clean the cpu and get new paste on there. Thirdly, i own the NF7, which is cheaper than the S and clocks very nicely. I also have a zalman north...

to my memory, the slk948 performs admirably with a low airflow fan - in the UK it can be had for £15.

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stealthgirl - good to see your project, nice to know i'm not the only one who's tried this. Larry - having had an accident when my fan stopped and a heatsink became dissattached, i am tempted to agree with you. I'll see what happens when i re-attach them, hopefully i'll have enough sense to do some ...