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- Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:25 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: undervolting multiple fans
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2249
That's still a reasonable amount of current, you'll want a pretty large resistor. a 5watt resistor would adequitely handle 3 fans. the way i'm considering doing it is this: create a 4 pin molex to 4 pin molex adapter, but in those lines, hook a 5watt resistor with whatever ohmage i'd need to get 6-...
- Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:17 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my parents a computer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5781
hmm.... i may change my video card choice to this one. the other passive cooling options are kind of scaring me.
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- Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:15 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Passive Video Cards
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4564
i think i may have just seen the answer to my problems.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127287
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127287
- Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:52 pm
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Silverstone aiming for 95% efficient PSU
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13152
12V into a home.....to run an air conditioner, a heater? You're talking about copper wiring the size of your wrist. No way..... Heh, shows how much I know about electricity :roll: shows how much you know. high voltage current is far more efficient at travelling distances than low voltage current. a...
- Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:45 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Passive Video Cards
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4564
Passive Video Cards
Do they need a fan actively blowing air over them, or can they work with just airflow within the case? i'm looking at these 2 video cards... the asus 8600GT - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121076 and the gigabyte 8600GT - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82...
- Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:45 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: undervolting multiple fans
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2249
undervolting multiple fans
I'm too cheap to use a fan controller...so...
i want to use an inline resistor to run multiple fans at approximately 7 volts. the fans will be a yate loon 120mm, and 2 92mm scythe "real quiet" fans.
the thing is.... i want to run them all with a single resistor. Can i do this?
i want to use an inline resistor to run multiple fans at approximately 7 volts. the fans will be a yate loon 120mm, and 2 92mm scythe "real quiet" fans.
the thing is.... i want to run them all with a single resistor. Can i do this?
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:28 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my parents a computer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5781
Short and sweet: - Unless someone games or does heavy 3D rendering, you don't need the latest or greatest in graphics cards(DX10 is another story) - I've no experience of G.Skill, but people use it and they seem happy with it: I'm sticking to Kingston and Corsair - Ninja feels like overkill. You co...
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:20 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my parents a computer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5781
Hello, Well, the 17" iMacs are a pretty good deal: they are a bit more money than a equivalent Windows machine ($1,000-1,200) but not that much more, and they are virtually immune to viruses and malware. The tech support time would be a lot lower than with a Windows PC because of this. The parts fo...
- Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:40 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my parents a computer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5781
they will not go for an mATX system. i tried to convince them to go matx, (i LOVE the look of the NSK 3300/3400) but they wont budge. they value this "expandability" or some such BS. :P tbh, they wont ever use the extra PCI slots, but they want them anyways. who am i to argue? they're intending on u...
- Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:44 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Powerful & Quiet Upgrade - Input Please :)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6349
- Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:41 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my parents a computer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5781
Building my parents a computer
yeah.. saddled with tech support, and so on... anyways, here's what i've come up with. they said they wanted a reasonably powerful, but reliable (stress on reliable) system, but.. the computer i built for them before didnt have quietness even remotely in the furthest reaches of my mind. so, it's a s...
- Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:22 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: What the....Athlon 64 3700+ (S939) CPU price going up?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6236
- Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:59 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Asus: better for NVidia cards?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3392
- Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:48 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: XFX 7600GT Fanless - Fin orientation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3039
if you look at the hard drive cage, it has 4 blisters with holes in them, properly spaced for mounting a 120mm fan. not the best location, but it will draw air over the hard drives, and it will force air underneath the video card. i just dont know if it's airflow pointing directly at the end of the ...
- Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:54 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: XFX 7600GT Fanless - Fin orientation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3039
XFX 7600GT Fanless - Fin orientation
okay, so i'm slightly concerned about the use of a fanless video card in the computer... (building this for parents. since they're footing the bill, i'm recommending components to make the computer as quiet and stable as possible, rather than as cheap as possible) i've pretty much decided to use the...
- Wed May 16, 2007 1:13 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: CPU warranty says own heatsink only - what would you do?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5260
i've never returned a processor, but... just install the ninja. if you have any problems, do the following. uninstall ninja, and install retail hsf. see if it works now. if it does, then reinstall ninja properly. if it doesnt, then send in the retail hsf with proc. (by installing the retail hsf, you...
- Thu May 10, 2007 6:35 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Undervolting yate loon 120mm's with inline resistors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6527
Undervolting yate loon 120mm's with inline resistors
I got the 120mm Yate-Loons to replace the Antec Tricools that I have on my sonata II. The thing is, I don't really want to 7 volt them through the standard method of feeding power into the 5volt rail... the thought kind of scares me. Also I can't afford/don't want to spend the money on a rheostat. S...