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-...

hmm.... i may change my video card choice to this one. the other passive cooling options are kind of scaring me.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127287

i think i may have just seen the answer to my problems.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127287

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...

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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

swap the phantom with a corsair HX-520.

the phantom spins up at a relatively low load, and when the fan is spinning, it's significantly louder than an active power supply.

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...

RaptorZX3 wrote:and soon there will be PCI-Express 2.0 (32x), retro-compatible with PCI-Express 16x though, so it should be good.

i doubt we've used even a third of the bandwidth available on the PCI-e 16x slot.

32x would be ...wasteful...

samuelmorris wrote: I've used Sapphire for a number of graphics cards and not had any issues yet.

i've used sapphire - radeon 8500LE's

the only problem with them isnt a stability issue, but the fan on them dies fairly quickly.

not a big deal, iceberq just perfectly fits on the GPU.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...