designed in sweden by semcon, it's a case made of ceramics

http://www.kapsel.com/

These are little things that they light and put in the bottom of your central-heating boiler, to make sure it's not leaking. Once lit, they give of lots of thick, harmless smoke without the risk of particles or condensation killing your PC. that sounds like the perfect thing. even better then perfe...

i'd like to visualize the airflow in my case to see if/where hot air is trapped and just generally how air flows inside the case. been searching the web but i can't seem to figure out what the pros use or what i can get hold of. preferably a product that doesn't leave my motherboard and components a...

mp3car has a faq on the subject: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=524050

it's important to recognize that you need to run xp embedded or xp will chew up your limited writes in no time.

ursvik wrote:What is a reasonable full load core temp for a venice 3500+ ? (using cpu-BurnIn)

i believe amd specs a maximum operating of 65-70 degrees centigrade.

both mycom.se and microstore.se are selling the ultra-120 and specifies that it needs an adapter for am2. reasonably they should be able to supply said adapter and/or adapter for the xp-120?

or is it time to go passive with a ninja?

i don't believe you can house protection against lightning in such a small housing as a pc psu. imagine the bolt has a potential of 10 to 120 megavolts (i have seen figures in this range), if that current decides to take a stroll through your pc. i don't anything will stop it. i'd say it's more impo...

and then mount it vertically rather then horizontally. should be best for convection.

tiny workstations:
http://www.linutop.com/

tiny workstations and servers:
http://www.gumstix.com/

Is the "Quiet" mostly referring to the fact that with less heat generated, you don't need a lot of loud fans? i should think so. marketing speak i soften bashed here in the forums and articles just for that reason. it's often just a load of manure. most notably the dBa/cfm-figures for fans are ofte...

(BTW, I'm not entirely sure that the fan speed control is part of the Cool 'n' Quiet feature, or a different bios feature, to be honest.) you are right to doubt that. fan speed control is a bios feature completely seperated from c'n'q. all c'n'q does is to reduce the cpu speed and voltage when idle...

Chocolinx wrote: 3. If I decided to get a laptop HDD instead, are SATA Laptop HDDs the same as 3.5" HDD SATA connectors?

yep. plug and play!

kent.

i'm sure i've seen someone reducing the height of the ninja by a few mm but i can't seem to find it now. can't even remember if i googled it or saw it here on spcr. i seem to recall it had something to do with the bolts on top of the heatpipes being there for aesthetic reasons, not actually having a...

Trip wrote:To be honest, I know so little of Finland and Sweden that I just think of y'all collectively as Nordics.

that's ok, you're all americans to us.

kent.

My guess is that you could get the power draw of a normal Sempron pretty close to an EESFF by undervolting. second that. you'd probably have no problem running the 1.4v version at 1.25v or even less if you take it down a notch. so if there's a price difference you'd probably be just as happy (and c...

i haven't optimized mine for a while, programs like sisofts sandra and daemontools add drivers that load at boot-time (hum, when i think about it sandra loads a couple of services, not drivers). 13s post 25s xp boot 'til login screen msi k8ngm2-fid amd a64 3200+ at 2.3ghz samsung hd080hj sata 2x512m...

i saw the hbo documentary "hacking democracy" today and it pissed me of. can't imagine what you north americans must feel like. made me wanna audit our own system here in sweden.

regards, kent.

a fan-modded vf900 running at 5v will not be audible. neither would a passive card with a quiet 92 or 120mm fan. some clever ducting and it would be running cool and quiet (r).

kent.

RasmusseN wrote:I also think your S12 500W is sufficient and you don't need to get a new PSU.

i second that. plenty of power to run two systems like that!

kent.

i would go for the tnn 300 or 500 and if needed make some omdifications with internal fans and ducting to keep the temperatures down. noise should remain low if some thought is put into the ducting and quality fans are used.

a couple of good looking boxes those two...

kent.

VÄLKOMMEN! concerning the drives, i think you'll be happy and for sure more quiet with silent 7.2k drives. i run the samsung 80gb sata-drive myself and i'm very happy with it! don't bother with sata2. a tower-style hs is a good recommendation for the p180b, it makes ducting easier if you wanna go ...

My personal rule of thumb is that heat dissipation of 30W is about the maximum that can be done passively (unless we are talking table-sized heatsinks or freakishly low ambient temps); i have been toying the idea lately to pull a long tube from my appartments forced mechanical ventilation system ri...

Also, I mentioned that I had troubles finding a fan that would start at the 3.9V the PSU delivers at low loads. I don't know about the 80mm Nexus fans, but I've heard their 120mm sometimes have troubles at 5V. so why don't you just run it of of something other then the psu fan controller and consta...

i'm still wondering where the sensors are located for "core", "sys" and "nb temp"? anyone?

thanks, kent.

there you go... with some clever ducting i'm rather certain that'll be great!

i've only come as far as to consider it. what is your question? looks simple enough to me?

regards, kent.

my older computer is a Pentium 3, 500Mhz, Slot-1 type (codenamed "Katmai"), and i would know if it can run without a fan without having problems with it? i used to run a 450mhz p3 24/7 on just a single nexus 92mm fan at about 9v, around 1000-1100rpm. it was ducted to cool the cpu, harddrive and psu...

wumpus wrote:Note that the case was open at the time, so airflow was not an issue. I took out my temperature gun and checked the

i would say that sometimes an open case spells less cooling because fan airflow just goes straight out of the case rather then pass over hot components.

regards,

i second nici and erssa: 1gb and a64 3200+. it's worth the cash.
amd stock hs is indeed rather ok on 5-7v. does bios have the ability to speed up at a certain thermal? if not a fanmate's probably a good idea. could run both case and cpu fan.

hälsningar, kent.

Yeah, second that question, because I'm wondering if those are the same ones that prevent Windows from locking media files when you click on them... and thereby stopping you from deleting them. I changed those, but I more or less assumed that the black flash was fixed by a driver update. i don't th...