10 m or 30 ft is....as noted...possible but 3-4 m or 9-12 ft....such as an adjacent room or closet is FAR easier. eSATA allows 6ft of high speed transfer -or 2m, As I recall--USB2 allows about 3 times that. If you use about 16 ga wire,which you can get at any auto parts shop,with crimp connects,that...

Well....yeah , but... "server" does not al;ways mean a lot of power-capacity. There's an ITX mobo that runs a Geode 1.4 GHZ at 18 W and I'd bet it's possible to do it with VERY minimal fan RPMs. Put a 500 G Spinpoint in an eSATA external and you move the HDD chatter to 6' away---could even mod that ...

I like the wheel. It would be doable for a single puter system-not a 2 mobo thing. A small Wine barrell could also make a pretty spiffy case...a bit of an engineering challenge. The unit I suggested for Bluefront would be a nice finished piece of Oak (or?) furniture that can look like art and have t...

For certain it will be floor-standing on casters. The filter will be on the very bottom (I think), with a 220mm fan directly above it blowing upward into the main computer chamber. I think this might be the easiest/most effective setup. The low-power board could be passively cooled by the bottom in...

Are you thinking desktop or floor standing? Are you going to use a Zen or a PSU with a fan for the main unit? I'm thinking of a layout where the footprint is about 12"x12" and a 250 mm (filtered) Would be in the top or bottom. One wall would mount the MATX (or full atx?) mobo AND it's PSU and HD.......

PC Extreme.com Frozen CPU.com and Performance PC's each lists the basic 800 rpm 13 blade 250 mm....about 20 bucks----22.50 for the one with blue LEDs. Sadly.....none of those sources has one in stock right now. Case makers seem to be buying them as fast as they appear. Where there's demand---supply ...

250 mm fans can be had at $20-25,will undervolt all the way to 4v. I don't recall the sites but I'll see if I can find it

You're correct I am having a very difficult time silencing this rig. I experimented last night by unplugging the two front 92mm fans. To my surprise, I got about 50% improvement in term of noise reduction but at the expense of raising 4C degree on the motherboard (idle increased to 40C). I don't kn...

At New Egg the Sempron Palermo 3000 is $30 and there's 14 754 mobo's still there with most between $30-$50. The 754 3000 Sempy has Cool + Quiet.

So....$70 out of the beer budget for this week and you get a nice upgrade.

don't wait long...754's may be harder to find before long.

[quote="sorenjacobi"]Hello all, I have been using my old Captech Decibel as a file server and audio player. A nice really silent Pentium 4 1.8 with a GeForce 6200 AGP card and an Adaptec 2810 SATA raid controller. But over the last couple of months, it has become more and more unstable. Freezes at l...

It's hard to say...If you have pretty high CPU+Case fan RPMs you can be in the 27-37 C zone. Of course...40-44 C and a lot less fan noise is probably a good target. Crystal CPU does temps too as I recall....but a real good idea-get a Digital Doc or other front panel thingy with a rep for accuracy-se...

I think that You want to aim for As quiet as these hot components allow----ant the more LARGE diameter fans-at low RPM-the better. Even consider the Xclio case than has 2 250 mm fans,and then figure you do need the PRESSURE of a fan on the heatsink If you hunt down some of Felger Carbon's posts-he ...

The "Quiet" Antecs focus on damping and restricting noise---and on a rig with a rather cool CPU/GPU---work well. They do NOT appear to do well AT ALL on a "Gamer" rig with an OC CPU + an 8800 or similar hot Vid card. The case for starters---is not very large. Volume means it takes more to build up h...

Basically....yes it is impossible in-especially, a low profile,low cubic inches case. You won't be able to get that sort of HD performance from a Via or Geode chip and onboard vid. You won't quite get a 65 nm Lima undervolted enough to have no case fans. A passive PSU still puts out heat---as does a...

I'd invest in a Sabre saw or Dremel and put some Feet on the case to add clearance. I'd cut some holes in the floor. I'd use ZERO intake fans-remove any front fan. If that is not enough......then theres gonna be a good sized fan -probably on the top or in the door. I'd prefer a 140 mm at 800 rpm or ...

Felger Carbon, I am certainly more concerned about acoustics than looks. I understand what you are saying, but I'm just not sure you are right about the noise levels. My current system is a water cooled X2 4200 and 7800GT, which at one point had six HDDs but now only has two. Nexus 480W PSU. The WD...

Just because a Vid card and a PSU run fanless does not mean they are not putting out heat. Do you mount that PSU externally? Likewise....a VERY good CPU cooler can pull heat up from the CPU to the fins,but those fins themn must transfer heat. If its a hot day in Barstow and your car just sits there ...

Biostar ta690g gives blank screen lockup when you have 4gb of ram and have pci-e card installed like 8800gts 640mb in my case. I told ATi/Amd about it and told me on my customer care ticket they won't support their chipset. Do not use the 828 bios update I updated to it and got all red errors in me...

Unfortunately I don't have a wattage meter to test my TA690G, but it lets me go down to 0.8v for CPU, while it only lets me go down to 1.95v for memory. Other than that, it looks speedfan started to support 690G chipsets with their beta versions, but it's not perfect yet. However, I didn't enjoy th...

I'm going to build a pc for my living room (ubuntu mythTV box under my hitachi rear projection lcd). I need your advise on this configuration. Is it quiet for a living room ? It's going to replace my dvd player and vcr and I will use it for pvr. AMD ATHLON64 X2 BE2350 2.10G/2000/1M/AM2 45W SCYTHE N...

A nice job of getting a maxed gamer rig about as quiet as could be done. This may be a good candidate for a Crystal CPUID setup,if you can match your OC setting,and have a middle level that's a mild underclock/undervolt for those times when you need some power--but way less than an OC 6600. With the...

Looks truly hideous to me. Also seems to be another cheaply constructed case sold at a ridiculous premium. Huh? I'd say it looks rather plush and well engineered. The Hexus review mentioned it being "too heavy" but that is a plus if quiet is important. This has NO front fan,uses floor fans.......ex...

This idea is a bit rough--but another odd layout thing The Puter would be a plane type layout maybe as little as 8" deep, about 2 ft high and 30-32" long. This is tricky to describe- but on a 24" x 32" solid plywood panel,near the top, are mounted a matx mobo in one section,a Zen psu and 2 HDD's (in...

I scouted a bit on ITX,It looks like Jetway has got pretty serious about ITX....they do several Via C7 boards including 1 ghz fanless They do a 1.4 GHZ AMD Geode board....about a 14 w job---but it has enough oomph to handle a nice % of you puter needs. They even do Core 2 and Pentium M. With some of...

I think the problem is with the Gemini and not the fan; those fins are just too close together to deal with low-speed airflow. Better to use the Scythe, and mod a mini for the NB. The trick is to channel airflow considering the air path on BOTH sides of the Gemini's fins-which at least are in a pla...

Hey bluefront....check out the Coolermaster Gemini 2 at New Egg....$33 with a $20 rebate = 13 bucks for a giant cooler well suited to a DIY bigfan rig Actually, Ron, I had the same idea a while back. I discovered the air velocity from the big fan was very slow, too slow for cooling the GeminII. Whi...

Hey bluefront....check out the Coolermaster Gemini 2 at New Egg....$33 with a $20 rebate = 13 bucks for a giant cooler well suited to a DIY bigfan rig

That idea...which is an extension of one I'd been thinking of would mean a case that is relatively wide---but not very deep. Figure the dimensions of the main Mobo plus 3"--4". The taller it is....the less the dust is drawn up,and in the lower area the intake path can be tweaked some,you create a bi...

...or spend $20 on yard sale power tools and get some wood ,screws,sandpaper and varnish and make a case more perfect than you can buy. A scrapped old case can provide parts-Mobo tray-backplane,Dvd/Cd mount etc One of the cases with the 250 mm side fan can be had between $35-45 ....not bad since the...

How about kind of cubed.....a full Mobo---horizontal up top...with a hinged upper lid/box that has the bigfan right above the mobo when the upper chamber is closed. In the upper- above the fan and wounted sideways-a Zen PSU. There=the Zen sends no heat to the system-is near all the exhaust exits-yet...