And here's another note of goodwill among the crowd. Of course it's all been said already, but isn't it nice that so many different people are saying it?
Happy Birthday SPCR!
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- Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:17 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: SPCR is 3 years old today
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21645
- Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:57 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What's the best type of files to put on WD740 Raptor drive?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 24305
Putting the pagefile on a RAM disk is counter productive. Reasons to leave the pagefile on the hard drive, rather than using a RAMdisk: - Paging stuff that hasn't been used from memory frees up space for disk caching. - It gives PhotoShop more RAM to play with. PhotoShop will make good use of up to ...
- Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:05 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: The Top SPCR Quiet 120mm Axial Fans Compared + 120mmAC Fans.
- Replies: 197
- Views: 528976
In general, thicker fans are capable of overcoming more backpressure from restrictions in case airflow - that's useful when trying to blow through a radiator. You still need to be careful when selecting which brand & model of fan to get - a good 25mm fan may produce better airflow with lower noise t...
- Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:46 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What's the best type of files to put on WD740 Raptor drive?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 24305
I'll reinforce nick705's suggestion - put OS pagefile on the Raptor, PS scratch on the 300 GB drive. DO NOT put both the pagefile and the scratch disk on the same drive - this will cause serious performance issues. (Obviously, if you only had one disk, you'd have no choice...) Raptor: OS, pagefile (...
- Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:14 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: E.A.R Grommets on a Tri-Cool?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4402
- Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:35 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: new FSP Green Power with 85% efficiency
- Replies: 88
- Views: 61409
Since the UK uses 240V AC, power supplies are able to operate at higher efficiency (a few percent), meaning less heat generated and slightly lower (temperature controlled) fan speed than the same system running on a 110-120V AC supply. I don't think that would account for a reduction from 30 dBA to ...
- Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:58 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: SLK3000B and Acoustic Dampening
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2237
Ralf, this is obviously too late to influence the OP, but given that both kits reportedly fit, wouldn't the AcoustiPack BQE kit be better, since it includes a foam lining for the case door? I guess you have to weigh a perfect fit against the HDD cage against better noise dampening for your optical d...
- Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:55 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Need case suggestions.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3205
If you get the SLK-3000B, and remove the TAC duct, you can install the AcoustiPack pre-cut kit for Antec SLK-3700BQE. This will block off the side panel holes, and includes a dust filter which you can use instead of a front fan. Then all you have to do is tape the gap at the bottom of the bezel. As ...
- Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:43 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Prime 95 and AMD 64 (90nm) underclock not compatible?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5432
I had memtest86 errors with my Crucial Ballistix PC4000 running at DDR400, but when I took the case side off, they went away. In the end, disabling CPU fan control (as it blows onto the RAM) and increasing case fan speed fixed it. My system isn't as quiet, but stability is more important to me. And ...
- Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:24 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Which DVD Burner would you get?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 33209
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:34 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Motherboards: Socket 939, PCIe Compatible, etc.
- Replies: 78
- Views: 54097
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:57 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hard disks rated by noise & heat
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4615
SR, and the problems with their noise measurements, have been dicsussed here often. (239 times according to the Search) So let's fix it! (Thread suggesting that SPCR does SR's noise testing for them - comments/opinions welcome, but stick them in that thread). As 15K drives go, the Seagate 15K.3 is ...
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:29 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Will the future be double-sided mobos?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7003
If you'd like to do something like this for yourself, there are watercooling systems that use a big passive radiator mounted to the outside of the case. More portable than a Reserator/EXOS freestanding tower radiator, but the standard inconveniences of watercooling apply - price, installation and ma...
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:59 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Any Problem With Putting a Hard Drive Up on Its Side?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2499
I've also have seen plenty of discussion and evidence confirming that any orientation with the disk either horizontal or vertical is fine for the disk. It is logical that such an orientation would have no effect on bearing wear, and besides, the bearings are designed to operate equally well under bo...
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:14 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Is there a way to read a list of supported CPU from the BIOS
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1139
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:23 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: What is better with XP120: Nexus blowing UP or DOWN?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5400
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:09 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Budget passive video card w/DVI?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7123
- Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:23 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: My 3000SLK Antec 120mm Fan
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11152
- Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:28 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: yet another nforce4 system
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1839
- Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:50 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: My 3000SLK Antec 120mm Fan
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11152
The simplest route to silence is either to buy an adapter, or to simply buy a Nexus 120mm case fan and a Zalman Fanmate to slow it down with. The Nexus is pretty quiet at 12V, but fanmated to 6-7V you'll struggle to hear it over the other fans in your system. The advantage of the fanmate method is y...
- Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:33 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Will a Zalman HP80 or a Tt Fanless Cooler fit on a 6600 AGP?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2223
- Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:27 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Balancing features in Athlon 64 3500+ system
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4628
The Aerocool VM-101 seems the best passive solution - see the User Reviews forum thread (by Edward Ng). SPD latencies are generally fine, but when using 4 DIMMS, you may find it won't boot or work reliably unless you specify a 2T (2 cycle) Command Rate timing in the BIOS. You can leave everything el...
- Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:30 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Suspending hard drive w/ Stretch Magic (picture)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 75292
- Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:22 am
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: Heat issues on Compaq N800V
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3425
It's probably worth a try - it might make a couple of degrees difference. Thermal pads are quite popular with OEMs because they're easy to use, but I don't know if they're used in the n800v, having never taken the CPU out of one. Laptops can be pretty tricky to improve. You could consider one of tho...
- Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:36 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Balancing features in Athlon 64 3500+ system
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4628
RAM - All S939 boards and CPUs should support PC3200/DDR400 with 4 1GB DIMMs. Most current S939 Athlon 64s won't support 1T timings with 4 DIMMs, whatever the board/chipset. I don't know if the latest 90nm spin of the 4000+ has the better memory controller, or if that improvement is due in a later r...
- Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:16 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Finally moving to A64 - could use an outside opinion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1952
Gholam - that all seems to make sense. Avoid using fans on the top of the case if you can, as they will have the most direct noise path to you. I'd suggest putting the PSU at the bottom - it's much less likely to ramp up. The 6800 is a pretty cool card, and you might get away with the Aerocool VM-10...
- Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:52 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Does fanless component really equal less noise as a whole?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2192
Chipset and graphics coolers are restricted in the size and positioning of fans they can use*, and this means they often have to use smaller fans running faster. *While adhering to ATX/AGP specs, which aftermarket coolers don't necessarily have to do. So it's often worth using passive graphics and c...
- Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:22 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: A64 Questions from a Regretful P4 User
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4769
THE PCI bottleneck is why modern chipsets have their own dedicated link to the southbridge, PATA and SATA controllers integrated into the southbridge, and dedicated links for GbE controllers. Even RAID is now integrated into many southbridges. Unless you need more than the integrated functionality f...
- Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:00 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Raid 0 - one of the disk makes more noise than the other.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2288
Although it's not quite true that disk activity always happens on both drives in a RAID 0 array simultaneously, it usually happens that way. The only likely reason one drive would produce more noise is that it's mounted in a different place that resonates more, or random sample variation (different ...
- Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:51 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: How do you attach a fanmate to the NV5 on a 6800GT?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4421