Nope. It's a "male end"/"female end" issue. You do know the difference right? Ah. I see... I would just scavenge for some extra wiring bits and rewire the fan myself, it's simple and free. I'd love to be able to do that, but I couldn't figure out how to take the 4 pin connectors apart... any pointe...

Is there a difference between the two? For example, CompUSA carries a "4 pin to 3 pin power adapter." Can I use it to connect, say, a 4 pin fan to a 3 pin power lead?

Yes good idea, but I think the problem it's not bootable but you can always use it as a second HD. That's a common miscoception, but that is not true. Compactflash standard requires the "cards" follow the IDE standard for accessing drives using PIO mode 3 exactly. The only reason it's not bootable ...

Anyone tried using one before? I want to know how much noise the thing makes, since I've never had one before. Considering that Hitachi plans on coming out with a 4 gig one by fall of 2003, it could, potentially, be used as a main hard drive for "modern" operating systems. (Windows, Linux with X, et...

ALL compactflash-compatible drives are bootable, as they follow the IDE standard. They all can only be accessed via PIO 3, however, as they're not DMA-able..., so performance may take a hit for large block transfers -- but, they have near-zero seek time, which may actually make them faster -- but, C...

Only if you can ensure that no containmination is possible. (i.e. no dust, etc. would ever actually enter the water, causing it to start carrying a charge.) The other thing to wonder about is... if it's a simple bath, that means the water just simply get warmer and warmer as time goes on... So that ...

The design makes use of a heat pipe, transferring the heat generated by the bottom heatsink to the heatsink/radiator thing at the top. So, only the top part needs to be cooled. (After all, the heat pipe will transfer all the heat to the top anyway, so as long as the top part is cooled properly, it s...

Another thing to consider is: Put the computer beside the desk instead of under it. Originally, I had my computer underneath my desk. Temperature inside the case was about 40-50 degrees C and I had a "middle of the road" P3. My feet are always sweating due to the heat, too. Once I moved it beside th...

1. Does anyone know of any others? 2. Are these types of fans quiet? 3. What's the best one?[/url] I just got a "generic" one at a local retail store. It claims to be quiet, and I believed them -- They are, if you have a normal PSU and relatively high-end graphics card. Once I actually started my s...

where do these fans get their power? 3-pins plug into the mobo and 4-pins to the PSU, would that be right? So if I have already used the 3-pin connector for my CPU HSF, where do I plug in any additional fans? Another idea: Check your graphics card. Some of them have fan leads. My PNY Geforce Ti4400...

Tried setups like this before -- it sounds great in theory, but if you need to stick CDs/floppies in your computer a lot, having to run back and forth constantly will eventually annoy you. ('course, one may be able to use Firewire drives + repeaters to locate the drives next to the monitor... )

why can't somebody just develop a cheap external powersupply you could buy separately. 100W would do just fine. There are. You know, like the ones that comes with notebooks and such? Search for AC/DC power supplies on Google for a whole bunch of them. Of course, actually using them may require some...

It really depends on what the case looks like -- normally, you'd want air go enter the case one way and flow out another, hopefully after blowing across all your components that requires cooling. So, can't really say...

Well, you can try a combination of various third-party RAM disks (Window's built-in one's too small, really...) and a Power Saving timeout for your HD... One thing, though... in Windows, your HD prob. won't stay powered off for long unless you actually moved your "virtual memory" to the RAM disk, as...

I think it's the fault of the graphics card designers, actually. After all, the "high performance" cards tends to abuse the specs and just barely avoid bumping against the case cover in ATX cases... In my case, for example... comparing the size of my old Voodoo 3 2000 card and my new NVidia card, it...