I calibrated my 3000+ winchester and get load temps of 40°C with the 7000alcu fan at 3V (ambient temperature was 20°), and seeing as how the xp120 is superior to the 7000alcu i find those temps very suspect. (I have an MSI RS480M2-IL, 2x512 twinmos pc3200, and a winchester 3000+)

The problem with using the brass standoffs that a) they dont fit, the have a different type of screw, and b) even if they did, you would not get enough pressure downwards, as they are designed to go all the was down and contact the motherboard, but in this case the metal from the brack that sticks ...

You'll need som slght ambient airflow around it, prefferably assisted with some low-flow fan. Otherwise it gets really hot!

The problem with using the brass standoffs that a) they dont fit, the have a different type of screw, and b) even if they did, you would not get enough pressure downwards, as they are designed to go all the was down and contact the motherboard, but in this case the metal from the brack that sticks u...

No Problem, oh and sorry I didn't notice this before but:

Welcome to SPCR

Use the stock backplate, it is much stronger than the one zalman gives you. use the screws that come with the black retention thingy, and attach it something like this:

Shuriken wrote:I dont know about the temp readings. But the voltage readings on my AN8-SLI thru nTune are way off. CPU 7.925 V , Mem 3.1 V

Either that or you have got very good cooling to be able to keep the CPU from melting everything around it.

Meh. Standard Overclockers site for making a quiet computer. They really tend to fail miserably. I would doubt that it is under 30-35db @ 1m (I seriuosly doubt their SLM readings, it is probably no good at so low sound pressure levels). Bad stuff: -SFF -Hardmounted Raptor *and* another WD (that is j...

Headd wrote: The fan I'm using is the recommended Panaflo L1A.

Just to be sure, you're not using an 80mm fan, are you?

i'm also want to replace my case fans with some quailty silent fans but i don't know which brand to trust. good: nexus (very slow, quiet, but low airflow and expensive) papst (good at 5V, sometimes clicky) globe, evercool, aucustifan, and a few others are OK. bad: silenx (very clicky, overpriced, a...

Hmmm, my DNS isn't not making it work, neither the IP nor the url works... Strange...

Um, either my DNS doest have that site or it is dead.. Could someone post the IP of that site so I can test? (Gothenburg (Sweden), Bredbandsbolaget)

Semi n00b here, are you sure that burnp6 had a higher priority than F@H?

I would say semi yes to question 2, you can indeed use a pot, but you must be sure that it will survive 200mA (or however much the fan takes at max and dd 25% for safety) of power, else you risk the pot burning up...

If it is just something quick and dirty, then I would preferr http://imageshack.us/ as you dont need to register or anything.

That looks like quite a decent setup. The only thing I would be worried about (assuming you're happy with the noise level) is the temperature of the harddisk (I keep mine in the 30-35°C range) when it is put in the foam. Just OOC (I am near to a Biltema too (Sweden)) how good is the foam and which f...

I have a S939 mATX board (MSI RS480M2-IL) and it is wonderfull. It uses the new SB400 chipset by ati and has good integrated graphics (5000 marks in 2001, which is enough for simple gaming) and everything else one would want (6 channel audio, firewire, 6x usb, tvout and so on and so forth). It is al...

I can download it perfectly fine

Oooh.. Nice shiny IR images! :D It seems to me that the southbridge is the hottest component, and on my board (I have the same) I notice that when I do stuff, it gets really really hot! And unfortunatly there are no holes next to it, so one would either have to use some adhesive to attach it or some...

You don't need to remove the back panel to attach it, just remove the black bracket and reuse the new screws and tighten them untill they are at teh same posistion they would have been at had you used the brass standoffs. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/The_Lerneaen_Hydra/SPCR/no-zalman-brack...

1) It works perfectly fine, but I would reccomend the alcu beacuse it is so much lighter (430grams instead of 700), and because it gives no higher temps at all. 2) Dont know 3) It has optical and digital out via an rca/composite connector 4) Dont know I've amde a few for my frinds and they owrk wond...

if speedfan supports rpm adjusting on your fan and of course go with speedfan, only other benefit I ee with mbm is that you can label the temp such as "cpu" or "case" and "cpu fan" vs speedfan's "temp1" or "temp2" and "speed1" You can cahnge the names of sensors by clicking on them once in the sett...

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From what little I have seen of the RS480M2-IL it seems very good...

EDIT: Never mind, I worked it out thanks to Tibors!

The 90nm (winchester) cores run at 1ghz which is 1000/200=5, so it should be at 5x.

VGA -> TV is indeed expensive, but RGB scart is essentially VGA with a combined Horizontal and Vertical refresh. (Signal voltages are the same).

nathan_Chan168 wrote:Thanks Qwertyiopisme!!

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Err.. Thanks .

You also want to be careful that they can handle the power. Some only accept few hundred milliwatts, some take 3W - more than enough for most medium-low speed fans. (as far as I can remember - I've never tried using a low power pot to control fans directly) This doestn appear to be a direct-to-fan ...

Raid 0 will not give you much of a noticable speed up unless you run server-like applications (that require lots of files at random points on the disk). It would be better to go with 2x200gb or 1x200gb. See here: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=2101 EDIT: I forgot the most important ...

Well the pusles are at exaclty 50hz. I have no idea what woudl make pulses at that frequncy, alhtough it seems probably that you live in europe and that it is somethign wrong before the AC-> DC conversion.

Yes that's correct.


Just to re-iterate:

Black (ground) connects to the case as usual
Red from the fan attaches to middle
Red from power connector attaches to either of the side prongs

You can switch the position of the red wires if you want to, it doesnt matter.