Just touch the cpu sink close to the base. If your cpu is burning hot, the sink will be too. Regards. Its obviously burning hot. Which part of 77C and 99.5C says its not hot? sorry to resurrect, but that's not the point. it's like... if the TV says it's raining outside, does that mean it is? no. yo...

most of it won't, probably depends on the brand and type though. what would you use it for anyways? if you used it as a thermal adhesive, you'd have a hard time cleaning it off the heat sink to reuse it after the CPU fries.

even with the stock hsf, in 2d you can underclock the card fairly low without getting artifacts and then reduce fan speed to 20% or so. at that speed the shuffling noise the stock fan makes is completely gone, can't hear it over the rest of my pc, and it idles at 56C. would imagine one of the third ...

something else just hit me, Fluid XP allegedly has glycerin in it (and propylene glycol); if people aren't complaining about growth, then it probably doesn't matter whether or not any other component supports growth (more important that other factors prevent it, i mean). glycerin is an awesome energ...

im assuming that biocides kill people :) yeah, but concentration is the important thing, you can find PCBs and perchlorates and heavy metals and crap in anyone in an industrialized country today. even in a pristine environment it's no big deal - most people get more cyanide from food (naturally occ...

using a single 120mm bottom intake here + 80mm PSU and 92mm exhaust, no problems with a 2400MHz Winchester, 3 HDs and an X800XT. i only use the intake fan to cool suspended drives. two fans on the PSU is probably kind of silly, you'd probably be better off just cutting out grills etc on the PSU to i...

regular TECs already work like that, in that you can heat them to produce electricity. problem is that anything using heat like that will resist the heat transfer, not something you want to put on a CPU. otherwise it's like getting something for nothing, can't have that either. :P might be thinking ...

I don't know if it's still the case, but I remember that HEPA filters on full tower and/or rackmount cases used to be grounds for bragging rights, just sort of a given in the same way that SCSI was a given in any halfway decent server. Lots would need to change for filters to become ubiquitous, thou...

shrug, no other vendor allows its users to do anything either, which is to be expected - most people shouldn't be allowed to use computers, let alone open them up. the only difference here is that building your own Mac usually isn't an option. :P Mac cases used to actually have plastic struts across...

that's really interesting, because my old PC used to freeze every now and then in such a way that every update of the mouse position would cause a click, i assumed it was just some sort of weird forced seek on one of the drives. i know exactly what you mean (sounds like mine was louder though), diff...

Not sure why this hasn't been mentioned yet, but another explanation for that 12C could be a typo/misinterpretation of the -12C melting point of a 22/78% NaK mix.

depending on the surface area/quality of the stock HSF, you could just replace it with a ZM-NB47J, or a generic huge $5-10 heatsink from somewhere like 1coolpc.com. about to do the same myself to a GF2 and GF4 4400. there's an article here from sometime in 2002 regarding this, someone stuck a random...

And of course, there's a reason why "half-height" drives are called "half-height". Guess how high they used to be! Yeah, 2 full-height 5.25" drives on top of each other are pretty much the same size as a Shuttle case. I still have a half-height 2 or 3GB SCSI drive somewhere, remember our current dr...

halfpower wrote:What does SPCR have to do with protein folding?

its members have mostly finished high school.

heres something to consider: if one uses propylene glycol.... and it's edible yet non nutrative.... doesnt harm humans besides in large quantity or touching mucous membranes at high concentrations..... Wouldnt there be a chance for some massive bio-growth in it?? would be the same as the chance of ...

"easier than phase change for short-term cooling" isn't phase change rather expensive too? didn't see this til now - i meant short as in an hour or so, so i was comparing it to liquid nitrogen, not a compressor + evaporator etc. n2 is fairly cheap, but er... gets expensive and labor-intensive (and ...

i'd guess (as you sort of said) that the increase in rpm is solely responsible for the difference, but too much other stuff is changing. try folding or cpuburn with the fan blowing/sucking at equal rpm?

AGP specifies something like 25-30W max from the motherboard, so any card that could come near that will have a separate power connector.

I know the plural of anecdote isn't evidence, but I've seen/heard lots and lots and lots of SATA horror stories, no real problems yet myself though. Most seem to be QC issues, like the mb connectors snapping off entirely when unplugged since they're relatively small, or flaky connections since SATA ...

if you're just doing it for benching or something, sure - tap water is like 4C. a lot (relatively speaking) of people just use a block, pump and a plastic garbage can or such full of water, easier than phase change for short-term cooling.

Not to be pedantic, but if you're willing to pay 3x the price, you could get far more than 5x the effective life out of your storage. Paying 3x up front is silly though, that's like buying one bleeding-edge $6K PC instead of 3, each a few years apart, for $2K each (since in a decade, there will be W...

What are the typical wattage consumed by current cards anyways?? For like 9600's, 9800's, 6600's, X800's, 6800's?? I just wanna compare the power used today and tomorrow. Try the search, look for the xbitlabs article I think. I forget exact wattages, but current ATI cards aren't that bad - I think ...

Easy enough to find their site etc, still doesn't mean I had actually been familiar with them at the time of writing. :) You better increase your dosage of Ginko Biloba homes. Channel Well's been doing Antec PSUs for a long time, and it looks like they still my be sourcing the new "True Power 2" PSU...

Interesting comment on the seeks. If the drive was empty when you bought it and you just installed Windows on it and basically used it like a new PC (without copying over tons of old files etc), all the data should have been physically very close together, on the outside of the platters. I would *gu...

You sure that's your actual case temp? Sounds a bit warm, unless that's your mb temp and the probe is sort of close to something warm on it. Try googling that mb and see what sort of temps other people are reporting as their "case" temp on other forums/threads?

How much use does it get, though? I have a few drives suspended directly over a 120mm fan (bottom intake), they're normally around 25C but can still get up to 35-40C while doing large installations/defrags etc.

The head is mounted rigidly, and only moves in one direction. Gravity air cushion blah blah doesnt matter. Have a nice day. Er, in operation the air cushion does matter, but I know what you mean heh. Anyways, the heads aren't mounted rigidly, unless you're just talking about the assembly as a whole...

Fair enough, my bad. That's really odd though, as I definitely remember reading something very close to if not exactly what I said (well, I was originally paraphrasing anyways). Might well have been by Antec regarding another brand of PSUs, or another case manufacturer regarding Enermax, but I've ne...

Sorry, I searched and couldn't find that thread from a week or two ago, regarding the impending switch to 2.5" drives, which devolved into a bunch of random ideas and hopes for things like higher/lower rpm or even copying the same data to multiple points on the same platter in order to reduce latenc...

I'm not sure that sorbothane is the ideal substance for this since there shouldn't be much/any vibration in the boat. The Sorbothane in that (and Dr. Scholl's insoles, and tons of other stuff) is different, it's like chopped up and mixed with foam rubber, or just used as an insert in some other typ...