The EPIA boards have "Disk on chip" which AFAIK is bootable.
I think you can also boot from a Pen Drive - not sure though.

Ralf Hutter wrote:Forget about the "P4 Celeron" comment, Intel doesn't make a 1.4Ghz P4-based Celeron. Those start at 1.7Ghz.

Really? Guess I'm wrong...

Wait...is your Celeron a P4 celeron, or a Tutalin/P3 Celeron? AFAIK, they don't make a P4 SLK-800.

No one seems to have mentioned it... http://www.thermalright.com/slk900.html

Absolutely sickeningly large!

I just installed my PC P&C silencers (3). Here are my comments: Pros: Cheap! Free Shipping! Lots of extras included - 4 screws per fan (duh) Plus 3 thumbscrews (definate plus, really needed these!), 3 power end caps, and thermal paste (why it comes with fans, I'm not quite sure) Really quiet from 93...

SPCR's P4 heatsink roundup:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/modules.p ... =57&page=1

Or use Mozilla or Netscape. They have script options, one of them that doesn't allow unrequested windows to be opended. I never get any popups. Although I have had a few cases where a requested popup window wouldn't show up because of how the website was doing things. Plus you can block images from...

A Celeron 2.0 should save itself - I know the P4s do. They automatically slow (underclock &/or undervolt) themselves down until they hit a safe temperature (this is, again, P4s).

Does anyone know for sure if the Celeron's save themselves?

MikeC wrote: What will you pay guys?

If someone here made a "Home Brew" solution, I'd buy it. I'd pay up to $35 preferably around $25.

Yes, the glue could easily melt if the heatsink got hot enough. I don't know the actual melting temp, though. Erm...how are you going to glue an 80mm fan to a 40mm heatsink? Just curious :) The bracket and shipping would be cheaper than a glue gun (assuming $14 for the glue gun). You could make your...

That's friggin insane! The Radeon 9700 Pro fan is clearly audible through a case, even a relatively loud one. If the FX fan is that loud...I can't possibly begin to imagine.... Also, those temps are just plain dangerous. This card would be completely unstable in even a low to possibly medium airflow...

91% is fine IMO...I used like 89% and it worked fine...temps dropped a bit. 2 C initially, but after a few days it was more like 5 C. It takes a while to "set" or something like that.

A Panaflo in the front should help a bit. My case temps went up 11 F (5 C) after I took my front fan out, so a front case fan should help. (your mileage will vary)

The CoolJag looks fine. If you want a better heatsink, save your $$ for an SK-7 or a SLK-800, and stick an 80mm Panaflo on that.

56 C though! That's pretty hot for a P4. They usually slow themselves down at high temperatures.

Had part of the aluminum block been copper, it might have performed better.

Hence the heatsink (if you could call it that...more like a 70 Dba cooling monstrosity)
http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/1109/ ... 56_PIC.jpg

Plus, it's sucking air from where it'll be putting out the hot air. How effective...
It would have been better to suck air in from the case.

Both the iWill XP333 and iWill XP333R allow undervolting and bus underclocking. Adjustable in BIOS: Vcore settings 1.2-1.85 Bus speeds: 100 to 233 MHz (DDR so effective 200 to 466) If you set the Vcore too low, and the board can't get the CPU going, it resets the CMOS to defaults for you. BTW: I wen...

With the stock fan turned off, and the stock heatsink still on, the temperature on the base of the heatsink is: DegF: 107.9 idle / 123 max load DegC: 42 idle / 50.5 max load No artifacting or anything...but it seems rather high. I'm definately thinking about getting a Zalman chipset cooler and tryin...

jhh wrote:ah. Off the top of my headlooks fine. I only work in degrees C, but I think teh danger point for a HDD is somewhere around 50C, which I think is ~130F

Is it an American thing to still work in degrees F?

The thermal sensor only displays degrees F...

Finally, temps

With the fan blowing in:
Center Top of HDD: 100.8 F
Center Bottom of HDD: 103.2

Wow, that's something. I wonder if this is an anomaly. Is it using PWM for the fan speed control? Have you considered exchanging it? I think someone is sending me a sample to review, but if your sample is normal, I don't even want to bother. What is it with Vantec, anyway? You are referring to the ...

http://akgames.webhop.net

That's the front page with the majority vote buttons...

I reversed the fan...it's blowing air in, and the hard drive is noticably cooler. My hard drive does support SMART, but not temp monitoring. I will probably buy a temp probe tomorrow.

Mike, my motherboard is an Asus A7V8X. The temps I'm getting are from the Asus PCProbe program. I realize it's not the most accurate method of recording temperature, but at least it gives me an idea of what's going on. Thermaltake Volcano9 @2300rpm CPU/MB: Idle- 54c/36c CPU/MB: Load- 61c/36c Zalman...

Nice, though. Papst fans have been in development for 20 years, while this type of case fan might have a way to go before being as silent as the form factor would allow. Antec sells a Cyclone Blower that is a very similar design, with 42 CFM / 26 dba. Of course, that number might be 1 inch away, it...

I just finshed my HDD Cooler & silencer. The computer now makes no noise! I'll edit this with a picture of the final product as soon as I can get decent lighting. (Image size total is 44 KB, BTW) Before: http://www.akgames.net:8000/Downloads/Files/Personal/SPCR/HDDbox.jpg The Plan: http://www.akgame...

How about a random # generator in C++ that picks 40 random numbers (from 1 to how ever many users)?

I could post the source if you want...

Steve Jobs is a huge fan (pun) of silent pcs. I heard some of the early iMacs w/o a fan had heat problems. The newer macs have huge heatsinks and two fans. One on the power supply and one for the mobo/cpu. I thought the cubes were pretty cool. (way over priced) Kind of like Shuttle's SFF line. The ...

? the heatsink seems relatively small and i know of no way i can check its temperature so wondered if anyone has doen it successfully or has any tips. Its a pny geforce ti 4200 and already had heatsinks on the ram. i dont overclock or play many games but it would be nice if the system was stable fo...

http://www.akgames.net:8000/BTTest.htm

I'm overhauling my website yet again, and I need some input on the menu bar buttons. Which one do you like the best on the link above. Vote for it. Thanks for any/all input!

I lived with the screaming fan on my GF2 for years until I just tore it off and left the heatsink underneath it. Its been working great for weeks. I was about to buy that Zalman heatsink thing but considering that the vid card is only worth $50ish I thought I'd risk running with no vid fans. In 2 y...