Also, are there any places in the UK (or EU at a pinch) that sell the NCU-200x? The NCU-200x seems to be replaced everywhere by the Ninja (which is 150mm high). There are 3 UK stores listed on the Scythe website. You could call these stores or send them a email to know if the NCU-200x is still avai...

According to matbe , Aerocool is about to release a new cooler: The Dominator . This is just another Thermalright clone, but this one is huge: it comes with a 140 mm fan! This cooler has 3 large heatpipes and measures 155x140x100 mm. It's supposedly quiet. They talk about 20.87 dBA and 68.37 CFM @ 1...

Site says Feb 1 2006 now . Not really. According to this site (translated) , Art Lebedev Studio should have a prototype with only "3" working keys at this date, and they'll try to release the keyboard in 2006. So it's only another prototype and if this one works as expected, maybe we'll see the fin...

A new GPU cooler from Zalman has been announced at CES 2006: The VF900 . According to Matbe , it weights 187 grams, it's made of copper, has 2 heatpipes, and it measures 96x96x30mm. No AlCu version will be released. http://www.matbe.com/images/biblio/ces_2006/000000025746.jpg http://www.matbe.com/im...

The only component that I have doubts about is the XG Magnum 500W PSU. It is clearly more powerful than what this silent PC requires, but it does have the extended heatsink sticking out of the back to help dissipate heat. However, it is only about $26 more expensive than a silent 350w PSU sold by N...

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Zalman has unveiled a cooling add-on for the Resertator 1 and the Reserator 1 Plus. This module is placed on top of the Reserator, replacing the cover, and has a 140mm fan for extra cooling. Personally, I'm very happy with the cooling performances of my Reserator and this thing would be useless to m...

According to OCWorkbench , there's a competitor to the Gigabyte's I-Ram in sight. This prototype is called DDRdrive X1 and supports up to 8GB like the I-Ram, but this one uses a PCI-Express interface instead of a SATA interface, which is supposedly faster if your OS can handle it properly. This devi...

A review of the Asus Extreme N7800GT TOP SILENT/2DHTV by VR-Zone: http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3047&s=1 Temperature Testing The N7800GT was stable throughout our benchmarking, but just how good is the SilentCool system from ASUS? We did some temperature testing to find out, using the Thermalright XP-90...

Well, this should be interesting. I wonder how much they will charge for the kit. It's very expensive! According to P2PNet , this kit costs $400 , which is the price of the XBox 360 itself! It's really not a cheap solution! Sure, it helps to cool down the CPU and the GPU to get rid of some noises, ...

Century, a japanese company, is about to release a 3.5" Compact Flash hard drive: The SBD35CF . This one supports 2 or 4 compact flash cards (type I), can be externally installed via a mini-USB port, and can replace any hard drive with both SATA and IDE interfaces. These drives will probably be too ...

According to this article from Overclocking Masters (translated) , removing the heatspreader has little effect at stock voltages. It barely lowers your CPU temperature by 4°C at full load. Removing it will automatically void the warranty and there's a chance that you ruin the CPU in the process. I d...

http://www.matbe.com/images/biblio/art_comparatif-de-19-ventirads/000000025300.jpg 20 heatsinks reviewed and compared on matbe (For noise vs. temperature @ 5, 7, 9 and 12V, go to page 18 ) Here are the contenders: Akasa Evo 120 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Asetek Vapochill Micro Cooler Master Hyper...

SuperMicro has unveiled two server motherboards that support up to two Yonah's at the same time: the X6DLP-4G2 and the X6DLP-EG2. Both motherboards are similar, but the first one comes with Ultra 320 SCSI support. Here's a bad picture of one of these boards: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotl...

AlphaCool has made a new watercooling kit for the GeForce 7800GTX: The MCX 7800GTX Set . Instead of a single waterblock for the GPU, this kit comes also with 8 mini waterblocks for the memories. But frankly, once everything is in place, it looks a bit weird: http://www.cowcotland.com/images/news/200...

According to VR-Zone, a new release of the i-RAM called i-RAM 2 is on the way. It will use DDR2 memories (8 slots and up to 16GB) and support SATA2 (up to 3GB/s):

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3052

in a word, if u get a S12, u'd probably want to get another nexus and swap the fan, maybe add some decoupling as well. otherwise, S12 could save u some headache, imho. I have 2 spare 120mm Nexus fans with me. It's really not a problem. Right now, the PSU sits on top of a wooden cabinet that's part ...

First, for the records: S/N: D04115401314 Ordered in November 2004 from FrontierPC,Vancouver. Was B/O and shipped in late December. I have my Phantom 350 since january 2005 and it's still working fine. However, I recently started to get an annoying "buzz" when my vCore hits 1.5V. The noise really co...

Silentmaxx has a new fanless power supply in its product line: The Silentmaxx FANLESS 400 Watts . This 400W PSU supposedly has an efficiency of >89%. Based on the news, it seems to be an improved revision of the PCS-350, another fanless PSU which had an annoying hissing noise. The new one is suppose...

ct991 , sorry about the newegg stuff, I hadn't noticed that you were in Canada :oops: Another store you could look is FrontierPC, also in Vancouver. And yes, the VM-101 is about the price of a ZM80C-HP in Canada, but it comes with 2 heatpipes. http://www.frontierpc.com/ProductDetail.aspx?productID=...

Yes, I also agree that the ZM80D-HP is an expensive solution. I had the chance to get my ZM80A-HP for free! :D A similar solution (as mentioned by mathias) is the Aerocool VM-101 . There are a lot of threads about this passive cooler on SPCR, and newegg is selling it for 24.99$. IIRC, EdwardNG used ...

A Zalman ZM80A-HP was more than enough for my previous GeForce 3 TI200 card. The ZM80D-HP is a variation of the same cooler, but it uses two heatpipes instead of one. The TI4400 is really not a power hungry card, so I'm pretty sure both coolers would perform without a glitch if you maintain a good a...

Hi there! I recently started to notice a faint hissing noise that comes from my Antec Phantom 350. This one is installed outside my case where there is more airflow. I get a really faint noise while loading some games, but not when playing them. For example, when I start SWAT 4, that noise is presen...

This is from eWeek : Xbox 360 Crashes, Defects Reported [...] But others are posting a plethoral of problems with their brand-new 360s, from game crashes to hard drives that simply don't work. One reasonable gamer lays it out like this: "Between my friends and I, we bought six machines at the Zero H...

I just found this page about the Xbox 360! It's a brutal way to dissect a Xbox 360!

According to Matbe , Asus should start shipping the Extreme EN7800GT TOP Silent in december. It's an overclocked version of the Extreme EN7800GT Silent , with 420 MHz instead of 400 MHz for the GPU, and 1.24 GHz instead of 1 GHz for the memory. This card should cost around 450 € in Europe. Hmmm... I...

Asus released a new tower cooler built for silence enthusiasts, the Silent Square . It supports Pentium 4, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 X2 processors (up to 130W), and it's supposedly very quiet with 18 dBA @ 1800 RPM. It's weighting 656 grams, has 5 copper heatpipes, and comes with a 92mm ...

You are right! Cool'n'Quiet dynamically changes the voltage and the multiplier of your CPU. My Athlon 64 is idling at 1 GHz with 1.1 V (2.4 GHz, 1.5 V max). QFan is disabled in my BIOS, as well as the CPU fan monitoring, because I'm not using a fan on my CPU but a waterblock. QFan controls the CPU f...

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