Hmm.. Well, my coil whining could be PSU related. I wasn't using the separate GFX card cables before I had the TOXIC, and on top of that the TOXIC probably takes about about as much power as the rest of my system when under load, so I can imagine the load causing some PSU stress. But then again, the...

The question on my mind is how far can I go without voiding warranty? I have the healthy habit of keeping my hardware as standard as possible for the first few months, just in case of failure. If I could just get the fan on 7v or 5v when in idle (through a simple rewire) that would already be a mass...

Hello SPCR, I'm not sure whether it's been posted here yet, but since I just found out too late today, I wanted to make sure it was. Here's the deal. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/HD_4850_Toxic/25.html Sapphire has chosen to remove the temperature based fan control mechanism from their...

A system like that could probably work, but it would need quite a lot of design work. If you just take an ATX motherboard and stick a big fan on top I'm not sure how much of the airflow will actually go into the places you want them to go. It'd be an interesting project. If you're not trying to be i...

To me it looks like clever business. Rather than going through the trouble of actually developing a cooler that can run with the best (with today's competition, this is no small feat), they find it easier to milk their current cooler a little more first. Development on this last cooler has probably ...

I'm guessing Zalman still has the image. People will keep buying their stuff just because it's Zalman.

That wholly depends on what's inside the case. Got system specs?

The Xigmatek HDT-SD964 fits low profile, I think. On top of that it's big brother is practically right at the top of SPCR's Recommended heatsink article . Then again I'm not sure how well it will work passively. Seems like the Xigmatek-964 is 133mm tall, which is too much for the OP's situation. Wo...

Is the Iraq War "God's work"? If so, why? Oddly enough, when a leader says God told him to do it, some believe that makes him great, righteous, and truthful. When regular people hear voices, we immediately medicate them, and quite heavily, so that they don't kill anybody. I'd say that there's rathe...

The Xigmatek HDT-SD964 fits low profile, I think. On top of that it's big brother is practically right at the top of SPCR's Recommended heatsink article. Then again I'm not sure how well it will work passively.

Good to see the success, and glad to be of help. You definitely used it well

Nice and tidy! Makes me want to redo the wiring in my own Solo ;) Similarly I have an Accelero S2 and a Ninja Rev B in it. Big dfference though is that I have a full ATX board and my VGA is mounted in the bottom slot (SLI board) in the interest of airflow through the case, so I don't have as much sp...

Very nice and creative build, congrats. I would like to suggest to you, an alternative to suspending the harddrives with rubber bands or stretch magic. The reason for this, is that i believe that the harddrive benefit from contact with the metal in the drive cage which acts as a heatsink for the dr...

Ooh. Thanks for the link. They have quite a lot of stuff that's hard to get in The Netherlands. Thanks for the tip

That's cool about suspending the drives I have never heard of that. I will look for some good posts on this forum for tips and tricks. Do you have to use a special elastic (like a women's hair band elastic) or something? I am thinking elastics that won't get brittle and decay over time. Rubber does...

You're welcome. I was kind of curious about them myself. But if the only review I can find is on a german website then chances are I can't get it in The Netherlands anyway

This German site (the link I gave is from Google Translate so it's translated to English) has reviewed it. They don't seem hugely enthusiastic. But then I'm having some trouble with the pseudo-English

Really nice mod! It looks really good and neat. There's a couple things you could still improve if you want to. To start off I'm not sure about how quiet that SilenX fan actually is. In general it's a bad idea to trust the manufacturer's word for how much noise a fan makes. Also, the hard drives are...

I looked it up and apparently the Samsung F1s take about 13W at peak (although it might be more at spin-up, I didn't have time to do a really good search). Let's say you get 16 drives and turn that 13W into 15W as a 'margin of error', 16 x 15 = 240W. Back in 2003 the PC market green fever hadn't rea...

So I'm pretty sure that if you don't fit you aftermarket cooler properly you card will warn you without any damage. :) I would say it's probably not a good idea to 'tempt fate'. Fact is that if the shutdown somehow fails your brand new card will be very dead, very fast. Now I'm not saying that it's...

Well, it is a mouce, but if I there were to be a 'most puppy-like mouse' award this one would probably win it.

27"? wow, that's almost as big as my TV :x Well, if none of you have any kind of neck trouble then I guess I have my answer. Cheers :) As for why I'd want this: I want to be able to use my main screen (which would then be the 22") for gaming or movies full screen and still be able to keep an eye on ...

Hello, I didn't really know what forum to place this so I just threw it here, feel free to move it if it's not in the right place ;) Anyway, to business. I currently have a 17" TFT and a 15" TFT hooked up to one PC, and although the different resolutions sometimes cause weird bugs, it's really aweso...

Oooooh.. A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS..

I've been trying to find a good cooler for the 4850 that I'm going to be buying. Looks like I found another potential candidate.

2) Is it worth buying the cases that enclose the HDD to stop vibration and noise? ive managed to find some self adhesive velcro and used the furry side on my HDD and has stopped the vibration, however the clicking a vibration can still be heard!!! Usually, suspending it in elastics (don't use rubbe...

I have to say I admire your handy work, cheap, simple, yet effective.

Hmm.. Apologies. Considering the few specs and shortness of your post, I sort of assumed that this was some weird advertisement. Anyway, if you want to know what a good fan is, your best bet is probably to read through the articles on this site. There is on article in particular called Recommended F...

location: netherlands, but a spanish site? Mmmmriiiight.

Oh WoW, thanks a bunch! You make my day

Hello guys. About two years ago, I got myself a new PC. I got this AM2 motherboard, thinking that it would be able to work with AM2+ CPUs as well, at that time blessing AMD for their plans to make AM2+ 'backwards compatible'. But now that I actually come to the point of wanting to upgrade my PC, I'm...