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- Thu May 19, 2005 9:16 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: New Antec cases being shown at CES on pcmag.com
- Replies: 473
- Views: 401931
BIG warning on these air filters! these are not just cotton filters, they are oil impregnated cotton filters. you don't just wash them. you use a cleaning product, wash, dry, then re oil them. i would strongly not recommend one in a computer. in a car, the oil will breathe out over time and coat the...
- Thu May 19, 2005 8:01 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: VERY hot Gigabyte Geforce 6800
- Replies: 33
- Views: 17265
not sure if this is off topic for this but if you want to monitor your load temps get rthdribl http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/ it run a windowed real time renderer so you can watch your software temp gauge while under load. if your games don't corrupt or crash while playing then i wouldn't ...
- Thu May 19, 2005 7:42 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: ATI1 going backwards
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3588
- Thu May 19, 2005 7:39 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: PNY 6800GT fan driving me nuts!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4804
i had no problem taking apart my pny 6800gt. you do need a small eyeglass screwdriver and a bit of force for some of the screws. its a whole lot easier to take one apart than to put it back together. my first waterblock didn't fit the 6800, so i had to put it all back together, order a new waterbloc...
- Thu May 19, 2005 7:31 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Albatron ATOP: A new AGP-to-PCIe bridge card
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3612
- Thu May 19, 2005 7:22 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Messing with Zalman ZM-2HC2 Heatpipes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3112
- Wed May 18, 2005 2:30 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung 160GB Nidec SATA -doesnt seem "that" quiet
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12479
i just bought the same hard drive and would agree with rtsai. it is much quieter than my old 80gb western digital drive i replaced. not silent, but mellow and inoffensive. right now it's hard mounted and it does vibrate a bit, still less than the old drive. i'm debating right now over how i want to ...
- Fri May 13, 2005 7:00 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Computer in oil?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6437
yeah , what Mar. said, the product is "3M™ Fluorinert™" theres been a few crazies on the various overclocker sites who have submurged their computers in it. they usually misspell it flourinet. only a couple problems with it. first you have to keep the hard drive out of it so it can breathe. second, ...
- Mon May 09, 2005 5:43 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Audiophilia: hobby or disease? (CONTINUED)
- Replies: 226
- Views: 163422
yay! time to rant over percieved differences. not just audiophiles, but things that make your engine run better, your cellphone battery last longer, or your water taste better. to justify the difference between two things you have to do a double blind test. you have the listener not be aware of whic...
- Mon May 09, 2005 5:13 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Case anti vibration feets. How about Hi Fi spikes?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3195
a home improvement store should sell regular feet, like for couches or tables. they come in wood or plastic, with felt or rubber pads on them, etc. personally i think most speakers could get along with them and not the expensive spikes, but i'm also one of those crazy people who wont but a $500 powe...
- Mon May 09, 2005 4:56 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: How to EMI shield a custom quiet-pc case?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10439
one of my best friends has a plexiglass case, no metal in the entire thing except for the screws. he has his entertainment system right next to it on one side. a 3 foot tall speaker on the other side. his crate amp for his guitar about 5 foot away with all its assorted pedals and crap. and we haven'...
- Mon May 09, 2005 4:44 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Why do PSUs have fans????
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15986
here's 2 cents from my knowledge. im an electrician. i deal mainly with mains power, building hotels and such. i'm not so hot diagnosing a circuit board. the transformer on the pole is hot. it's got oil flowing through it to huge fins all exposed to the air. a 480 to 120v 200amp transformer just has...
- Fri May 06, 2005 10:30 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: looks like its giving up the ghost
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1218
looks like its giving up the ghost
finally got around to opening up my comp and finding out where that noise was coming from. i was figuring that one of my fans was going out, or my waterpump was damaged. of course it couldn't be that inexpensive of a problem. my hard drive sounds like a 52x cd drive, even with a wierd spin down whir...
- Thu May 05, 2005 8:37 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: What causes the wide swing between idle and load temps?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3016
my water cooling loop is one such wierd situation. since it has video, cpu and northbridge in one loop and all the background tasks running, the idle temp of the cpu is rather higher than most others with watercooled cpu's. but the load temps don't rise much because of the efficiency of the radiator...
- Thu May 05, 2005 7:55 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Liquid-Metal Cooling Loops
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20459
looks great for notebooks, tho i dont imagine the emf pump really has enough strength to work for a multi block full tower. now that i think about it, you could always just run individual ones to each part of the system to cool. personally im not too concerend about what the metal is, it could even ...
- Tue May 03, 2005 4:22 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Cooling a suspended hard drive... with a VGA silencer?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2514
cant rememeber where i read it, i think its an old thread here. someone tested their hard drives placing aluminum plates on the top, sides, etc, and found most of the heat is released through the sides of the hard drive, not the lid. they eventually made some neat rails that looked like long ramsink...
- Tue May 03, 2005 3:48 am
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: 'ghetto' watercooling - possible?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5819
from reading many similar posts on various overclocking forums where people have tried this, the general answer is unless you're a mad scinetist type, "don't do it". the water has to be distilled and have anti corrosion / bacteria protectors. other oils and such were usually too thick or expensive (...
- Tue May 03, 2005 1:35 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: North bridge fan and D.P.S. fan Cooling
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2655
i don't know if you can do it with all boards, but i've read of many people removing their dps add on board and the motherboard still running fine. you could always monitor the fluctuations of your voltages before and after to see if it changes. i wasnt going to say anything at first. but its my opi...
- Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:30 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Zalman officially rejects Anti-freeze. :(
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15545
really in our situation freezing/boiling point changes are unnecessary, unless your running some phase change/peltier setup. watercooling rigs need less additive than automobiles due to the fact that autos run much higher temps and have less restrictive/higher flow systems. i'm not sure how much thi...
- Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:07 am
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Zalman officially rejects Anti-freeze. :(
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15545
from what i've read zerex racing super coolant or a similar "racing coolant" will be better than normal antifreeze. unless your water loop actually gets to below freezing temps. also there have been problems with water wetter. in large amounts it eats away at acrylic reservoirs, foams up and cloudie...
- Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:42 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: what type of material is best to mount pump?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1915
what type of material is best to mount pump?
I have an Eheim 1250 on the bottom of my case and it vibrates the case. Right now its bolted to the floor through rubber grommets with a foam block compressed under it. I'm thinking about getting some vibration mounts like what chylld used in this post: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php...