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- Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:38 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
Re: Silentium T2 : too much trouble/not enough power
Just got my brand new Silentium T2 case. Overall, not worth the time to mod, but great if you only need the sustainable 350w of power. For my setup, it would be like dropping a 450c^3 engine into a Honda Civic. I beg to differ! I found the mod simple, and handled it entirely by myself. It just take...
- Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:42 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
- Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:39 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Silentium T1 newbie - controller for exhaust fans?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1959
Firstly: Welcome to the SPCR fora! (plural of forum, for those who don't get it). Secondly: The Arctic Cooling Silentium T1 is identical to the T2, but for the bezel and panels. See this link to read about my mod to the PSU fans and the case fans. It was highly successful! Finally: Good luck, and ha...
- Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:11 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
Welcome to the SPCR fora, jurgenaut! Firstly: You need a good HS'n'F - I'd recommend the zalman 7700 series (I think that's the right one), or something more exotic, like a Thermaltake XP-120, with a panaflo fan. Secondly: Read my last few posts about the psu fans / case fans mod which I carried out...
- Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:05 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
Ok... I recieved my fan controller this morning, expecting it to be a major job, removing the psu cover and all. However, it was NOT! It was dead simple, contrary to what your review suggests. The HDD cooler is screwed on, and the psu is screwed via two screws underneath the case and another two beh...
- Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:49 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
- Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:14 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Best (Windows) Email Client?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13916
- Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:41 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
- Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:18 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
I was about to purchase one of those molex to 5v/12v connectors, when I suddenly thought that perhaps it would be more prudent to buy a (relatively) cheap three channel fan controller, and run the psu fan, along with the case fans, off that. Hence: Would it? The controller in question is: http://www...
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:44 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:16 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
I got one of these recently - so far, so good! The PSU is rather impressive, though the noise is irritating. I've noticed that one can see (when looking from above) the connector for the fans on a PCB within the psu. I have been considering getting one of http://www.quietpc.com/uk/casefansacc.php#rc...
- Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:59 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: A most novel and promising idea...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7832
using the electrostatic crap... wouldnt that interfere with computer components some?? just cant see how that would be safe (im no scientist or anything!!) but it just seems some problems would come from blowing eletricity type through electrical components Even if it would interfere, which it won'...
- Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:00 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: A most novel and promising idea...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7832
- Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:19 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: A most novel and promising idea...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7832
A most novel and promising idea...
I've just been surfing, and found this article ! I think many here would find it most interesting: A fan/blower which (apparently) moves 1600cfm with no moving parts, producing only 3db of noise! Edit: not to mention it removes almost all (99.97% of) particles larger than 0.1 microns! Hey, no more d...
- Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:08 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Catalyst 5.6 significantly increasing heat production?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6634
Ahem, it is, from what I know, impossible for a GPU to stay hot during hibernation. Hibernation totally switches off one's pc, saving ram data to a file called hiberfil.sys. The entire pc switches off, and nothing at all is left running. Likewise, when using STR (s3) mode, one is running only one co...
- Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:34 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AOpen i915GMm-HFS: 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop board
- Replies: 146
- Views: 140692
Or the other way of achieving it is if you build a computer with lower overall thermals and not top-of-the-line processing power. That way you don't have as much concentrated heat in the first place. Precisely! One must tackle the issue of heat at the source, rather than trying to compensate for it...
- Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:36 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AOpen i915GMm-HFS: 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop board
- Replies: 146
- Views: 140692
Can't we make that a half-grain? Lets not give them too much credit! (yes, I know that salt is a giant ionic structure and is hard to break up - but, in a special case like this, we could try )Ralf Hutter wrote:Anything that Tom's says about an Intel product should be taken with a giant grain of salt, IMHO.
- Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:49 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AOpen i915GMm-HFS: 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop board
- Replies: 146
- Views: 140692
while i agree with most of the things you mention, i don't think you should speak for other people's interests. if someone wants the aesthetic value of no-fans, even if there is no audible improvement, then sure it's unscientific of them..but if it's what they want, then it's in their interests. if...
- Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:51 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AOpen i915GMm-HFS: 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop board
- Replies: 146
- Views: 140692
in my view, having a forced air circulation through the case doesn't imply or require having a CPU cooled by a dedicated fan. I'd agree! Perhaps I misread you, but I thought that by "passive", you meant an entirely passive system - i.e., one that has no forced airflow. However, I'd still stick by t...
- Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:48 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AOpen i915GMm-HFS: 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop board
- Replies: 146
- Views: 140692
to me it seemed like a minor improvement. i am comparing this new aopen HS to something like scythe ninja or zalman 7x00, which can possibly run passively, and it doesn't seem to be in the same league. I personally feel that running anything passively is in nobody's interests. One really needs some...
- Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:48 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AOpen i915GMm-HFS: 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop board
- Replies: 146
- Views: 140692
Funny how no one seems tro have noticed the replacement HSF AOpen is sending out that I mentioned yesterday . :?: It looks at least twice as big as the original, which is hopeful. RH should have it today. My guess is that it may be or is already the new "standard issue" HS for this board. IE, AOpen...
- Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:31 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AOpen i915GMm-HFS: 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop board
- Replies: 146
- Views: 140692
Hmm, that seems to put aopen in a bit (an understatement if ever there was one) of a tight spot! For, most people here are interested in a CPU which dissipates the the least heat (well, not the least, rather which does so most efficiently), and as such, this board would hence fail entirely. I do, ho...
- Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:15 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AOpen i915GMm-HFS: 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop board
- Replies: 146
- Views: 140692
I'd agree with you on the point of many engineers perhaps not speaking English and hence not being as informed as we here might be. However, that neither alters the fundamental fact that they are, after all, engineers , and one would expect them to produce a feasible solution. Nor does it on the poi...
- Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:19 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AOpen i915GMm-HFS: 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop board
- Replies: 146
- Views: 140692
- Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:33 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 4309
- Views: 2599206
Hehe! I'm only sixteen, but I appreciate classical music, as I was brought up in a house where classical music was the only music. I can understand your dillema with the lyrics. However, it is all down to which version you listen to - the one conducted by John Gardiner with the Montiverdi choir and ...
- Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:04 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 review
- Replies: 120
- Views: 115461
- Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:40 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 4309
- Views: 2599206
- Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:41 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Scythe SCNJ-1000 Ninja heatsink
- Replies: 179
- Views: 179586
- Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:15 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Scythe SCNJ-1000 Ninja heatsink
- Replies: 179
- Views: 179586
Nice review, thanks! The more I read here, the more impressed I am! I just got myself an arctic cooling silentium t2, and I must say the review was spot on. (that concludes the off-topic part of this post). To the point: sure does look like one awesome cooler, but I'm holding out till I can see how ...