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- Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:02 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Powerconsume-test of my system
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1794
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:54 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Lian-Li 6077, it´s black. [UPDATE: HR-05-SLI on the Chipset
- Replies: 42
- Views: 31835
Perkele? I thought this was meant to be your nicest build :lol: Funny you should mention the vandal proof button, I was looking to get one for a decent price too :) I was thinking of vandalising a bus ticket machine to "extract" a couple of those tasty buttons :twisted: If anyone finds some for <10...
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:03 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: cAPSLOCK's Wooden Case
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7134
I chose the louvers because the case is already huge, and I didn't want to add too much height, and I wanted to keep the airflow as unrestricted as possible, in any case, if I find too much noise is escaping from the top, it's not too hard to add on a muffler. I don't think too much stuff will be fa...
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:22 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Lian-Li 6077, it´s black. [UPDATE: HR-05-SLI on the Chipset
- Replies: 42
- Views: 31835
Nice setup, so if I get this right all the air is coming from the bottom and the top? You could maybe try to suspend the hdd in the case somewhere... (personally I couldn't live with a hd that's not in the case :lol: everything needs to be integrated :twisted: ) Nice frog too, looks poisonous to me 8)
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:05 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: cAPSLOCK's Wooden Case
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7134
cAPSLOCK's Wooden Case
Well I'm certainly not the first to want to make a wooden case :lol: But it just offers you more flexibility, in particular I wanted: -car-style air filters -only 120mm fans -space to easily suspend [enclosed] hard drives -good airflow I used these principles in this case: -positive pressure: makes ...
- Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:46 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Anyone have an ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe??
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4308
- Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:27 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB: Big Low Noise Champ?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 122894
It's performance has been reviewed at Hardware.fr , apparently decent performance. One worry is that they didn't find it to be exceptionally silent (as you would expect from a drive that has dethroned the P80), they said it was "relatively discrete, but not silent" and found it comparable to the sea...
- Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:39 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice on Timber Tv/Reciever/Pc unit DIY Build
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1931
For the design issues, I'm having a bit of difficulty visualising your setup, but intakes at the sides sounds like a good idea since you're probably going to be sitting with the HTPC facing you, and at a reasonable distance, right? So sound won't go in your direction. The dust problems can be solved...
- Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:25 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: How to silent my P-III 800MHz ?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8319
Welcome to SPCR A sonic tower sounds like a bit of overkill to me, why not try removing the fan on the stock heatsink first? Same for a PSU, just remove the fan. Having some (even minimal) airflow will be much more effective than none, and with a good fan, it won't add much noise (probably less tha...
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:23 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Seeking advice on my first "hopefully quiet" build
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3139
Just another minor input: save the trouble of putting the VF900 at 7v, 5v will be just fine, have a look at the recent SPCR Review
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:15 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New PC Advice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1915
Welcome to SPCR! That's a pretty low powered system: 350W, even ATX1.3, is more than enough. All SPCR'ers use Samsungs, and if you're looking for a 250GB drive, why look elsewhere? The Seagates aren't as good as they used to be in the good ol' Barracuda IV days, and Samsung is currently the silent ...
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:07 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice on Timber Tv/Reciever/Pc unit DIY Build
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1931
You might want to consider not leaving the front wide open because not only will it let air in, but it will let noise out... Your choice if you find the noise acceptable, I guess for HTPC's it doesn't matter quite as much. For making cases out of wood, (Top secret: I'm actually working on one this s...
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:28 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Low power, low noise, low cost Linux system.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4334
Nice setup, I like the duron undervolting exercise :D Next step would be a more efficient PSU, perhaps the picoPSU can be put to good use here. Is that a 7200 or a 5400rpm drive, it's not getting much airflow (over the outside of the case)... Depending on your distro, Linux can run on less than that...
- Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:22 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Battlefield 2 Full Specs.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2318
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:39 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My new P180 build... at last!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6694
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:48 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Noob to Computer Building
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3912
Just a couple of things that spring to mind: -The A8N-SLI Deluxe will need a northbridge heatsink (will it interfere with the card?) -Maxtor HD's are louder than the Samsung equivalent -Geforce 7900GTX will be needing an aftermarket HSF -NEC DVD is noisy, if that bothers you (LG, Plextor and Samsung...
- Sun May 28, 2006 11:16 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: A Finally Quiet SLK3700AMB Final Edition [I Hope]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 16945
I see what you mean when you said you did it to prove people wrong
Also seems to flagrantly contradict those that think that complicated pathways are a waste of time!
Also seems to flagrantly contradict those that think that complicated pathways are a waste of time!
- Thu May 25, 2006 7:18 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Please advise on this PC configuration
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2482
Like jaganath said, current intel processors are nearly never worth it if you care about silence. For the graphics card, if you're going for a low-end card like the 6500, you might as well go for integrated graphics (unless you need it for something fancy). Seagate hard drives are not as quiet as sa...
- Mon May 22, 2006 7:28 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: PA Semi
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2127
- Sun May 21, 2006 10:31 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What resolution are you running at?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24313
2 * 1024x768 @75Hz Good ol' 17" CRT's, but since they: -both display colours far from perfectly, and what's more with a different tone -use a sick amount of power -take up space -look ugly -aren't practical for gaming (although I only do that about 0.5% of the time) -the one makes an annoying high p...
- Tue May 16, 2006 1:03 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: The SilverStone Temjin TJ-07 case review
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24618
Can't help but notice that every time there were better temps (for the CPU or GPU) the power consumption was tangibly lower. This can't be only because of the respective VRM's also running hotter (less efficiently), can it? Is this to say that if you want to make a pc with the lowest possible power ...
- Sun May 14, 2006 12:15 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New system build
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1571
First of all Welcome to SPCR! Next, IMHO the A8N32-SLI is overkill for nearly everybody except for crazy overclockers and guys with a really serious SLI setup, not to mention that it's two chipsets make it a powersucker. A8R32-MVP is a bit more reasonable, but I would still rather go for a A8R-MVP, ...
- Sun May 14, 2006 1:31 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Review of 2 silent Asus cards – 7800GT & 7600GS
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8179
- Sat May 13, 2006 4:49 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Pleated filters for computer use.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7526
When you cut out a section of your nissan filter's frame, do you just "compress" the filter paper or do you also cut out some of that? (from your photo the folds look tighter, that's why I ask) I'm currently waiting for the next time I go to a certain supermarket (it's quite a distance away) that I ...
- Thu May 11, 2006 9:39 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Totally Positive Antec Aria...Ver. 2
- Replies: 53
- Views: 72843
- Wed May 10, 2006 12:07 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Pentium D 805 undervoltable?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3908
Thanks frostedflakes , I missed that one, so basically the D 805 can be a cool CPU if undervolted, according to the estimate on the extreme psu calculator it should be cooler than a stock A64 3200+ if you undervolt it to 1.1v... (ok I know that most A64's are way below the official max TDP, but it's...
- Wed May 10, 2006 9:05 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Pentium D 805 undervoltable?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3908
Pentium D 805 undervoltable?
Tom's just put out an arcticle about a Pentium D 805 overclocked to 4 GHz . That's quite some overclocking exploit, but us sensible people here know that it produces a ridiculous amount of heat, uses up too much electricity and is actually too powerful for the average person's every day needs :D Wha...
- Tue May 09, 2006 11:53 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Modding AC Freezer 4
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13043
I don't think that you'll keep the same cooling performance if you stick the layers together two by two, you are losing a lot of surface area, even if it is partly compensated by better airflow... If you want to stick new fins on, I would suggest you solder them on - better heat conduction than glue...
- Mon May 01, 2006 5:01 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian Li "classical silent" range - PC-201A, PC-S80
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6230
To me the PC-101 looks like a nice case, and a good concept, but it is still shrouded in mystery...
EDIT: I just noticed it's on the SPCR upcoming reviews list...
EDIT: I just noticed it's on the SPCR upcoming reviews list...
- Mon May 01, 2006 4:48 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Passive Northbridge's for Intel boards with loop fittings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2373
It was just mentioned here