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by drag
Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:24 am
Forum: Watercooling
Topic: Who has watercooling with no fan, no pump, and no case fan?
Replies: 38
Views: 33633

A pumpless watercooling system is a little pointless Well there is a very important point to it all. If you have no fans, there are no fans that are going to fail. If you have no pump, there is no pump to fail. That's the reason you'll find them used in large stationary engines (for example, if you...
by drag
Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:55 am
Forum: Watercooling
Topic: Who has watercooling with no fan, no pump, and no case fan?
Replies: 38
Views: 33633

For a picture you could probably post a link to imageshack. easy to do uploads on that site. The guy in the link I posted above used a convential waterblock. It's the type that instead of a channel carved through it, it uses a grid-like arrangement, were the water passes through a fairly tight grid ...
by drag
Thu May 31, 2007 11:47 pm
Forum: Watercooling
Topic: Who has watercooling with no fan, no pump, and no case fan?
Replies: 38
Views: 33633

This is entirely and absolutely possible. people do this with stationary motors all the time. Ever since they had motors. If you have a diesel or gasoline motor that you use for running pnuematic pumps or generating electricity or something like that then having a water pump is actually a _bad_ thin...
by drag
Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:19 pm
Forum: Site Feedback
Topic: Completely bogus review on other site, can you do better?
Replies: 0
Views: 2793

Completely bogus review on other site, can you do better?

"Which Next Gen Console Is The Loudest?" http://www.pregamelobby.com/forum/view_console_loudness.htm A lot of very dubious sound measurements. None of how he does it realy makes sense and it looks like the guy spent a whole 20 minutes setting up and performing the experiments, _total_. He put more e...
by drag
Wed May 17, 2006 4:54 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Newisys NA-1400 NAS Appliance
Replies: 38
Views: 31891

Haha! I think I found (or more accurately realised) a solution for booting Windows from remote storage using Linux. The downside it's not mature yet. It will work great if your using Linux though (since you can netboot (relatively) easily) Should be better and faster then NFS. The solution is 'iSCSI...
by drag
Wed May 10, 2006 7:10 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Newisys NA-1400 NAS Appliance
Replies: 38
Views: 31891

Why would you not go with Linux software RAID? Especially considering this product almost certainly uses Linux software RAID anyway... I believe their CPU has hardware RAID, although I'm not sure. Robert On a little box using a xscale proccessor then hardware raid would be faster.. But, beleive or ...