besonen wrote:

thejamppa wrote:Noctua tower cooler and Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer are ones that orient right way.

do either of these allow the heat sink to be removed without removing the motherboard?

it appears that they both can be removed without removing the motherboard.

thejamppa wrote:Noctua tower cooler and Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer are ones that orient right way.

thanks.

do either of these allow the heat sink to be removed without removing the motherboard?

i believe thermalright sells an optional bracket that allows their heatsinks to be turned around these appear to be discontinued. can someone confirm this for me? i'm looking for a solution that will still be available one year from now so i can build systems for 12 months without needing to re-spe...

can someone tell me which am2 vertical heat sinks will mount so that the air flow across the fins will be able to be directed toward the rear of the case? one that i'm aware of is the Scythe Ninja. are there others? i thought i read about a heat sink that wasn't symmetrical (like the Scythe Ninja) b...

one difference between the asus and the gigabyte 780G boards is that the asus board supports ecc memory while the gigabyte board apparently does not.

floffe wrote:I'd suggest popping in a Windows install CD and repairing the concerned install.

that's a thought but i'd sooner perform a clean install--given the random results i've seen from attempting repair installs.

i have an xp system that reboots when i issue the shutdown command. this problem was not occurring prior to uninstalling symantec antivirus. at this point i just need the quickest solution to prevent windows from rebooting. i.e., is there a registry setting that will completely disable windows abili...

i have a laptop that has a 40 GB hard drive with approximately 38 GBs allocated to a primary NTFS partition. the NTFS partition has approximately 9.5 GBs of actual data. i attempted to shrink the partition to 10 GBs using partition magic 8 but the process failed with this error message: #50 read fau...

i originally asked this question here:

viewtopic.php?p=315491#315491

i never got a response so i'm re-asking in hopefully the correct sub-forum (Power Supplies).

who makes PCPC power supplies?


peace,
david

"Green" marketing is overall a boon to the environmental movement i guess i mostly agree with that, although i have my reservations. when an idea is marketed and "packaged", often the essense of what the idea was before it was packaged is lost. ideas can be marketed-to-death. buzzwords can lose all...

has anyone done a head-to-head comparison of one of thermalright's 120mm heat sinks and their si-97 heat sink?

if you have personal experience with these products, assuming quiet 120mm and 90mm fans respectively, what's the ballpark temperature diff?

now they [pcpc] use Seasonic for the silencers. how was this determined? i assume PCPC doesn't state it any of their sales brochures? i'd still love to be pointed to some confirmation of this information. especially since it seems to be held as common knowledge here and since i have yet been able t...

how come these 35 watt AM2 processors don't seem to be available anywhere? and if these processors are not available can i undervolt any other AM2 processors to the same level? "Orleans" (Energy Efficient Small Form Factor, 90 nm) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Athlon_64_microprocessors#.2...

Spec is correct. However, it isn't a horizontal obstruction. The two support bars run from front to back, and the SI97 probably sits somewhere close to the middle of those two. The space / clearance between the two support bars is 84mm the last time I measured. So, you can just pop a 80mm fan into ...

merlin wrote:now they [pcpc] use Seasonic for the silencers.

how was this determined? i assume PCPC doesn't state it any of their sales brochures?

I use an si-97 (L116 x W96 x H75)mm , which fits.. but the 80mm panaflo on top is slightly modified. how is your panaflo mod'd? i found this spec: "Maximum CPU Cooler Height: 3in or 76mm" here: http://www.sffclub.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97&Itemid=99999999&limit=1&limitstart=7 ...

this is directed to anyone who's used the MicroFly Micro ATX case. approximately how much clearance exists above the cpu in a MicroFly? i'm thinking of using this case for an ASUS M2NPV-VM with a Thermalright SI-97A heat sink. the height on the SI-97A is 75mm (without a fan). will it fit? if this he...

don't buy it, unless you really need it. this is absolutely the *most* important idea in the original post. only very very rarely do i observe any green "talk" coupled with an appreciation for reducing consumption. and any green "talk" that doesn't tells me that the entity "talking" doesn't really ...

has SPCR reviewed any PC Power & Cooling (PCPC) power supplies in the last 12 months? i noticed a comment in an SPCR article that stated that PCPC power supplies are actually mod'd Fortron power supplies. can someone point me to information that validates this statement? in the past (years ago) i he...

jaganath wrote:From the conclusion to the SPCR review of the Earthwatts:

thanks for the review reference. i didn't know that spcr had reviewed these power supplies.

it definitely smacks of opportunism (on the part of Antec) more than an increased awareness of sustainability issues.

"EarthWatts, the most environmentally friendly Power Supply yet." http://www.antec.com/us/pro_p_EarthWatts.html looks like stuff (active pfc and high efficiency) other folks (pcpowercooling.com) have been offering for a while. when a company introduces a product that they've never sold before (and i...

damien wrote:I just had a PC that died. Rang up the Brisbane City Council about recycling, and they just said "nope, chuck it in the bin".

*sigh*

Anyone know of a list for Australian recyclers?

what did you end up doing with your dead PC?