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- Fri May 28, 2010 11:37 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Nothing but trouble so far, itx htpc build.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5468
- Tue May 18, 2010 1:35 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Fed up with the hairdryer
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10613
Based on the discussion in this forum the dell uses proprietary powersupply connections so what i suggested before would not work.
- Tue May 18, 2010 8:13 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Fed up with the hairdryer
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10613
The Power supply looks to be a custom size that would not be replaceable or modifyable. The two small fans could definatly be noisy. It looks like you will have a hard time silencing the PSU if that is your main ssource of noise. I cannot tell for sure, but the dell motherboard looks to be a standar...
- Thu May 13, 2010 9:27 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel X25-M 80GB G2, to buy or not to buy?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4448
I would deffiantly go for a ssd over a 2.5" 7200rpm HDD. The noise of the 7200 rpm drive would definately be noticable. If you do not mind the smaller size and slightly lower sequential writes then you could get a intel X25-V 40GB for $120 at B&H photo and then get a 5200RPM 2.5" drive for storage w...
- Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:47 am
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Q. about loop configuration. single vs double
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8919
I do not know much about water cooling, but i know that you will not need 2 reservoirs even if you do 2 loops. The tube coming out of the reservoir could be split to the two pumps with a Y connection. if you do two loops, I would not put anything on the 5970's loop as it will most likely be your hot...
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:14 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec ISK300-150 - will it be OK with this?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11420
that celron d should run with much less power than the pentium d chips that the previous poster talked about since it is a single core chip, but it could still could draw more power than the 65w antec could support. Since the antec 150w has not beend reviewed yet we do not know if it's power supply ...
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:18 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Scythe Slipstreams -are they open or closed corners?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2328
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:46 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: How Can I Silence My....Speakers?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16580
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:10 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel x25-M SSD - Need to be FORMATTED? How turn off defrag?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6088
When a drive is new then there are two steps needed before files can be stored on the drive. If the drive is used as an os drive then the os install takes care of the appropriate steps, but if not then they must be done manully. The steps are to partition the drive and then format the partitions. On...
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:07 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Newbie with a custom build, but after a new PSU
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6973
I have the Nexus Value 430 nad it is extreamly quiet. If i stall the other fan in my system i cannot hear anything from my system unless i have my head around the back side of the case right by the pwer supply (i have an intel X25-V SSD so no hard drive noise). I am running a Q6600 on a Gigabyte G41...
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:15 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: New silent fan to replace Enermax 620W PSU fan
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4538
I scanned the models of Enermax 620W at newegg and came across some disturbing reviews of the liberty psu dying after a year or two. you may not want to change out the fan if you have a liberty as this could make any possible problems happen faster. if you do swap the fan, then measure the temperatu...
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:50 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Netbook/ CULV with HDMI
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2940
The new pinetrail netbooks that are comming out are supposed to have an optional brodcom chip that can decode 1080p material, but i do not know if any of those net books will have hdmi. If you do not care about processor power they will be less expensive than the CULV based notebooks. I have seen a ...
- Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:55 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Too Much for Antec ISK 300?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20593
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:27 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Powered hubs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2244
USB does not take extension well past a couple of meters especially with multiple devices. If you can find a firewire web cam like the unibrain fire-i, then you can use longer cords. the fire-i has an input and an output so multiple cameras can be linked together. Of course the down side is the fire...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:34 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Windows 7: upgrade or clean install?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14159
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:28 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Anyone know if a 3pin fan to 4pin GPU fan adapter exists?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17117
- Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:41 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: HTPC build - need some pro eyes to look over
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7365
If you would like to record hd from somthing other than over the air then you will not want the hd tuner. I have ATT U-verse and i use a Happuage HD PVR to record my HD shows. The HD PVR is buggy in Windows XP that i have, but i hear that it intigrates well into MCE. I get very few HD Channels over ...
- Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:43 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel 34nm SSD released
- Replies: 237
- Views: 304384
Re: Intel 34nm SSD released
I would say the drive is quicker, not faster. The difference is that quick is generally the term you'd use to describe latency, Good point about the difference between latency and throughput. I was just quoting the original article. The price was the part I was excited about. I will deffinatley be ...
- Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:52 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel 34nm SSD released
- Replies: 237
- Views: 304384
Intel 34nm SSD released
New 34nm Intel SSD's should be faster and cheaper based on THIS article at Anandtech
- Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:00 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: PicoPSU is it enough for me?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3487
The efficiency of the corsair vx450w was measured at around 80% for your max load. I got hte efficiency from the SPCR review. You would have a little over 70W dc power draw for the 90W that you measured. was that measurement during a stress test? If it was you might be able to get by with an 80W bri...
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:33 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Completely Inaudible System
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9349
Which hard drives are you going to get? The WD Drives that spin at 5400rpm are quieter than the other large capacity drives. Do you already have the reserator and are happy with the noise level? I will also give a recomendation for the scythe slipstream fans. With water cooling you might be able to ...
- Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:32 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: "Passive" CPU cooling in NSK3480
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7050
Any heatsink you want should fit in hte case unless you have a video card that the heatsink wraps around to the back. I have a ninja on a Intel DG33BUC in an antec 3480, and my CPU scoket is much closer to the top of the mother board than yours. You also will not have the problem of the CPU heatsink...
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:48 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel X25-E reviews?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12616
- Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:59 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Sonata Designer 500 & Earthwatts quiet enough?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7376
I have a NSK3480 with an Earthwats 380, and wanted to get the low noise of the better power supplys. Before I went out and bought an expensive PSU I decided I might as well try drastic measures to get my curent PSU quiet. Seeing as how I didn't care if the waranty was voided I opened up the PSU and ...
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:01 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: mobo with socket P cuestion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1673
- Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:26 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New Computer for Girlfriend
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3141
You may want to look at the Antec NSK3480. It is not as pretty as the new white cases so your girl friend may not like it as much. It is smaller and has a good power supply included (not as good as the Pro82 recomended by Neil though). You could take the money saved and upgrade the case fans and cpu...
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:35 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Quiet but great cfm intake fan ie; thermaltake
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3678
- Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:55 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec Skeleton... and P183 & Sonata Elite
- Replies: 161
- Views: 131411
- Thu May 29, 2008 5:53 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: normal noisy PC, but inside a soundproof cabinet?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 33780
Someone had the impression that I wasn´t going for total silence, yes I am actually, as close to it as possible.. I will be recording acoustic instruments in the same room so this is quite critical to me. Would it be possible to have the computer in an adjacent room, where the noise of the compute...
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:44 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: RPM of KAZE-JYU at 5v
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2677