whiic wrote:Why make HDDs for them dipshits who don't care about environment (= Linux users)?

Wow.

Anyway, sorry if I annoyed you. I actually agree with you that for desktop use its not necessary to have frequent disk writes. I was just pointing out the reason for it

It has an air intake at the front, but with no fan there because it didn't seem necessary (HD temps etc are no problem). I honestly cant see that the cables are making all that much of a difference :? I think its the mounting. But I cant see any easy way around that other than spending money on a pr...

What is so important you need to write to HDD every 20 seconds? Computer sits idle. You're not downloading anything, you're not doing anything. Your OS isn't indexing to speed up future searches. Nothing is done. Why access it constantly? What sort of brainfart is that? I believe this more to do wi...

I've moved the HS fan to the more usual position of blowing through the heatsink and out through the exhaust fan, and I still have the same temperatures. While I moved the fan I noticed that actually I've had it at max speed all this time, and am still getting the temps I posted above (the PSU is lo...

Hi, I'm using a Ninja 2 to cool a 1.86GHz 6300. I've got a slipstream attached to the HS itself, as you can see in the picture itself. I dont know what speed its at but its the lowest I can get it using my cheap fan control. My problem is that my temperatures seem a bit high for what I'm doing. Curr...

btw, I was using the BIOS and core temp to check the temps. Although core temp doesn't seem very accurate. I assume the BIOS is though right??? CoreTemp should show the temperature read from inside the cpu cores. The bios "CPU" temperature could be from a sensor somewhere around the cpu socket on t...

neither overwrites the drive with zeros, which is probably what would be really damaging to an SSD Why would the drive being overwritten damage anything. Surely it would just equal one write of the 100,000 (or whatever) each part of the drive can last. Not particularly great, but surely not that aw...

Well if AMD say 55-68c max temp, and you have 50c at idle, I'd say that running passively cooled, you're likely to go over that limit under sustained load. But I dont know if that cpu will throttle back automatically if that happens. Remember that you could potentially have stability problems arisin...

The difference in temperatures between your first and last screenshot is rather alarming considering they're both at idle - has your ambient temperature increased by 20c?

I'm completely puzzled as to why the design has been changed from Molex at all. Probably just to make everybody's life a little more complicated. The SATA power connector was actually a much needed improvement over molex, adding SATA-only capabilities (such as hot swapping), as well as improving th...

If the fan speed controller on the mainboard actually worked I would use the CPU fan but that's about it. On my asrock board the Quiet Fan option in the BIOS setup does nothing, but if you run something like Speedfan you can controll the fan speed anyway. So if you're using Windows, just install Sp...