Hi all,

I'm looking for owners' opinions on these two specific models - does anyone have anything to say about either? Any comments on noise will be particularly welcome of course.

Thanks in advance,

Sam

If you're going for a passive cpu cooling solution, get the latest Thermalright SP97 with the 3 heatpipes.

Do you know of a review or system writeup where the SP97 has actually been used fanless? I'd appreciate a URL...

Sound advice from Ralf as always... I was just about to direct you to Ralf's own system, which is documented here:

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=6127

Most people here would agree that Ralf's system is a great example for anyone looking for fast and quiet.

Well - if nothing else, this thread has motivated me to reapply my own Arctic Silver II interface. It had been in place since I assembled my system (Athlon 1GHz @ 1.1 GHz) in early 2001. My Folding@Home plateau temperature is down from 70C to 58C... Superb! On the whole too-much-is-bad debate, I'm w...

Woohoo! I've just broken into the project top 100000. Page 2 status within SPCR also beckons this week.

Looks like Ugly_Dog and I could have a long fight on our hands; our production is absolutely identical this week. MORE COAL!

Oh my WORD. That has to be THE worst joke ever made on this forum - and I should know.

What we need is a Worst SPCR Jokes thread!

Hahaha! Beautiful.

Here's a thought... If they haven't charged you extra, how about donating one to MikeC so he can sample the quality for himself? The UltraX should be the first keyboard in a new Recommended Peripherals section

LOL... Have you tried mousing over the knob on that manufacturer's page? I suspect there'd be slightly too much mechanical noise from that fan for SPCR standards.

It's a thing of great beauty.

This goes out to: PS, sneaker, y, BudMan, ok_im_there, il-j, JustInTime, Mellon, Gruarn, Luminous, chinboy, Plan_B, Chester_Cheese, Hampe, Ugly_Dog, Sun_Fure, glassjoe, wu299, perplx, yes, Stephen7372, Collin_Gouldin, Mezi, Gxcad, Sir_Retard, ONE, sjaak, Pjotor, McGarnicle, Brian_Blood, SilentRandy,...

What does -service actually do when running as a service?

Thanks wgragg. If nothing else, perhaps my pathetic sig stats will act as bait for some of the non-folding SPCR crowd who have big iron lying inactive. Come on! You know you can blow me away if you allocate even half of your clock cycles...

Right: everyone seems able to recommend notebooks which are quiet at idle. Heck, I've got one right here. The problem is always that as soon as you throw some work at a notebook, it sounds like a hurricane with a temper. As far as I'm concerned, the challenge is this: Recommend a notebook which is q...

Glad to be here at last! Unfortunately I don't have much power to throw at the effort:

- Athlon 1100 MHz (168h/week)
- Athlon 1200 MHz (40h/week)
- Pentium 450 MHz (168h/week)

But hey, I'm already thirty places from bottom - and it all helps get the Mac mentalists riled, right?

That's it! The manufacturers have realised that stealth = sexy, just like power = sexy. Good news for us freaks...

I know I'm not the only one getting excited about what's happening in the industry at present. In the last two weeks there have been several really promising "quiet from the ground up" systems reviewed, not to mentioned the news about Pentium M... I really feel like the pressure applied by SPCR et a...

An EPS PSU? Surely if you ducted it, you'd have an "EPS conduit"...













...I'll get my coat.

Welcome to SPCR...

600W seems totally excessive! What kind of system are you planning to build? Have you checked out the various threads on these forums re: real-world PSU wattage requirements?

Remember: the most futureproof item you can own is a healthy bank account.

Hmmm... I'd give all the screws in the area a good tightening as well.

There's a few different styles. I used the first one, RealVNC.

I use RealVNC around the house too; works like a charm.

Thanks for such an interesting point, Inexplicable. I agree with you, but only halfway: When I'm working or sleeping in the same room as the PC, I always tune in on the low-level noises it makes; this is when I want something to mask out the annoyances, even if it makes the overall noise level highe...

Absolutely awesome. I think you're totally right, Mike. And that's before even taking the lower power consumption, heat production, ease of cooling (you could easily position one -inside- a duct) and total unit mass into account. My next system will have one too...

Sure, that'd work... Those clips can be quite dainty though, so you might be able to do it by hand with less risk.

Ok, that's it... All Hail Bluefront!

That is awesome.

Great information - thanks! I installed a Zalman RC56 on my 24V M1A; I believe that should take it down to ~7-9V. It's definitely quieter.

Ah, so at least if you *do* churn out garbage results, the system should catch them. However, this still means that you could in theory run a box which churned out garbage every WU, and never be any the wiser. It'd net you the points, but you'd be contributing nothing of real-world value, except to ...

I didn't chip in at first because my experience is so limited, but since no-one else has replied... I did run one for a few days, a while ago. Main problem: I could only persuade Tweak-XP to allocate about 130 MB of RAM to it (I have 512 MB), so it was pretty limited - I could only really use it for...

That really is ingenious, Bluefront - I'm impressed also. The noise of a fan right at the front of the case has always put me off, and this looks like a great solution. It's far too much cooling for my current system, but it's a fantastic idea.

is it possible that WU's can complete but be wrong? Thinking about it, it almost certainly is. There's no internal error-checking done by the client, is there? It just calculates once and sends. I guess the implication of this is that every prospective Folding machine should really be put through a...

Yeah! It sounds pretty unorthodox, and I have to admit that I'm having troubling visualising it or understanding how it would work... Let's have those pics!