Well they designed it that way so it would fit every ATX case on the market. But that area, without a fan, will trap a whole bunch of heat. Similar to what Jan said, the cables should pass through the case fan area, then a PSU shaped box can go where it is supposed to, only have it insulated with n...

Sorry but this is one of those, "has anyone bought one of these etc etc..." posts.
However, all I want to know is this:

Which of the socket 754 boards on the market have 3 fan connectors that can all be controlled via speedfan or another piece of monitor/control software?

Thank you, and goodnight

I haven't posted to SPCR for a while now, due to not having had any ideas (or time) all summer. However, having been browsing the hardware mail-order webby's recently, I've realised that the appearance of more and more 4-channel SATA motherboards, combined with the drop in price of quality HDD's, me...

Could you tell me how you 'got down' to 53meg idle ram usage? I wouldn't mind trying it out on my ancient 128-meg 333 celeron, which currently runs like a 3-legged dog that's spent the day being fed on valium biscuits

I know, thermaltake make lame silencing products, as illustrated by my use of their fan grille without the fan.
Thanks frosty, I'll try and make my future case mods as evil and dangerous as possible...

Mike: I now have both my Seagates suspended similarly to: http://www.curmudgeon.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mods/ghet_hd.jpg And I have to say the seek noise is still more noticeable with the older drive. Perhaps I have a bad sample or the bearings have worn more than would be expected for a ~1 year old dr...

I just performed a short listening test to establish the winner of the barracuda ATA IV vs. ST3200822A showdown; Iiiiiiiiiin the red corner we have, mounted on sorbothane and weighing in at 60gigs, the 'cuda ata IV. Despite recent warnings from speedfan of a raw read error rate of 56, it still looks...

No the world isn't that simple, which is why a metal spoon dipped into hot soup isn't comparable to a pack of goo sitting in a pan of water a couple of degrees above body temperature.....

Bluefront, did you attempt to measure the temperature at several points along the surface of the coolpack, from the very tip to the surface of the water? For a material with good thermal conductivity, you would expect a steep temperature gradient from the hot to the cold end. As you've measured an '...

Game Theory - Erica's Word

i'll try and get round to comparing my barracuda ATA IV with my ST3200822A, if i can find a decent mic i could even do some freq. analysis....

some people just can't be pleased Mike....
Oh and thanks to Douglas Bailey for the internal spray paint idea....

A couple of weeks ago I found myself utterly destitute, so as a birthday present to one of my relatives I decided to attempt to silence their PC - which up until then had emitted a sound not unlike that of a vacuum cleaner with its hose stuck on the carpet. Utilising various fans I had scrapped over...

THG have a new case review out - this one has a 34cm(eau ma gawd!) exhaust fan...

http://www.tomshardware.com/firstlook/2 ... index.html

The hyper-6 looks like it was practically made for a rear duct mod....
I like the shiny fan wumpus - do you have to wipe the blood off everytime you're fiddling around inside, or do you just whack it up to full speed and let physics do the work?

I know that almost every sonata mod has been discussed ad nauseum in this forum, but I've yet to see a complete dust-free mod for the sonata. So nothing illustrated here is original, it's just a collection of mods found on SPCR, which should rid your sonata of dust for good (although I may reserve j...

Doh! forgot to post the URL. Fortunately, kogi did it for me....

For all of those in the UK, I found an interesting site aimed at studio constructors, but some of the material is sold in small enough amounts to be of use to SPCR-folk. They have melamine, mineral wool etc. and they also sell sheets of what looks like an identical material to the acoustipack compos...

Does anyone know whether the hard drive racks on the V-series are riveted to the main chassis, or screwed on? If I was going to try some DIY suspension I'd like to know I could go back to the original mounting system... Also, for those who've tried the V1100 or V2100, is the damping material up to a...

I've never seen anything so ridiculous. What's he going to do if the hosing leaks? I'm assuming if you actually had the guts to open such a case, you would instantly be covered, and probably suffocated by, metres worth of shiny shower cable. What about the dust issue? Someone would have to stand nex...

jesus, you wouldn't guess I was a 4th year physics student, getting thermistors and resistors mixed up. Though technically, all resistors are thermistors, albeit uncalibrated, not particularly sensitive and possibly non-linear in behaviour

ham solo wrote:That is a lot of duct and a lot of fans...

...that's a lot of wood too, were you planning on using some nice expensive hardwood, or maybe MDF?

Does anyone know where I could pick up one of those temp. sensors that plug into a motherboard header? It looks like a very small resistor trapped between two layers of translucent orange plastic (lucozade bottle?). The one that came with my motherboard died - somewhere in the UK would be preferable...

Nice work Algernon; good to see someone else with a mobo nailed to their wall! Looking at your CPU temps though, are you sure you can't run it passive? I'd guess that, fitted with one of the better performing heatsinks it would be fine - same goes for the video card, though you could rotate the whol...

You could put one of those fans in the side of your case with a huge loudspeaker grill in front of it, go faster red stripes round the edges, blinding chrome trim and a pair of furry dice blowing in the 260cfm breeze...

Another thing you might want to consider is that the side-panel holes let in a noticeable amount of dust. Considering that the sonata has a dust filter behind the front intake, which I've noticed catches alot of fluff, it seems absurd that they ever decided to punch the holes in the first place, may...

Jan: I had an IBM 75GXP (one of the worst for heat-related failures I've heard) which 'died'; although it span up, it weirdly drifted in and out of existence in windows explorer, like a USB device continually being pulled in and out of its socket. I got hold of Ontrack Easyrecovery pro, used the raw...

I thought I'd let you know the previous setup didn't perform all that well, and I wouldn't worry about the rectangular ducting anyway, I just got it because it was compact and i only needed to bend it in one dimension. Unfortunately it's only 50 x 100mm so didn't transfer enough air up to the PSU, a...

Anyone tried running a reserator through CPU, GPU and HDD blocks? Does the pump die? Also, has anyone tried replacing the pump in the reserator, and/or swapping the outlets from 3/8" to 1/2"?

Rather than trying to determine exactly what is quiet, it could be easier and just as effective to find out what the folk of SPCR interpret as quiet. Instead of trying to standardise recording equiment, environment etc. why not just concentrate on relative measurements - take a recording with whatev...