It's been a while since I posted this. Well, I bought this already and built it up. You can see pics here (about half-way down): http://forum.vapochill.com/showthread.php?t=11527 The problems are: 1) the inlet/outlet has to be put towards the front of the case, and that makes it so you lose the top ...

I am looking to get an AM2 board in the next month or so. Probably a 590 or 570, depending on layout and features. I have a Lian-Li 1100 case (inverted design), and will be water-cooling the system. Almost all of the 590's have a heatpipe system on the board. Some heatpipes (in general) are hollow a...

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The link is right, the de was just a fatfinger

I checked the front 2 pages of forum topics and didn't see any mention of it. hmmm

Madshimps.de has a huge 120mm review up with all fans tested @ 12v, 7v, and 5v. Very big list, with good data, sound recordings, and subjective analysis.

Link: http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getart ... rticID=421

Just go Options: Advanced

And in the Temp sensors, find the hard drive in the list, and change the offset to -7 or -20, and then they will read fine in SpeedFan.

My video card needs a -29'C offset

I have the same problem. It's very common on nForce2 mboards, especially. The PSU doesn't factor into it at all. It's the mboards fault for not being able to source enough current from it's own logic chips on the mboard, but not because of lack of power from the PSU to the mboard. A powered USB hub ...

I have that case (or a derivative) and an S12. The only problem I have had is that the 120mm fan has a pretty low-frequency vibration to it, which causes the outer shell to rattle (since it's not connected very well to the frame) against the back frame. So, I slid a business card in between the case...

Just got the Inwin Z583 and it seems pretty nice so far, although quiet is not something you get out of the box. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811108006 I have the rear 92mm fan running on 5V, although it was a little tricky since it just comes with a motherboard header conne...

No, windows can power down just a single drive. But if there is just a single byte requested from the drive, it either keeps spinning, or spins back up. So, don't put a swap file on it.

Have you tried SpeedFan?

I'm looking at building a new computer this year. I'm planning on going water-cooled for the first time. Right now, I'm looking at a Lian-Li PC-V1100 (black) case and an Asetek Waterchill kit (with a Black Ice Pro rad and the usb/software-controlled pump). Overall specs would be a new AMD socket AM2...

http://www.sharkoon.com/flash/data/PRODUKTE/BIG/silenteagle.jpg Review From Xoxide for $11.99. They come with 5 dampening screws, in a 1000 or 2000 rpm configuration, but 80mm only for now. They have a molex pass-through+rpm plus in addition to a regular 3-pin connecter, that is rounded and looks s...

I can confirm that the controller chip in the external box has to support it before it can be queried, and I don't know of a single one that does.

I set mine to power down after 2 hours of inactivity. Starting up a drive is kind of like takeoff for an airplane. Either on the ground, or cruising, things are just coasting. But takeoff and landings are very stressful for the hardware. I wouldn't recommend powering up/down a drive more than 3 or 4...

I have a rotator that changes it every day. Most of my backgrounds are from Digital Blasphemy or deviantart.com, usually of a 'space' nature (ie planets like Saturn with a starburst or something like that)

Hyperq. Thanks. I might give that a go (with insulated wire for me!) Does anyone know how accurate speed fan is? It is telling me that the CPU fan is at 3500 RPM, when it is a Nexus 120, which I understand has a max of 1000 RPM. Speedfan can have problems reading some fans. My Panaflos used to read...

Hopping into the wayback machine... I had this board for a long time. The ability to turn off the buzzer was added in a later BIOS rev. You are probably still running an older BIOS. There were a few "aftermarket" BIOSs that had newer RAID drivers built in too, that were good upgrades from the ABIT o...

I've got an XFX 6800GT (with an NV5) and when I read it's temps with SpeedFan for the first time, it reported the temps 26'C less than what the temperature tab in the driver reported. SpeedFan added a temperature offset soon after, so I made a 26'C offset and it matched. Later on, a newer version of...

I saw this posted on another thread: The ThermalTake Symphony

Do a search, it will com up. Basically, the Reserator idea, but with 5 120mm fans spinning at 1500rpm. It will definately have a lot more cooling power than the Reserator.

Sorry if some of these questions are from a noob at this, but I have a few: I'm thinking of building a computer around a PC-V1100B case, and thought about getting a Lian-Li SATA rack for backup. Does anyone have any experience with the Lian-Li drive racks? How lowd are they? http://www.lian-li.com/P...

With just screws, instead of going so far as suspending the drives, could you make some nice rubber washers to put between the case and the drive cage? I don't really think so, as the drives slide into plastic rails on special screws that come with the case which you screw into the drive prior to i...

According to this review of the 1000 ( http://www.guru3d.com/article/cases/200/8/ ), the new 'Plus' cases have the drive cages and PSU "firewall" screwed in, rather than riveted. With just screws, instead of going so far as suspending the drives, could you make some nice rubber washers to put betwee...

My XP-M 2500 will drop to 1.1v @ 60Mhz FSB. Unfortunately my NF7 board doesn't seem to like dynamically changing the FSB. It will drop just fine, but occasionally BSOD's while attempting to raise the FSB back up. Seems to be a fault particular to my motherboard; it did the same thing with an XP2100...

Which is better between these two for monitoring. The thing that confuses me is that speedfan reports temps 10 degrees lower. In speedfan v4.19 ? and later, you can go into the Advanced settings tab and there is an "offset" for every temp. Just subtract 10 for that temp. On my GF6800GT, I had to ad...

The 1400 is one of the hottest chips AMD has ever made. I have one too, in my "backup" computer. It's Socket A. I'd recommend finding an Athlon 1700 or 1800 and undervolt it. (I have one in a HTPC running at 1.35V with a Thermalright SLK800a HS + Papst fan that sits at 7'C over ambient with the fan ...

I've had hit-and-miss FSB speed control with Speedfan. I have 3 systems: KT7a-RAID w/ 1400 Tbird, an AOpen AK79D-400 Max w/ 1700XP and now 3000 XP Barton, and an AOpen AK79G-Max w/ 1800XP. The AK79G nForce2 is my HTPC, and FSB control works beatuifully! I have it set to 100MHz/133MHz, and it dropped...

Here is my big question: Why does windows still run the screen saver with the monitor in sleep/suspend/whatever?

All it does is make the video card and CPU hot.

Is anyone aware of a utility to turn off the screen saver when the monitor is put to sleep?

I have an Ahanix Blu2 case with the front LCD. It seems to be from a basic chassis that is used by several other VAR's that has the hinged CD-ROM and 1 or 2 60mm fans out the back. (Mine has 2, which are surprisingly quiet for stock 60mm's.) In it is a Via C3 600MHz integrated Syntax mboard (TigerDi...

160GB in my main computer: 36-40'C

120GB 'V in HTPC, very little airflow: 41-43'C

I have one of these loud SS400 PSUs. I have noticed that the fan speed spikes are power-draw related, as long as the ambient air temp is close to their circuit's trip point. If it's cold or very hot, it doesn't change pitch, but if it's "warm" and I do something from the command line (like to rebuil...