You should be able to swap the fan, but as born2code pointed out, it would be ill-advised to do so. 1U PSUs are packed very, very tightly and a low flow 40mm fan will cause overheating, I can virtually guarantee it. Also, if you look at this picture: http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2004/03/19/my_own_...

If you're willing to spend some money and take the unit apart, Koolance sells a set of waterblocks for the PS3...
http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/p ... uct_id=557

This fan: http://www.svc.com/r127015dl.html And this fan speed controller: http://www.svc.com/ixa-fcin.html Should do what you want. Just keep an eye on the cpu temperature when you adjust the fan speed. It's not going to be silent, but you could probably get it to be quieter than it is now. However...

What causes problems with the TRUE? I'm assuming it's the height... The TRUE is 160.5mm tall, all of the others are 159mm. If the height is the problem, I doubt any of them will fit. I could be wrong, but...

burebista & jaganth: I'm probably being more conservative than is necessary, yes (though the thermal spec for the E8500 is 74.1*C), but I'd rather err on the side of massive overkill to allow for things like dust buildup, fan failure, poor ventilation of the case due to someone being inattentive and...

My first idea is to create top-down airflow That's not a bad idea. Since I don't have any of the components in front of me, I can't really experiment with it but that may be worth trying. The only issue with it is, as you pointed out, the number of holes in the case. The entire front panel, for ins...

Hi all, One of my friends has asked me to configure a new system for him, and I'm running into some issues with speccing something that will meet his standards and mine. Anyhow, here's a partial list of what's going in it: SUPERMICRO MBD-C2SEA-O (Intel G45) mobo Core 2 Duo E8500 nVidia GeForce GTX26...

But the DFI doesn't take standard heatsinks

The Pentium M is available in a BGA package and a PGA package. 99% of laptops are going to have the PGA package, which is a socketed CPU just like the P4, Athlon, some P3s, etc. The socket the Pentium M is in is locked and unlocked using a flathead screwdriver. There's a slot for the screwdriver at ...

That's not PCI Express on the DFI, it's a 64-bit PCI slot

The commell is a nice board, but the lack of a desktop AGP slot keeps me from being interested in it.

Wasn't sure where to put this, but... check these out: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-137-057&depa=0 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-136-150&depa=0 *drools* Oh, and they have the Pentium Ms to go with them too. The 1.6GHz model is only $205....

On a totally off topic note, I'm flying out to Nebraska to visit family in a few hours. I expect that I'll be able to get online, but if for some reason I can't, that's why I won't be responding to any posts until late monday night.

I encourage you to check out the low-flow world (you did invite us to smash your server looking at the review), you might be able to make use of the wealth of information. I've been dabbling in it for a while, although my interest has been more towards the "low-to-reasonable noise level" end of the...

Yeah. I would've compared it to more heatsinks, but I never intended to buy a P4 system in the first place (newegg screwed up my order a while back, and I said "what the hell", kept the P4 board and built a system with it), and so the retail hsf and the Thermaltake were the only P4 heatsinks I had. ...

Thanks. :) I really don't like that DangerDen block tho. :( Clear tops on water blocks make me nervous, and $125 is a little absurd (although given the amount of machining that went into that thing, it's probably justified). I may look into having my grandparents' machine shop make a block for me. E...

I'm looking at picking up 4 Swiftech MCW6000 series CPU blocks, a couple of chipset blocks, and a couple of GPU blocks. Also possibly some hard drive blocks. Anyhow, what's your opinion on the Swiftech blocks? Also, has anyone seen a water block for the GeForce 6800s? I've got a Leadtek 6800GT I'd l...

I thought you guys might be interested in seeing a review I wrote of the Thermalright XP-120. I'm very impressed with the performance of this thing. It's probably the best P4 heatsink on the market atm.

The review is here:
http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=254

Ok, so I was having a debate over AIM with a fellow member of Short-Media (which is the forum I spend most of my time at, being that I moderate their Cooling and Case Modding/Power Supply forums... :D :lol: ) about who is hotter- Catherine Bell or Adriana Lima. I contend that Catherine Bell is hotte...

Thanks for the welcome :) Yeah, I made it over here from Anandtech... This (pentium M board) is something I really want to see done, so I'm trying to get as much input as possible on it. ABIT, MSI, ASUS or whoever won't build one because they see a poll where say, 15 people out of 20 say they want i...

Thanks for the welcome, and yes, it's only agp4x. That makes no difference in real-world use, of course... I was also going to ask RadiSys about the possibility of making a custom bios if push comes to shove and I have to try for a group buy of that board. Something with overclocking & tweaking opti...

Well, this is the board I'm going to try to set up a group buy of if I can't get someone interested in making a real consumer-level board. http://www.radisys.com/oem_products/ds-page.cfm?productdatasheetsid=1158 It's really a very nice board, but I'd rather have an ABIT or something that's got tweak...

I'm not aware of any boards with onboard 7.1 sound. 5.1 yes, 7.1 no. But other than that, that's what I was thinking- something like an IC7-G Max III but with Dothan support.

I've been wanting a Pentium M desktop since the Pentium M came out; If all else fails, I'll try to set up a group buy of the RadiSys LS-855 motherboard. But the RadiSys is an industrial board, and it's fairly expensive. So, I'm trying to get a major motherboard manufacturer to produce a reasonably p...