OK, as promised, a pic of the rear. The Sonata grill was very easy to clip out with regular (hobby size) diagonal clippers. You can get in really tight to the edge, so what's left on the case is really not that sharp. It should still have a wire grill like the PSU, to save me from the occasional knu...

how does something like this look? and is $300 CDN a reasonable price?
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... RK:MEWA:IT

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main ... w%3F%3F%3F

lookit how many systems! Either a sysadmin for a large corp. or campus, or he's some crazy kid who's been out borging random systems.

Aw shucks Tibors, thanks! Did I ever mention that I'm 1/2 dutch?

Boo Hoo
Us Canadians don't get the same commercials as you do. We need to wait a few days / weeks / months to finally catch them all during normal programming.

Thanks for the recommendations. I'm keeping my eyes open for a deal, either ebay or elsewhere online.

How did you cut the back grill, what tools? Well, the Sonata's rear grill is already very open to begin with, so with a small pair of wire cutters, I snipped the grill out very easily (and without any small metal bits flying off and getting into places they shouldn't be) I had the whole works apart...

Something new I guess....




Rated at 17dBA at 1300 RPM and 43! dBA at 3500 RPM, at which point your comuter will also start to hover,

Yes, you are correct on the Raid. The 2 200 giggers are mirrored. I keep getting them confused too. Squash balls on top of the carpet? That might be taking it a little too far. I was just looking for airflow, vibration is pretty well non-existant. (good enough for me anyway). I'm fooling around on a...

At the moment I have an Asus P4R800V-Delux mobo, with ATI Radeon 9100 onboard graphics. It has available PCI and AGP8X/4X slot(s) At 64mb of shared ram, I get a 3DMark score of ~3800, with 128mb shared it drops to ~2400. (1 gig of ram total on this machine) I want to upgrade to a video card for a fe...

cut out that rear grill, you'll cut down on the air-woosh noise, and probably be able to up the exhaust fan to 7v and still be silent.

Pentium 4 630 slower, more expensive claim http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21049 By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 02 February 2005, 10:38 EVEN THOUGH Intel hasn't yet released its Pentium 4 6XX series, nor the Exscream Edition running at 3.73GHz, cheeky French web site X86 Secrets has reviewed them....

frankgehry wrote:I'm looking right at my nexus 120 and it has a three pin connector with rpm sensing that plugs right into the mb just like the orange loons. - FG

But does that 3 pin connector have 2 wires leading to it, or 3?

What I've found in my case, is that the 3 pin connector should be fine for the RPM sensor, if the Molex is getting it's proper voltage. My own problem is that when I use the 3-pin connected to the monitor header, the fan controller becomes useless and the fan runs at the full 12V, no matter what the...

Aleksi 's post contains a lot of good information, but it didn't make one point clear. There is no "pure" RPM cable on the Nexus fans. It has a 4-pin pass-through connector for direct connection to the PSU and it has a 3-pin connector to plug onto a motherboard fanheader. You should use only one of...

Basic Stats: Intel P4 Northwood - 3.06GHz / Asus P4R800-V Deluxe Antec Phantom 350 PSU / Sonata Case 2x512mb Kingston HyperX (2-2-2-6) Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu, on a Fanmate 1 diet 2x120mm Nexus / Yate Loon fans 2x200GB Seagate Baracuda 7200.6 SATA (Raid 1) / 1x120GB, 1x80GB Western Digital Caviar IDE ...

edit....started a new thread instead.

Aleksi 's post contains a lot of good information, but it didn't make one point clear. There is no "pure" RPM cable on the Nexus fans. It has a 4-pin pass-through connector for direct connection to the PSU and it has a 3-pin connector to plug onto a motherboard fanheader. You should use only one of...

wooglin, What program are you using? I use Acronis True Image, and seems to work well. I'm trying out TrueImage... seems to work really well so far, although I'm just backing up to a spare HD at the moment. Playing around with the DVD/RW functionality now. If all works as it should, I'll be laughin...

I got a Plextor for Christmas from my brother. It runs reasonably loud and fast when it needs to, but if you're playing a CD or DVD is slows right down to near silent. Haven't had any problems with it. Now just need to find a better backup solution that will allow me to burn the 4.7gig images instea...

not cheap. After tax, $28 CDN (incl 3% cash disc.) ea. :0 are you serious. Thats more expensive than getting it shipped form BC. I think i've been there before, I believe that you can get a discount if you bargin with them a bit. Anyways, NCIX dropped their price by $1 since last week. But this is ...

Funny....I recently got a LIS 2 controller and two Nexus(Yate Loon) orange fans. At anything less than 100% (12v) they make a distinct humm sound when using the LIS 2 controller.....some type of PWM control I guess. Anyway I'm back to using Globe 120s. The orange fans are nice, but really don't go ...

not cheap. After tax, $28 CDN (incl 3% cash disc.) ea.

L.I.S. 2 Found a deal on this the other day on another forum and thought I'd check it out. IMHO it's more bling than anything else. It's basically a dashboard, with 4 fan controller. With the stock Antec 120mm it gave full control, from 0V to 12V, so you could use the dashboard to turn off the fan ...

Just got passed for the first time since I joined the Team (and the Fold) a month and a half ago. Chtudor zoomed past at 2000PPD: what's a mere mortal supposed to do against that :?: And now teknerd is up to no good either... :evil: I'm actually surprized it didn't happen earlier, given I only have...

LOL

The Noisetaker has a VERY STIFF ATX connector. Very hard to keep the inside nice and tidy with a stiff cable. Also, if I remember correctly, the cables were a little on the short side. I've got a Noisetaker 375, and yes, the ATX connector is very stiff - but you only really need to touch it once. I...

I'm not an electronics genius, but isn't a zener diode basically a one-way power gate?

Nice review and great pics!

Pentium 3.06GHz Northwood, 1gig of ram, running 1 instance of Big WU's at 100% (50% actual) and 1 instance of Small WU's at 90% (40% actual), running 24/7, shared a few hours per day with PVR duties. I know Stanford recommends against running 2 instances, but one will only use max 50% of CPU. Pentiu...