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- Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:39 am
- Forum: Site Feedback
- Topic: Minor errors in MODT mismatched article
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3949
Minor errors in MODT mismatched article
I spotted 2 errors in the MODT Mismatched article while starting to read it: 1. "Mini-Mac" should be "Mac Mini" 2. "they were" should be "there were" in "There are no stock fans, and no place to mount them even if they were." (last paragraph on the page) Cheers PS: Thumbs up for the "were" in the "[...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:12 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Does using long audio cables/usb cables increase latency?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9820
I've read about a lot of audiophiles using CAT5 as speaker cables with excellent results. Pretty surprising considering all the BS about expensive thick cables. I once had a boss who told me that he wires all his audio-visual equipment with "data quality" cables because they are of so much better q...
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:32 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: A Quiet PC for Torrid Thailand
- Replies: 129
- Views: 105614
- Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:59 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Defective Samsung 250 GB SATA. tell me your experiences
- Replies: 38
- Views: 20856
My personal feeling is: High class WD > Maxtor > Seagate > Samsung in terms of reliability. Noise may very well follow the inverse trend. Another poster had said what I wanted to say. However, to add my own words, I find that Maxtors I have bought have been the worst in terms of reliability; Seagat...
- Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:38 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB HDD
- Replies: 33
- Views: 107318
The ~465 gigabyte Windows calculated should be called gibibyte ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix Microsoft is following the old standard; many people (myself included) still are. "Gibi" just sounds too bizzare. And (this is very important), don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia...
- Mon May 09, 2005 12:45 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Drive temperatures over 50?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6257
Dead fan? Removed? Put a new one on it! Belated update: The fan was replaced and then the CPU temperature did not change :shock: So I took the heat sink off thinking maybe I need to remount the heatsink (scary, I did not know that Celerons come in a bare die, and I was rocking the heat sink when I ...
- Mon May 02, 2005 8:58 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Directional hum from Super Silencer
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1213
Directional hum from Super Silencer
I persuaded management to get 3 Super Silencer 300's a while ago. However, after installing one of them and turning the PC on, there is now a very noticeable (and very annoying, too) directional hum that was not there before. Has anyone seen Super Silencers generating directional hum? What if any ca...
- Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:04 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: What happened when your PSU died?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10702
When the PSU of my PC at home started dying, it caused my hard drives to produce uncorrectable errors. Both the Western Digital and the Maxtor were affected, but the Maxtor was affected a lot more. Finally the PC started to reset itself, and later it won't post. (After the PSU was replaced, the WD b...
- Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:07 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is Samsung's HUTIL system diagnostic valid on a SP1614c?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14925
Unfortunately I am not an expert :-( According to http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ "uncorrectable" means Disk drives store data in blocks (sectors) of 512 bytes. Each 512 bytes has additional bytes appended to it (usually 40 to 60) which are used internally by the disk firmware for error checki...
- Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:27 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is Samsung's HUTIL system diagnostic valid on a SP1614c?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14925
Is there any possibility that I have a BIOS, driver, configuration problem or is what I describe consistent only with a physically damaged drive (e. g. bad sectors or other?)? I would first try to zero fill the whole drive (yes, it will take almost the whole day to run but I found that an interrupt...
- Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:18 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is Samsung's HUTIL system diagnostic valid on a SP1614c?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14925
I did that a while ago. I wrote 0 to the first 40 GB of the hard drive (was taking too long), but I still get the format hanging at ~ 27 GB. I know, this takes more than half a day, but you have to let the zero fill run completely to the end. It does make a difference. Filling part of the drive wit...
- Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:47 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is Samsung's HUTIL system diagnostic valid on a SP1614c?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14925
You could try to do a "low level format" (a.k.a. fill with zeroes) of the drive from hutil. If it seems to erase the drive ok, do another full test from hutil and see if it passes the test. This might fix the problems, but I don't know how much trust I can place on such a drive. (My PATA Maxtor was ...
- Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:12 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: New Antec cases being shown at CES on pcmag.com
- Replies: 473
- Views: 401955
Hey Cams - i always used Alt-0176 for the degree symbol 176 gives a smaller one than 186: ° vs. º how interesting :) 176 is the correct "degree" symbol; 186 is the "masculine ordinal" symbol (i.e., the "o" masculine ending, presumably for Spanish etc.). In some fonts, there will be an underline in ...
- Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:00 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Turning the volume down!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11456
I don't know what to say other than find a new drive. SPCR's Recommended List is not very kind to Maxtor; but compared to my WD, even my Maxtor is "noiseless". Seagate and Samsung sound alright too. (Yes, I have all 4 brands, due to some stupidity on my part. But currently only the Samsung is actual...
But then, too bad for me, Pocky is too expensive here, I cannot afford to be addicted on that stuff.... I think Pocky might be expensive everywhere. Look at the prices on glico.co.jp (they list only a few limited-edition ones), 1050 yen for the special Pocky's, almost CAD$15 :shock: EDIT: Giant Poc...
- Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:36 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Turning the volume down!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11456
- Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:49 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Is the Zalman Fanmate only for 1 fan only?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2408
- Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:29 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: What's causing the noise??
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4195
- Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:32 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: silentmaxx HDDD-silencer review
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3440
It does, but: the smart drive makes your drives run hot, while the silentmaxx cools them down. Big difference IMHO. Do you mean Smart Drive or Silent Drive? "Makes your drives run hot" is inconsistent with either results from Tom's Hardware or SPCR's own testing (and SPCR was not even testing this ...
- Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:47 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Quiet 40 mm fans! (maybe)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6088
But aren't SilenX fans made by Adda?Sizzle wrote:From my first hand experience with Papst and Adda 40 mm fans, none of them qualify for silent. However, I have two of these that I think would make a good case for being called silent fans.
http://www.silenxusa.com/productcart/pc ... Category=6
- Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:03 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Quiet 40 mm fans! (maybe)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6088
According to Papst site(the link i posted) they are 18dB(A), 3.8bels. But 3.8bels should be 38 decibels, decibel should be a tenth of a bel. Or am i wrong again? :lol: What does the (A) stand for really? :?: Anyway, i doubt any fan is as quiet as the manufacturer says, if it is the airflow isnt pro...
- Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:41 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Quiet 40 mm fans! (maybe)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6088
Re: Quiet 40 mm fans! (maybe)
Yes, these are Papsts. "ebmpapst" is the same company as Papst.Tyrdium wrote:Edit: Huh... Are they Papsts?
- Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:20 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: What's the SMOOTHEST/quietiest 120mm fan?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6433
- Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:17 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: UPS absolutely unacceptably noisy...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7933
Tripplite UPS... one of those which you can send it some commands and reprogramme it into an expensive power bar? :shock: If you mean with the convoluted Javascript-based software package that you can download free from the site and use once you plug the UPS in with USB, then yeah. My bad... it's t...
- Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:29 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: UPS absolutely unacceptably noisy...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7933
- Fri Dec 31, 2004 8:48 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Is this true about PFC
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5604
- Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:17 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Experience of Silverstone SST-40F vs Seasonic Super Tornado
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1861
Experience of Silverstone SST-40F vs Seasonic Super Tornado
I just wish to write up something about the Silverstone SST-40F (the one with a fan, not the better-known fanless model) vs the Seasonic Super Tornado 400 (Rev A3). I bought the SST-40F about the same time I discovered SPCR, when SPCR was just another review site and when I did not have a good enoug...
- Sun Dec 26, 2004 5:03 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Seasonic: Silencer vs. Tornado
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10469
It seems that all Seasonic PSUs sold in Europe are rev A2s. I got this email from KoolnQuiet in the UK: All the Seasonic power supplies sold in the USA are Rev A3. All other markets, including Europe, have Rev A2. It was done as a marketing ploy but they have shot themselves in the foot. So I guess...
- Sun Dec 26, 2004 3:52 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: How slow is your cpu fan running?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 17098