I've been looking into underclocking my Radeon 9600 and it clocks from 325/400 down to 85/250MHz without major problems, but the card itself causes the system to reboot randomly and I need to get another AGP card soon. Has anyone tried underclocking their cards to see how far they go, and what is th...

frosty wrote:Consider running a 5v fan over the heatpipes also

No way! my goal here is getting rid of the only fan left in the system to make it totally fanless

I found a large aluminum 4.6"x12" extruded heatsink for $50... maybe too expensive for what it does :/

With such a low power system, why not just try externally mounting the power supply? This way it will stay more cool in the air outside your case. Thought about it... but I'd like everything to be clean with no external cables or anything. Anyways wouldn't it be better or more efficient to put a hu...

Running the heatpipes through the PSU would be too risky I believe, so I thought of sticking them to the outside (still don't know how) and use thermal paste to fill in the possible gaps (any ideas for this?). For the outside I thought about a big heatsink, like the ones in Logitech's higher-end sub...

OK, I got this system some months ago, and it's working pretty well for now: AOpen i855 mobo Pentium M 735 @ 1.33GHz 1v w/ Thermalright SB2 on top Samsung 80GB 2.5" Antec Phantom 350W Radeon 9600 128mb (not pro or anything) Inwin V523T microATX (great case for $50 btw) Basically that's what makes th...

I won't be playing *that* much, but I'll play a bit of HL2, Doom3, and I plan on having the vidcard for more than 1 year so it doesn't get too old. I'll have the cpu at 1GHz for normal everyday use (internet, mp3s, etc), but I'll leave it at 1.7GHz or even overclock it when gaming, I thought about p...

Hi First of all, my 1st message on these forums, I recommend this place to anyone who needs a quiet system :D OK here's my plan... I was getting a bit tired of my Prescott 3GHz and all the noise it made, so I decided to get a whole new system. Also I'm moving to a house in the middle of nowhere, wit...