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- Mon Feb 17, 2003 4:23 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Motherboard for PIII-S?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7221
Check "Clearance" and "B-Grade" sections of online stores, you can find a lot of older stuff there. I picked up a GA-60XT-A (Intel 815EP) for £55 (about $80), and the store had many many more returned/repaired/clearance S370 motherboards. It had been returned, but my only other option was Ebay, wher...
- Fri Feb 07, 2003 7:29 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: The true Aquarium Concept.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3697
- Wed Feb 05, 2003 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Rumor: GFFX canceled
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5127
I lurk x3dfx, the place where the rumour originated. It was made by someone who doesn't even pretend to have sources, and all replies to it said he was making it up. Along comes The Inquirer (God bless their little cotton socks), who think "Wow omigod GFFX cancelled wowowowowow" and post it. And of ...
- Sat Feb 01, 2003 11:39 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Zalman ZM80A-HP + Card Keeper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3778
It's not really something you see much anymore, but in some old PCs I've seen there's a bar that goes in the case, over where the cards are. Small 'arms' with a U-shaped holding device thing go down and clamp onto the cards, stopping them moving. I have no idea what a cardkeeper is and your descript...
- Sat Feb 01, 2003 11:37 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: super\double\triple PSU combo for fanless operation ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3502
If you don't feel much like modding and messing around, you could use one PSU for the motherboard and attached cards, and one for the drives and anything else that needs external power source (say, a Radeon 9700 Pro or a fanbus). Obviously the first PSU would need more juice than the second. And the...
- Thu Jan 30, 2003 8:00 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Silent video cards
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10156
- Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:10 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: RF interference and computers: Experiences anybody?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7895
Mobile phones ringing make my speakers crackle like crazy. For a while I had my case off, whenever the PC was on, the TV a few feet away was un-watchable. I noticed it through the signal being 50% noise and the sound being muffled crackles =P It was a P2-300 with 128mb RAM, a Voodoo Banshee and a bu...
- Mon Jan 27, 2003 7:36 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Hot glue to stick fan to GPU (bad idea?)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5326
As the fan should be 2cm clear of the GPU all the way round, the corners will be much cooler than the chip. I've given myself a few nasty burns with a gluegun, and have yet to receive one from a GPU heatsink, even a passively-cooled one, so I guess they're cooler. How will they be mounted onto the h...
- Fri Jan 17, 2003 4:47 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: DivX playback questions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6191
It depends a lot on the resolution of the DivX movie, there were a few anime episodes that my P2-450 stuttered through, making the sound and image out of sync by ~5 minutes after ~25 mins. The newest release of DivX actually fixed this up nicely, I could suddenly play them fine. It also added a few ...
- Thu Jan 16, 2003 3:29 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Fanless PII and noisy hdd
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4593
- Wed Jan 15, 2003 7:43 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: dBA, sound, measurements
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6011
- Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:53 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Recommend a Silent Mouse and Keyboard?
- Replies: 481
- Views: 848098
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:36 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What harddrive to buy NOW?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7639
Ah, I didn't know the official spec said they were the same, in that case, egg on my face! I have no idea where that 3dB sound-halving thing came from, I've only recently come to realise that there are ways to rate sound other than the "I can kinda hear it" to "FOR THE LOVE OF GOSH MAKE IT STOP" sca...
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 12:27 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What harddrive to buy NOW?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7639
Storagereview says 80gb Barracuda IV gave 41.3dBA, 120gb V gave 37.8, a 3.5dBA difference. I've been led to believe that a 3dBA difference is half as loud to human perceptions, maybe that was wrong or I wasn't paying attention, I don't know. Or I'm getting my various Bel units confused, which is the...
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 10:27 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Cuda V's work in RAID 0 now?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8725
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 9:58 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What harddrive to buy NOW?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7639
Are you looking just to make your PC quieter, or also to upgrade the space too? It would seem a little odd to replace a drive solely to make it quieter unless you have money to burn. I have a 40gb Barracuda IV, and I literally can't hear it over ambient noise, so I think the noise increase even from...
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 9:42 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: About a silent power-gaming HTPC
- Replies: 38
- Views: 17290
I've never watercooled anything so I don't know much about it, but the GFFX will put out so much more heat than any card today that I'd make sure you invest in a bigger radiator and pump than is recognised as 'standard' today. I wouldn't go with no fans, either, even a 12dBA 19.4CFM fan is better th...
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:42 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Radeon 9000 Pro Fan
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4820
Okay, this is the ATI reference design (brightened up so you can see the fins on the heatsink better). This is what all the 3rd-party manufacturers seem to use. If you look through the blades of the fan, underneath it, it's the same as the ATI heatsink except (shock horror!) the fins go vertically i...
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:24 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Radeon 9000 Pro Fan
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4820
I'd check your heatsink against the reference heatsink, it's possible that they might've used a smaller heatsink as they planned to cool it by fan. It's not that likely though, it's probably just the reference heatsink with a fan whacked on top. How's the fan connected to the heatsink? If it's just ...
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:10 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Chieftec/Sirtec 340/360 Watt fitted with a Papst instead
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3621
I've taken PSUs apart about a million times for cleaning, the only risk to yourself is if you forget to wait until the charge in the capacitors dies down, you risk a harmless buzz. I don't read German so I skipped the article and don't know which fan they use, but in general Papst's silent fans tend...
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:08 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: What about those noise cancelling thingies?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4233
I think potentially it could be great. If you've got Barracuda IV or V hard drives and no thermatically-controlled fans, the only other noise should be consistent whirring/buzzing/whining that doesn't change, which would cancel out nicely. I think for other applications of noise-cancelling you need ...
- Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:04 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Best fanless video card ?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10895
- Fri Jan 10, 2003 9:59 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Best fanless video card ?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10895
I'd go with the AIW 7500 recommendation, if you can find a fanless one. ATI has tended by be second only to Matrox in terms of consumer-level 2D quality, and the AIW series has a good reputation for TV quality. Newegg has the AIW 7500 for $126 with free shipping , which might seem a bit expensive fo...
- Fri Jan 10, 2003 9:39 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: FYI: SMP Athlon Power Consumption
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4546
- Fri Jan 10, 2003 9:24 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Anyone have experience with the Antec SL300S?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1900
Anyone have experience with the Antec SL300S?
I've recently had to build a new PC on a super tight budget while not skimping on quality, and an Antec case/PSU combo seemed a good way to get both. It's just, I was recently wooed by the prospect of a quiet PC as this thing's on 24/7 and I sleep 5 metres away, so I got a 40gb Barracuda IV instead ...