It's very interesting indeed. I always wondered about liquid metal from science experiments at school. Remember watching how mercury just seem to flow like T3. Imagine the conduction of liquid metal? Maybe the next phase in the future would be to have something like a Zalmans reservator but full of ...

I think what he was trying to say is that when the fanmate is on the lowest setting (turned all the way down to only 5v) the Nexus fan won't start.

As if it's suppose too. LOL

@Tibors

Much appreciated.

The most powerful of our silent PSU kits. Does this mean you represent this vendor in some way? Are you aware that as a vendor, we ask that you register before posting? :? :shock: :? That was just copied and pasted from their website. Sorry I didn't even take note of how they were advertising. I ha...

Would replacing the PSU with one of these laptop PSU kits work? http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=10#p1802 http://www.mini-itx.com/store/images/psu-03L.jpg Lex 120W PSU and DC-DC Converter Kit The most powerful of our silent PSU kits. Suitable for powering all Mini-ITX boards, including the Insight P...

Great review! Can the PSU be easily replaced with another? I'm thinking along the lines of changing the psu with a quiet atx psu and then reversing the fan and duct the hot air out of the 3.5in bays. This means it will suck the cool air from the bottom and throw the hot air out ithe drive bays. Woul...

(I run folding @ home on most of my computers and am used to seeing near 60C temps on some of them. None has ever misbehaved or failed due to CPU overheating. 53C is barely warm, imo. ) And the test was conducted with CPU burn so it should be atleast a few degrees lower with folding@home. :wink: Mi...

Point accepted.

Shame I can't edit my poll.

QUOTE FROM PCPRO website " Intel abandons clock speed chase and drops 4GHz Pentium In another embarrassing admission in a year scattered with them, Intel has announced that it is to cease development of the 4GHz Pentium processor. For now the 3.8GHz part will remain the highest clock speed. Instead,...

Could you say a vote for someone who does not win is a wasted vote? Then come election day %50 of the voters will waste their vote. Ehh, someone who does not have a chance I call a wasted vote. Anyway I wanted to keep the pole simple as possible without too many options. At first I only had 2 optio...

Eh, I see your point but Nader is just a wasted vote, no?

Okay I know there is another post about this but it has completely gone off course. Please vote and (optional) give reason(s) why?

Also use decent Tim such as Artic Silver 5 etc. The thermal grease that comes with Zalman is just no good...

Hmm.....is the power in the UK that stable and consistent? ~20 years with only 2 powercuts and that was in Milton Keynes. I have not experienced any problem of surges, spikes etc. I have started using a surge protecter in the last few years because of lightning strikes you hear about happening to o...

A centrino laptop... Its shocking how little power a laptop draws but it still has enough juice to encode video pretty well. Everthing about a laptop saves power including hdd, graphics, dvd/cd drive, ram, mobo, cpu, and even the tft panel. Turn off the TFT and wifi etc and encode wiithout worrying ...

Possilbe white and black pads doubling up?

double pads = less contact = high temps

A simple way to really stress the cpu is to launch calculator. 1. Change to scientific mode from view menu. 2. Type a very large number in such as 9999999 3. Hit the factorial button 'n!' Every so often, WinXP may warn you it can take a long time to compute this. Keep hitting the continue button whe...

My woman would kill me if she found out I spent this much time trying to silence my PC. She would think I am a little wierd so I'll keep it a secret, Shhh!

Atleast I know she is not here.. hee hee

I have the DiamondMax Plus9 FDB drive, they are quieter than IBM and WD ball bearing drive, but they are no way in the same league as Barracuda IV. My friend has these drives and they are very quiet compared to any other hard disk. If you are looking for a hard disk that is very quiet I would sugges...

Who needs this kind of 3D performance anyway which also brings so much noise. Does anyone find the Radeon 9700 Pro slow, I think not!! I don't think it will be even slow for the next 1-2 years, by then so many faster newer graphics card will appear anyway... Lets be realistic, if it causes that much...

Sorry hear that, I won't buy anything now except from the highly recomended stuff by this website. The Nexus is the way to go for quietness..

Deltatronic CPU heatpipe works this way. Heat is transferred outside case and cooled passively. According to Deltatronic it is able to cool fastest P4 processors. How to get these heatpipes? Nah this is probably the best passive cooler there is.. http://www.tsheatronics.co.jp/zen/english/ncu1000_e....

I have one comment, I found them to be very noisy especially the PS. Which is also hard to do any mods because of the small form factor and small fan used inside the PS.

I would avoid them, unless you love the design..

Open case is better but noise leaks from fans and all other sources of noises more than if it was closed. I had my case wide open and it did make a difference in tempertures, about 5C to case temps. Open case is only ideal if you have a completely passive solution inside your case plus some kind of ...

Seems to me just like a internal PS it also has a fan. But there is one good use of it because you can place the PS literally anywhere, you could place it away from your PC/yourself to reduce noise and secondly place it in a cool place where the fans could be undervolted so it's inaudible. I just wo...

the cpu on the back of the mainboard, so it would touch the case, and one could install a really large heatsink (like the high-end amplifiers have) on the outside of the case! How would you put any PCI or AGP graphics card that way? The HS would have to be very very big and tall. Then this defeats ...

The latest notebooks from Sony and many other manafacturers have a massive 16.1" TFT, Mobile P4 2.4 chip (40-50 watts), 60GB HD, CD/CDRW combo drive, and all this is powered from a external PS. So how comes a desktop PC cannot be powered externally? The notebook metioned above must draw quite a lot ...

Does all/most Pentium 4 mainboard have 4 mounting holes for heatsink? I read about a inexpensive passive P4 cooler that requires the four mounting holes. http://www.tsheatronics.co.jp/zen/english/ncu1000_e.html I have emailed the company and they said it should be back in stock sometime in February....

Thanx, that has helped me out.

I go ahead I buy it, cheers.

Hello all, I would like to build a silent/v quiet machine from scratch, I have bought a Intel P4 1.8A (Northwood) CPU. I already have ram, ATI radeon 9000 and a Maxtor 80GB ATA133 hardrive from a previous machine. My next step is to buy a Intel mainboard, the problem I have noticed is that lots don'...