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- Thu May 26, 2005 5:10 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help me quiet down my new SFF! (pics)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2392
I'm open to cutting and hacking within reasonable limits, but don't want anything sticking out, so external fans are out of the question, sorry. I want to keep it on my desk, and don't want ugly. Can I buy tin snips locally to "investigate" the case and open things up a bit? Where would i find a pai...
- Thu May 26, 2005 4:38 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help me quiet down my new SFF! (pics)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2392
Help me quiet down my new SFF! (pics)
I got a Biostar iDEQ 200N recently. It came with a HSF, and the heatsink is a nice thin-finned jobby with a copper core and aluminum fins. The problem is that since the case and the HSF are so small, it uses two 60mm fans, one blowing into the heatsink and one blowing out the back, taking the air fr...
- Sun Dec 07, 2003 4:51 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, expensive!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12705
- Sat Oct 04, 2003 8:02 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Athlon 64 2 GHz Thermal desing power at 89 Watts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5056
I do believe Neil is right - that the figure is the highest the Athlon64 family is projected to dissipate. I suppose AMD want to prevent another embarassing situation like the early Athlon where OEM power supplies and motherboard power circuitry couldn't handle higher-grade chips, while the motherbo...
- Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: So I found a rather odd way of dampening high frequencies
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11538
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:08 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Athlon 64 - heat?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2623
- Tue Jun 24, 2003 2:02 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: 2.4 vs 2500
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16416
I don't know how accurate temp measurings are, but:
http://www.sandpile.org/impl/k7.htm
http://www.sandpile.org/impl/p4.htm
http://www.sandpile.org/impl/k7.htm
http://www.sandpile.org/impl/p4.htm
- Wed Jun 18, 2003 2:26 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: do amd's still run hotter than Intels?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14121
- Fri Jun 13, 2003 1:33 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Finally... a PC I can live with
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13616
- Thu Jun 12, 2003 9:48 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Pentium M in servers!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5220
- Tue Jun 10, 2003 2:40 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Just as I thought.. most HSF's are designed all wrong :)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 19039
- Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:00 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Tell me what you think of this PC
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5675
- Mon Jun 09, 2003 11:38 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Dell Optiplex: comparing cases?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 37889
the dell optiplex small form factor pc is REALLY quiet...i used one of these at a college store, and its the real deal. the system i saw (2.53 GHz P4, 512MB DDR) was not that hot either. i was drooling to open the system right there in the middle of the store to figure out its cooling design, i hel...
- Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:41 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Is this an Intel Williamette core P4?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3456
- Fri Jun 06, 2003 7:52 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9330
Re: Is the stock fan thermally controlled?
Hello Mark: Is the stock fan thermally controlled? If so, and it just runs too fast under a light load, you could try moving the thermistor! Or, you could stick a resistor in series on the positive feed to slow it down... Hi Neil. As you can see in the pic i posted, the fan only has the 2-pin conne...
- Fri Jun 06, 2003 7:50 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9330
- Fri Jun 06, 2003 7:40 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9330
Yes i did try it with the polarity reversed. The fan didn't spin up at all, while the rest of the system spun up and then spun down. Now i'm at wits' end - it doesn't even work with another fan that draws 0.23A!!! How the fuck were they able to make a goddamn fan propreitary? :mad: A photo of the co...
- Fri Jun 06, 2003 6:32 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9330
Well, the damn thing works fine with the stock fan, except that the stock fan is LOUD. We're talking Beta SL loud. I could use it on my heatsink if i wanted to, its that powerful. And i don't have a midrange fan that draws more current than the L1A. Can the PSU have current-sensing so that it shuts ...
- Wed Jun 04, 2003 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Today's Amusment
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3149
- Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9330
"FF Code Flash" means that the whole board apparently powers up, then shuts back down immediately, only having power long enough to "flash" the FF code on the diagnostic LED panel. I have to replug PSU from mains to get any activity. I have also reset the CMOS a few times. Should i try to remove the...
- Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:04 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Weeee! I just got 1GB of RAM!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19458
- Wed Jun 04, 2003 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Today's Amusment
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3149
- Wed Jun 04, 2003 2:30 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9330
Well, if the fan header was reversed, would the PSU fan still spin up? The older fan was also 2-pin, so rpm-monitoring is out of the picture. I made sure the fan was plugged in the right way because i noticed i had to bend the tab a little before plugging it in and i also had to cut away the little ...
- Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:27 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9330
- Sun Jun 01, 2003 7:10 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9330
- Sun Jun 01, 2003 5:07 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9330
Help! System doesn't boot after changing PSU fan!
So i was changing my PSU fan according to the directions i've read around the web and this thread . However, affter changing the fan in my Directron Lite-on 300W to an L1A, something's gone wrong... horribly wrong. First i tried connecting the motherboard to the PSU so i could see if its becoming ho...
- Sun Jun 01, 2003 6:13 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Walk me through changing my PSU fan
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4507
- Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:30 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Walk me through changing my PSU fan
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4507
Walk me through changing my PSU fan
I've contributed and looked at many threads about changing out the fan in the PSU both here and Ars, and the time has come to do mine. Its a pretty loud Liteon server 300W (the one from directron) and i want to quiet it down because its the loudest thing in my case. So what should i do? I left the m...
- Tue May 27, 2003 11:03 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Celeron 2.0GHz = crap???
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8276
- Sun May 25, 2003 11:14 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Coolest AMD CPU
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8131
I can't seem to find much information on the Athlon64. How do you know it will run cooler? Is the core voltage going to be lower than 1.5V or something? I don't really mind too much for speed as my current 1.33GHz is fast enough for my needs (for now). How much cooler would a P4 be compared to the ...