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- Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:16 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: question about video card fan
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1794
question about video card fan
You know how some video cards have very small noisy fans? Are they better for cooling than taking the fan out and positioning a larger sized quiet fan such as Nexus which blows over a much larger area of the video card? Is there a risk that the larger fan won't cool the card enough?
- Sun Jun 22, 2014 5:17 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: question about silencing video card
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2440
question about silencing video card
I use a Matrox Millennium card. In the past, I removed it's small noisy fan and used a Thermaltake Schooner heatsink which worked fine. I had to do some troubleshooting and needed to temporarily remove the video card. In the process the Schooner was damaged beyond repair. My question is: can the vid...
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:56 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Help me find my perfect 120mm fan
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17989
One thing I figured out half by accident, with a Nexus 120 mm fan, which could probably work with other brands without breaking them, is that if you cut off one of the four surrounding sides of the outer shell of the fan, you can generate a considerable amount of airflow coming out that side, so if ...
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:12 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Help me find my perfect 120mm fan
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17989
I have found that the Nexus 120 mm fan is not ideal, in that when I set the voltage low a mechanical rubbing sound manifests itself. So that actually, in using them with a fan controller, they are quieter if placed somewhere in between 5 and 12 volts, rather than at 5 volts. On the other hand, the N...
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:01 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Antec Phantom 500 --- more reliable than the Phantom 350?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3566
I've just set up a new audio production system with a Phantom 500, mounted outside the case, 4 inches away from it, in the back. This allows the cables to reach everything easily, and opens up lots of space within the computer for placing more hard drives etc. I've got a Nexus 92 mill fan blowing di...
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:34 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15307
Re: Which Matrox Millennium PCIe?
[quote="PositiveSpin"][quote="Aracu"]Well, I ended up getting a Matrox Millenium PCIe, since I need a card for high quality 2-D graphics that wouldn't use a lot of system resources, and I placed a Schooner heat sink on it, to replace it's fan. They are not really designed for one another, but fit we...
- Sun May 29, 2005 9:04 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: The Nexus 120mm fan corner cutting guide...
- Replies: 64
- Views: 210385
From chopping away at a Nexus fan with some tin snips, I found out half accidently, that if you cut out completely one side of the outer fan rim so that the fan blade is uncovered on that side, the fan still works, and a huge breeze can be directed at hard to get to spots on the motherboard by mount...
- Sat May 14, 2005 6:50 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: placing multiple fans on one rheobus channel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2807
placing multiple fans on one rheobus channel
Anyone know a good method for placing two or more fans on the same channel of a 3-pin fan controlling rheobus, in such a way so that they all rotate at the same controllable speed?
- Fri May 13, 2005 9:46 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Mount motherboard isolated from case?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15909
You made some insightful points and didn't need to express them in a negative way to get them across. It's funny how passionate we get talking about computer parts. The complexity and rapid change of the technology is unnerving. Our belief systems about it are constantly being challanged. Technology...
- Thu May 12, 2005 8:29 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Mount motherboard isolated from case?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15909
O.K., it looks like 1. we are not sure if new motherboards as a general rule need to be connected to the metal mounts of the case. However, 2. if the only cause of audible vibration from a motherboard is from cpu or other fans attached to it, it would make sense to isolate those fans rather than the...
- Wed May 11, 2005 9:56 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15307
Well, I ended up getting a Matrox Millenium PCIe, since I need a card for high quality 2-D graphics that wouldn't use a lot of system resources, and I placed a Schooner heat sink on it, to replace it's fan. They are not really designed for one another, but fit well enough, luckily. The Schooner is a...
- Wed May 11, 2005 9:28 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Antec Phantom 500's now for sale at the Antec website
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6571
- Wed May 11, 2005 9:17 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Mount motherboard isolated from case?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15909
Mount motherboard isolated from case?
Has anyone had any luck with mounting a motherboard in such a way
so as to avoid that it transmits vibrations to the case, using a technology similar to fan isolators, or using any other means?
so as to avoid that it transmits vibrations to the case, using a technology similar to fan isolators, or using any other means?
- Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:20 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Can the Greenerger PSU be ordered in the US ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1854
Can the Greenerger PSU be ordered in the US ?
The 500 watt semi fanless Elan Vital Greenerger, in spite of it's name, looks to be the most promising power supply of it's type on the market at the moment. I have not been able to figure out any possible way of ordering it in the US. If anyone has any ideas about I would be very grateful to hear t...
- Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:50 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: consistency in quiet 80 mm fans
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1257
consistency in quiet 80 mm fans
In making a careful but low tech comparison between a few quiet 80 mm fans (Nexus "17.6 dBA", SilenX "11 dBA", Pabst "12 dBA", and Yate Loon 8025M), they seemed to be surprisingly consistent with one another (except for the useless clicking Pabst) in that the louder the fan was, the more air it was ...
- Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:24 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15307
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:06 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15307
O.K. I'm sorry, I need to chill out. I have been researching it, but find it confusing. In any case, it seems that the NVIDIA Quadro NVS PCIe is a passively cooled card, designed especially for 2D workstation use, with support for two DVI moniters in either horizontal span, dual view or clone view m...
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:33 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: replacing tiny HSF with passive heatsink on Matrox P650 card
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2292
P. Spin, I've been trying to figure out the same thing as you are, because I'm interested in the Matrox 650 PCIe, and found out about it's 27 dBA fan. I cannot speak from personal experience, but the Zalman VGA ZM80-HP is said to be a good replacement for the heatsink on the PCI version of the Matro...
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:10 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15307
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:51 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15307
Then you have tried every single one. Please give us an example of just one PCIe fanless video card which you have used yourself, with two monitors, in which you could divide your display of application windows between both monitors, and in which your mouse moved from one monitor to the other as if ...
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:43 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17303
Tibor, I sent an e-mail to that same German site, and they said sorry they couldn't do it. Tried a couple more German and other European sellers, with no luck. I actually need that many hard drives, crazy as it may seem, to hold sampled orchestral libraries and stream from them. The Vienna library a...
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:19 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17303
I was ready to order a Phantom, but first sent an e-mail to Antec describing the system I was planning for it (basically an AMD 64 4000 w/ Asus A8N-SLI motherboard not using it's sli function, 2-d PCIe graphics card, no gaming or overclocking at all, but streaming audio and low res video files using...
- Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:51 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17303
O.K. I get the drift here, that "full range" means it will work with both US and European voltages (covering the "full range" of voltages), and that the Greenerger is actually full range and would work in the US if you could sneak it across the bordar in a refugee boat (just kidding but hey it's sup...
- Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:59 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15307
I don't know much about graphics cards, but was under the impression that the PCIe ones mentioned were single head, and that they only played the same exact same thing on two monitors, without being able to vary the displays independantly of one another as in a true dual head monitor, and that other...
- Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:36 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17303
I don't really know what "full range" means but it's written on the back of my Zalman. In any case, you're right, it very well might only run on the other type of current. Sooner or later someone will come up with a good one here (meaning, a good fanless power supply, without any obvious weaknesses,...
- Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:59 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15307
Is there a fanless PCIe dual head card out there?
Does anyone know if such a beast exists? There's the new PCIe
Millenium, for 2-d graphics with dual monitor support, which is cool but it has a 27 dBA fan.
Millenium, for 2-d graphics with dual monitor support, which is cool but it has a 27 dBA fan.
- Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:50 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: ElanVital Greenerger PSU <- Is this what we're looking fo
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17303
- Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:17 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: new solution for a quiet pc
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4628
Sure, mounting a power supply outside the case which has a noisy fan running would be counterproductive. Supposedly the Greenerger's fan runs briefly and not often, unless the computer is drawing close to the power supply's maximum 500 watt output which is unlikely to occur, and it is claimed to not...
- Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:10 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: new solution for a quiet pc
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4628
- Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:15 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: new solution for a quiet pc
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4628
Thanks Ralph and Malcom...it's great to see that Mike C. tried it successfully. He just ran the cables through the power supply mounting hole. I agree with Malcom, that it's awkward for moving the case etc. with the power cables more vulnerable. A nice grill could be fastened over it. I wish that ma...