I'm sure there's a nice, bi-lingual, Canadian authority that would love to help you with your problems - I just don't know it's name so I didn't mention it. But I bet they wear boots, too.

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I wonder if anybody is doing a heat pipe setup for this kind of problem (chipset coolers).

Has anyone seen one?

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If you can find one, the Supermicro P3TDDE is a nice board. It can be run as a DP or SP rig and can handle 4 GB of RAM (PC133). Here's a link: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P3/VIA/P3TDDE.cfm It's discontinued and I haven't checked eBay but there might be some available. I have owned...

Wow! The vitriol poured on Thermaltake here would consume many a case. They do make some dog-ugly stuff - my Xaser III server is called 'Uglybox' on my network - but it does the job as far as keeping the mobo (Supermicro DP -see below) cool and supporting four drives with nice little plastic mounts ...

Sorry for missing your mention of EMI in the article - mea culpa. Yeah, you are right about not having problems with EMI at present with our lowrider style (hood off) or windowed rigs. I don't have problems at present, either, although I did spend a lot of time a few years ago tracking down some fun...

Nice job - reminds me of some speaker cabinets I built long ago. You (and the site) concentrate on acoustic noise. I was wondering about other types of noise such as RF Metal cases are reasonable barriers to RF in the frequencies that our computers generate, but they do 'leak' around openings such a...