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by breunor
Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:22 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Recommendations for ultra quiet PC
Replies: 6
Views: 6826

Along the same line as teh Mac Mini, take a look at the mini-itx form factor. Very small, and you can get cpus that don't require active cooling. They have built in video, audio, and network chips, so your other costs are memory, hard drive, and case/psu. You can get a complete system except monitor...
by breunor
Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:53 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Silverstone Sugo SG05 and SG06: Gaming mini-ITX cases?
Replies: 41
Views: 54056

I have an Arctic Accelero S1 on my 4850 with a case fan blowing over it, using an air channel to force the air out the back slots. With proper positioning I'm thinking you could create an air tunnel in these cases that would include that VGA cooler and a tower heatsink on the cpu, and feed it with a...
by breunor
Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:29 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Lian Li PC-Q07 ... Mini ITX
Replies: 82
Views: 153774

I currently have 2 PCs side-by-side, I wonder if a "big" itx case like that could be modded so that 2 boards could be mounted inside? If you used a fairly tall heat sink with the fins aligned front to back, coming within an inch of each other, then a front mounted fan blowing over both towards the r...
by breunor
Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:26 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Best Way to Partition HDD?
Replies: 32
Views: 13721

If you have a single physical drive, there is zero reason to partition it unless a particular program refuses to run without it. If a drive fails, it doesn't matter how many partitions are on it for the most part. Securing your data by using a second partition on the same drive also doesn't make muc...
by breunor
Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:00 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Club 3D 3850 "overclock"
Replies: 3
Views: 2902

I would be concerned with using totally passive cooling on a highly overclocked card, at the very least have a case fan shooting some air in its direction. Run AtiTool and Prime95 at the same time and closely watch the temps in both to make sure you don't have troubles. All the overclocked by the se...
by breunor
Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:29 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Seperate PSU for Video card??
Replies: 14
Views: 6095

I think what everyone is getting at, is that a second PSU would not be a good option, rather pick up a better performing PSU that has a quiet fan. Even running 3 or 20 copies of WoW makes no difference, you can only run your system at 100% of cpu and gpu, so the key is determining if your airflow is...
by breunor
Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:27 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Sapphire Ultimate 3850 vs 3870
Replies: 10
Views: 5748

I'm thinking that those cards are ok if under 100c, although of course the lower the better. I'd agree on the 3870, and replace the heatsink, I'm considering it with an Accelero, and have a 12cm fan at the front of the card blowing down its length and out the back via open pci slots.
by breunor
Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:19 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: WD guy on hard drive suspension: "It's horrible!"
Replies: 25
Views: 19326

Umm, what I'm reading there is that external vibrations can be transmitted to the drive to cause the problems, so suspension helps rather than harms. If the drive itself has harmonic vibrations that the manufacturer hopes a secure chassis mount would absorb, that sounds hokey. If the external HDD bo...
by breunor
Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:09 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Silence yet performance, is it possible?
Replies: 14
Views: 9626

I'm looking at getting the e4300 to overclock at the stock voltage, and get higher performance without the higher price, and building a "budget gaming PC": 1. Get a second Solo case, as my first has been very nice. 2. Toss a big cooler on cpu and a large fan running at SPCR speeds blowing through it...
by breunor
Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:00 pm
Forum: The Silent Front
Topic: The ultimate silence......
Replies: 34
Views: 17424

Heck even driving at highway speed causes tinitis/ringing of the ears. Music playing at "acceptable levels" on teh highway, are way too loud first thing in the morning as you pull out of the driveway.
by breunor
Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:39 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: P180/182/190 Intake Airflow Restriction: A simple solution
Replies: 87
Views: 223322

Well I've been impressed by Bluefront's car air filtered cases, if washable a person could have a large surface area filter feeding a pair of intake fans, and use positive case air pressure to ensure that no dust ever gets in.
by breunor
Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:43 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Green Futures PC Guide
Replies: 4
Views: 5854

The link for the local cooling app is http://www.localcooling.com/info/ and it appears it can adjust your power saving modes to minimize power use as well. The only issue I see with that is powering down your hard drive, if not set correctly wouldn't repeated power ups/downs put excess wear on the d...
by breunor
Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:03 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Here comes Big Mother "MADD"
Replies: 88
Views: 57335

I like the idea that convicted drunk drivers need an analyzer to start the car at least, assuming there was a way to prevent a market for fake canned breath to bypass it. Convicted child predators are required to register in the US wherever they live and have a variety of restrictions on what they c...
by breunor
Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:08 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: O J Simpson Confesses....
Replies: 50
Views: 29203

NPR just reported the TV special to promote the book has been canceled, because too many stations were refusing to show it due to public outcry.

Common Sense & Decency:1, Profiteering:0
by breunor
Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:02 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Banning Disguises In Public
Replies: 64
Views: 50433

Re: Banning Disguises In Public

They come to our countries to live with our social welfare, so is it too much to ask, that they integrate , just a little bit and show their faces to other people. It's really not much to ask.. So if that were turned around, you would argue that it's only fair that any woman who goes to a predomina...
by breunor
Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:44 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: O J Simpson Confesses....
Replies: 50
Views: 29203

I find it hard to believe that OJ, documented as beating his wife multiple times in the past before she walked around with a new boyfriend, would suddenly be framed for killing his ex wife and her boyfriend, staining his clothes and car with their blood. I think people get caught up in the CSI of th...
by breunor
Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:53 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: O J Simpson Confesses....
Replies: 50
Views: 29203

Too often a "news" station will air the trash not because it's real news, but because it draws the most viewers for advertising dollars. I doubt many news companies consider anything other than profit as their first priority. So while entertainment might not be the best word to describe the distribu...
by breunor
Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:31 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: O J Simpson Confesses....
Replies: 50
Views: 29203

Supposedly the company publishing the book is owned by the same company that owns Fox, so they are scratching their own back here.
by breunor
Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:16 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: need help with project
Replies: 59
Views: 56548

While a sensitive topic to some, I would suggest looking at building a system that runs on an efficient Linux platform rather than Vista. Every third post seems to say, "you'll need twice this or twice that to handle Vista's needs". More powerful video, more powerful cpu, more RAM... all because Vis...
by breunor
Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:03 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: How To.....Live Long, Live healthy.
Replies: 97
Views: 58453

Yes smoking gives pleasure, the same way cocaine gives pleasure, heroin gives pleasure, it causes physical effects that some folks get off on. Tobacco companies artificially increase the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to increase the addictive quality of their "nicotine delivery devices" as they c...
by breunor
Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:59 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: How To.....Live Long, Live healthy.
Replies: 97
Views: 58453

People will always make excuses for doing things the easy way, or to explain away their chemical addictions. Social smoking? Yeah right, I'm sure if there was no nicotine in tobacco everyone would still be sitting around smoking with each other. :roll: Anyone who thinks smoking makes them fit in eit...
by breunor
Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:27 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Building a PSU intake duct/vent
Replies: 64
Views: 150132

I think many people have their cases pushed up near a wall behind the case, and a lot of fan noise is reflected by that surface towards the listener. Rather than make a mostly enclosed duct that blows the air up or down exclusively, perhaps placing a C shaped piece of sound dampening around the open...
by breunor
Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:20 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: 2nd stuffing of the P180B - C2D/19XT
Replies: 4
Views: 5477

Nice polishing job there!
by breunor
Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:48 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: September 11... Conspiracy?
Replies: 109
Views: 62174

Unless security tapes were running at high speed, you're not going to see much on a tight angle shot when the plane flies by at 500mph. Recording tapes rarely record at even normal speed to save tape-guards are watching normal speed cameras anyway. The outer wall of the pentagon is reinforced concre...
by breunor
Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:36 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Breunor's Wooden case journies
Replies: 7
Views: 4555

I only used filler along the seams where my "measure once and pray" technique left a little to be desired. :D I was a bit grumpy working in the garage with the heat wave, along with slicing open a finger, so my patience was at an end and I cut the fit & finish a bit short. In the future, better meas...
by breunor
Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:48 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Breunor's Wooden case journies
Replies: 7
Views: 4555

Fulfilling 2 hobbies at once-computing and woodworking-is rather enjoyable. :D One of the options I had considered, was to try and split the system airflow into 2 parts. The ASrock MB's agp slot is quite low, with 3 pci-e slots above it, so I'd thought of placing the PSU on the bottom and make the c...
by breunor
Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:19 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: On-board vs. VGA card
Replies: 13
Views: 7273

You can disable an onboard video chip if a MB comes with one, if you prefer using your own video card. A standalone card certainly is faster and has more features, but a built in chip on pretty much any current MB is fine for handling office work or web surfing tasks. Some can even handle less inten...
by breunor
Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:07 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Breunor's Wooden case journies
Replies: 7
Views: 4555

Here's another shot showing the intake with fans installed, with the side panel taken off. I added the buttons and the horrible paint job towards the end. :D The exposed wires are to the LEDs which I haven't put in place yet. Likely will put them into the front surface along with a few usb ports an...
by breunor
Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:00 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Breunor's Wooden case journies
Replies: 7
Views: 4555

Breunor's Wooden case journies

Hey all, I decided to scrap my battered PC case, victim to many a mod, and try building a wooden one to replace it. My old one was noisy, didn't cool very well, and was pretty ugly. The new case is quieter, runs cooler, and .... well 2 of 3 isn't bad! :D The first thing was to get better parts for c...
by breunor
Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:33 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Case Shelf
Replies: 3
Views: 2621

I think your first option would work well, I don't think you'd get much sound dampening from the extra side piece personally, but you never know.