i am running fanspeed and it is telling me there are no fans to control?

honestly its probably low because i had to mount the temp sensor on the heat sink. I wanted to mount it directly to the processor but i was afraid of interfearing with the heat dissipation process. I tried to mount it as directly over the center as possible so i am sure the constant fan blowing make...

got it up and running. this thing is quick now! just gotta handle the noise factor. my cpu runs at 26.8C HDD at 30.2 and VGA 36.8 after a couple of hours of americas army and Call of duty. i need to get a fan blowing onto that vga card.

great! thankyou.
the speaker's wires dont indicate which is the speaker and which is the +5. although there is an arrow on one side and not the other.

Hello, a basic question but a question none the less... for my power and reset switches and a couple other front panel wiring setups, the wires have blue and white or white and another color. the case has no decent supporting paperwork to explain what color is the ground wire. is it safe to assume w...

they are the thin flat ones. the case came with three small pieces of tape, not sure if that is the right stuff, but i'd imagine it is.
is it advisable to mount the CPU sensor in between the cpu and the heatsink?
it is an amd 64 athlon 3200 venice core.

once i get everything together and am going to hook up my hard drive to the system and then start it up, what do I need to be prepared for?
can i just plug it in and go?

simple as in it makes me look that way. How do I mount the temperature monitering wires on the CPU, HDD and VGA card? They connect to a display on the front of my case by two wires that look like they should either rest or be taped onto their respective components. easy question, but I made it hard ...

I believe so, I'll have to check it out when I go home on lunch.
My Mobo came today so it's time to start putting stuff together.

i believe its 120 because its a lot bigger than 80 and it almost has a rectangular shape.
I cut the plastic grill over the side fan, im not sure what i will do for the top one, i dont want stuff to accidently fall into the fan and either jam it or get propelled into my components.

I got it already and am making mods on it.

It displays a few things. Temperature display. - shows a digital numerical readout in either C or F -can cycle through VGA, CPU or HDD temperatures. - also has an escalating staircase display that shows HI or LOW for idiot proofing. Fan - "when the CPU fan is running, fan indicator will turn; once t...

the case I bought is from ebay.. 6800043895 The fans are 80mm dc brushless fans by KEEP. they only have two wires for power, that means they are NOT able to adjust speed with the quiet and cool right? I do have three 80mm ANTEC fans that sport an airflow of 34cfm, 2600 rpm and average noise is 30dBA...

I just wrote up a good sized emails and the computer auto logged me out of the forum... didn't save my post! anyhow. My case has two plexiglass windows, one on top the other on the side, they suck air in through a series of holes drilled in a square pattern, should I just cut the plastic pattern and...

actually it was a find on ebay. and it is in need of some modding for ideal air flow. the clear top and side windows both mount fans, but the ports for air flow are just a series of holes drilled into the plastic, so I am going to cut out the plastic and leave the fan without protection. the case al...

So, im rebuilding my computer and am putting in an AMD 64 Athalon 3200 with an asrock mobo and a 2x215 ram setup... the mobo supports cool n quiet technology. the case has an led temperature display, and i am wondering if there is anything special i have to setup to have the computer auto moniter an...

i think i confused myself a bit.
its the same case i listed up above with the bubble light tubes and such.

so once i get this case, I guess the best way to situate its fans would be to have the fan on the top of the stack sucking air into the case, and the fan in the back blowing it out, while the psu will be sucking in as well...
Right?

ok, im learning more from you guys now. so a socket 939 cpu is better than a 754 for gaming, Well, it's not that one socket is better than the other for gaming, it's the fact that you can get newer cool running processors made with a 90nm process (search here for "Venice"), which isn't available wi...

What is the general quality and noise of the stock cpu fan that comes with the 3200? Oh, and here a silly question to those who know.... for a dual channel ram setup, do I put the ram side by side since two are blue and two are black? (the colors are next to eachother rather than blue,black,blue,bla...

here is what ive got panned so far. Case/PSU: bought an ATX case that comes with a 450W PSU, and these specs: 2 Front USB Port 1 Front Firewire Port Multi-Color Neon Case Cooling Fan included x2 2 Bubble Tube Light Bezel Front Temperature Control Display Dimension: 8"W x 16"H x 18.5"D Drive Bays: - ...

ok, im learning more from you guys now.

so a socket 939 cpu is better than a 754 for gaming, and the dual channel ram is not as big as i figured?

does the zalman fan work for this setup and is it worth buying?

thankyou el jefe, i am going to look into places for prices.

I'm looking at this for gaming. cpu AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Clawhammer Integrated into Chip FSB 1MB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor mobo ASUS K8V-X ATX AMD Motherboard ram 1GB DDR PC2700 (SINGLE STICK) Upgrade to single stick of 2GB PC2100 FOR ADDITIONAL $ 45.00 I currently have an athlon 1800 on a gigaby...

here is an additional question.
what is the difference between a gig of dual channel RAM
vs a gig of single channel RAM performance wise?

hope im not confusing stuff.


sorry for the idiot questions.

how has the athlon64/av8 combo worked for you?

this is something else i was looking at. AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 64-bit Processor 939 pin with the original AMD FAN/heatsink in the sealed Retail Box and a BRAND NEW ASUS A8V DELUXE Mainboard in the Retail Box plus Kingston Dual Channel Kit 1GB(2x512MB) PC3200 DDR RAM retail box 339.00$ plust tax and sh...

went home and looked at my case... it is a soyo sy-2059... probably not what i need! got it cheap when i didnt know jack.

thanks El Jefe, im going to look into that.

The HD seems to be audible when opening a program or such, and then it is a light hum.
When I get home I'll look up what I can and try for pictures, although honestly I still dont know how to post pictures.
I work till 1am pst. but I'll be taking lunch in about an hour.