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- Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:03 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Small scale ionic breeze?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4512
no, because as the article pointed out the air molecules right next to the heatsink fins are essentially stationary, impairing heat transfer. the key feature of this device is get the boundary layer moving, improving heat transfer. Yes but here they are talking about using this fancy tech to cool d...
- Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:58 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Small scale ionic breeze?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4512
Small scale ionic breeze?
BBC reported on some boffins that have made a miniature ionic-breeze device that goes on a computer chip. Apparently regular airflow doesn't work well because the surface layer of molecules doesn't move... I might have misunderstood, but won't a heatsink+thermal paste work just as well, or better ?...
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:13 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Exclusive Tour: Gigabyte's Anechoic & Thermal Test Chamb
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21473
- Fri May 25, 2007 5:22 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: cAPSLOCK's wood case
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7687
Unfortunately the cooling wasn't as effective as I had hoped. With the big dust filter on the back and the loonies at 5v the system (motherboard temp, not cpu) would eventually overheat and crash. Same at 7v. Without the filter at 7v it works perfectly. I am looking for a less restrictive filter, ma...
- Fri May 25, 2007 5:07 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: cAPSLOCK's wood case
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7687
cAPSLOCK's wood case
FINALLY I've put my case into use. Some of you might remember, I designed and started work on this case about a year ago. I designed the case in QCad. You can look at the drawing here if you are interested. It's a positive-pressure case with the intakes at the back and the outlet at the top. I made ...
- Fri May 25, 2007 4:32 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Which to get - Seasonic S12 380W or 430W?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5710
Re: Which to get - Seasonic S12 380W or 430W?
I think it was the 330w had smaller heatsinks than the 380 and 430 models, so it would supposedly be more noisy...dirtybobby wrote:i seem to recall reading a post here somewhere that suggested the 430W might be a more prudent choice as it is slightly quieter.. is this true, or is my memory playing tricks on me?
- Fri May 25, 2007 4:27 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Help on bypassing the CPU cooler check on Asus A7N8X
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4260
I never had a sonata or read any user guides, but I find it hard to believe that they tell you just to remove the fan. They might of recommended you to use a big heatsink that can rely on the case fan's airflow to be sufficiently cooled. If your motherboard is shutting down just because it doesn't s...
- Wed May 02, 2007 11:38 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Undervolting an Arctic Cooler NV Silencer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2184
- Tue May 01, 2007 6:43 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Firefox question/problem.......
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5831
- Tue May 01, 2007 6:36 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Which 22" monitor? Viewsonic, Samsung?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13138
Watch out with the 226BW , the readers of the hardware.fr review (same as behardware.com) quickly found that there are two or more panels used in the Samsung 226BW, a Samsung panel with the great qualities shown in the original review and a AU optronics panel that has badly set colours. After some ...
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:54 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Join EcoPCReview.com
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11070
aluminum would not be as good as all steel. doesn't that depend on whether the aluminium is recycled or not? I was under the impression "secondary" alum. uses less energy than "primary" steel. Recycled aluminium is much less costly in energy (95% less). I think it is mostly used for casting where a...
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:45 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Join EcoPCReview.com
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11070
I think you have spotted a (small at the moment) hole in the review market a bit like SPCR in the beginning I suppose and I think it's great that you are making this site. One problem for making it a unique reference is that many review sites already report power consumption of components when they ...
- Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:23 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Keyboard question...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3279
The Logitech G15 is backlit, connected by USB and has a USB hub in it. It's quite noisy though since it has supposedly heavy-duty keys. It has these features, and many more, too many in fact. In my opinion a keyboard shouldn't have more than a couple media keys (play/pause, volume and mute) ontop of...
- Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:52 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: HP Pavilion a1630n + a1640n: AMD/Intel desktop PCs
- Replies: 30
- Views: 29808
Was the X2 4600+ a standard version or an EE version? I wonder what kind of "customisations" the Asus mobo has compared to the retail version (M2NPV-MX), I can see that they've scrapped the [useless] PCIe 1x port, the memory slots are all the same colour and closer together, the sata ports are diffe...
- Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:56 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Toms Hardware Being Sold
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9566
- Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:03 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: NeoHE 380?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3151
More than powerful enough. The neoHE is also a better choice considering the straight-through airflow in the antec case. Concerning the 8pin 12v line, if you look at the picture on the asus website , you'll see that they provide the cap thingy so you can use a 4 pin cable. Core2's don't use that muc...
- Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:19 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Gainward 7600GT AGP power adapter
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5954
The 6pin PCIe power plug has two pins for 12v, one coming from each molex connector, so if you plug in only one molex connector only one of these pins gets power, so you could be lucky and the two pins join together anyway on the graphics card PCB, or there could be something like one VRM for each i...
- Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:10 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Logitech UltraX Media Keyboard - Anyone have?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6492
This keyboard/mouse combo isn't new: I've got one for over a year. I haven't really tried the wired UltraX to compare, but I personally prefer this keyboard over any non-flat keyboard I've used. Since it is so flat and the keypresses are less deep than a traditional keyboard, you can type much faste...
- Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:49 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD5000KS a POS?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4919
Re: returning to NewEgg
It's mechanically the same thing, it's just tested for more reliability.jfeldt wrote:built for more reliability
(See here.)
- Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:40 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Quiet Office PC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6942
Welcome to SPCR!!! Well there is actually a solution to use your notebook: the Matrox DualHead2Go . If you choose to go the new pc way, I would avoid barebones because they are less fun and are harder to silence (hard-drive noise (unless you are rich enough for a 200GB 2.5" drive) and PSU's with ti...
- Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:55 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Abit KN9/Athlon 64X2 or Asus P5NSLI/Core 2 Duo: P5N-E SLI
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2886
I think that an E6300 is roughly equivalent to a X2 4600+ performance wise, and that's coming from a bit of an amd fanboy. So two paths: -get the X2 but get a mobo with integrated gfx, runs cooler than any fancy nForce chipset + discrete gfx -get the E6300, but get a better graphics card and 2G of r...
- Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:49 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: What do YOU want for the holidays?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 40069
- Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:45 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: The First SPCR Fan Round-Up
- Replies: 44
- Views: 51787
- Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:28 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: The First SPCR Fan Round-Up
- Replies: 44
- Views: 51787
The NMB-MAT part numbering system is crazy. http://www.pc-cooling.ch/ Is selling what they call a "Scythe Minebea 80mm low speed fan". I don't know what it has to do with scythe, but the model number is very similar to the NMB fans you tested, and the specs for current are higher on the fan and lowe...
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:23 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Leadtec 7950 GT 512 and NV Silencer 5 Rev 3. Will it fit ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3813
I made the effort of using the search function to find my old post, so this might be a bit more explicit:
I got this from this forum.
70+ at load is ok for a graphics card, if it's your CPU, it's a bit on the hot side...
I got this from this forum.
70+ at load is ok for a graphics card, if it's your CPU, it's a bit on the hot side...
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:29 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Leadtec 7950 GT 512 and NV Silencer 5 Rev 3. Will it fit ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3813
Welcome to SPCR!!! I think that the 7950GT has the same layout as the 7900GT. The hole pattern and RAM placement is the same as the 7800GT the NV Silencer 5 R3 was made for, but the card is shorter, so to get it to fit, you need to saw off a bit of the plastic exhaust duct, an easy mod. Check the f...
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:04 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Is mastic ok for decoupling
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2239
I'm supposing what you're talking about it what I would call building silicone... It works good for decoupling as long as you get enough thickness of it (remember it compresses). Note that if you stick a fan to your case with it, you'll have a hard time getting it off intact (I stuck a heatsink to m...
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:56 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: X2 4200+ VS X2 4200+ EE
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4812
Yeh, this is a funny thing I just noticed in one of my local stores too: for the 3800 and 4600, the EE edition is the same price, and for the 4200 it's actually cheaper!! I guess I shouldn't complain but it seems stupid :lol: Maybe some people haven't got the idea of undervolting and think that it'l...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:03 pm
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: New website promoting Green Computing – help required.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6853
One of the first "arcticles" for your site could be how to implement a consumption metric for computers. I don't know in the UK, but in Switzerland, and I think some other european countries there is a A-G scale that all household appliances and cars obligatorily have to display: see here. Computers...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:49 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: How To.....Live Long, Live healthy.
- Replies: 97
- Views: 59171
Yeah I used to party all the time, smokey bars, loud music, wine, women, song. :lol: But when I look back at those times, it just doesn't seem to be very important. When I think what it actually cost in terms of money, wasted time, wasted health, I have to cringe. And wish I had done it differently...