Yup they are ISA slots. But only seven total are usable on that motherboard - the last PCI and first ISA slot share a backplane space. Gotta love single slot S3 Virges! kadiir: That's certainly an interesting read. I ended up selecting Debian and writing/hacking together a script to set it up as a r...

Update: It seems I will not be using Smoothwall, since it doesn't support IPv6. Anyone have a recommendation for a firewall distro that supports IPv6?

lol at the hard drive, dont u need something to cool it? tangling it up looks kinda make it hot Eh, it's a two watt laptop drive, and it's not quite as tangled up as it looks. It's certainly better cooled than in most laptops. If I start experiencing stability problems due to it, or hddtemp gives m...

Did you save the accelero? FS/T post! I know some of us here would like to take it off your hands.

I received this box free from my uncle, not really as a gift but as a "I'm tired of this taking up space in my basement, so you can have it because you will put it to use" thing. So I immediately started converting it to a Smoothwall box, which I hope to have in service Monday when I get more ethern...

Ah I thought you would be familiar with the old wire grill, it has been around forever. Nice color, although I prefer the classic chrome grill. I think the chrome grill is less restricitive because it doesn't have a layer of paint. :P The paint is probably thin enough to not make any significant di...

AussieHusky wrote:Theyre a bit bland, No VFD or volume knob.

Grandias? I think they have VFD if not volume knob but im not sure.. I'm sure Lascalas and Crowns have at least one model with both.

Take a look at the silverstone grandia line. They're always pretty cases.

I can't wait for all the l33t gAm3rz to discover that their 3XTR3M3!!!! SLI rig has just removed 2GB of address space from their computer. At least it should make for a nice run of ad hits for people who run sites catering to spoiled children or sites explaining the badly outdated memory model left...

I think Comair Rotron fans are engineered in the USA, but I'm not sure.

bonestonne wrote:Not only that, but I'm proudly using high density Artic Silver on my CPU/Ninja, where he's using a synthetic silicon grease, under the impression it will work the same.

Actually, it pretty much does.

Don't go with a Dell XPS. They are ugly as sin and besides that, use proprietary everything. Try polywell.com - they are pretty good from what I've heard. And they build to order. .

Edit: oops, forgot to correct a mistake my handwriting software made.

If you don't keep it, sell it here on SPCR please? I'm sure me as well as several other SPCRrs are interested to have a small silent laptop.

Wow, you got an Eee? I so want one. Check out eeeuser.com too, they're a pretty nice forum and blog for Eee news. How's the Linux distro on it? the keyboard? the touchpad? the battery life?

Jeff Cutsinger wrote: Edit: actually, the optimum might be to have a 25 mm gap and sandwich a fan there.

A la Scythe Mine or Tunic Tower?

Canada uses 110volt; same as the US. from the Fander fans,I can assume the OP is in poland where the voltage is 220v.

CPU Cooler: + 80mm aftermarket HSF, thermaltake maybe? 2250 RPM GPU Cooler: Stock cooling..I believe it is a 50mm fan maybe? There are probably your two biggest problems. Neither Tt nor 50mm fans are known for quietness. You could swap out or fanmate the CPU fan and get something like a Zalman NBF4...

Don't give us pyros ideas.

MoJo wrote:
When it comes to doors, I think my current server case has probably the best door I have ever seen on a computer case. It looks a bit like this:

What make and model case is that?

Server boards and server cases can hold four CPUs and 24 HDDs. No comment about the five graphics cards. Maybe there is a board that can support that.

Nice! I need a soldering iron because I have an ECS L7VMM board here whose capacitors need replaced. You didn't by chance run across badcaps.net did you?

Hah, thanks for refuting my argument about hard drives. I didn't realize that the Bigfoots weren't on all the time. And I had forgot about SCSI drives; I used to have a server with them and it was murder. If the Bigfoots aren't on all the time (which wasnt in your original post), then by all means k...

...why the heck are you using two of what may possibly be the loudest hard drives ever made??? Seriously, that's a horrible build. You're trying to keep new, hot components cool in a case from 1997 with horrible airflow. You're not going to be able to do that without further modding: : Swap the posi...

The case is a Casetek CK-1026 with some different bezel. No input on the enlight case/8800 compatibility.

Nope, the Ford Transit isn't sold in the US. Only in Europe and Asia.

Now that's a nice computer. Quite reminiscent of what I'd build for my sister if she asked me. WIndow mod is genius.

(Note to other readers: I think by 'house', nek means 'case'. The German word for 'case' is 'Gehäuse', which may also translate to 'house' especially through Google Translate or Babelfish. I'm not a German speaker though.) 55°C is not a CPU temperature to worry about. My CPU is above 60° on full ...

Surprised nobody's suggested eSATA. Externalising the drives is the best noise-management scenario since then you don't have to worry about noise (stash them in a nearby closet) or thermals (externalising 4 HDDs removes about 40w from the setup).

Deleted. I forgot that the original P180 is a lot larger than a normal miditower.

My f-lock stays in the normal setting, because I didn't bother installing the driver for my S510. I love this setup since it's cool-looking and is actually pretty decent for a membrane keyboard. If I had the desk space, I'd use one of my old Model M's though. Only problem with the S510 I've had is t...