The 10eacs is the 'normal' version of the Green Power, 3 year warranty, designed to work as a stand-alone drive, aimed at home users. The RE2 is the 'Raid Edition'. It comes with a 5 year warranty, and is usually a bit more expensive. There are some small differences, but the only big difference is ...

Edit: solved, but I'll leave the post here incase it helps others who search for it. Yesterday my hard drive died. I'm getting a new hard drive delivered tomorrow ( Western Digital Caviar RE2-GP 1TB Green Power ). The Green Power stuff, while slower, looks cooler and quieter, but unfortunately I ord...

My question first, then the background information: Is it possible to copy the data from a failing drive onto a spare drive, and replace it in a raid 0 without any problems? Possibly relevant background: One of the hard drives in my raid 0 is failing, it sometimes wont start up properly, and randoml...

I'm using an Arctic Cooling Accelero X2 on my X1900XTX (in a P180), I can really recommend them. The main reasons I chose the Accelero over the alternatives was that it is easy to install, and was the only one which used the onboard VGA fan controller (which as Autoboy mentioned, is temperature sens...

Reinstalled my system twice recently (long story), but I noticed something partially related to this post: It's not scientific, but I usually count the times that the winXP boot logo cycles left to right whenever I install new software. With my system carefully stripped of unneeded services, and a b...

I've got a 120GB PATA Spinpoint (Nidec), it's very quiet, especially with AAM.

No idea about the Sata2 400GB, but my SATA 160GB Spinpoints (Nidec) are much louder, and AAM doesn't do anything.

Can't remember where I read it, but a couple of months ago I read some tests done with boots speeds, comparing before and after times with various installed programs. The two worst offenders were Norton and 1,000 fonts, either roughly doubled the boot time. You mentioned Dreamweaver... do you have a...

Just a minor update, a few days after installing the Infinity my CPU temps jumped considerably. Using the same hardware as before I noticed the CPU had reached 91C while gaming, a few days earlier under load (2*prime95) it had only reached 55C. I've added the fan that came with the Infinity as a top...

MikeC, you were right, Prime95 does increase the heat. New figures: Nexus rear exhaust at 12v (~1050rpm) after 30 mins: cpu 55, mobo 47, ambient ~19. No fans at all after 4 minutes: cpu 80, mobo 50. I wussed out and shutdown the PC. It was stable though. The P5B deluxe has trouble detecting low fan ...

I've just upgraded my system and am now using an Infinity. Asus P5B Deluxe, E6600 Core2Duo2, P180, stock speeds. The Infinity fits in a P180 with a P5B, it looked like it wouldn't, and I'm not 100% sure the heatsink isn't touching any capacitors, but it fits. It should fit installed either way, but ...

I tried running an AMD 200+ fanlessly using a modernish aluminium heatsink with fan disabled, it'd be fine until it had been under 100% load for about an hour, needed a tiny bit of airflow. With heatsink designed to run fanlessly (like the Zalman 6000) you should be OK. For the last about year I've ...

I have an 80GB and 120GB PATA Spinpoint, quiet to start with, and much quieter if you use AAM (slows the drive down slightly). I also have 4 x Spinpoint 160GB (nidec) SATA. They are much noisier, and AAM didn't seem to make any difference at all. Still quieter than a generic hdd, but much noisier th...

Hi, I upgraded most of my system a few months ago, but was waiting for the Core 2 Duo to reach these shores (UK) before upgrading the CPU / Mobo / Memory. It's a lot of cash, so please let me know if I'm overlooking something or making a bad decision. I'm currently looking at: CPU : Core 2 Duo E6600...

I've left the thermal pad on there and added some thermal compound (the sutff that came with the heatsink) I wouldn't think having both thermal compound and pad would help. It's best with an ultra thin layer of compound, so I'd think the pad is thickening it out too much. Your best bet is to clean ...

I'm going to be getting a Core 2 Duo E6600 / motherboard / 2gb ram in the next few days, so far I've not found any motherboards which support higher than 800Mhz (PC2-6400) ram, in there any benefit to getting 1000Mhz (PC2-8000). Initially I thought no, but a couple of weeks ago Anandtech did a quite...

Yes. If it's a small cpu then definitely, if it's an older intel cpu, with integrated heatspeader (taking up most of the socket), then it'd still be advisable, but you could try it anyway. By small cpu I mean about 1cm by 0.8cm, the ones with integrated heat spreaders are about 2.5cm by 2.5cm. It'd ...

I too can recommend the P180, 4 Spinpoint HDD's in the lower chamber are barely noticeable, and they are usually the loudest thing in my system (temp controlled fans). If you have a PATA SpinPoint check out AAM, it'll make your drive a lot quieter. It doesn't seem to make any difference with my SATA...

I briefly tried running semi-diskless. It's a gaming rig (windows), but also bootable from a Damn Small Linux usb key, with hdd's set to powerdown after a few minutes inactivity. Using DSL for websurfing was incredibly silent (no hdd's, semi-fanless PSU stayed fanless, CPU fan stayed at minimum spee...

You mentioned you needed an extension cable, I assume you have a P180, my last 2 cases (P180 and Arctic Cooling) haven't had a basic bleeper, which I find a bit annoying. It's a very useful diagnostic tool. Modern bios's will verbally describe the error using the onboard soundcard, if you have it se...

I'm looking at getting a laptop for a relative, purely for websurfing, she's not as fussed about quiet components as I am, so anything which doesn't sound like a turbine is OK. Weight is more important than noise in this instance. I've been seeing some odd pricing in laptops, which makes me think I ...

Toms hardware have compared a bunch of cases aimed at gamers, of interest is this bit . The 250mm fan spins at 800rpm, and fan speed dials are included in the case. the noise is nothing like you'd expect. Indeed, despite their obvious aeronautical looks, these fans are both extremely quiet It's fair...

I bought 4 Nexus 120mm fans, but so far have only used 2. One would start flawlessly at 5V, the other wouldn't. Currently using a Zalman fanmate on each fan, not too sure of the voltage, but I'd guess about 7V (both start flawlessly).

FYI: I-RAM is being discussed in the Silent Front, here. It's out now, but with an extreme cost / gigabyte ratio.

I'm using an Arctic Cooling Accelero X2 on my X1900XTX, installation was easy, the fan is controlled by the vidcard (so it automatically speeds up with load), pretty quiet, very quiet with websurfing / 2D.

I'm using a 620W semi-fanless PSU (auto fan off at low temps) in a P180. My lower bay has 4 Spinpoint SATA drives, and a 120mm nexus at 7V (about 700 rpm) instead of the Tri-Cool fan. I'd tried the PSU both normal and upside down (thought maybe the bigger airholes would allow better passive cooling,...

I got some a year or two ago, the smell was pretty bad (like a fish stall?), but it stopped smelling after a few days.

Last week I ordered a second pack, I haven't applied it yet, but I smelt the box, the manufacturing process hasn't changed, the stuff smells.

I don't live near a PC shop and I've found it quite hard to get varying lengths of extention cables (both 4 pin and 20/24 pin) on-line over here. I found it harder than I thought I would. As it turns out, one of the very few UK distributors of Nexus fans ( KustomPCs.co.uk ) also stock extension cab...

I've no experience with LCD's, or TV tuner cards, but the only time I've had trouble with CRT's the cable itself was the problem. Did you use the same cable with both LCD's?

If you need to leave your PC on overnight on a regular basis (like my 24/7 webserver) just get a dirt cheap old PC from ebay, shove a ninja or other passive heatsink on it (use epoxy if it doesn't have the correct connection), the lowest wattage fanless PSU you can find and a quiet hdd. Motherboard ...

Looks kinda iffy to me. I thought that they were only supposed to vary by a max of +/-5%. As it happens, I've been noting down the voltages from my system, with 3 different PSU, 3 and 4 hdd's, and a GF6500 (low power) and X1900XTX (high power) video cards. While I can't say the ramifications of your...