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- Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:06 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Baking fixed my GFX card :D
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5960
- Thu May 06, 2010 12:14 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Could AMD/Intel standardize mounting heatsink?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3249
It sucks because im from NL. That's even worse than non-standard mounting systems !! J/K "groeten" from Belgium ;-) On topic: Standardization would actually make it a lot easier for us buyers. When buying an aftermarket cooler now, you have to check long compatibility lists just to make sure it wil...
- Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:04 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Quiet Skies
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2129
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:16 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: NSK 3480 case - Do you use the CPU side panel duct?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4635
- Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:08 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: ATI HD 4770: 40 nm, RV740 -- SPCR reviewed
- Replies: 285
- Views: 241554
hi has anyone tried fitting an after market Zalman VF900 on to one of these? the zalman website doesn't say anything about it. im planning to buy a sapphire 4770, and transplanting my VF900 onto if it can fit and also if it will cooler better/more silently. I asked myself the same question. I googl...
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 2:34 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: VelociRaptor or SSD?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 44547
The disadvantages of SSD now is how the OS talks to it. All OS's try to get the most out of rotational media. The functions used, work adversely on SSD's. When OS's are changed to better make use of SSD's, things will go fast. It's announced in Windows 7, there may even be a fix for Vista. I'm sure ...
- Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:11 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Recommendations for a hyper-v Server
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2877
- Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:22 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Positive Airflow Demonstration
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6052
You can hardly make a point with smoke testing if you talk efficiency. What about airflow, noise, temperatures ?EarlZ wrote:No, not really they are trying to tell us how effective positive air pressure can be.didi wrote:What point are they trying to make anyway ?
That you don't actually need a rear outtake fan ?
- Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:50 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Positive Airflow Demonstration
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6052
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:11 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Scythe consumer survey
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9327
- Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:33 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: New home server build - Low Power
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6492
Re: Server Finished
(The above shows a small step in my attempts to keep good airflow over the hard disks and through the case, whilst supressing some of the noise from the disks. Anyone got any other ideas on what might help?) Make a sound absorbing duct using foam. Air passes freely through an S shaped duct, but sou...
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:32 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Whining Noctua P12?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7507
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:22 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Whining Noctua P12?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7507
In their review (link above) SPCR say they have the whining at 9V. This makes the fan run at 1060rpm (see voltage/noise/rpm table). That's only a very small difference to your 1100rpm. So it makes perfectly sense. Why not run it at <1000rpm instead ? The loss in airflow is almost negligible and the ...
- Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:15 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Whining Noctua P12?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7507
SPCR's review of the Noctua NH-U12P cooler talks about this particular fan. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article850-page5.html At 9V the fan makes this particular noise, they compare it to an aircraft engine (bad comparison if you ask me, it's not nearly as loud :) ). I've got that cooler, and yes,...
- Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:49 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hard Disks. Good for offline storage over the years?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17493
I get your point. ECC is one thing, consistency checking is another. But that applies to all backup media. You are correct on arael density. But the density is mainly chosen for the specific speed of the medium. Still I think my bits are safer on a solid carrier (drive platter) than on a flexible ma...
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:34 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hard Disks. Good for offline storage over the years?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17493
Actually, even if a few bits on a hard drive have changed, the data can be read from it as usual, since every hard drive has error correcting features nowadays. As to "bit rot", I tend to think that common backup media - like tapes, who are almost all magnetic media - would suffer more from bit rot,...
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:47 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hard Disks. Good for offline storage over the years?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17493
Hi, I didn't read the entire thread, maybe a few things were answered already. I don't know where in the EU you're from, but in the current october issue of the Dutch C'T magazine (http://www.fnl.nl/ct/), they have an article about long term storage. Maybe you'll find the same article in the German ...
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:15 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Suspension in Antec NSK3480
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4626
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:19 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: looking for a raid6 controller
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4169
- Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:24 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Looking for good fan controller
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5269
- Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:28 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Suspension in Antec NSK3480
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4626
Suspending probably will reduce the vibrations, but some people think it is better for drive reliability to not suspend a drive, especially if it is vibrating a lot (it is less of a problem to suspend a drive that does not vibrate much--Catch 22). But mine is probably the minority view on this foru...
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:10 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Suspension in Antec NSK3480
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4626
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:29 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Suspension in Antec NSK3480
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4626
Suspension in Antec NSK3480
Hi everyone I have a fairly quiet Antec NSK3480 build. Loudest components are my two hard drives (Samsung 500GB in raid1). They are soft mounted with the rubber grommets that came with the NSK3480. You can see what I mean in this review: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/antec_nsk3480_microatx...
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Do cooler chips mean more throughput at a given clockspeed?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2805
What the friend was referring to, may be conductor super cooling. It's a technique used to limit the loss on an electric connection. I doubt it has any effect on cpu's, since the distances of the connections in the die are really small. Furthermore, super cooling requires sub-zero temps. As cmthomso...
- Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:07 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My HTPC NSK2480
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13248
- Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:02 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: How accurate are core temps ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2567
- Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:43 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: How accurate are core temps ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2567
That speaks for itself, room temp is around 20°C, so core temp of only a few degrees more seems impossible. I read on another forum that core temps can be off up to 15°, but then there's no way they can be called accurate (which CoreTemp says is one of their strong features). So should I only keep...
- Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:23 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: How accurate are core temps ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2567
How accurate are core temps ?
I have a Opteron 180 (socket 939) in my main pc (on an Asrock 939NF6G-VSTA). No OC at the moment, so it runs at 2.4GHz (1.35V). AMD cool&quiet usually gets it down to 1GHz (1.1V) when idling or doing light desktop stuff (browsing, mail). In this "idle" condition, Speedfan reports a core temp of 20-2...
- Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:15 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: RAID and SSD's
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11867
- Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:47 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Quieting down my server rack
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10098
Those fans on top, are they 120mm ? At full speed ? Maybe 4 is overkill, try removing 2. Reliability/redundancy is ok with 2. Sound absorbing foam on the inside will probably be the best thing to do (apart from silencing the machines IN the rack) because you have large surfaces. Servers were never d...