What if you mixed aluminium oxide in with the oil? Or with candle wax?
You can get thermally conductive rubber. I don't know what that is, but it's very expensive. I think it's got some sort of silicone compound in it.
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- Thu May 07, 2009 1:06 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Solid-State PSU Cooling: Beyond the Pail!
- Replies: 68
- Views: 51702
- Thu May 07, 2009 12:33 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: New HD Silencer: Grow Up Japan - Smart Drive Neo
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5024
Re: New HD Silencer: Grow Up Japan - Smart Drive Neo
And I thought the original Smart Drive was expensive...
- Thu May 07, 2009 12:10 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: HOW-TO: Boot Linux into RAM for silence and speed
- Replies: 31
- Views: 39119
- Thu May 07, 2009 11:25 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F2 HD103SI - 1TB - any experience?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 34191
I just installed a 500Gb one. Far bigger than I need really, but it was for the silence, obviously. It's considerably quieter than the 250Gb Hitachi P7K500 it replaced, which was, to be honest, something of a disappointment. It makes some unusual clicking sounds (like seek noise) when turning on, an...
- Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:44 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Google's Secret Server
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6834
[quote="lm"]If I understood correctly that you would replace the 5V circuitry of a regular PSU with a pico psu:[/quote] I'm not suggesting anybody actually go and do this, I wouldn't think you'd gain very much, just saying that it's effectively what Google has done, having a Pico PSU build into the ...
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:43 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Describe your ideal mATX mini tower
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26230
Actually, if this is a total dream wish then I have a completely new design idea that has never been tried before, at least to my knowledge, in any form factor. What I want is a completely modular case. You know what, I've had exactly the same idea. In fact what really would be interesting to see i...
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:35 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Describe your ideal mATX mini tower
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26230
There are a few improvements I'd make to the NSK3480. 1. front 120mm fan mount instead of 2x 92mm. 2. holes for the cables to exit the PSU on the other side so cable management can be done at the back of the motherboard (a fairly common mod here, I see) 3. hole cut out under the PSU so you can use a...
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:02 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Google's Secret Server
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6834
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:00 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Google's Secret Server
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6834
It would be interesting if you could get away with powering dual hard drives serially, giving them 6ish volts each. Very dangerous, I suspect. If one drive ever happened to require less current than the other at any time, the voltages could go all over the place. With fans, however, it is a very re...
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:46 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Whatever happened to Seasonic?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5134
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:39 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Best Q9650 cooler ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8263
I was also thinking about PWM -> DC convertor like this: http://www.nanoxia-europe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=15&lang=en It looks good but I can not find any review on this. Can anyone comment on this item ? SPCR member PCY makes these: http://www.paqt.co.uk/store/in...
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:35 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: X2 5600+ 65W vs X2 5050E 45W
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5762
I guess even at peak power consumption, it will finish quicker anyway so not really use any more in total. Like PSIU said, the 5050e is pretty much a power optimised 5000+ (65W down to 45W), the 5600+ used to be an 89W part, and they got it down to 65W, which is about the same kind of reduction, so ...
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:30 am
- Forum: Networking
- Topic: WHS self-build (Prescott 3.2GHz vs. ???)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8805
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:53 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Whatever happened to Seasonic?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5134
I think what I really liked about Seasonic best is the fact they do a 330W one. Anything less than 500W is becoming increasingly difficult to find these days, excepting cheap and nasty ones... I encountered this the other day: http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12015 tempting to see if I can f...
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:15 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Core2 or i7[?]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6229
For gaming it appears the i7 gets beaten by its own predecessor, somehow. It does very well in all the synthetic benchmarks (the oldest trick in Intel's book), but in anything real it looks like a bit of a disappointment. I put this down to the hyperthreading. Great for raw throughput, but seriously...
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:03 am
- Forum: Networking
- Topic: WHS self-build (Prescott 3.2GHz vs. ???)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8805
This wouldn't cost £160 http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=20800&category_id=491&manufacturer_id=0&tid=mbb0015 Or this lot from Ebuyer, with free delivery: 1 MSI K9N6PGM2-V Socket AM2+ GeForce 6100 onboard VGA 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard 148025 329 in stock £35.80 1 AMD Athl...
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:50 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Rec Heatsink for a phenom II 940.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1842
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:48 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: New Scythe Heatsink -- GODHAND
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17541
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:53 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Whatever happened to Seasonic?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5134
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:45 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Whatever happened to Seasonic?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5134
Whatever happened to Seasonic?
I noticed some time ago that Ebuyer stopped stocking my favourite brand of PSU. And then looking on Google Shopping it seems nowhere in the UK is stocking them at all, even the websites that still have them listed never have any in stock. Sometimes they are listed as "Nanopoint Seasonic", which is c...
- Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:19 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Suggestions on the quietest SATA drive I can get for ~$50-60
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6938
Not really, the single platter drives seem to be lower quality, so while they should be better they are actually worse (check out SPCR's WD3200AAKS review .) 2-platter 3.5" drives always seem to the best. My single platter Samsung S250 is fine, but it might be the exception, and the 2 platter P7K50...
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:15 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Suggestions on the quietest SATA drive I can get for ~$50-60
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6938
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:51 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: 2008-11 Motherboard and CPU for quiet gaming.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6011
For a gaming PC I'd have thought an E8500 would beat a Q9550, since even most modern games still can't manage to make good use of more than two cores.
As demonstrated, for instance, here:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... =3344&p=15
As demonstrated, for instance, here:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... =3344&p=15
- Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:55 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quiet Enterprise Class HDDs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2889
- Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 406112
- Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:46 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: AMD Phenom II
- Replies: 59
- Views: 26824
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:55 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: silent 3.5 hard drive help needed
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4620
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:05 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: AMD Phenom II
- Replies: 59
- Views: 26824
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:27 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: How quite is Samsung hd322hj (320gb single platter F1)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10283
Well I don't know if the 320Gb drives have problems, I'm only repeating what I've heard about the 640Gb and 1Tb versions, both of which use the 334Gb platters. I've used a few 500Gb F1s so far with no problems, they use two 250Gb platters. I'll be using Hitachi P7K500s in my next lot of builds, afte...
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:09 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: How quite is Samsung hd322hj (320gb single platter F1)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10283