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- Tue Oct 30, 2012 1:38 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Lenovo ThinkCentre M92z All-In-One Desktop PC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9327
Re: Lenovo ThinkCentre M92z All-In-One Desktop PC
While I like the article, I don't like the win8 remark in the end. but we really don't see touch in general gaining much traction on the traditional desktop as we know it today. For the tasks that most desktop users perform on a day-to-day basic, using the screen rather than the mouse and keyboard i...
- Sat Oct 16, 2010 8:34 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 100053
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
[quote="obarthelemy"]Kinda interesting, but I'm really wondering how you came up with the specs. I would have thought a dual-core atom w/ 2 gigs of RAM plenty already. do you have any data on cpu usage for typical loads ? is windows that much worse than linux ?[/quote] problem is more the atom. you ...
- Thu May 20, 2010 1:28 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Completely passive VS Very low speed fans
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17971
- Tue May 18, 2010 1:45 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: [Poll] What's your system's noisiest parts ?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 27045
my main systems are silent, so what should i say? hm.. the workstation.. the screen. it has a tiny fan in. the media center.. the projector, it has a fan in.. the server, the hdds, 4tb ssd is a bit expensive. the laptop, the fan, when it turns on. so most of all, fans and hdds. but most of all, not ...
- Tue May 18, 2010 1:37 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: SSD Reliability
- Replies: 120
- Views: 69795
0 of my ssds have ever had any problems. 4 intels, 3 mtrons, 2 samsungs. i believe the intel failure rate is much lower than 2% out in the public. so far, i know of around i guess 5 different people that had actual problems, and most of them in the earliest days of the intel ssds (and some more than...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:00 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: What is so great about DVI & HDMI?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9868
with digital connections, output = input. always. with analog connections, output ~=~ input. bad signals you know well.. the noise on the radio.. the "ant-race" on tv.. and a bad vga output can really look muddy and low in quality. there are 3 points where a vga connection can kill your image: digit...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:52 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Completely passive VS Very low speed fans
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17971
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:50 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Completely passive VS Very low speed fans
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17971
according to my online shop of choice, it's the "Thermaltake CL-P0323 Sonic Tower Rev. 2"ces wrote:What cooler?davepermen wrote:i just bought a big passive cooler, stuck it onto my core2duo (now it could be a core i5), and put it into enough space that the hot air can move away. works 24/7 without any issue.
- Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:43 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Lian Li PC-343B worth it for a server or just a box?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4814
- Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:35 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quiet Blu Ray Drive
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6670
- Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:33 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Completely passive VS Very low speed fans
- Replies: 22
- Views: 17971
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:28 am
- Forum: Networking
- Topic: Windows Home Server review?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 28117
I've yet to see a NAS that is better than a windows home server based system, contrary to the OP. one thing that is for example rather awesome about it: even when you buy a cheap mini-itx atom based board, the gigabit lan delivers true 100MB/s file accesses, something normally no cheap NAS delivers....
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:10 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Enjoy the silence... (Updated May 2014)
- Replies: 77
- Views: 106196
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:06 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Optimizing an X25-M SSD in XP
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15885
none of the tweaks should've been needed. except for the partition alignment, which is "being nice to the ssd". but the intel delivers so much performance in all cases, none of the other tweakings are needed. Actually, none of them are needed for performance; all are intended to extend the lifetime...
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:07 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Don't walk, run to your nearest store and buy a SSD now.
- Replies: 51
- Views: 49960
yeah, the motherboard is lifted above the ground, there where you would put screws in normally to fit it to the case, there are screws backwards in with spacers in between, holding it about half a centimeter over the paintings. i wouldn't put it onto the floor directly, no.. :) edit: i'll update my ...
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:23 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Don't walk, run to your nearest store and buy a SSD now.
- Replies: 51
- Views: 49960
and now it should work with links:
http://davepermen.net/HomeServer.aspx
it now looks quite a bit different, but the pics are still the same (newer ones will follow soon)
http://davepermen.net/HomeServer.aspx
it now looks quite a bit different, but the pics are still the same (newer ones will follow soon)
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:21 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: The Computer I Could Not Silence
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12653
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:18 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Optimizing an X25-M SSD in XP
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15885
none of the tweaks should've been needed. except for the partition alignment, which is "being nice to the ssd". but the intel delivers so much performance in all cases, none of the other tweakings are needed. you can even install vista without any tweaking on it, and it performs just as fast as your...
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:15 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: VelociRaptor or SSD?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 45675
I replaced all my harddrives with ssds, in laptops, desktops, nettops, workstations, etc. there's no way back to spindles anymore. the only place where hdd's still have place is, as the storage pool on the windows home server. and there, i wouldn't use a raptor as well :) raptors are the beasts of t...
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:08 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Don't walk, run to your nearest store and buy a SSD now.
- Replies: 51
- Views: 49960
anyone considering an ssd to be slow at all does not have a clue or yet used one. it's the single fastest thing you can get for your pc. it has a random access time of 0.065ms, compared to 8ms on the fastest drive (raptors). that's more than a 100x faster in random accesses, which happen to be most ...