Yes. The Abit Nf7-S v2.0 would work. THere are a couple of 'if's though. There is a big uproar among users on the RMA ratio of these boards. Apparently they ship defunct boards. And there are some other strange problems reported. And.. it has active cooling on the NB .. which is quite close to the C...

I only get some "gold membership" stuff if I try to load the pdf.

If its not over 250kb, could someone mail the pdf to me at "[email protected]"? Would be greatly appreciated.

Hmm.. another question: The recommended section states that it lists boards that are able to undervolt 0.2 or more. But there are different standard vcore voltages for different processors arent there? How can you tell which one any processor use? Is it determined by stepping or generation or someth...

Thanks for the replies! That cleared up good. :) I can agree with ASUS overvolting. I suppose this is why they get good stability results with their boards and therefore consumer likes them. My ole A7V133 had a default vcore of 1.75 and it ran on 1.81. It overvolts 0.05 over what I set. Took way too...

I have been searching the forum for a bit now looking for recent and good info on undervolting. But there isnt much there so I thought I would try to pull up another discussion about it. Unanswered previous questions: * Are Athlons (Tbreds, Bartons) properly unlocked by default or are they not? * Do...

A link says more than thousand bytes, here are two: http://www.chieftec.com/products/Apollo/Color.htm http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20030428/case_review-19.html Ok. Feel free to shoot me for repeating something that has already been said, but I did try to search for it first and found nothing s...

Good reasons like............... Less Value (Based on the drop in price of 7200RMP Drives) More Noise (Based on the new FDB that Seagate and Maxtor have implemented) Less Space (Except of the huge external Maxtor Drives) All that is true for OLD modles of 5400 drives. The Samsung Spinpoint 5400 ser...

Maybe one can lubricate a good keyboard. I havent found what to lubricate _with_ yet though. Some kind of silicone I suppose.

It might be a bad series of drives. A while ago (a year? two years?), one of the IBM GXP series of hard drives were reported to fail when running them for more than 8 hours a day. Sadly, I can't remember which drives were affected :( Later GXP series don't have this problem. Do you mean that they f...

POLIST8 wrote:I've never heard of this problem and ONLY build AMD systems.

I've had it. I've seen others that have it. Its more common on AMD. Havent seen one that actually got problems with it though. Its one thing to have unbalanced figures and another to have an unstable system.

Its the AMD-problem, I can assume. Everything pulls from 5V line so that it drops while 12V rises. Not much to do but to buy a P4 or a better PSU. Well.. if you consider your system to be fairly low-consuming you might have a faulty PSU. I dont think there is any 'burning' risk though. You'll only g...

Sorry for the delay myself. I have been away for a bit.

Could it not be that the PSU tries to go to that voltage but dont have the power to do so? Did you try to adjust without connecting it to the machine?

whitter wrote: Have you seen the Hush or Tranquil cases?

Yes. But that is with sacrificing performance. I could do that with any case. Wont look as good though.

There is not details about the Hush-variant but the Tranquil does not seem to have any type of HD silencing.

Anyway, I have decided to buy a Panaflo FBA08AL1A fan and see if that one is more silent and/or capable of moving more air at a lower noise level than the fan currently present in the PSU. It only costs a few bucks, so it's worth a try. I think its a good idea. Many have had success with doing just...

Second 'making a box' note in short time. Looks like its vacation times. :) As for cancellation: http://www.bang-olufsen.com/sw2199.asp If that puppy can deliver what they say. Maybe it could be configured to correct noise sources too. :P Or .. at least one should be able to do something with the sa...

I have done some calculation on the noisebox idea.. and found out that you need at least 50 cfm (2 panaflo at 12V, or one 120mm) airflow. Then you still get 5C temp raise for a medium power usage system. And on top of that you would need some adjusting fans to prevent too much under- or over-pressur...

Looks like the same enclosure they have at Deltatronic PC:
http://www.deltatronic.info/index.html

Laptop drives are at 4200 rpm with smaller diameter and mass on the platters. Desktop are 7200 with bigger and heavier platters. You could improve by getting a 5400 rpm 3.5" drive. Samsung example (specs are finally up), 80 Gb, 1 platter at idle (max): 5400: 5.5W (7.0W) 7200: 7.0W (8.6W) Here is ano...

I think I saw somewhere that the Aurora has PFC? Anyone can confirm? I cant find anything on the sites. And what is the deal with these led-acrylic type fans? Are they any good?

I found it again. It was the tomshardware site that said the model number was: FSP350-60PN(PF). Hence the PFC.

I thought I was the only one around that had one of those. :) But I cant see how you can think it makes too much noise. My problem is not the noise.. but the heat and 12V imbalance. The fan hardly moves at all, no matter the load. Perhaps its cheap ass thermal control that makes them behave this way...

Of course there are laws. But they are generally specified with lots of interpreting the situation. Besides, I think I am the only mammal among my neighbours. The others are more like carbon dioxide breathing plants. They think the ventilation is enough when windows are closed and airvents shut tigh...

I have two neighbours sitting on the top of the roof on the house next door. They are both exhausts of a new heat exchange system, with huge radial fans (I think). The drum is probably 1 meter in diameter. There is no sound control whatsoever. They are just sitting there, externally, and making the ...

TranquilPC site:
http://tranquilpc.co.uk/photo_600/05.jpg

The half HD shown to the left in the pic is a Hitachi Deathstar, right? Perpaps one can get it without that HD.

The trouble with all this talk about noise is that it is so hard to know what the other guy is hearing. We really don't know just how whiny that IBM of sedimin's is, do we? :? Of course. :) .. but with this site we can read opinions of people who knows what they talk about. When you read about 5 't...

Noone doubts that its possible. Keep us updated on progress/degress.

To silence computers you never have to sacrifice performance. You just need to sacrifice alot of time, interest and sometimes creativity. The stuff that computer companies should do for us. OEM companies seems to sacrifice performance though.. they sure are slow.

Try less aggressive PCI settings in BIOS. Items such as 'byte merge', 'PCI to Dram Prefetch', 'Delayed Transaction', there is one more I forgot. Well .. put them all to Disabled. See if it helps.

Seems like you already have tried putting different cards in different slots. But that can work too.

Well.. probably no retailers that have it, yet anyway. You have to go at companies that manufacture heatsinks and such stuff. Here is one: http://www.ptcheaters.com/. Problem is ofcourse that they dont sell a few items to private customers, they sell to other companies that use it for apps such as l...

Halcyon, man. You're one brave guy. Or you just know what you are doing. :) Strangely enough some articles I've read says that you adjust 12V/5V and 3.3V separately. Would be much better if one could adjust the _relationship_ between these ratings instead. One pot for 12V/5V relationship and one for...

Some updates on this matter. Have been bouncing questions at dukla2000 (My hero that always answers my blabbery posts. :D) in other threads and arrived to the conclusion that the 5V/12V relation holds. Better PSUs handle this better. Not sure however if higher rated PSUs handle it better although th...