I hate to say, I tried numerous hot swap docks from icydock etc, but found that they were always noisy. So I gave up on that idea, and ended up putting everything into a P182 (the bottom hdd enclosure). Now everything is silent again, just not "hot swap". To answer one of your questions re: heat and...

cute...

The cat is back after eleven (11) days! :D Thats really nice to hear, cats really are amazing survivors. Scratch the cat a bit from me! :D I used to have cats but not anymore. But occasionally get strays meowing outside, so I feed them, and then they disappear. The last time it was a "stray" with a...

I used to have your setup (p180 w/AMD3200+ and 7700 alcu). My idles were high 30's (38-39) 'C (and I live in Singapore so ambient is 26-29'C at night and 33-35'C during the day, in this normally not-airconditioned room). So I'd say its probably your mounting+paste spread. oh, and I never had the 770...

based on my experience with my wife's PC's 9600 pro, I'd say quite noisy, enough that I replaced it with a vf700, at which point the air woosh from the 120mm fan at the back of the CM5 is now the major noise contributor for that PC!

Hmm, that sounds like the same cooler I got with my opteron 175, very easy to install, and not that loud. I promptly stuck a Zalman 7700 on the opteron, though, and used the stock cooler for the AMD 64 3200+ for my wife's new PC (after getting rid of the normal thermal paste that comes with it). It'...

I'll just plug centos here (although any of the linux distros will do as well, personally at home I use gentoo), if you stick a bunch of sata same size disks into the server together with a pata boot disk, you can select the sata's and raid+lvm them during the installation process, almost a one-stop...

I stuck a fanmate on the fan for the NB and turned it to low!

Saw this at bit-tech:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/01/07/pico_psu/

Company link:

http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/categ ... /id.417/.f

Is this for real?!? 120W, wow!

bexx, for my curiosity, what distro did you use? debian/gentoo/centos/some other strange distro (puppy )?

Correct, RAID is HA, not Backup, so there are semantic distinctions... although with the cost of high capacity tape drives, I end up using a multi-tier backup-to-disk solution instead (multi-point backup to local disk using rsync, w/4 hour/daily/weekly snapshots, and mirrored via samba to the RAID 5...

I would get rid of the pad, it's so thick (in comparison to the rice grain size of arctic silver you'd use) that it mean more gunk to clean off when you end up replacing the HSF.

Actually, you can put your boot drive on raid, e.g. linux allows you to build a degraded raid0 partition (i.e. with one drive), then on reboot you then rebuild the raid0 parition fully. I haven't tried it, but there are at least a couple of coherent and comprehensible writeups to be googled. Persona...

I have a very similar setup, prefix * for differences: CASE=SPCR p180 *Power Supply=Enermax Noisetaker 470W *HardDrives=2xSamsung 160GBs PATA *CPU=Opteron 175 (previously Venice 3200) *Cooler=Zalman 7700 stock *MOBO=MSI K8N Neo4 *VideoCard=X850 w/artic silencer Memory=Corsair 2 gig 3500LLPro The two...

dup, sorry...

A review in vr-zone:

http://vr-zone.com.sg/?i=2993

looks like Asus is being realistic and providing a fan for people who run their CPU passive/watercooled

anybody want to guess what this is derived from? yet another yate loon?!? http://216.147.36.17/livestore/product_info.php?products_id=2639&osCsid=3c7a3533b1f7b4c389b626b7a498276e apparently 700rpm @ 20.00dBA to 1600rpm @ 32dBA official site says: http://www.scythe.co.jp/cooler/20050308-132018.html s...

Considering I'm running my venice 3200+ in a P180 in an enclosed room in Singapore (ambient 32'C during the day) with no air-con usually- just a room fan, my idle is about 38-40'C (with CnQ on of course). So I'd say: 1) either your MB is reporting wrong temps; 2) or you have definitely not got your ...

only someone who is familiar with australian wine would understand the significant $$$ of the '74 penfolds grange hermitage...

oh what the heck, sell the wine, silence is golden...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/ ... -comp.html

I'd ignore the Titan Vanessa's and concentrate on their findings on the big typhoon and the 9500.

Looks like the big typhoon kicks 9500 fuzzy posterior!

I can afford it, but like most people I aim for the sweet spot rather than get the SLI 7800GTX w/FX57 + dual raptor etc.... got more important things to buy with the money (like take my wife to nice restaurants and vacations :-) ) In singapore the x2's still command a hefty premium, the 3800X2 is SG...

spworley, let us know what RAM you end up getting.

It's almost time for me to upgrade my wife's barton 2500, which means she gets my super silent P180 venice 3200 MSI NF4 w/samsung 120GB HDD, and I get a brand spanking new x2 (not sure if 3800 or 4400 yet) - haven't decided on MB yet.

here's my contribution, I'd like to call this my general theorem of probability: p=1/n where: p=probability of concurrence on calculation of probability n=number of people involved in the discussion :D I'll expound on my special theorem of probability at a later date... I've run out of variables to ...

how often do you plan to carry it? :shock: bout the only 'PC's I carry often are the laptops, the desktops tend to stay put. Of course, I don't lan game much... if you are looking for lan gaming, then maybe you should consider an matx form factor, rather than mid-full tower. Don't try to do too much...

The P180 is available in Singapore (note I'm in Singapore too), although if you are after bling then this may not be the case for you. I do have a CM5, as well as a P180. hands down the P180 is quieter (I'd assume that's why you are frequenting this forum anyway?). The CM5 has oodles of ventilation,...

the way linux sw raid works, the array is first created in degraded mode, then rebuilt with the extra drive(s), apparently for performance reasons. so people have "exploited" this by creating a degraded raid1 array (i.e. one drive), switch their boot drive to it, then after reboot rebuild this array...

Looks like there is a review here:

http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/ ... /index.htm

if he's getting a 3000, and talks of water cooling, it's a sure sign he's planning to OC the poor CPU... in which case he may need that water cooling! does the sli premium have the passive NB cooling? the NF4 NB does get very hot, and I wonder how bad it gets if you OC, and if passively cooling the ...

sw raid5 on linux can be faster than a cheap raid5 card without a dedicate xor engine and cache. If you have enough spare parts to build a linux box, cost is not a factor either, just the time spent in setting up linux and understanding about mdadm. high end raid cards can garner better performance,...

hmm, on reading my post above, some other points did not come across: - raid0 implementations on motherboard are typically either not very well done (=> performance suffers, or data corruption occurs), or else will impact on CPU (in which case what you gain in I/O perf you lose in CPU perf). Hence, ...