"I'm getting 28c idle, and 43c with load, and after a few hours of cpuburn it only hit 50c"

WoW! 43c under load!!!

I'm running the exact same XP-90 but with a 2.8Ghz Prescott and I get 45c idle and 57c load!

Nice job.

OK, so I've taken delivery of my new Antec SLK3700-BQE and so far, I'm very impressed with the results. What I'm looking into doing now while testing the machine is tidy up some cabling as best I can. One question before I make a mistake a may end up regreting. The standard Antec 120mm rear fan that...

I quite like the idea put forward by Ralf Hutter and shooting the damn thing, but instead of attracting the unwanted attention of law enforcement, turn it into a licensed sport. Instead of using an assualt shotgun, you could use a sporting shotgun. Using the Vantec Tornado and the various other nois...

If anyone figures out a neat way to quieten down the shuttle, please let me know.

I've got to do something about this one sat on my desk !

OK, the situation is: For a year or so now, I've been the proud owner of a compaq Proliant 5500R rackmount server but unfortunately it's been lying around doing very little but gather dust because I had nowhere to place it. Just recently I've acquired a server rack and some space upstairs to locate ...

Retro? ... No!

Ghetto? ... Definately!!!!

Now.....if memory serves my right, I've had this same problem when I first started using memtest86 a few years ago

As it turned out, it was just a corrupt diskette. I'd suggest finding another floppy diskette from somewhere and try again.

I'll have to admit, I have experienced this same problem, though, not to the extent of making my computers switch off. :shock: Our house that we moved into last year is an old Spanish farmhouse, which fortunately has electricity points but non were grounded. Everytime I went to make some adjustments...

I use a small application called CD-Bremse (or CD-Throttle) to slow down my Samsung SW-252B. A great application that runs in the systray and loads at startup. It's written by a german (I believe) author so the installation and menus are all a little foreign to me, but it is intuative so installatio...

I think it would be advisable to RMA the drive and get it replaced. Although all drives vibrate to some degree (its the nature of all things that rotate at highspeeds!) the vibrations you are obviously exhibiting are a little excessive, and Dell cases aren't reknowned for being flimsy & cheaply buil...

THAT'S a rendered 3D Model!?!

Get out o'here!

Pulsar, in an attempt to cease the annoying buzzing from my Barracuda 7200.7 drive I downloaded and ran the smscan.exe from a bootable floppy. Unfortunately the application is configured to only automatically recognise the Barracuda IV's and disable the 'autoscan' feature. Once initiated from the co...

I wonder how common this fault is. I too, have taken delivery of quite a few Seagate drives in the last few months, including: 2x Barracuda IV 40Gig 1x Barracuda 7200.7 40Gig 2x Barracuda 7200.7 80Gig It would appear that any S.M.A.R.T utility including SpeedFan, DTemp and PassMarks Diskcheckup repo...

I think the reason is because MikeC does'nt recommend it. It may be more effective on older drives than on the current crops of HD. If I rightly recall, the SilentDrive review by MikeC was in relation to faster, more modern drives that may produce too much heat to be used comfortably within the enc...

I'm surprised no one as yet has recommended the molex SilentDrive enclosure. These are perfect for the slower, aging drives of yester-year. I currently have two that are used for whiny Seagate U5 drives, that spin at 5,400rpm. I can only assume that your 6Gb drive will spin at similar, if not slower...

</cough> Bump! <cough>

Before I send an email to Seagate technical support, I thought I'd drop one off here first, as the advise from you guys is always sound and prompt. I purchased two Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80gig drives a few months ago, but didn’t get around to putting them to use until last week. As I needed a litt...

Most of the coolers mentioned only seem to mention socket A use with no mention of socket 370. Can I assume that these socket A heatsinks are compatiable? Thanks Jaime That sure is the case. All S370 motherboards have at least one lug on each side of the socket, which is ample in most cases aslong ...

Only this week I purchased two heatsinks for my two PIII 933Mhz servers. Originally I had been eyeing up the GC-68 from svc.com following a recommendation by Hutter a few months ago, but as it turned out they don't deliver outside of the US. So I then looked slightly closer to home in the UK at www....

Following a number of recommendations by Ralf Hutter, and some good online reviews, I'm desperately trying to source two GC-68 heatsinks for delivery to UK or Spain.

Anyone have ideas for European supplies for this item?

I too am quite interested in quietening my Cisco 2912XL switch (rack mount also) that has three screamers installed in the rear. I can only assume that they are 30 or 40 mm fans, but the manufacture I am not sure of. It's also well out of warranty, so the idea of either disconnecting un-essential on...

What I was hoping for was to be able to install the new drive as slave to the original drive and utilise Seagates DiskWizard utility to copy all drive contents (operating system files also) to the new drive. All this should be independent of the Operating system, but for your information the system ...

To all, Having recently purchased a new Seagate Barracuda IV 40gig drive to replace an aging Seagate U5 20gig drive, I was hoping whether someone could give some advice on the transplant. Installation should be a doddle as I've done that enough times its untrue, but I'm looking for a way simple way ...

Flip,

Oops....you're right...my mistake

I always seem to get those two enclosures mixed up.

Sounds like a great setup you have there, and money doesn't seem to have been too much of an issue either, not with the NCU-1000 and the Prosilence that has been used. My only issue would be with the 80Gb Barracuda within the SilentDrive (whichever barracuda model it is, it's bound to be a 7,200rpm ...

An idea that someone posted here at SPCR about using velcro to adhere fans to the case sounded so simple it had to be brilliant, so I decided to try it out. 30 minutes later and €2 euros out of pocket, I had purchased a small pack of velcro squares (about 2 by 2 cm big). Luckily, both the velcro hoo...

POLIST8 wrote: Samsung Drives in 2k1 were Fujitsu drives, which sucked balls - I've had a couple bad experiences (with them sucking other people's balls). I know what you mean about that. My last place of employment during 2001 upgraded all desktop systems inhouse with the new Compaq iPAQ desktops. ...

Ulgen wrote: I was thinking about that, but I found a shop listing a V80 as a 7200rpm, so I started wondering. So it's just the shop that messed up? Jan wrote: Yes. Hmmm.....that's not quite correct. I came across the same mistake on a UK online store. I guess that's what deterred me from purchasin...

...so while on the subject......which one should I choose for a S370 motherboard like the Asus CUSL2-C?

Cheers in advance

BCB

Hi Doctor,

I have 4 simple words for you (well, 3 words and a letter!)

IBM THINKPAD T SERIES

I own a dated but feature-laiden T21 model and I love it! If you have the cash, and are looking for a light, powerful yet slightly overpriced laptop, you could look no further.

Hope this helps

BCB