Thank you aphonos for the shroud idea, I'll look into that.

al bundy wrote: their CPU temps increased when they did this

How did they confirm this? Does the Pavilion have temp. sensors after all?

Thanks alot for all the input! I must check the direction of the case/CPU fan again, can't remember now... :oops: I tested the latest version of MBM, and it doesn't support that board, haven't tried Speedfan though, good idea. I've ordered a L1A from Dorothy, it should arrive tomorrow. The fan will ...

Well, I'd certainly be surprised if it performed worse...

Ok, thanks for the input. You use two fans with your 933, would be interesting to know if anyone using a <933MHz PIII manages with only case (+PSU) fan.

I probably should have mentioned that it is a Slot1 CPU (at least I think it is, it uses some sort of 'slot', like an AGP or PCI slot, and that there is absolutely NO room for a 800/900. It would cost too much as well. Do you (Trip) use a case and/or CPU fan? Thanks for the help! How about you, Mike...

I've recently introduced a friend of mine to silent computing. He has a PIII 550MHz (dissipating a mere 15W) HP Pavilion (for the first time I feel really happy that I have a Chieftec miditower). There are two fans in the case. One in the PSU and one CPU/case fan. The PSU fan is not that much of a p...

The Zalman doesn't have an automatic fan control. A Fan Mate is included though, with which you can manually adjust the voltage. Automatic fan control are found (on some) motherboards.

miker wrote:Well I can attest that 2 days ago I was processing 13 tinkers and 1 Gromacs WU, now I am processing 13 Gromacs and 1 tinker.

I've been folding for some time now, but I still haven't grasped the concept of gromacs and tinkers. Anyone...?

I can only say that I agree that the fan is too loud with the Fan Mate on its lowest setting. I wouldn't call it loud, but it's too loud...(if you understand what I mean... :? ) I solved it by using a 56Ohm resistor (the one you get with the ZM-F1 fan) in series with the Fan Mate. I'm very pleased w...

silvervarg wrote:I am thinking about getting an Antec Sonata case that I will do slight modding on. Unfortunately I don't have any local store where I can look at it.

Yes, you do. NeedIT should have it. (They had it two or three weeks ago...). Better call them in advance though.

It would certainly be nice if someone could name any of the alternatives that they find to be so good...

Quite a few new barebone-systems have seen the light of day lately. Does anyone have any experience with them (except from reading reviews on the internet)? Are their noise levels tolerable? AMD or Intel? Can they be modded at all, or is a simple fan swap the only mod which is doable without destroy...

Ok, thanks. I just thought that the somewhat softer "bottom" side would absorb sound a bit better than the "top" side.

Might be a silly question, but I'll ask it anyway: Is there a reason why you chose "top" side to face "in"? Did you try both? My thought when I felt on the material was to do it the other way around (due to the slightly different structure of the "top" side), meaning that the "bottom" side would fac...

Very interesting! Did you use some sort of adhesive? I think I'll do just what you did. I'll use black mat though...

lacsap wrote:... and just found an old S370 cooler with fan. But this one comes with black-yellow-green wires....

The black is ground, the green is positive and the yellow is for monitoring RPM.

BTW: Black is 'always' ground and red is 'always' positive.

Does anyone have any info about this PSU, except from what can be read on the label? I so desperatly want a new PSU, but I thought it would be nice to know how bad my current one is (not that the PC is unstable or anything, I'm more concerned about the heat generation, i.e. efficiency). Would be nic...

Creative, which probably is an understatement! Are all those bolts 'just' for show?

bob670 wrote:I have a feeling this just became a new obsession.

Hmmm, I know the feeling...

Kurt 'Tachikaze' E. Rightmyer (Ind), he's only the greatest middleweight wrestler of all time. He's also sings the blues, writes poetry, teaches, and is editor of Sharing Ideas magazine. Ralf this guy's impressive. He got 733 votes too! http://www.smartvoter.org/2003/10/07/ca/state/vote/rightmyer_k...

Well, I'm out, I don't know anything about IDE controllers. I have enough trouble with one drive.

Ok, I'll ask again. Who is this Sumo Wrestler? Is it just a Sumo Wrestler, not 'famous' for something else? A 'nickname'? Does he have a homepage?

Shadowknight wrote:Ralph, how did you get you HD temp to show up in MBM? I enabled the option under the general tab, but I don't know what to do to get the values to actually show up.

See my post above

This is sort of a long shot, but anyway, here goes: Have you rebooted your system? I had to do this in MBM5. I checked a box which said something like 'Scan for IDE drives' and then I had to reboot my system for my HDD to show up in MBM5.

Remember that most intel-based (if not all) boards made by Asus does not undervolt. I'm not saying they aren't any good (very pleased with mine), just that they don't undervolt.

Which of your fans has three wires and which has two? The only (well not really only, but it'll just get complicated just check fancontrol's & dutch's threads about their fancontrollers and search recommended software for speedfan) to monitor fan rpm is if the fan has this third wire. If I've unders...

My bad. Sorry. Have never heard of 'mil' before. You learn something new every day, exciting isn't it?

Next is a layer of 'rubberized asphalt adhesive back' which is about 40 mil thick. Oh boy, when I saw it today at the hardware store it was just a roll and it appeared to be maybe 3mm thick. 40 mil? How could you you get your case back onto the machine 40 mil = 4 cm of junk on it! That's probably a...

Well, to say that you don't have radiators might have been an overstatement. But AC is still much more common, right? I spent most of my time in Brisbane (Hear the Mighty Lions roar...), which doesn't get as cold as Sydney, that might have been the reason to why I said that about the radiators. [Rea...

We use Celsius here in Sweden too (The scale was acually invented by a swede, Anders Celsius). I still think it is very cold, even when the temp is in Celsius. I went to Australia last year, and when I come to think of it, you guys don't have radiators now, do you? AC is far more common. Opposite to...