I never managed to get an enclosure silent. It's too light and the vibration goes right through... However, you can get rid of almost all the noise by placing the enclosure on something soft, like a piece of plastic foam or a pillow. :) There are 2.5" enclosures, they might be more silent, but 2.5" ...

Just a comment: Drives are designed to use the sides (where they are bolted into the chassis) as heatsinks, so you could actually pack them without any space in between, as long as you can get rid of the heat from the sides. They generate a lot of heat though, so to get rid of 9 packed drives you'd ...

If you buy an off-the-shelf laptop and desktop with the same specs, the laptop will most probably be more quiet. But that's not because it's silent, it's because the desktop will make a racket. The PC you can "easily" mod with better fans, better heatsinks, or even a fanless solution, and make it ve...

...is when an electrician visits, and yanks the main power from under the computer, he believed was turned off... (Then I bought an UPS.)

The heatsink is just top 60°C... it wont harm the elastic. The CPU will be dead from the heat before it harms the plastic. :-) But you should use elastics from a sewing shop, so it can take more stress and more heat (you can usually wash it in 60°C). Normal rubber bands die quickly, especially when ...

I used elastic strings. They are fixed to the case plywood (beneath the black foam seen in the picture above) with cyanoacrylate superglue. It works well so far. The PSU is fixed with that too. The superglue needed a really long time before it could be put to stress though, like 12-14 hours. I did a...

neat project, but why not just use a laptop? is it because of the TV-out requirement? Well, two reasons. This thing cost me less then $150 in hardware (the motherboard is "demo", the PSU is the cheapest, and except the CPU and the $15 case I had it all already as leftovers from silencing projects),...

Bwahaha... Yeah, that could be interesting.

Heya, haven't posted anything in a while, but I thought I should show my latest project anyway. I needed a PC for travelling, and I needed a PC to connect to the TV to show movies, and of course normal cases aren't pretty (ymmv) and not very practical for travelling, so I decided to simply put a PC ...

Great article. The higher figure ( 71.6W ) is probably the more correct; the 2400+ Athlon XP has a slightly different core, IIRC. As for the a copper heatsink, I think I would first experiment with laminating a copper sheet on the back of it (thermal epoxy or just thermal goo and squeeze). The impor...

Does anyone here own an nVidia Geforce FX 5800 or derivative? How did you silent it?

What holes are there to mount heatsinks or waterblocks with? Are they compatible with anything known to man?

Has anyone tried the Gainward watercooling solution?

Yeah, I know. But I don't think watts are that important. It's still much hotter then the Enermax, same computer...

Setup 1: Asus A7V333-RAID, Athlon XP 1900+ at 1640MHz Setup 2: Abit KR7A-RAID, same Athlon XP 1900+ Setup 3: Asus P4C800 deluxe, P4c 2600MHz with 2x IBM 180GXP 120Gb Seagate Barracuda IV 80Gb IBM 120GXP 80Gb Plextor CD-R Sony CD 3com 905 network card Soundblaster Live! 1024 Hauppauge TV-card Radeon ...

AMD runs to 90°C, Intel runs to 85°C (someone correct that if I don't recall correctly). So you can run an AMD hotter. Which means you more easily get rid of heat, since delta-T counts - difference between ambient and heatsink temperature. But! Intel shuts down a lot of the parts that isn't used, an...

Well, it's time to start switching to 3d optical storage anyway.
Didn't NASA have fun 3d storage machines?

But I don't think the magnetic fields from this cooling would matter much. They use permanent magnets. They usually don't disrupt HDDs and floppys that much.

Hmm, not too bad.

I'm surprised you say that. I am pretty sure all the "true.." Antec PSUs use the same circuitry, and the TrueControl 550 I reviewed had excellent efficiency. At 150W output & up, it was 69% min & up to 75% at 300W. Mind you at 90W, it was just 64%, and at lower power, it might be even less. My HDD'...

You need a good microphone, and a dB-counting program. Most frequency analyzing programs can do dB calculations. Then you need a reference sound source...

Hey, great project. :) Hmm, if you get more then a few degrees difference between water temperature and CPU temperature, something is going on with your waterblock, or the water isn't moving. I got 20°(C) difference when I didn't apply enough pressure. More normal difference is 2-3°C (I think, i875 ...

Since my now old Plextor can't seem to write more then 700Mb CDs (I'm going to see if I can upgrade the firmwere, but my hopes are low and the CDR is slow - 16x), I was looking into getting a new. Gosh, are those cheap today? :mrgreen: (I paid $250 for the plextor.) I was looking into getting the 52...

Use hddtemp (http://coredump.free.fr/linux/hddtemp.php) to measure temps under Linux.
I think I'll get one of those too.

Not sure that the whine is necessarily a pre-death symtom. ALL of my IBM 75 GXPs whined all the time -- I had 3-4 at one point. Only one actually died -- the rest I sold off.

Well, true. The one I had whined too, especially compared to a 120GXP or a Barracuda IV. But it didn't whine that bad.

% hddtemp /dev/hd[ab]
/dev/hda: IC35L120AVV207-0: 53°C
/dev/hdb: IC35L120AVV207-0: 42°C

Gosh, that's high. I better turn up those fans... hddtemp is Linux-specific.
http://coredump.free.fr/linux/hddtemp.php

I was just planning to ask if anyone knew if the 160Gb Samsung SpinPoint V80 was quiet (5400 rpm), since I'm considering that as a new disk for my server... It's priced at 8.50SEK/Gb here (9SEK=$1), quite reasonably. It seems to equal the 1604 model, so there I go. If the 7200 rpm model is quiet, su...

It has rubber mounting thingies. It ought to dampen a little.

Get a bigger radiator? I've thought of getting a big copper oil cooler or just a simple car radiator...

It's an Asus P4C800, preinstalled with a passive heatsink. "type"?

I had issues with a 350W Enermax and the 9700 pro. I think it drew a bit much 5/3.3V power in combination with the Athlon I used (no 12V converters on the motherboard). It might be the issue with the Zalman too. I've had no problems with the 550W Antec Truepower, except that the PSU itself generates...

My i875 is Really Hot. I can probably manage a temperature reading if you're interested.

I have already spent more then $500, and I'm not satisfied yet. (I can still hear it from 5m away. The Eheim 1048 pump rattles noisily. :?) Special heatsinks and thermal compound (Z 6000, Z NB-17, Z GPU sink, etc), say $100 Fans, say $150 MDF board, hinges and screws, paint, dampening mats, say $100...