I'm missing the point of your anger. You have a DOA drive...they are taking it back and sending you a drive that will work. What are you mad about? What difference does it make if it is the same unit, only repaired, or a completely new drive? Both will have hte same warranty. 99% of the time the dri...

What a missed opportunity. If the baseplate was disassemblable you could flip the fins around to the CPU side of the card.

If you put another card in the #4 slot you're going to block off all the airflow to it, so it probably won't even work that well for SLi'd rigs.

A 3 degree swing between stock HSF with stock case fans and Tt passive heatsink and zero case fans? Sorry, I call BS on that....not possible. I will happily eat my words if proven wrong, but until I see someone else try this I think there's something fishy. I hereby resurrect my theory of it being a...

Somoene on the SPCR staff should replicate this DIY project, and do a real review on how well it works. Doesn't have to be a staff member...this would be a perfect article for a reader submission. Just take their existing concept and apply some better scientific standards to its presentation. Then ...

Interesting idea, but terrible write-up of it. Just an odd selection of details: he explains exactly what type of hot-glue to use, but declines to give any temperature results? The text implies that there was several iterations of the final design that were tested, it just seems odd that you would g...

JAH, I replied to your post in the NSK thread, but I'll copy it here for any future forum cruisers to find too: That will definitely not fit in to a NSK2400. Installed, you've got about about 3/8" (1cm) between the top of the PCI bracket and the underside of the case lid. Although you could cut a ho...

That will definitely not fit in to a NSK2400. Installed, you've got about about 3/8" (1cm) between the top of the PCI bracket and the underside of the case lid.

Although you could cut a hole in the top of the case and stick the heatpipes out through it.

Just to back up Devon.... I did some experimenting with the BIOS of a system I've been tinkering with lately. Disabling one IDE channel (no SATA on this board), the FDC, the onboard LAN, and the onboard Audio. Resulted in essentially zero wattage reduction at either idle or load. And this was a very...

Wow, that's an oddball. Should buy one of those...it'll likely be the first/last/only AMD BTX mobo. I wonder who the manu is. I imagine that Dell is not terribly happy about the death of BTX. They commited their entire new chassis design to being BTX. Obviously it was cheaper to have someone make a ...

As has been discussed before, the problem with a external power-brick formfactor for ATX PC's is really one of demand. No one in the industry is going to push for it: It would destroy the PSU market. AC/DC bricks are a commodity item, with little development or markup. There's no market for a bling'...

Joe's recent editorial on Water Cooling - Wheres the Magic? over at Procooling sums up the current state of the industry pretty well I think. My comments on it (and this thread, basically) are in the Procooling forum thread about the editorial.

CrystalCPUID works very well on that board. I prefer that program to RMClock, I think it's easier to use and more stable, but it's personal preference either way.

By sure to read jan's article about using CrystalCPUID to configure your own custom CnQ settings...its very helpful.

I don't know if I would let the "SLI Certified" bit hang up my buying decision. Getting a PSU "certified" is a marketing ploy, not an engineering standard. From the PSU's perspective there's nothing magical about having 2 gpu's instead of one...wattage is wattage. Pick a PSU based on it having the w...

I built an htpc box for someone that used the M2NPV-VM, a single core 3500, and the Hauppauge 500MCE tuner card. Even with the stock igp it will playback 1080p just fine. I would consider upping your ram from 1 gig to 2 though....it's cheap, and multitasking a couple of recordings and playback in MC...

Dang, I didn't get my auto-email that sign-ups were open. Looks like I'm about 40 turns late. Poo...gotta start from the back.

Perhaps you're loking for the fanspecs.pdf or gmJamez's testsheet?

Oh yeah, 7volts has been around for quite some time. It predates SPCR by several years. AFAIK it's abandoned now...the last update to the site was over 3 years ago. There's some good general information over there. Some stuff is clearly dated, but several of the DIY projects are really well done. We...

Thank you for the Marketing 101 refresher course Thomas. I think most of us are familiar with the concepts involved. Rusty, You give a few examples that "all started as the focused crusade of a tiny group of people", which is correct. However, those tiny groups of people reached their goals by lobby...

So will I be able to do some extreme gaming with this? Will it keep me cool when I play the upcoming 'Crysis'? Or is this more for HTPCs and such? VR-zones' review showed it as being significantly better than the stock cooling systems on the E6600 and a X1900. Since you can obviously game on the st...

Generally, all the laws that are now enforced for truth-in-advertising and product labeling - ingredients, nutritional information, alcohol content, UL certifitication, toxicity, etc, etc, all started as the focused crusade of a tiny group of people.

In the realm of "there's nothing new under the SPCR sun": Joe's Tower of Cooling Power from a little over three years ago. :lol: Although Filias' equations are much more advanced, I suspect that he will come to the same conclusion: stack effect generates very little airflow, but with some careful pl...

As long as there is tinfoil to make hats from, there will be conspiracy theorists looking to make money off of every event of historical significance. As for the buildings' collapse, I have a couple of points: I was in grad school in 2001, and happened to be taking a structural design class that fal...

Felger, you might want to read up on the actual, scientific, standardized methodologies for measuring fan noise. If Silenx really was engineering their own fans, they would just use one of the perscribed standards for noise testing (JIS-C 9603, ANSI S12.11, AMCA 210, etc) instead of inventing their ...

By "fix" he means do something to stop them from spinning when you blast them with compressed air. (he's speaking "the queen's english" on his side of the pond) Letting the fan free-wheel from the compressed air can hurt it's bearings. You can just hold it in place with your finger.

Maybe we need an "anti-silent" news section: The XMS2 DOMINATORTM DDR2 Performance Memory The latest step in Corsair's ten year heritage of innovation in performance memory: we've redefined memory heat sink technology. And the result is unprecedented performance and reliability.... ...<standard tech...

Why indeed do people put subject lines with insufficient information in them, to establish if they are relevant reading? Agreed. And fixed. :lol: And to answer what I think the question was: Yes, it is the PWM that makes the buzz when connected to the oncard fan header. Some fans' IC design makes t...

ISTR from previous threads about the Geode NX that the main problem was getting the mobo to supply the correct voltage the CPU; has that been a problem for the system on the testbench? Preliminary indications are that it appears to be running at spec. There's no BIOS adjustments (or even aknowledge...

I've got a Geode NX system on the testbench right now. Although I haven't tried playing a physical DVD yet, it will play full-bitrate DVD-ripped video files. (I'm still testing the stock config, and haven't added a dvd drive to the system yet) It chokes on 720p or 1080 files though. This system - NX...

They are in fact going out of business. There was a thread about it around here somewhere a while back. It is a shame...but there are some good deals while they last.

Even if you find a better solution for general CPU testing purposes, utilities such as Prime95 which use error checking are still very useful and I would say necessary for system testing. This is true whether over-clocking or under-volting. Since SPCR does under-volt in certain of its tests, you’...