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- Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:53 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Which hard drives will stay cool enough?
- Replies: 10
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- Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:44 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Which hard drives will stay cool enough?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4904
Have you considered a very very slow running fan blowing over the drive(s). An 80mm fan running at <500rpm will keep a drive quite close to the ambient temp, and so long as the fan is good quality it will be utterly silent, you can even suspend the fan using gardent string and foam if there isnt a ...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:38 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Which hard drives will stay cool enough?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4904
Which hard drives will stay cool enough?
We live in southern Virginia (USA), and most of our house isn't air-conditioned, so it gets very warm in the summer. Our computers are fairly quiet, but this seems to be rough on the hard drives. We have old Seagate Barracuda IV drives; the SMART reports are starting to look rough, and I'm worried b...
- Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:49 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: A horse of a different color? (Rosewill cases on newegg.com)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5171
Whoa. Anyone else recall the Compucase LX-6A19?
Yes, the front intake doesn't look so good, and I don't like doors, but I'm still tempted.
Yes, the front intake doesn't look so good, and I don't like doors, but I'm still tempted.
- Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:34 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 92mm quiet lowspeed fan..$1
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3101
Re: 92mm quiet lowspeed fan..$1
Yeah. As yeha points out, I have five. I wish they were quiet. Want them?Bluefront wrote:Well it should be quiet, sleeve bearing, .14A, three-pin, a Foxcon PV902512L. Can't beat the price. Anybody have one?
- Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:54 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 92mm (FOR $4.50 + shipping)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10018
- Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:25 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 92mm (FOR $4.50 + shipping)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10018
- Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:26 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 92mm (FOR $4.50 + shipping)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10018
Did these turn out to be any good? I tried another 92mm fan with dismal results, so I'm still looking.Edward Ng wrote:I have the four samples, but as I said, I don't have an actual Nexus 92mm to compare against.
I'll play around with these fans tonight.
- Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:30 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: a stretch - possibily the 92 mm nexus.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3073
I picked up five of those fans, along with a couple of other things, after seeing this thread. Unfortunately, they have a pretty unpleasant buzz at 12V that nearly turns into a tick at 5V. Without that they would be quite nice. If anything changes after I leave one running over-night, I'll let y'all...
- Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:21 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Evercool EC8015m12CA.....Slim 80mm fan.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1880
Re: Evercool EC8015m12CA.....Slim 80mm fan.
Here's a 15mm thick 80mm fan by Evercool. Unlike the other slim models I've seen, this one has rpm monitoring. Maybe somebody here has heard one.....these slim fans come in handy in many applications. Link I have not one but three of these due to show up tomorrow. Somewhere around here I read about...
- Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:38 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Asus TA-210 Black Case
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2530
- Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:21 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 120mm (FOR $8 + shipping)
- Replies: 327
- Views: 199648
Like jmatucd, I have been so busy that I neglected to report on the success of my TekGems order. I still haven't even unpacked all the fans! However, I can say that the service was quite good. I was surprised to see that Mr. Sun Kim registered here — any chance you'll be carrying other components fo...
- Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:02 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Asus Vintage S
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5120
- Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:51 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Asus Vintage S
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5120
'uATX' is really micro-ATX (the u looks a bit like the micro symbol). mATX is another short form for micro-ATX. So they are the same thing. Ah, thanks for making that connection. Buy this system, pulling out the MB, and replacing it with another sounds unnecessarily expensive. As it happens — I did...
- Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:11 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Asus Vintage S
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5120
Re: Asus Vintage S
Assuming it has standard m-ATX standoff locations, couldn't you just pull out the included SiS board and replace it with the m-ATX board of your choice? *EDIT* - Upon further research, apparently you can use whatever m-ATX board you want. Taken from this Asus page : Vintage series adopts the standa...
- Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:35 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: nexus fan replacement raises gpu temps 20C... advice?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5700
Forgot to mention-- the top heatsink is barely warm to the touch, while the heatpipes are SCALDING hot and the bottom heatsink is quite warm. Do heatpipes lose efficiency over time or something? I'm not experienced with heatpipes, but I recall that some of them don't work unless they are properly o...
- Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:41 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Asus Vintage S
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5120
Re: Asus Vintage S
Anyone experience with the Asus Vintage S, and the noise the powerunit makes? Read somewhere it was dead silent, but I hardly beleef it.... so anyone? Link: http://www.asus.com/products/desktop/vintage/overview.htm I quite like that case. If only it were for AMD processors.. Newegg has it , by the ...
- Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:22 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Silent XA SFF "silent 4-in-1 thermal jet"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6053
BTW, looks like what is sold in the US as the Chenming "Game' barebones. Yes - well spotted. Looks like there is also a S462 version available too (nForce 2, though). Would be great with an XP-M, if it supports it. Northbridge looks passive. I am now getting a little tempted but can't seem to find ...
- Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:01 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: How quiet is the stock fan in a BBA Radeon 9600XT?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3510
- Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:22 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Anyone tried this Inwin case?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3817
Re: front fan
Looking at the pics on newegg , it doesn't look like there is a front fan mount. I agree with you, but that's the IW-Z720T.I300FU2AD , which has a 92mm rear fan and lacks a hard drive cage. The IW-C720T.I300FU2AD has the 120mm rear fan and a hard drive cage. I haven't spotted other differences — wa...
- Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:47 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 120mm (FOR $8 + shipping)
- Replies: 327
- Views: 199648
- Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:55 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Anyone tried this Inwin case?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3817
- Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:27 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 120mm (FOR $8 + shipping)
- Replies: 327
- Views: 199648
Re: TekGems has 'em
Thanks.Edward Ng wrote:Not very good at all.David Mitchell wrote:...I can't recall whether the black 80mm fan with aluminum housing has also been panned (I'm tired of flipping back and forth through the pages)...
Anyone want to speculate on the translucent 80mm with blue LEDs?
- Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:47 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 120mm (FOR $8 + shipping)
- Replies: 327
- Views: 199648
when i was talking about the page from geeks.com being taken out, i mean i had a bookmark to the page with the yateloons on them, and it disappeared. i had been checking it everyday for a couple days, and then it disappeared when i checked this afternoon. oh well. Oops, you're right. I checked it t...
- Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:35 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 120mm (FOR $8 + shipping)
- Replies: 327
- Views: 199648
on the /. front, i don't know if there ever was such a thing. i mean, everyone's interested in the new supply, but maybe they're just camping geeks.com or something. i know that i was - they seem to have taken the page for the 120mm offline. Apparently, anything out of stock at geeks.com is removed...
- Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:36 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 120mm (FOR $8 + shipping)
- Replies: 327
- Views: 199648
i suggest buying the orange 120mm yate loons. we know that they actually work when coming from isellsurplus and geeks.com, so it'd be good if we know that their supply is the same. i'd suggest buying a lot of 10, in order to see what the difference between each fan is - not to mention the fact that...
- Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:08 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 120mm (FOR $8 + shipping)
- Replies: 327
- Views: 199648
i just visited resellerratings.com, and apparently only 7 people have given tekgems a review in their account lifetime on the site, and none of them have been in the last six months. Anyone willing to take the risk? It looks a lot better than iSellSurplus, at least. I'll take the risk if someone ca...
- Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:52 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 120mm (FOR $8 + shipping)
- Replies: 327
- Views: 199648
Suitable for PSU fan swap?
Before I forget again: would it be worthwhile to swap these 120mm fans into Fortron/Sparkle power supplies?
- Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:47 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: This fan looks like a NEXUS 120mm (FOR $8 + shipping)
- Replies: 327
- Views: 199648
TekGems has 'em
There's another source for the orange 120mm: TekGems . The price for one to nine fans is $10.99 each, but buy ten or more and the price is $3.90 each! TekGems also has a 120mm with LEDs for the same price — I guess it's the same as the one previously mentioned. Then there are four black fans labeled...
- Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:19 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Pentium II 266 without Fan?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6400
I've recently looked inside two old Gateway PII-based systems. One has a PII-233 with a noisy (at least now) 40mm fan on the heatsink, but the other has a PII-350 with a large fanless heatsink. If I recall correctly, both systems have a power supply with a bottom 92mm fan (not hard-mounted!) under a...