Akerr,

Thanks for such a thorough summary! You've saved me about a week of work

Takre care,
Tim.

Kickarse! Thanks for the heads-up.

Looks like PCCG is fast becoming one of the best Silent Components sites in Oz!

Keep up the good work
Tim.

Cheers! Pints, even better.

Tim.

What about me, where's my beer?
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&u=109731

ckolivas wrote:Yes you can now buy a seasonic in Australia:
http://pccasegear.com.au/

I think that part had already been established a few posts back!

*grumble grumble* only three friggin weeks after i bought the enermax *grumble grumble*

main specs of my htpc are <snip> That looks nice! Kinda like a beefed up, 64bit version of mine. sorta ;) at this stage I havn't seen any of the rubber fan mounts locally? nup, none that I've found. I had EAR inc send me a sample box of HDD and fan mounts. They're really great. The other option is ...

Good price!

Let us know how your temps go. What's the config you've got in your HTPC?

The system I've got in my sig is our HTPC at the moment. case temps hover around 30C.

Lucky bastard

Where'd you get if from and how much did you pay?

Tim.

To my fellow Aussies, I'd not seen them available elsewhere in Australia before now, so I just thought I'd share this source. Please add any others that you know of. If you're not familiar why (I think) this is of interest, the BX series Panaflos are the ones that allow RPM monitoring. The SPCR refe...

Hopefully you're right about other retailers following suit. I'd imaging that PCCG might even have a nice little import market to on-sell to other retailers. Certainly they'd be the only company importing them into Aust at that time. Lucky them! :) at least this way you won't be tempted to upgrade f...

Yep, PCCaseGear are great, highly recommended. AusPCMarket are also good. Huge range, but a bit pricier than other companies. I bought my Enermax EG495P NoiseTaker from MacoTechnology in Sydney. Highly recommended too, my PSU was delivered the same day I ordered it! 485W Enermax EG495P-VE-SFMA Noise...

chylld wrote:Seasonic S12 power supplies will be available in Australia from http://www.pccasegear.com.au within 3-4 weeks.

NOOOOOOOO!!! Don't tell me that!

Oh well, maybe it's the excuse I needed to build a new HTPC

Nope, Seasonic are not available in Australia from any retail stores. You'll have to order one in, if you can find an international shop who is willing to ship o/s. I've just bought one of these: 485W Enermax EG495P-VE-SFMA Noisetaker $105 It's the Passive AFC version (rather than "Active" [aka the ...

Just bought an LG GSA 4163B in black for $AU108. cheap as chips! I've only had it a week, and haven't burnt anything with it yet, but backing-up DVDs at full-speed is reasonably quiet. Not SILENT quiet, but not too bad, considering. The GSA 4163 can burn DVD+/-RW, Dual Layer, and burn DVDRAM discs. ...

Hydra, if you haven't been welcomed already, Welcome! :) I've never considered using BluBlu-Tak as a dampening material in the way you have, but in theory there's no reason why it wouldn't work. I've used smaller strips of BT around my whole PSU (everywhere it touches the case) and under CPU fan to ...

Surely Early_Unit_Ends don't nessecarily mean System instability, do they?

I've got F@H running on a couple of Compaq machines, all WELL within their temperature ranges. None of them are overclocked or anything. They can run Prime95 endlessly without crashing. A couple of these still have had EUEs...

Tibors wrote:Phrak just joined our team by donating zero WU's for zero points Beats me how this is possible, but...

• Welcome to the team

Thanks Tibors.
Beats me too, but I think I've made up for it now
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main ... mnum=31574

CPU Idle & Rain are similar, but not quite the same. This patch appears to be a driver to allow C0, C1 & C2 sets on NForce2 boards, rather than the ordinary S0 & S1 sets.

So it theory at least, CPU Idle\Rain\whatever should cool better with this patch.

As a side note, I reperformed the test on the RAID0 SpinPoint set last night, with the newer version of HDTach (v3) and got a much higher transfer rate... somewhere in the vicinity of the 90MB/s mark at the beginning on the graph... I didn't grab a screen-shot, but will try again tonight.

Thanks Nutty, Here's some HDTach (v2.7) dumps: Ok, so a bit of an explanation before the pics - The first one is the two old Fireballs I had previously. Not particularly interesting, but good for a comparison of the speed improvement I got by upgrading to the SP's. 2x 20GB Quantum Fireballs in RAID0...

Cheers! Got quite a good selection there.

What kind of case, fans & HDDs have you hooked it up with?

I've done some benchmarking and have screen-shots. Can anyone recommend a Picture server to host these?

Thanks,
Tim.

Well done

Any chance of a higher-res photo of the kit box? in particular the details on the inside of the lid?

Cheers,
Tim.

Guys & Girls(? :D), I just wanted to pass on a huge thanks to the SPCR community regarding recommendations of the Samsung SP series HDD's. I purchased two SP1213Ns (120GB) on Monday, and installed them into my system last night. Noise? What noise? Man these things are QUIET! The one's I bought are u...

ahh, I see your point... I've only ever purchased fans that have had bare tails or 3pin headers...

thanks for the explainations

Just be carful - the "3.5" Drive Bay VR Fan Speed Controller - Silver/black. Price: $16.60" (http://www.svc.com/35drivbayvrf.html) ones DO use PWM and only range from 7V-11V... I made this mistake already. My supplier didn't state fugures as accurate as these

Why go to all that effort when there's no problem with attaching a 3pin female plug using only two wires.... I've done this with all my L1As, and attached them to the MoBo headers without a problem...

And the point of the third wire would be....?

Once the smoke goes through a spinning fan it's flow is going to become very non-laminar, and the smoke density is going to be reduced by the smoke being mixed with all the other incoming air. Very good point, however if you're ONLY running exhaust fans, as a lot of us here do, then the "smoke" (by...