well, its been a long time since i posted, was planning to get a new vga cooler for my x800 cause the fan is making some sort of grinding noise sometiems. I currently have a artic silencer on it, and its pretty good, xcept the annoying clicking sound that it made by pwm. Was curious if the new ones ...

those temps are very good, mine idles at 45 passive and when i max it out, i think it goes to 50, or lower cause the fan just lowers the heat really fast. Im on an A64 3400+ on an asus k8n. Cool n quiet and Asus Fan Control PWNZ

i got the v1100. It lookes nice and everything for a small setup. But I hated the front intake. I had my hds running >40'c. Switched to a coolermaster centurion 5. Much better. Not purely silent, but just choose quiet parts to begin with and it soundssss ssooooo goood...if i can hear it

also just curious, could u raid mirror this drive and just run off the ram drive, so even if u do run out of power, u would still have the a mirrored version of it?

im getting a bit confused from all these posts. The battery on the card allows it to be power for 16hours when no power is supplied to the card right?. so as long as u have the card connected to the pci slot, and the power connected to the wallk, even though the computer is off, the card should be a...

Id personally stick with the zalman 7000alcu, just more cause how the shape works with my case fan. my asus mobo turns off the fan, and my cpu runs passively at 42'c. kicks in around 55 exactly.

i take a card and spread that drop as much as i can on the cpu as thinly as possible, and use the extra on the heatsink. get rid of the grooves.

i have about 7 seagates in my house running. Do a scandisk and defrag once a while, been like 3 years, they all still good. make sure to have proper cooling for hds, i think thats probably why most hard drives fail. bad cooling, bad psu, or just bad luck

i had a backplate on my mobo, it was tough to remove by hand, i thought it was like permanently stuck, i just used a letter opener, smoother sides, and shoved it beween the board and the backplate. Popped right off!

i was looking at these at the store and was gonna get some, but i noticed the box said 4 watts max? does this mean i cant connect 2 120mm fans to it?

read the articles and review, theres plenty of fan data on this site =(

mmm a64 3400+ cpu fan :0rpm

i use the zalman alcu with Cool n Quiet and Q fan. Qfan is important since its the actual slowing down cpu fan speed. Coon n quiet just lowers its voltage or what not to reduce draw. I recommend not to connect the fanmate, and get some good thermal paste. Im sitting here with my fan not spinning at ...

i wouldnt trust tomshardware review much, they said the msi 5600 vtdr256 was silent, but it was hecka noisy with a lot a clicking

yeah, that sometimes happened to me too, dunno y, but i only notice it when i completely disconnect the psu

mmm what i do is have a zalman hd cooler, mount it, and remove the 5.25 front bezel so it acts an intact. Temps have not rose above 40 c i think the reason y it works so well is probably the 120 rear fan sucking all the air in. love them 120s

yea i do have sp1 and sp2

i got a 200gb serial ata seagate hd, and whenever i try to defrag it, it will freeze up in windows. I notice that most of my hds have "file system" errors, so i doubt that its that problem, other than that, the os and everything is fine. Its just when i want to defrag. Also when i try to chkdsk, it ...

im not sure, but the itachi drives can enable aam, dunno how quiet seagates are now. some people say its really loud and some say its really quiet

mmm my cooler master fans i had was clicking when it was running that slow if i remember correct

if your really desperate, try installing windows on a 4gb flash drive

get the alcu, i was like u in the beginning worried bout the heavy weight. but it wasnt that bad. I did some test tugs horizontally and vertically and seems pretty good. If i were id only worry bout bolting the mobo onto it correctly and when moving the comp. other than that, when i installed my alc...

mmm if i were id forget it. My cpu temp on my athlon xp 2500 was at 45 'c idle and max at 53 with stock cooler , i eventually got a zalman 7000 and it droped to 42 idle and 45 load. seriously though 53'c is nothing to worry about my p4 northwood idles at 50

id go seasonic tornado if u could, but if u buy any of those, u probably gonna have to do some fan modification

yeah its a 478 athlon its a bit twisty and its been a while but i notice i cant "pull" it so i think im good

i installed my sisters zalman 7000 alcu and i think i did it pretty much as the instructions said. I just note that the cooler is a bit looser/more twistable than the 7000alcu install on my a64 is this normal?

i love my centurion 5, sure noise comes out, but the fact is that u can get more air into the case much better. plus it does it with style. My hds are literally at room temperature, my cpu fan never runs up, Basically on my high end computer, temps at idle never break more than 40'c for everything. ...

i got an A64 but the window trial version hasnt been updated for the longest time. Im starting to doubt if microsoft is even gonna realease a 64 bit os from now to longhorn

mmmm my temps are pretty cool

Idle/ Max
Cpu 42/?? always below 50 i guess
VGA 37/42
HD0 29/33
HD1 29/33
HD2 29/31

mmmm my temps are pretty cool

Idle/ Max
Cpu 42/?? always below 50 i guess
VGA 37/42
HD0 29/33
HD1 29/33
HD2 29/31