For the record, I'm a theoretical yay-sayer. Go on man, get one!

larrymoencurly wrote:Do you really want to risk your life with a non-UL approved water-cooled PSU?

You ever come up with anything new to say? Risk your LIFE? Come on...

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hightower wrote:Hi, do you mean x800 or 9800xt ?? I just installed a zm80d on my club3d 9800xt. It fits... but forget running it passive cause it runs way too hot!! .. a fan at 5v will do the trick though.

I assume you were getting lock ups and reboots running it fanless? That's why you said it was too hot, right?

Coolmax isn't exactly a tiny company, with their very popular Targus line, and they've made a fanless model.

I don't know the difference between the C and the CT, but call Steve at quietpcusa.com and ask him about it.

I notice games sound much better w/ EAX 4 compared to EAX 2. But I cannot notice a quantifiable difference between playing a CD through my audigy 2 to my gigaworks speakers from playing a CD on my denon stereo to my mission speakers. I'd say sure, they're different, but I can't definitely say that o...

Yes... Redo the TIM everytime you remove the heatsink. Microscopic dust can get onto the paste, and can adversely affect heat transfer. Explain to me why dust would get on the TIM when you removed the affixed heatsink, but not when you applied fresh TIM. It doesn't make sense. Either way, you can't...

It works great w/ the stock p4 retention clip. Pain free installation.

Well, I'd wager that that guy has the only 7000B in existance. That's the only possible explanation for why he would say it, and google could find nothing about it.

I think it's silly to have a reserator and not get the vga water block when you're on the verge of a fanless system.

Also, have you decoupled your HD?

Sounds like a very nice rig though, congrats!

If only they'd deal with the resample issue... I would expect resampling to 48khz in the Audigy 3 as well. The fact is, more small time developers benefit from it than audio enthusiasts are hurt by it. The good outweighs the bad. Creative's official response is that 48khz is an industry standard; a...

Simply put, there's nothing out there, aside from Soundstorm (motherboard exclusive) that can encode things to a DD signal for your reciever. Any other sound card you can get will give you 2 channel only in all applications that don't have DD or DTS encoding. You did bring some good news in letting ...

The truth is, most of the higher wattage PSUs aren't really equipped to deal with more heat, it's just that the lower watter PSU are overequipped to deal with what they've got. That's why there's generally no problems swapping in a slower fan.

nope. 4-pin fans are safer anyway.. who knows why there are more 3 pin fans here...

Huh? Did 3 pin fans kill your father?

But the thing is, I think that this kind of thing has happened to me before. I smear the paste around a bit, taking a fair amount with my finger, so that there is almost none left, and I get better temps. It's really disturbing, cause you get used to bad temps, and suddenly they're good. BTW I don'...

So tell me... on Soviet Russia, do you electricute the power supply?

Er.... No PCI\AGP bus lock?

My System Information CPU: Intel P4 3.4C GHz 800 FSB (OC'd to 3.55 GHz) CPU Cooling: ZALMAN CNPS7000A-CU Mainboard: Intel 875P D875PBZLK FMB1.5 Mem: 1GB (2x512) Crucial PC3200 DDR HDD: 80G MAXTOR 6Y080M0 SATA Video: HIS ATI 9800PRO w/Arctic Cooler Sound: Soundblaster LIVE! 5.1 Misc: Nexus 4090 SE 4...

I've been waiting for Antec's Phantom power supply, but now I've stopped waiting. I've been enquiring about that for months with several emails to Antec. The showed one at one of the Comdex shows, absolutely ages ago, but everytime I emailed them since, they kept on saying no definite release date....

MikeC wrote:Nebor -- as you wish. I am willing if you are.

Actually I'm looking at getting a Cool Current water cooled PSU w/ a Reserator. That way I can have a fanless system. You'd be more than welcome to test that though. Should be getting it in the next month or so.

im gonner buy it as it gets rlsed here in 4 weeks after talking to one retailer. My review wount be an honest one in the sence that it will be in a case because i dont have a case. I gots some mods lined up for it. Gonner increase the sizes of the side and top vents aswell as any other vents. incre...

Mike, if I were looking at getting this power supply, would you be willing to test it and then send it on to me? As in, I buy it, have it shipped to you, you test it, and ship it to me?

That way we could all know how good they really are.

As far as I'm concerned, the Acoustifan 120mm butchers the Evercool, I've used them both.

I guess my question right now is, is there any wireless video transmission technology available for computer resolution video? Yes, there is. You know those tablet PCs that disconnect from their docks so you can carry them around? They do wireless video transmission, but it's not good enough for mo...

2 reserators.... think about it... you can get a X800XT for how much u fork over for 2 of those babies. As mentioned before, I suppose putting a case fan blowing on it would be good... but how though? Blowing upwards on one side wouldn't be fair, would it? I'd have to have like... 4 fans blowing up...

I'm planning on getting ATi's Radeon X800XT-PE from CompUSA on the 27th, when they "say" it's going to be in stores. I was also considering purchasing a Reserator as well as Zalman's water cooling solution for VGA cards, forgot the model number. Do you think I should risk it? Yes? No? Advice? Sugge...

Get an Acoustifan 92mm, the current king of quiet 92mm fans.

Globe 120 and AcoustiFan AF120CT, both, are 120s that can run just fine from mainboard header and allow monitoring. They come thermally controlled but are easily modded to fixed-speed by nipping off the thermistor and shorting the two leads together. I highly recommend the Globe 120; you can get th...

I'd be fine if it loaded @ 60C w/ a reserator cooling CPU & GPU. Since this PC runs 2 instances of Folding@home non-stop, I'm always at load, and for my IC7-G and P4 3ghz, that means 71C. That's with my Zalman 7000Cu @ 12v and 120mm Acoustifan @ 12v. So it's hot AND noisy. I've forgotten to turn up ...

I just want to know if I can use a reserator w/ a P4, a 9800 pro (or maybe higher) and a Cool Current water cooled power supply.

Making for a fanless system, or maybe 1 slow 120mm.