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thanks for the honour

Great pictorial on cabletie method. You should credit Bluefront too IMO

If the cafe WILL serve the gaming crowd then you'll also need some script that basically rewrites the whole hdd on clients. You can't believe the lengths people will go to install cheatware and the use public cafe clients so their home IP doesn't get banned. That means domain control, restricted acc...

Although there are several references to undervolting throughout the site & forums, I see few newcomers taking advantage of this wonderful & free cooling technique. Then I noticed that most articles talk about undervolting & underclocking in one breath and that may be a turn-off for newcomers. Anywa...

that's the original packaging.

I'll comment on a cafe setup in general. I had the chance to talk to the owner of one of the biggest & best known gaming cafes in my city. He said most of his dollars went to a good server & good network infrastructure. He WAS talking about 60+ machines though, so it may be a bit over the top for yo...

Do a search for "PSU coil whine" and you'll come across a few suggestions. All of them involve opening up your PSU, and IMO none of them are "neat" but they seem to work

If you're not simultaneously serving several clients, I doubt you'll need GigE.

I watch divx movies fine over 54g wireless.

IMO, the one and only HTPC case worth paying a lot for:

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-lc11.htm

The drive bay has a drive cover, not a full blown door. Cooling is all 80mm. And it's very beutiful. The darn Silverstone distributor in my country doesn't import these though

Actually, it's easier to manage ribbon cables. Try it

Hehe, missed that thread as the pics just weren't coming through. No, I plan on decoupling the entire PSU case. Even with decoupled fans, due to tight spacing some vibration still remains. And it's amplified along the length of the PSU so that you have the innermost corner transferring significantly...

I also figured I should cleanup the box layout considerably to improve airflow Zalman: "What is this strange odour?" Maxtor: "Fresh air, sir!" Loved the blutack hdd decouple btw. Let me see if I can find some over here. All my hdds are suspended but I've been thinking about decoupling the PSU. This...

How about buying the actual Nexus 92mm (runs @ 1500 rpm by default and is 20 dBA to begin with) and use all the extra wires you've talked about to hang your jaw back into place?

From Dijital Center in Turkey. I suppose they import from Europe. List price was $55 + VAT, got it for 40$ + VAT (Either they love me so or the guy made a mistake )

Bach - Noel Oratorio

That's not necessarily a given. My Globe fans speed UP with greater impedence.

OK, question for Ed, As I have no access to an AGP MSI 6600, I have to choose between two alternatives. As I've grown accustomed to passive cooling, I'll have to go with Aerocool (I don't like heatpipes going around the back, so Zalmans are out). Since you've had hand-on experience, do you think I'l...

It does, but it also drives you nuts. I vaguely remember cursing the key placements pretty often

Just a little note. The review says nothing about a fan and the packaging is the standard brown box. Well, I just got mine and surprise! It's a clamshell with a nice 92mm on top!! Naturally the fan is going to get replaced with my precious Nexus, but the stock Thermalright fan isn't bad at all. In f...

My Seasonic is modded by MikeC himself to run at 5V all the time. It performs well and while the exhaust is warm, it never got too warm to worry about. Cost is... well, it was from MikeC's inventory so I got it cheap :) The reason I asked about suspension is I tried suspension with the trays for my ...

WELCOME TO SPCR !!! If you feel comfortable with fan-modding a PSU (and thus voiding the warranty :) ) I'd say definitely go with the Seasonic. The reason the Seasonic is all the rage is because it's so efficient. No other comes close. As the PSU along with the hdd is the hardest to silence, every ...

I'm cooling a 70W palomino with a falconrock fanswapped with a Yate Loon medium-flow fan running at 3V. Folding temps, max 50C.

Totally shutting down the VGA is AFAIK impossible. Computers usually refuse to work without one :) However, you CAN get a low power card like a ATI Radeon 9200SE (has DVI & is passive) and use ATITool (I don't know if there's something similar in Linux) to take the speed way down in 2D. As for DPMI ...

15A equipped 300W Fortron ran my Athlon64 just fine. It did fail however, when I added a second disk and swapped the R9200 for a R9700. 15A is a bit on the low side today if you're going for more than one hard/optical disk

Some of those BIOSes disable CPU cache if "load fail-safe defaults" is pressed. That might be a reason. Just checked my PPDs. Folding the same P1475_tet1_03_1 (364 pointer Gromacs) Athlon64 3000+ (@ 2104 MHz) is doing 329 PPD (and I'm browsing on it too) AthlonXP 2000+ (@ 1663 MHz) is doing 119 PPD ...

WELCOME TO SPCR !!! Sorry, can't be of much help but I have a similar problem with an Epox board and a 3-year old Fortron 300W PSU. If I let the PSU rest 5 minutes, usually it powers up without problems. As long as I don't reset anything, I'm fine. Resetting usually ends up in a frozen "press DEL" ...

OK, so you have the thermal pad - I was wondering how you got so nice temps with NO interface material !!!. Thermal pads aren't really efficient and every one I used deteriorated after about 6 months. Investing in some Arctic Silver 5 is very much advised. Neil's advice is very good. Most "standard"...

Retail zalman 92mm fans are a tad noisier than Z7000 fans. This was my initial conclusion after a side-by-side and was later verified by an email from Zalman. Difference is probably inaudible inside a case however.

WELCOME TO SPCR!!! Extreme OC & quiet rarely go hand-in-hand. Respectable OC & quiet is possible however. I've yet to see a Tt fan I'll like. Why don't you try & see what you can do with the stock fan on the XP90? It looks pretty nice & blows a lot of air too. Mine is a tad noisier than a Panaflo L1A

Top Motor, Dynatron and Dynaeon are the same company. Nexus fan manufacturers: 80mm: Bi-sonic 92mm: Dynaeon 120mm: Yate Loon While most specs are identical to the Nexus, the Nexus runs at 1500 rpm, while that fan runs at 2200. At those speeds the difference could be VERY pronounced. I came across th...

I've looked at a very similar setup last weekend. Exact same board - just not sure about the Pro2 part (865PE chipset, L775 socket) with a prescott 3.0GHz CPU. The BIOS was set to run VCore at "normal" which it stated was 1.28V. MBM showed the motherboard feeding 1.22V to the CPU. I didn't have time...