Yes, I also vote for Mike, after all I wouldn't trust my hard earned money on a stranger's good will... errr.

I think I could only afford one by the looks of those heatsinks, but that would also be enough. I don't plan on building an entire cluster of computers.

Great stuff, let's hope she holds together!

My PSU can get quite hot sometimes, but then again I never connected it to the psu variable voltage wire, connected to some sort of temperature probe I believe, instead I have it running at a constant speed, have worked well so far though.

I just had a look at my orb, and I realized that you were right... the contact surface is circular, leaving out the far edges of a 40 mm heatsink, ah well, not the 'end of the world' stuff, especially since I wasn't planning on using it in the first place. Interesting info none the less!

What you need is either a graphics card that has a tv-out plug (maybe your graphics card has one?) or a special card that has one, and a cable from it to the tv.

That is all basically.
Shouldn't get too expensive either, which is a good thing.

Many thanks for the 'instruction manual', I'll have to measure things and think about this a bit more tomorrow. Also the orb would probably fit quite nicely, the VSA-100 chips are quite small, two stock 40 mm. hsf's is on both of them right now, it says "Aavid" on the fans, though the heatsinks them...

Alrighty, I have a orb lying around as well... a chrome orb I believe, maybe that will do service again, who knows?

But I would prefer new heatsinks alltogether really, I don't trust those orb's, they're too round, it's making me suspicious.

That's the general idea, yeah.

Íf it works like it should, that would mean better cooling effect at lesser airflow since the heatsink is being used more efficiently.

Oh all right, didn't know that quokked, sorry. :) I just *assumed* it would work for him, since it worked for me, but I stand corrected. Just let me ask you one thing, it is still possible to change AAM values with it on Seagate drives though? That is, if you have an ibm drive there in the first pla...

I guess this is signup time then... heheh.

You wouldn't have any idea what the OEM's would have to pay for something like this, would you?

Congratulations on getting your new title.

Humm, could you explain further just how you did it... did you use two seperate zip-ties or two together in a complete strap, tied at the back?

Alright, but I have this creeping suspicion that there could be a lapse of pressure around the middle, leaving the heatsink hanging in thin air, frying my precious chips... but maybe I'm just overreacting. Btw, you have two holes around the gpu as well, or do you have four or something (don't know t...

If we couldn't somehow convince them to "give" us a few.

I wonder if they'd accept an order if we were a few people ordering a bulk shipment?

quokked: Yup, that's the duallie one alright. :) I think the heat output is somewhere near ~9 watts per chip, I'm going to replace the heatsinks soon, as the fans are a bit annoying, especially as they get old and "squeeky", I just don't want to thermal epoxy anything on. :/ ChiefWeasel: I have abso...

So how did it go?

The new smartdrive aluminium model seems to be black...



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Scroll down a bit and look at the entry below the copper smartdrive. Seems to be an added premium for that one as well.

I think you can use the IBM Feature Tool for that, not 100% sure on it though. It could at the very least let you view your AAM settings on the seagate (I didn't change them on mine, since I liked having it set to the quietest level). But if you only want to lower it on yours (assuming you have one)...

Yes, 1.45V seems the way to go, at least for now. My chip doesn't get much cooler because of the case temperature versus a relatively high ambient temperature at the moment, there simply isn't much differance so that the cooling effect will be dramatic I'spose. While I have not run Prime95 24 hours ...

Actually, I'm part german, have a few relatives over there... can't speak the language though.

Doesn't the article state somewhere that the card they're using to test the zalman heatsink on is a heavily overclocked one?

I'm not sure about this either, I'm pretty new to this undervolting business... I learn as I go. :) Nope, I didn't touch any of the bus settings at all. No underclocking, everything is left in "auto", ie. no manual override. I might have another go at all this, the hd not showing up at 1.3 might be ...

Yeah... if you are into the extremes you can always custom mount some HUGE heatsink from, say, alpha?

They have a number of 'out-of-spec' heatsinks that seem hard to fit; socket-wise, and will probably give you a lot of troubles and headaches until you have it locked down nice and tight.

Don't worry, they'll never find you.

You live in Canada, remember?
Besides, their people would have to cross over the border into the wilderness to come and get you.

Bah, crazy townsfolk..

"When I was young..." etc. etc.

"The truth is out there".

*hums on the X-files tune*... sorry, couldn't resist it.

I must say I'm surprised they didn't include the "louder" papst 80 mm. version rated at: 19dBa, 26.5CFM, maybe they didn't like the competition?

Yes, I had the same thought... but as I'm not tampering with my bus, how could it have that affect on it?

It seems kind of odd...

I know that overvolting may be dangerous to your chip - shorten it's life span etc., but how does undervolting affect it? I noticed that when running my t-bird 1.8V at 1.3V one of my hd's didn't show up during the boot sequence, and after I cranked up the voltage a bit, it magically appeared again. ...

Can't say I have... but a couple of years ago (I think it was two) they sold case fans dubbed 'silencer' if I'm not misstaken.

They seemed to be pretty decent.

Dodgy is the word. :) I think I will put passive heatsinks... or some sort of low-rpm fan cooling solution on my gfx card, I already have passive heatsinks on my ram chips, what's left is the two VSA-100 chips running at 166 mhz. By the way, this is sort of what my hsf looks like; http://www.overclo...

A few hours ago I sat and tried some different cpu voltage selections to feed my ever-hungry amd. I normally run my 1.8V t-bird 800 at 1.65 (mbm shows 1.696) after a quick reboot at 1.8 (won't start up normally at 1.65). This time I tried 1.60V, and to my luck (I thought) it booted, a while back, be...

Let me elaborate on what I meant by using side-sinks... ;-) Normally (in my particular setup with the aluminium hd cooler), the drive is screwed into place by screws on the bottom plate, meaning you can only have it properly fixated by having it sitting on it's "belly". Now you may think: "What does...

I'm using an old hd-cooler in aluminium, and the drive is fastened to the bottom plate by screws, and when I remove them (the screws) to allow the other drive to use the same plate (as I flip the whole thing over (hd cooler/plate)) I need something to balance the drive so it will touch/rest on the a...