munichkid wrote:All I used was a bit of 3/16" hose cut lengthwise and ran it around the hole in the case. Kinda like a guard so you do not get cut. Works great

Can you explain that or offer a pic? You mean you went diagonally across the fan (between mounting holes?) w/ tubing to make a homemade grill?

Are there any programs similar to Prime95 that test graphic stability? I have an older pc (wifes) that I'm trying to quiet as much as possible for as little as possible. It has an older video card, 64mb GF3, Asus 8200 if i remember right. Has a seemingly large (3"x3"?) heatsink, though its only a CM...

Been playing with an alpha recently myself. I was actually just thinking of ducting a 120mm fan (mounted on the case) to the HS. Connecting it to the stock shroud that comes with the alphas. Any reason this wouldn't be an equiv/better idea than trying to use an adapter? Was figuring at the very leas...

Go to cnet/zdnet, your favorite shareware software download site. Download a program called "Eraser". Delete the entire harddrive, format it via windows if you wish. Run eraser, and choose the erase method you want to spend the time doing. Basically, it writes pseudo-random data over all blank space...

I wasn't so much worried about MBM frying the board, what I meant was to trust another config as even remotely accurate figures. I just wanted to be sure I had quasi-accurate temps before I started undervolting things and the system got too hot without me knowing it. What I mean by that, is using th...

Yeah, my first attempt was the MBM forums, like you said they were down, haven't checked yet this morning. I didn't want to make a random guess and pick a MB with a similar name, etc. If the temps were way off and I fried the pc i'd be less than happy. As far as I can tell everything is set, seems t...

Evening all, Just threw together a new computer with a Soyo K7VME motherboard and a mobile barton. Trying to make sure everything is working well and when I installed MBM5 i noticed it doesn't look like the motherboard is supported. Anyone have suggestions for another monitoring program, or another ...

I've been quite curious about that line of PS's as well, though I was looking at the ones with 14CM fans.

Unfortunately, haven't found a 'silence' based review yet.

Wondering how it performs as a heatsink, haven't seen a decent review of it yet. Is it worth an 3x the price of the older Alpha 6035? Happen to have any comparrison figures? System before/after, with something else, etc? I'm going to be running a HS in 'suck' mode, wondering if it'll out perform a S...

@ Rusty075: you talk about a new alpha, newer than the 8942? The newest alpha i'm aware of is Model "S-PAL8055FU", only retailer I can find with it is newegg, and its $45 after shipping. I've got a great system setup in mind that will require a 'sucking' CPU heatsink. Anyone heard anything about th...

Giving abit more thought to my idea, and one major thing is that the airflow through the heatsink is 'backwards', in that, i'm pulling air up through it instead of pushing it down and through. I then saw Putz mention in another thread "I wouldn't recommend just switching fan directions on your curre...

If you're worried about breaking the circuit for some reason (like the LED is in parallel with something else), just snip leads to the light and solder a small piece of wire between the two remaining posts.

As long as the connection is solid, the motherboard won't know the LED is missing.

Have to admit, Nebor's response wasn't what I was expecting... What exactly would the problem with this scenario be? Visualize the motherboard sitting flat on your desk, and hold the powersupply directly over the CPU... I'm talking about mounting a 140mm fan a few inches above the top of a heatsink ...

Okay, building a custom case, (HTPC)... Been trying to make it as small as possible. Came across the Super Flower SS-450 at Directron (http://store.yahoo.com/directron/sf450ts14.html)... My general idea is this... Motherboard mounted on the bottom of a roughly cubic case. Mount the powersupply with ...

It's a bit counter-intuitive, but be aware that the T-bird 1.4 system is going to be hotter than the new system, despite the fact that it's running at nearly 1/2 the clock rate. (A 1.4Ghz T-bird puts out a whopping 72watts of heat, compared to the 52 watts of a 2500 Barton-M) Aye, had thought of th...

Morning all, I'm currently looking for the 'best' heatsink I can get for two AMD systems. Quiet is most definately key, though of course I'd like the most effecient HS possible... The stock fan isn't particularly important, I can replace it with a panflow if necessary. Problem is, neither system's m...

Designing a case and wanting to maximize airflow and space at the same time. Is there any guide to follow when positioning HDD's? Has anyone experimented with this yet? And or, can running them this way damage them in any way? By that I mean mounting them upside down, vertical, at a 45 degree angle ...

Was ponder something else along the lines of this style of homemade case... Does it make sense to want to keep the volume of air on each tier of the case approximately the same? Thinking if you had large/small sections it may create some form of back-pressure trying to squeeze 2x the volume into the...

|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^| <-- exhaust air filter, grill | DVDROM | <-- 5.25" bay | ____________ | | CPU [ [ [ | <-- upside-down motherboard | | | [ [ [ | |___| |__||______| <-- two exhaust ducts | | |_____________ | | | | HD | |_PSU____________| <-- PSU and 120mm fan push air | | |_____________ | | | | | ...

http://www.systemcooling.com/cleverpower_400-01.html

Anyone have an opinion of this power supply?
They seem to come in 300-500 Watt models.

Really don't need more than 300, figure if the design is sound it might just be a low end (inexpensive) quiet PS.

Thinking of making my own computer case, have a bit of wood working skill and while looking for random layout plans I came across this. http://www.lysator.liu.se/~forsberg/silence_box.html Anyone have specific critques, etc regarding that general design? General idea seems to just be isolate the fan...