Over at Hexus they may not be silence orientated, but they certainly do a thorough job!
There is some interesting info in there, and also some intriguing results.
Worth a quick look.
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It might be a bit slow right now as it appears to have been posted on slashdot as well...
Search found 333 matches
- Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:02 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: 34 PSUs reviewd. 34!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3903
- Fri May 27, 2005 1:47 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Cool'n'Quiet unstable? nVidia chipset? hmm...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8373
I already have an airflow solution, as I realised at the start that trying for totally passive cooling would probably not work. I have a GeForce 6600GT in this system, with the Zalman ZM80D-HP on it. Rather than buying the optional fan, I managed to rig up a system to attach a normal fan instead. I ...
- Thu May 26, 2005 10:08 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Cool'n'Quiet unstable? nVidia chipset? hmm...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8373
- Thu May 26, 2005 2:28 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Cool'n'Quiet unstable? nVidia chipset? hmm...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8373
Cool'n'Quiet unstable? nVidia chipset? hmm...
When I built my system (Asus A8n-SLI Deluxe, Athlon64 3000+) one of the first modifications I made was to replace the active cooling on the nVidia chipset with the Zalman ZM-NB47J . Recently, as the weather has been heating up, the system has become unstable when the processor load is at a point whi...
- Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:11 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Enabling Temp Sensor on 6600GT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6203
- Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:52 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Silent DX9 card with proper macrovision support
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3345
- Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:57 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: SPCR and Aluminum Anti-Bias?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18167
Wow, somebody knows how to get lots of replies to a thread...! Rusty has covered it all anyway so far as I can see. Let me just chip in with this: My case is aluminium, the LianLi PC6070B. LianLi market this as a quiet case - it might be if you have a JCB parked and running in your room all the time...
- Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:12 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Leadtek 6600GT PCI-e: cooling options?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6764
- Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:09 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Leadtek 6600GT PCI-e: cooling options?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6764
Hi. I have the Zalman ZM80D-HP on a PCI-e 6600GT. Whether you would describe the installation as time consuming depends on your definition - I would say it took me about half an hour, which I think is more than worth it for the results I've had. The card idles at around 50C just like yours already d...
- Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:44 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Seasonic S12-430: Beyond the Super Tornado
- Replies: 200
- Views: 236071
Well it looks like Seasonic are holding on to the quality end of the PSU market then. I was pretty impressed with my ST400, so if this manages to beat it even by just a little bit then it must be a very designed and made. Nice to see another quality product roll out of Seasonic, and the usual high q...
- Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:51 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Using hardware fan panel to control CPU cooling!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3207
- Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:49 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec 3000B: TAC and Athlon64
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8386
- Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:47 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: AMD & Intel Fanboiz Rejoice!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14342
Heh - I can see no practical use for that motherboard whatsoever. I work in a software development department, and of course we need to test software on AMD and Intel machines alike so we have an AMD and an Intel machine sat next to each other. Each machine has a removable harddrive caddy and 5 diff...
- Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:48 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: About to buy -- need sanity check :-)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17904
Unfortunately I only have 80mm exit/intake vents. I have two 80mm one at the front, which I have fitted two Nexux 80mm fans to. I have one 80mm vent at the back which also has a Nexus fan on it, and then there is the power supply which has a 120mm fan in it. I also have a 120mm Nexus fan covering th...
- Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:41 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: About to buy -- need sanity check :-)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17904
- Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:12 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: About to buy -- need sanity check :-)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17904
- Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:44 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: About to buy -- need sanity check :-)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17904
The exact 6600GT I have is a Gainward one, as shown here . I have dual DVI-D displays so I needed a card with dual DVI outputs, and this one has the advantage of being "over engineered" - both the GPU and the memory run at a higher than the nVidia reference design out of the box and are guarunteed t...
- Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:18 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: About to buy -- need sanity check :-)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17904
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:21 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: About to buy -- need sanity check :-)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17904
Carl, The chipset is the bit that "does the rest" on the motherboard - storage controllers, expansion slot control, control any onboard devices like sound, networking etc. On the board you first mentioned, it is directly to the left of the CPU socket in this photo - the silver thing with a fan in it...
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:36 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: About to buy -- need sanity check :-)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17904
Looks good, just a couple of things really: 1) This is just my opinion, but I went for the 3000+ rather than the 3200+ because the difference in speed is negligable while there is quite a steep difference in price. Also, although I won't be doing so, the 3000+ will overclock to the levels of 3200+ q...
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:44 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: How can I see my memory voltage in Windows?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2592
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:09 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: How can I see my memory voltage in Windows?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2592
How can I see my memory voltage in Windows?
I'm not sure this is the right place to post it, but it is to do with cooling... sort of. One of my friends is having some intermitant crashes and I'm not entirely convinved his motherboard is setting the memory voltage correctly - I think it might be overvolting it and causing it to overheat. It ce...
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:00 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Quiet Blue LED Madness
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11758
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:53 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: AMD64 3500+ / GF6600GT system - Does this sound ok?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4077
Regarding your RAM: You may find Crucial Ballistix is cheaper, and it has constantly come out on top or in the top 3 in memory benchmarks on the AMD64 platform. There's just something about Athlon 64 chips that Ballistix really likes. http://www.crucial.com/ballistix/ Regarding RAID: I was consideri...
- Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:08 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Which DVD Burner would you get?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 33604
- Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:20 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Spinpoints and high pitch noise at idle
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14061
Glad to see no-one's suggested IBM yet. I had a fun day at work today as one of their infamous Deathstar* drives (real name: Deskstar) which my predecessor had installed died in one of our servers, making it the third one to do so in 9 months. Much fun rebuilding RAID arrays followed :) I've been re...
- Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:58 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Spinpoints and high pitch noise at idle
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14061
I heard someone mention that www.kustompcs.co.uk have nidec stock in, although they are rather expensive compared to other places.
I've bought from them in the past though and they are very helpful, if you email the sales address and ask they will give you a quick response.
Good luck.
I've bought from them in the past though and they are very helpful, if you email the sales address and ask they will give you a quick response.
Good luck.
- Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:47 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Spinpoints and high pitch noise at idle
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14061
JVM: Don't know yet, still building it! I tested the harddrives by connecting them up and shorting the correct pins on the PSU to start it - there was no motherboard or anything. I expect temps may be higher than I would like as the intake is quite restricted, and of course the Acoustipack is a grea...
- Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:05 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Spinpoints and high pitch noise at idle
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14061
- Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:36 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Spinpoints and high pitch noise at idle
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14061
Doesn't sound like a very realistic answer from the WD guy. As far as I know that drive spins just as fast as it's PATA counterpart doesn't it? Unless he's trying to say that the extra capacity on the SATA bus contributes to the noise, which would make me laugh...! As for the acoustipack: One side o...