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- Thu Apr 17, 2003 9:01 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Tech TV's "silent pc" project YS-2
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11279
I am willing to place a bet that my PC is a lot quieter than his is and runs at normal tempatures. I know that my PC probably sounds like a tornado compared to some people here. The shear number of fans in that thing has me skeptical. I have two fans in my entire PC and one 120mm only runs at 3v to ...
- Wed Apr 16, 2003 5:58 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Severely underclocking/undervolting a Thoroughbred XP2000+
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3874
- Sat Mar 22, 2003 6:23 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: now it's silent - anyone can recommend a good audio card?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8370
- Tue Mar 04, 2003 10:04 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Cables: flat or rounded?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6240
I rip the cables apart and shorten them so that they allow for a nice tidy setup but no more than a single fold in them. I love how the back of my HDD is about 5cm from the motherboard IDE connector. I don't care about making the cable useless on another motherboard since motherboards come with them...
- Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: How much extra would you pay for an Inaudible PC?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 19041
I spent $150US on getting mine silent so I had to pick $200. My water cooling setup cost me about $120. I spent another $30 aquiring three virtually silent fans. My PPro firewall only cost $10 to shut up. Just changed the PSU fan and suspended the HDD. Quite is always an important consideration when...
- Tue Feb 25, 2003 10:47 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Quieting my system on a budget
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5624
A simple thing that makes a dramatic difference is to go get some dryer vent stuff (that stuff that looks like a slinky wrapped in vinyl) Cut a section long enough to attach it to the top of the CPU fan and the other end to reach the back of your case where you have a spot for an exhaust fan. Doing ...
- Tue Feb 25, 2003 10:36 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Warning to Canadian January Giveaway Winners!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3447
UPS sucks. Plain and simple. UPS is also wrong about FedEx. FedEx builds the brokerage fees into the shipping price. They know how much it will be because they are their own broker clearing house. UPS, on the otherhand does it different. They choose to advertise shipping prices without this fee. Tha...
- Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:19 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Athlon 1400MHz 31ºC on idle without fan! (no undervolt too)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6667
- Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:39 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: 100Mhz FSB vs 133Mhz FSB
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2776
AGP runs at 66Mhz and PCI runs at 33Mhz regardless what you do to the frequency. Unless you have an NForce2 motherboard, this isn't true. Non-NForce2 chipsets work on a divider system. You set the FSB and everything is calculated from that. Any modern board will have a range of dividers to work fro...
- Sat Feb 01, 2003 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: New DAW
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7257
The A7N8X is about the best MB I have had since owning an AOpen Slot 1 board. Very stable and nice features but the analog sound has a lot of hiss. If you plan on getting it, use digital audio. The sound is as good as a Live besides the damn hiss on the analog. I have a 2400+ in it that easily runs ...
- Fri Jan 31, 2003 4:13 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Perfect Noiseless Solution
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7002
Quite and cheap never go together in PCs it seems. As for cost of water - My current setup cost me $130 to take it from a small jet engine to a gentle breeze. There is also the cost maintinance. Fans are install-and-forget until the bearings fail. Water systems need routine cleaning, refilling, and ...
- Thu Jan 30, 2003 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Perfect Noiseless Solution
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7002
Hard drives - A Seagate or a Maxtor using liquid fluid bearings in an enclosure. Or sandbags, though I find that a bit ugly. Powersupply - Use a very slow fan and mount it vertically so that the exhaust points up. Make sure there are holes in the bottom side of the PSU - My own Enermax 365VE is almo...
- Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:48 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Changing T-bred Clock Rates?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8745
I have an XP2400+ and an A7N8X. The L1 bridges of the CPU are intact. No modification made to the board or CPU. Here is what I have tried: BIOS 1001C - Runs only at 133MHz FSB. Won't run anything else. Could only go as low as 13x (1730MHz) and as high as 17x (2261MHz) BIOS 1002.003 - Runs at 100/133...
- Thu Jan 16, 2003 4:56 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Is it possible to passivly cool a watercooled PC?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3274
It is indeed possible. Although I don't passivly cool my PC, it will work passive. I am watercooling a 2400+ running at 2.2GHz. With a 92mm fan on my heatercore I can keep the CPU at 34°C with ease. If I shut the fan off the tempature goes up to about 48°C. I think that it would top out at around 50...
- Sun Jan 12, 2003 9:50 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Silence is deafening
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2530
- Sun Jan 12, 2003 9:46 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Exorbitant Shipping
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3027
Just be happy that you don't live in Canada. I was about to buy a stick of 256MB DDR RAM. The shipping was $15! Add in the $5 customs fees and $5 brokerage fees and I would be paying $20 to get it here. A friend of mine sent me a HDD a few years back. Cost me $5 customs fee and $4.80 to ship. Even C...
- Tue Jan 07, 2003 8:05 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Does PCI and AGP have a BIG design fault
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9648
All that really needs flipped is the AGP card. I doubt many people have hot PCI cards. A sound or ethernet card isn't going to benfit from being the otherway around. That being said, I wish a video card manufacturer would make a flipped card. It wouldn't be ATX complient, but so what. At least that ...
- Mon Jan 06, 2003 8:17 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Isolating stuff with foam
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8963
Back when I first started trying to go silent I did the same thing. I've discovered that it was a waste of my time. Why? Yes, fans do vibrate but the vibration of a fan with good bearings and balance produces so little noise versus the airflow that you would have a hard time hearing any change. A HD...
- Fri Jan 03, 2003 6:14 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: water cooling - Koolance case
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6710
My water cooler is silent if I want it. You don't need to use Eheim. Most submersible pumps are near silent if they sit on a block of foam. Eheims are just built better than say, ViaAquas. You will have problems going silent with an internal radiator. You have 30°C+ air coming out of your PC (could ...
- Fri Jan 03, 2003 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: A quiet Geforce 4?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10175
Picture quality on the two GF4s that I have used has been as good as I have ever seen. Running at 1360x1024 85Hz on a 19" and it looks sharp. (MSI & Pine XFX) As for noise, about the only card with a real heatsink on it is the Abit. The rest use heatsinks that are all show so they need horribly loud...
- Tue Dec 24, 2002 10:23 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Recommended Fans page
- Replies: 146
- Views: 191438
Fantastic ideas. Now you need to convince fan producers to send you lots of free samples. About that ticking. THANK YOU! I thought my fans were all failing. I didn't realize that this is normal. Are you using a sound level meter? If not that then how about setting up a mic to record the noise produc...
- Fri Dec 20, 2002 11:18 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Removing Thermal Compond Glue
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5560
- Wed Dec 18, 2002 7:36 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Hot PSU, is my mobo the culprit?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3809
My PSU is running a fan at 5V, but I only have a single CPU which is water cooled. The air tempature inside my case is only 4°C hotter than the air tempature outside the case so my PSU runs fairly cool. The only way I can think of making a truly quiet dual CPU system is water. Dissapating another 40...
- Sun Dec 15, 2002 10:10 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: cons to water cooling
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8116
what seems to be the problem? i figured if i have it setup tight and sealed (i plan to seal up the reservoir as well; i can then run it forever just like i would with a fan. why clean it every week or evey other week? i think if you add one of those additives, then it should prevent any algae growt...
- Sun Dec 15, 2002 10:06 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: cons to water cooling
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8116
- Sun Dec 15, 2002 9:52 am
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: cons to water cooling
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8116
1. Use metal tube straps and leaks aren't an issue. Make sure you tape the strap with black electrical tape first to prevent the strap from cutting the tube. Zip ties are not a wise choice IMO. Leaks aren't an issue for me. 2. Use a disinfectint in your water. Iodine, chlorine, or a quantinary solut...
- Wed Nov 27, 2002 10:51 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Quiet computer case discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5869
- Wed Nov 27, 2002 10:47 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: water cooling loudness
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13076
Yes it is a custom set. Pretty bodged together but works great. Pump noise - Don't make the mistake of comparing a fishtank filter pump with what people use to cool systems. Fish tank pumps sit against a pane of glass and are not made to be quiet. An Eheim, Danner, ViaAqua can be dunked into a bucke...
- Tue Nov 26, 2002 7:44 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: water cooling loudness
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13076
- Sat Nov 23, 2002 6:33 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Changing T-bred Clock Rates?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8745
My TBred 2400+ is unlocked (all L1 bridges connected). So far as I can tell, everyone that has a TBred has reported it having intact L1 brigdes. There is one L5 that is severed but NForce2 and KT400 chipsets can work around it. To date I have not been able to get my CPU to work at 166MHz. I have got...