Hi Can anybody confirm whether the 401HT is the same power supply as the S12-430? Looking at the specs they seem the same, with the major difference being the colour of course :lol: Since the S12 is supposed to be a retail product, what exactly is missing from the 401HT that you would get with the S...

Hi Does anybody have any experiences with this cooler? http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/4in1heatpipe/cl-p0071SonicTower/cl-p0071.htm Dont know if it will fit on my motherboard or not. The even claim it can passively cool a P4. Read the review at: http://www.techniz.co.uk/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...

This may sound obvious, but if the HDD whine is only annoying you when the computer is idle or when you are trying to sleep, why do you not use the Windows Power Options to turn the disks off when idle?

Voila, problem solved, and it does not cost you a penny

Jooppy

Still no support for the AGP 6600GT cards though

Update: The XP-90 arrived this morning from Overclock.co.uk. Seems its not just Overclockers.co.uk that seem to have damaged XP-90's. Mine looks like it had been bumped, or dropped, since about 4 fins in the centre were totally bent in. Even the plastic bag it came in looked damaged at that point. T...

Hi Reading a few more posts, lots of people also recommend acetone. I went to my local Safeways this morning, they have a pharmacy, and I got a 50ml bottle of acetone for 97p. The AMD heatsink came off without any problems, just a little bit of twisting and pulling and it came off. I cleaned all the...

Hi I am going to be removing my AMD 64 stock heatsink, and have read in many posts that isopropyl alcohol is good for cleaning the thermal pad residue off the CPU heatspreader before I apply Arctic Silver 5 for my new HS. Just one quick question, where can I get isopropyl alcohol in the UK, and what...

Wish I had seen that compatibility page before buying my MSI motherboard, I found out the hard way...

Jooppy

According to your signature you already have a 7000. Is this not good enough?

Reading the specs for the 7700 it seems it will be louder than the 7000, so why bother with the 7700?

Jooppy

Hi My XP-90 has not arrived yet, should be here early next week, but from reading the reviews, it looks like the fan attaches via the metal clips provided with the XP. These look like they will be very easy to attach. The XP-90 also comes with some rubber strips, I presume these fit between the fan ...

Hi

60ºC is a little too hot for my liking, I prefer to set it to 50ºC, but yes you are right, even at full speed it should still be very quiet.

Jooppy

You forgot to add the word "Chew" to your search criteria :D Boy, that thing is huge! One thing I cant understand though, is the fact that the older and smaller 7000 is still quieter. You would have thought that with all that extra copper they should be able to get away with a quieter fan... Jooppy

Hi

Just been to Zalman website, there is no mention of it there.

Can you post the link to your website so that we can see what it looks like?

Thanks
Jooppy

Hi The Zalman 7000a does fit on this board. I know, cause I have fitted one. You need to remove the CPU backplate and replace it with the one supplied with the Zalman. Its not difficult to do, but does require a bit of care or else you could damage the motherboard. Alternatively, I have heard that t...

Well, I have ordered my XP-90 now. I ordered it from Komplett. They still do not have stock though. I emailed them and they said they are chasing up their suppliers and will update me when the find out when they are due back in. If its going to be more than a week, I might just pay the extra and get...

Thanks for the info, that sounds like a good idea. I might start looking into investing some money in a fan controller too, since I want a bit more control over all the fans in my system. I dont want anything fancy that lights up like a christmas tree either, I believe computers should not be seen o...

I could probably get away with not running the fan altogether, since I only have a Geforce4 Ti4200, but I dont have any means of monitoring the temps on the graphics card, so I would rather play it safe and leave the fan there. Another option would be to get a quiet 80mm case fan and find a way to m...

Hi I keep hearing a "chattering" noise from my PC, so I decided to investigate. At first, I thouht it would be my hard drive, but putting my ear close to it proved that it was not the hard drive. One at a time, I stopped each internal fan briefly to find out which one was causing the noise, and it t...

Whoohoo - it will fit.

One good thing about the XP-90 and my motherboard layout, is that my memory modules will get some free direct cooling

Jooppy

Thanks for the reply, I will be go measure now, but it sounds like it should fit

Jooppy

Hi Me again, sorry to be a pain, but I have just one more question. Here is a picture of my motherboard: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/motherboards/msi/k8n_neo/7030full.jpg When I install the XP-90, the heatpipes will be facing the graphics card. Looking at the layout of my motherboard, it loo...

Thanks, will do a search.

Any other power supplies that people can recommend, or is the Nexus the best for the money?

Thanks
Jooppy

Doh, sorry just seen in your original post that you got it from Overclockers.co.uk.

Think I will preorder it from Komplett, they seem to be slightly cheaper.

Cheers
Jooppy

That is very good news indeed! Thanks

Just one more question, where did you get your XP-90 from?

Cheapest I have found it is here:

https://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=303232&cks=SER

£25 + £5 p&p

They do not have stock, but the page says 173 are due 02/11/2004.

Cheers
Jooppy

Hi I am also interested in getting one of these, but have a question: I have an AMD 64 board, so I will have to remove the existing CPU heatsink retension bracket and replace it with the one provided. What are the dimensions of the retension bracket that is provided with the XP-90? Reason I ask, is ...

Hi I have an Antec 3700BQE with the preinstalled 350W Smartpower, and am looking for something a bit quieter. I have a budget of around £50-£60 for a replacement power supply, and saw the Nexus 4090 for £55. This has not been reviewed on SPCR, so I was wondering if anybody had any good reliable link...

Hi Just for reference, I have two sticks of memory: 2 x 512MB Corsair Value Select DDR400 (CL2.5) running at 1T settings in the Bios. These came as a matched pair. I have left my PC on with cool n quiet for a few hours now. Only thing that is running is a network transfer of about 30GB of data from ...

Hi I am not chucking the 7000 (by the way, I just noticed my post was wrong, its not the alcu version, its the all copper cu version). This heatsink is staying with the old CPU and is now in my wifes PC. As for cost, the CPU and GPU Zalman heatsinks cost me around the same amount each, so the decisi...

Hi Ok, did some more research on the matter. I went to AMD's website and read up on how to enable cool and quiet. Firstly, they say you need to install the AMD 64 driver. I thought I had done this (as part of the nforce 3 system drivers installation) but it turns out that I obviously had not. Next, ...

Hi My old system was an XP 1600+ with Geforce Ti4200 in Antec SLK3700 BQE case. The CPU was cooled by a Zalman 7000A AL and the Geforce is cooled by a Zalman ZM80C. My new system, is an MSI K8N Neo Platinum with AMD 64 3000+ in the same Antec case with the same Geforce graphics card. The problem is,...