I was hoping to mount the above two on an AM2/AM2+ Socket, rotating a quarter turn for improved airflow (Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H Mobo). The S Clip seems to fit the Gigabyte retention mechanism Ok, but fouls the lower heatpipes. Has anyone managed to achieve this with or without some serious bodging? ...

Hi evvk & Happy New Year! You don't mention which Asus mobo you've got but you've got nothing to loose by trying 8rdavcore , details of which you'll find here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/Web_Links+index-req-viewlink-cid-19.html I can get the vcore on my A7N8X down from a default 1.65/1.70v to a u...

Maybe there should be a Sticky about this ?

Going back & forth like cotdt mentioned IMHO could produce a bit of uneveness @ the edges, owing to the initial drag @ the beginning of the stoke? It would be preferable to use a circular motion. Also the glass is not a block but a sheet, approx 12" square, that I used to use for printing photograph...

Like josephclemente I gained about 5c & for the nominal time it took, it was well worthwhile, but I had a TT Volcano heatsink, which was an initial disappointment. On a sheet of 1/4" glass it quickly went down to 1200 grade wet & dry, although I didn't bother with any water till the finest grade. As...

Try 4 rubber bands looped through the fans corner screw holes. I have an 80mm blowing on some suspended hdisks like this & zero vibrations are transmitted. The ends of the bands are poked through the side screw holes in the 5 1/4 '' bays & secured with half a matchstick each! It's about as low tech ...

A very interesting project, well done!

Do you get any/much heat in the yellow wiring?

@70C+ you're running close to a crash & loosing your top score! :( My XP2200 cops out @88C on the nose. Presumably you done all the obvious stuff like cablegami & opening up fangrills etc? Can't really advise about your hardware as I'm not that familiar with it. However, Prune your StartUP programs ...

Hi williemues , there is also "Y" adapter available with the yellow wire only fitted on one side, although cutting, as mentioned above, will work just as well. As both your identical fans will get the same power, both Rpms will be pretty much the same anyway, so only one signal wire is needed. You a...

Seems like I have given you some bum information here, as having seen what you said about the giveio.inf file I checked my own system for an giveio.inf & couldn't find one either? :? I was pretty sure that the above instructions had been very helpful when I was desperately trying to get 8rdavcore go...

The review states: The cabling on this Seasonic is twisted, like one or two other PSUs we've reviewed recently. It's said to improve EMI performance I'm familiar with audio/data cable being twisted as it's carrying a signal. I have a friend who spends a small fortune on all his hifi cabling includin...

Hi jc-fury , you asked in a PM about installing/enabling the GiveIO.SYS driver. Unfortunately, on 8rdacore's home page it's a bit vague about this. Anyway, here is the info you need that should get you going: For Windows NT &2000 1. Copy the included GIVEIO.SYS file to your C:\WINNT\system32\drivers...

You're dead right, as far as this board goes you're stuck @ a 1.65v min for VCore. I used to be really p***ed of about this, as I expect you are too! :( I did'nt really fancy a pin mod which seemed the only solution. I first tried 8rdavcore about a year ago & the VCore reduction part was inoperative...

m0002a in reality you are probably quite right about this thin open cell foam. In theory an optomist would hope it might have some microscopic effect. The reason I fitted it was because it was plastic foil backed & I have a bit of a dust problem. The dust was starting to stick to the black Paxmate....

I used to have a pair of 7500RPM WD's in caddies which always ran cool owing to their dreaded & noisy built in 40mm fans. Was I glad to scrap these & suspend the drives in 3x 5.25" bays. :D Obviously the noise went down considerably! Trouble was, even with the case open & at idle the drives ran warm...

Seems like SPCR now has it's own "in house" answer to that perennial question of calculating multiple fan noise. DBAdder by Kostik (beta), is a handy little freeware utility that seems to have just arrived on the dowload pages without fanfare (low dBA). It seems to work very well & will undoubtedly ...

I don't see why the individual resisistors shouldn't work, although you run the risk of reducing the voltage to such an extent that the fan/s won't start. Maybe you should experiment with a variety of resistance values on one fan only. The excellent "Fan Voltage Resistor Calculator by Kostik (V0.4)"...

Thanks very much

I no longer have any excuses for putting off that job!

Like MonsterMac I've had pretty good results with 2 layers of PaxMate. I then covered this with a 2mm layer of open cell foam mounted with 3M spraymount.

2 years on & it's still all attached as well as day one!

Hi & WELCOME TO SPCR!

You can download this handy little free Fan Noise Utitlity called Decibels from Overclockers.com & many thanks to them. It certainly seems to do the job.

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1129/

Best of luck & hope you stick around!

You don't say which mobo your friend has, but you could try taking a look at 8rdavcore. Provided it is supported, this will enable you to see VDimm & also adjust it up & down whilst in Windows. http://www.hasw.net/8rdavcore/ I have found it's readings a few tenths out when compared to MBM5 & Speedfa...

I have the same CPU & get the same 100% load figs (52C) as Natronomonas , so something is up. WELCOME TO YOU BOTH! ! , BTW You could try lapping your heatsink, Artic Silver 5 (it does help) & checking heatsink is seated correctly, right way round. Also you could check your processes via Task Manager...

Will this work ok with the motherboard in a vertical position?

Sounds great, - I really look forward to the pictures!

On the side of many fans you will often see 2 small arrows marked into the plastic. One indicates rotation, the other air flow direction.
Yours may well be exeptions!

Duh! I see Eric has already mentioned this

An added advantage of a Rolls Royce filter means that your PC will never break down!

I did a fan mod on a newish cheapo generic psu. A few weeks later it just died. The effect on the PC was the same as if someone had turned off the mains switch. I was rather hoping that there might be some sort of thermal reset, even put it outside later (@5C at the time) but no reset or resurection...

Unfortunately, we do have different names for some cars over here & we've also got the metric system now too. Inevitably, certain vehicles & in consquence their filters, might not always be sold elsewhere. But I guess we couldn't have the old filter size problem completely demystified, as that would...

This firm seems to make it's own cabin/pollen air filters for most cars availble to the European market. http://www.puravent.co.uk/filters/display_static_page.pl?static=products.htm Whilst it seems that most/all? of their filters seem to be upgrades (carbon impregnated & of no added value to us), if...

Well done, a very nice job!