I don't see any other posts about this cooler, I got one on my bench and its awesomely big lol. I had it installed on a flex-atx board and it dwarfs everything. I ran a 3.0ghz c2duo passively for a few hours and then turned on prime95 and system lockedup after 15 minutes or so... the CPU was ~60C bu...

Just wanted to point on thing out, the cheap CF->SATA converters are junk. I got 4 of them and I basically have given up on using them. Also bought 4 266x Adata CF cards to go with them... 4 drive raid0 was plan. Problems: I cannot get them all to be detected consistently. Ie turn system on only 3 o...

Nexus 80mm PWM Silent Case Fan
1000 ~ 2800 RPM (±10%)

Looking at this 4-pin Nexus fan... problem is I don't like the RPM range.

Can use the fan at 5 or 7 volts but keep the PWM wire hooked up to lower the rpm range? Something like 400-2000 or whatever it'd be?

BTW

3.0Ghz C2Duo, 4GB RAM, onboard video/sound/lan = 63Watts from the wall.

Only thing to add is laptop SATA drive and maybe an addin video card depending on desktop performance. This system is for my parents.

Got the Pico and Dell brick today. The 8 pin connector from the Dell has 3 12v wires, 3 grounds, one switch and one is useless. In order to not destroy Dell's nice connector and in order not to use crappy barrel type connector I also got a 6" 24 pin extension cable as it comes with a female connecto...

So I have Coldwatt's CWA2-1000-10-TYO1 PSU. It comes from a Tyan B4987 barebones. Its actually kinda neat cuase the PSU does 81% eff at 20% (200watts lol) and then 87% from 50-100% (500-1000watt). The PSU is only AC-> 12v and 5VSB... the motherboard is doing all the other dc-dc conversion. Kinda coo...

Yea one of the connectors needs to be changed but not the end of the world.

http://smallandquiet.blogspot.com/2006/ ... power.html

He ran into similar problem. This is still a for-fun project... no big deal if I run into problems .

Manual for the 120watt pico actually has no info for the 12v output, it just says 'switched', no regulation info... what the heck does it do? Anyone ever push it past 10amps or whatever the limit is supposed to be? If you search this on ebay, 220watt brick for $30... Dell DA-2 Power Adapter M8811 D3...

I don't really understand how the 120watt pico gets its' rating. Isn't the 12v just passed through from the brick? What is limiting the 12v rail to 7 amps or whatever with the pico PSU? The problem I have with the 200watt version is on my board the power connector is right next to the dimm slots... ...

Software RAID is really never the weak link. The BUS is almost ALWAYS the weak link. The problem is most/all cheap SATA controllers use the PCI bus. As long as the drives have enough bandwidth there isn't any problems with software raid: bexamous@bex:~$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid...

Anyone still using this stuff? Does it deteriorate over time?

http://www.allstarshop.com/shop/simprod.asp?ad=fg&pid=17378 Get two of these and any case that has 6 5.25" bays. I've gone through a few setups and ended up using these. So much cleaner and not really that expensive. Might be able to get them cheaper elsewhere this is the first store that came up wh...

Oh yea and everything is expensive. Remember when 65% was typical? Now we see high end PSUs in the mid 80s. If someone is willing to pay for it someone else is willing to build it. Don't we already have 90s doing 120vac->12vdc? Why not drop all the oddball voltages, have a power supply built basical...

http://www.tyan.com/product_barebones_detail.aspx?pid=97 The powersupply in that thing is just 120v ac to 12v dc... I guess it basically has a picopsu type setup on the board... there is a seperate cable going from the motherboard to the backplane for the harddrives. The motherboard must be dropping...

If you don't like the idea of a super high dpi look at some westinghouse TVs... http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1088497 Theres about a billion pages about it. The 37" stands out for desktop use, 1900x1200 8ms. Their 42" is not as outstanding, plus too big to use as a monitor, they also mak...

actually i thought i was too lazy to look it up but... http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1127&p_created=1071171477 That one jumper `controlled spinup via spinup command per ata standard' sounds like something you don't want. Try either taking hte only jumper off...

Check the jumpers on it, usually that is an option to only spinup when it gets some command from the controller.

Usually if any jumper has the word power in it try the opposite of what its set at.

14, one system. Well this weekend I actually took two out to build another system but had I answered Sat sometime it would of been 14... and all in a P180 hah! 4 250GB Samsungs in the bottom part 4 250GB Samsungs + 1 500GB WD in the middle in a custom drive holder thing. The case is designed to have...

They sorta work. Depends on how the heatsink is mounted. If the heatsink directly screws into the backplate the 940 heatsink will work on a 3.5"/89mm socket F board in the same manner. Example cooler: http://www.dynatron-corp.com/products/cpucooler/cpucooler_model.asp?id=110 If the 940 heatsink uses...

"Another possibility is a manufacturer might have to PAY to have nVidia CERTIFY it as SLI ready." I think nVidia has a list of tests that the manufacturer can perform and submit the results for certification. Thats how it works with motherboards. nVidia doesn't charge anything that I know of but it ...

"whats the point? no one can even build a computer that gets anywhere near 750watts."

We got a server at work with a 1350watt powersupply

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/cmd680.html Theres basically teh controller I'd be using and they compare 2 channel arrays to one channel arrays. Often 1 channel is similar to 2 channels, sometimes it gets beat out bad but most of those tests show small differences. 4drive raid0 is ...

Well price was 1GB dimms are down to maybe $80 now? Just for 8GB of ram it'll be $640, but tehn you need 2 iram controllers still. 2GB dimms would help maybe but you end up paying more per MB which offsets the savings of using 1 controller. Although I am kinda annoyed with the cost of CF when you co...

I've been planning on using linux md raid on compact flash cards with cf->ide converters. 2GB card is ~$50 for a 100x card or so.. I havn't really decided on the exact card yet. My plan is 4 of these cards basically, with card0 i'll have a 256MB boot partition (yea sorta a waste), then card1,2,3 wil...

I used to like plextor drives, back before they even made ide drives they were all about quality.... and over the years they keep making crappier products and putting their name on it to sell it. They still make some real nice drives but they're not like they used to be, before you couldn't compare ...

Well from my experience (4 250GB sata samsungs in linux softwar raid5) I would try to get larger size drives if you might need more space soon... Once you run out of sata ports on your mobo you're stuck getting all new drives or getting addin cards or something... larger drives might cost slightly m...

yea stuff gets thrown out all over if you look enough u probably can get it free http://www.onlinemetals.com/ you can try get them to cut you the size you need... usually they only say within 1 inch so it might not be exactly what you want but u can get aluminum or copper... copper is more expensive...

just followed that case-mod link to the seasonic powersupply.. they raised their prices, I bought the 500watt seasonic from tehm a month ago for $105.88.... was $122 after tax and shipping (i'm in ca so i had to pay tax but it was shipped in 1 day). http://www.censuspc.com/product.php?productid=2698...

300GB samsung at newegg?!?! Wheres the 400

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