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- Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:18 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Zalman goes bankrupt
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16113
Re: Zalman goes bankrupt
ah, i missed the other thread.
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:00 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Zalman goes bankrupt
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16113
Re: Zalman goes bankrupt
Sorry, the direct link to the news is: http://www.geek.com/chips/pc-cooling-sp ... d-1608736/
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:56 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Zalman goes bankrupt
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16113
Zalman goes bankrupt
Hey guys. Been a few years since I've visited here obsessively. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/11/06/1316226/pc-cooling-specialist-zalman-goes-bankrupt-due-to-fraud Zalman is bankrupt now. :( I used to like a few of their products back in the early days before Noctu and the wise people of SPC...
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:32 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: New shorter PCB Geforce GTX 670 out!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5318
Re: New shorter PCB Geforce GTX 670 out!
Er, one review is here: http://vr-zone.com/articles/asus-gtx-67 ... 544-1.html
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:31 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: New shorter PCB Geforce GTX 670 out!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5318
New shorter PCB Geforce GTX 670 out!
It's been a few years since I've visited.
So there's a new shorter video card that will be a godsend for Mini ITX builders:
It won't be utterly silent but it MAY be quiet.
So there's a new shorter video card that will be a godsend for Mini ITX builders:
It won't be utterly silent but it MAY be quiet.
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:12 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Seagate is dropping green line 5900rpm
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4331
Re: Seagate is dropping green line 5900rpm
Hard drive prices are going through the roof.
Consolidation + Thailand flood = $59.99 drives last month are now...$169.99 and rising.
Consolidation + Thailand flood = $59.99 drives last month are now...$169.99 and rising.
- Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:44 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odyssey!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7471
Re: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odys
Think the new Corsair SODIMM DDR3 RAM was the cause of my weird random crashing.
Replacing with 2 G.Skill SODIMMs seems to have cleared the problem--knock on wood.
256GB Crucial M4 SSD is definitely better than the OCZ Agility 3...better in that it doesn't BSOD.
Replacing with 2 G.Skill SODIMMs seems to have cleared the problem--knock on wood.
256GB Crucial M4 SSD is definitely better than the OCZ Agility 3...better in that it doesn't BSOD.
- Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:48 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odyssey!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7471
Re: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odys
it's an inexpensive k360. although i've swapped it for a k800.
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:46 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odyssey!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7471
Re: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odys
...aaand the replacement brand-new-out-of-box OCZ Agility 3 failed 6-7 days after last exactly like the previous. BSODed and disappeared from BIOS.
- Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:55 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odyssey!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7471
Re: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odys
I'm having a hard time keeping this cool. It idles at 45c and on load goes to 75c with the Noctua fans on full 1300rpm (not loud though) all the time. I don't think that the thermal grease stayed applied properly the hours spent getting the heatsink on properly. I have clean and reapply the grease I...
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odyssey!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7471
Re: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odys
i disassembled the whole thing to reseat cpu heatsink (kozuti) and took out the 80mm fan while i was at it. it idles at 40c now with the 120mm noctua blowing onto it at 1300rpm and the 1300rpm 120mm noctua sucking air in from case front. definitely not quiet but the fan characteristics aren't unplea...
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:17 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odyssey!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7471
Re: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odys
no overclocking options, chose not to overclock. been too lazy to remove the bottom fan, not removing it because i'd have to maneuver out video card too. i may do that. is there any harm in running both it and the noctua on top blowing down? dunno about video card under load as i never got a chance ...
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:35 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odyssey!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7471
Hey guys! Long time no visit--my silent gaming cube odyssey!
After 8 years (after first joining SPCR and seeing the Shuttles reviewed on Tech Report/Sudhian) and discovering Vantec Stealth fans were NOT stealthy at all, and then descending into silent OCD (quieter fans let you hear defects with all the other defects and when everything is silent, things start...
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:05 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Arctic Freezer 64 replacement
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3298
- Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:40 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 9800 GT or HD 4850?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4201
- Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:17 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: mini P180 build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10324
Just an update: I'm running 2x40GB (not in RAID, I would lose TRIM) with the 2nd 40GB for my swap file + CS4. I had to put the video card at the bottom initially since the PCIE slot was the 2nd slot. The sound card I bought was PCIE and could only go in that slot. However, I returned that sound card...
- Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: mini P180 build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10324
Thanks for the constructive criticism. However, I've recovered from 5+ years of SPCR obsession at absolute silence and have learned to live with a degree of faint white noise as long as the sound characteristics aren't jarring to the ear. I have no need to do away with the fan on the side of the CPU...
- Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:26 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: mini P180 build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10324
- Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:06 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: low-cost, passively-cooled Video Card w/ HDMI-Audio Out?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3320
- Sun Mar 28, 2010 11:54 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: mini P180 build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10324
Using 2 of these in the case and 1 on the CPU fan: http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/acc/026/sy1225sl_detail.html (the 1600rpm version) Pretty awesome. Set the fans to "silent" with Asus Fan Control in the BIOS and the ones that weren't controllable with that I set to 40%. 40-45 C degrees idle, 65-7...
- Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:21 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Quiet GTX 480? Forget about it!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12991
- Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:12 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: mini P180 build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10324
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:55 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: CPU cooling pull fan only?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9607
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:16 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: CPU cooling pull fan only?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9607
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:46 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: mini P180 build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10324
can't place the cpu fan on the right, the ram's in the way with their stupid ricer heatsinks. going to replace them today hopefully with normal ram. asus rampage ii gene matx mobo (x58 chipset) 12gb patriot ddr3 pc3-1600 intel core i7 930 visiontek hd5850 1gb corsair hx650 psu 40gb intel x25v ssd 2t...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:53 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Will it be quiet?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6587
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:41 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: CPU cooling pull fan only?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9607
ugh, replacing heatsink is too much work. going to return the patriot ram for this: http://www.mushkin.com/Memory/Blackline/998679.aspx
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: mini P180 build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10324
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:22 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: mini P180 build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10324
mini P180 build
Haven't turned it on yet so don't know how noisy/quiet it is...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:56 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: CPU cooling pull fan only?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9607