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- Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:41 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Some new info on R600 - four flavours
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11962
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:48 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Fan controller that handles 4 fans and that has no leds
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4293
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:41 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Peltier (thermoelectric cooling) benefits and problems
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7329
I'm seeing a trunk mounted genome mapping cluster for the chemical biologist on the go... in the Gobi. But if it is a car mounted solution, and quiet isn't a goal, SPCR isn't really the place for it. There are a ton of sites out there that have already covered car installations, though I doubt they ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:50 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Peltier (thermoelectric cooling) benefits and problems
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7329
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:10 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Peltier (thermoelectric cooling) benefits and problems
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7329
If you want to ensure proper cooling for a machine and you're looking at 50C ambient, you need to seriously consider reducing ambient (air conditioning). A computer-specific vapor phase cooling unit (Vapochill or similar) is not going to work very well in high ambient temps, and a peltier run in an ...
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:47 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Peltier (thermoelectric cooling) benefits and problems
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7329
I have abandoned four posts due to the "if you can't say something nice" principle, but I do feel the need to say this. I used to run machines 24x7 in my house in Arizona, without A/C, where internal ambient temps for the house ran up into the 85-90F range. I had lousy stock heatsinks on hot Athlon ...
- Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:30 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Dell SilentCase technology
- Replies: 30
- Views: 25447
The Dell 5150 that my dad purchased for his business is surprisingly quiet, everything spins up at startup to a horrible din for a moment and then settles back down again. At full load, the cpu fan starts cranking up and making itself known, a few more minutes and the power supply ramps up to what I...
- Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:31 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Seagate 7200.10 Series
- Replies: 80
- Views: 52310
After a recent "upgrade" (mumble grumble ECS motherboard mumble SATA support), I had to purchase an IDE drive to replace my delightful Samsung SATA hard drive. I decided on a Seagate 7200.10 200G. After a short time I realized that my new machine was quite a bit noisier than my old one, so I started...
- Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:19 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: x2 4200 temperatures
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11076
- Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:18 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: x2 4200 temperatures
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11076
- Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:01 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Speculation: GPU in a CPU-like socket?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12620
You could actually do that now, with a piece of allthread running down to the bottom of the case. I don't have any expansion cards in my machine that are anywhere near as long/large as my video card, so I doubt it would foul on anything. Maybe a pair of nuts holding something to clamp on the card, a...
- Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:27 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Cases with 120mm fans
- Replies: 272
- Views: 487328
- Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:18 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Why there are no DMS-59/LFH-60 connectors on MBs?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5349
As a computer support person, I plug in a monitor to a machine about 250 times a week. A properly designed connector (like DVI or even the venerable and durable DB15) doesn't allow you to plug it in upside down without putting up a fight. The DMS-59 is minutely trapezoidal, but not a strong design w...
- Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:27 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Comment my build before I buy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3767
My only comment is the Raptors too. If you're going to Raid 0 them, you should already know the benefits (slim) and the hazards (many), and the fact that you are paying a huge premium for very little benefit. Are you going to overclock? If not, that ram is prolly overkill as well. But if your goal i...
- Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:17 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Why there are no DMS-59/LFH-60 connectors on MBs?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5349
I wouldn't say that connector real estate was at a premium, but I understand what you mean. On the flip side, it's awful annoying to sit down to work on a Dell and try plug your DVI cable into the very similary shaped port, realize your mistake, then find the DMS-59 splitter, end up installing it up...
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:59 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Why is nobody using bottom to top heat conduction?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12873
Not to be a total smartass, but why are you walking on stale bread? But I agree with this, top exhaust on cases is the pits. I modded a case to mount the psu upside down, and flipped the bottom fan, so it was blowing out. Worked great, kept the fans down pretty low, but one fateful day someone was c...
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:41 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: x2 4200 temperatures
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11076
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:38 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: How do you adjust fan speed settings for video cards?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4071
I think I'm comfortable with the additional heat from the resistor, but my concern is whether or not there will be problems due to the pwm. I never end up adjusting the fans from "as low as possible" on the controller anyways, so I think I may just pony up for a brace of fanmates and hook those up. ...
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:13 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: How do you adjust fan speed settings for video cards?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4071
Geforce 6800 vanilla, Zalman VF700 fan hooked up to a Vantec pwm controller, turned down as low as it goes. It idles at 39C. After a long, long, long time in a 3D game, it rises as high as 68C. So I don't use a program to do anything with it, though I am thinking about trying a "quiet mode" resistor...
- Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:54 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Mac Mini Gamers Edition
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10475
I'd pay $500 for the ability to upgrade video card and possibly run a second hard drive, suspend a 2.5" drive, or run a desktop 7200 rpm hard drive... Something in the small desktop/tower form factor (look at the Dell Optiplex GX520 and imagine something a little shorter). Probably not going to happ...
- Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:28 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: HIS X1900XT ICEQ3 - How Quiet?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8501
So the card you're talking about is the IceQ3? Interesting. The IceQ I have does pump out quite a bit of air, and I wasn't able to get the PWM to turn the fan down at all. I hooked it up through a FanMate and that brought it down to an acceptable level of noise (my system is far from silent, but fai...
- Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:46 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Scythe Ninja...Do you need to take motherboard out to instal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2958
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:11 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Scythe Ninja...Do you need to take motherboard out to instal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2958
You do need to take the motherboard out to install the Ninja. It replaces the stock heatsink retention frame with one that is more like a socket 478 retention frame. Take my advice and go ahead and install the heatsink while the motherboard is out of the case, too, as I had some trouble engaging the...
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:06 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New build critique
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4078
That power supply is probably overkill for your setup, unless your definition of "a couple" enters the half-dozen range. The 7600GT's I've seen haven't been much more than two inches past the back of the PCIe slot, I doubt terribly you'll have issues with it getting near the drive cage, I have heard...
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:58 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: XP 32-bit or 64-bit?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5164
Driver "maturity" for XP-x64 is something of a joke, and I would love to hear someone name 10 applications that are 64-bit aware. XP-x64 remains a hacked up, broken little experiment with few (if any) benefits. It has the potential to address more max memory than XP x32, but really, how much ram do ...
- Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:36 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Way To Hot? Should I complain...65c
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4452
- Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:39 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Why (does my Arctic Silencer buzz)?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4578
I have a couple fans that develop a strange buzzy noise (that is very aggravating) when hooked up via PWM, but can be undervolted or hooked up to a resistor to good effect. And no, the Artic Cooling Silencer didn't come with a Zalman Fanmate, but you could hook one up and give it a try, it might work.
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:08 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: High pitch noise from Antec Phantom 500 when computer off ?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10950
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:06 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: A 250mm fan in a uATX case??
- Replies: 24
- Views: 24663
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:10 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: need help slowing down asus neptune coolers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2663