The Mac Cube had no fan. It worked all with convection. It was no commercial sucess. But harddrive war hearable. I believe it was noisier than many of our PCs ;o)

mynci wrote: ps if anyone can read austrian (i think) then will these people ship interenationally? http://shop.rascom.at/catalog/product_i ... cts_id=322
cheers

Yes, they ship to europe. Austrian is in fact german ;o) You should get some help by someone, how can speak german.

Herb W. wrote:On the German test, knowing the % on each rail is just not too useful - gives no indication of how much A is needed for each rail for a given system.

You should do the math youself. All numbers are there.

German magazine C't tests motherboards for AMDs. 24/02 S.178 and 02/03 S.144 Xp2400+, 256 MB RAM, Geforce 3 TI500 the power on the 12/5/3,3 rails was: 15/55/30% Only Abit AT7 MAX2 and NForce2 from Leadtek and MSI are different: ~70/~10/~20% Whole power of system idle at desktop: 120-120W. Under load...

in de.comp.hardware.kuehlung+laermdaemmung, a german newsgroup, there is a consens, that the quality of papst fans has decreased the last years. They seem to use stronger magnets now, wich leads to more vibrating. Also the general noise wenn undervolting has increased. I also hat these experiences. ...

I would also be interested if these notebook psu have a higher efficiency than common atx ones.

Here ist my setup for a very quiet and cheap psu. I have an Enhance 300W unit with quite large aluminium heatsinks. Maximum enviromental temperature 50°C, maximum storage temperature 60°C. I assume, it's safe to have a heatsink temperature of 70°C. Enermax are specified to 70° C environmental (at 0%...

I have a Sony DDU1621. This one is quieter than a Toshiba . Look at http://www.digit-life.com/articles/dvd1001/index.html. The disadvantage ist, that there a problems with CD-RW discs. It needs a lot of time to recognise them. Sometimes it fails with scratched CD-RW. But for this type of CD, I'vd my...

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There are utilites which montitors which program acesses a file. Would be interesting to see what XP is doing. Head crash when plugged of is not to be expected. Either there is a spring which pulls the head to the parking position. Or the drive uses it's remaining spinning energy for this operation....

bart wrote:in which German forum do you post your datas of the c't?
It's much easier to discuss there!

http://www.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/sho ... adid=57781

bart wrote:which c*t is it?

I would like to buy it!

IBM Deskstar 180GXP, Maxtor MaxLine II, DiamondMax Plus, Seagate Barracuda ATA V, WD2000JB

c't 23/02, Seite 166

AAM is acoustic management, you're right. Yes the new IBM 60GB has the sound level of the old Barracuda IV 40GB and 50% more capacity. Especially since it only draws ~5W in idle mode > good passive cooling. (Barracuda draws ~8-10W). But there are 2 other contenders: The new Maxtor Plus 9 160GB (6Y16...

Here are the complete results of the C't for interesting hdd which I originally typed for a german forum. x/y ms = seek time without/with AAM xy MB/s = average transfer rate, read and write (these are rounded the same) x/y/z = niose in sone idle/seek with AAM/seek without AAM benchmark x/y = benchma...

The stats on these noiseblocker fans are excellent, has anyone tested them and why does no one reccomend them???????? I am German so I might help you. Generally Noiseblockers are considered to be relabled YS-Fans. Some people says no but the majority yes :-) Generally I would recommend not to impor...