Hey guys. I've just built a computer using the DFI NF4 ultra-D with a winchester 3200+. Anyway I've installed a Zalman NB47J and have had problems with crashing due to the chipset overheating. I'm pretty confident that It's well installed as I did a test install to check the layer of thermal paste ...

Would you by any chance have a link to a nexus fan? I've checked the stickies in the fan forum, but I can't tell which are nexus. Also, what makes this fan a noise deadener? Thanks again! Two SPCR sponsors, EndPCNoise and Silicon Acoustics , both sell 92mm Nexus fans, and both charge $15 the last t...

that cpu heatsink actually looks like quite a good cooler, the thing probably holding that back is the ventilation holes on the back of the pc, a dremmel being the only cure for that. Also thats a delta fan on the back of the pc, no wonder this thing sounds like a hair dryer, replacing your case fa...

Yes, the pictures worked fine. The processor heatsink looks substantial and probably quite effective, similar to the Thermaltake Silent Tower (the link is to an SPCR review). Perhaps there's an opportunity for improving the duct and squeezing a few more degrees from the heatsink. But if the heatsink...

Kleenex brand anemometer (stick with strips of kleenex)
Bounty reference microphone (paper towel cardboard tube)

ROFL! Thanks for the write-up, Frank, the market for quiet 120mm fans is looking very good.

Hi Mtnman1999, Welcome to SPCR!! :D Thanks very much for your response. I know my video card is definitely a contributing factor. Will using a silver solution like Arctic Silver 5 help at all with cooling, which may lower the noise volume? Again, I appreciate any and all advice. Choosing the right t...

I can live without the pivot feature. What I'm looking for is a fast LCD with good colors reproduction. Only the 915N was really tested in that matter. And another thing to concider is that Samsung have now a "no dead pixel policy" : Samsung Guarantees Zero Defective Pixels in LCD Monitors Samsung ...

Those Nexus fans are supposed to be really nice, so you'll be in good shape if you mod the corners. There's even a sticky on the subject of modding the fan, I think, and it doesn't look difficult or too time-consuming. Otherwise, I've heard good things about a certain model of Globe brand 120mm fan,...

I successfully installed a ZM-NB47J northbridge cooler and a ZM80C-HP video card heatpipe cooler into a DFI NF4 Ultra-D, without modifying either heatsink. The video card is an ATI X600 Pro AIW. It is a tight fit. The video card must go in the bottom PCI-E bracket, and the NB47J must have its two ro...

Simple: you're more sensitive to/more capable of detecting motion blur artifacts than average people; would this surprise you at all? Yeah, it would surprise me a bit. :) I'll try posting some screenshots taken with my digital camera. Some of the blurring artifacts are just bizarre, and I think alm...

I ran a modded SL400 in a dual-CPU system for a year, without any trouble. All it had was an 80mm Panaflo L1A at about 8V. You could probably run the fan at a lower speed, provided you do a few mods like I did. 1. Disconnect the 92mm fan on the bottom, and block it off. (Aleksi is right, Antec uses ...

I presume that either something on the motherboard had drawn too much power through the connector, or the power supply had failed and was unable to supply that power, hence the burning. This happened to me, too. I had a modded Antec PSU connected to a Tyan Tiger MP motherboard (famous for melting p...

Hmm, sorry I'm a bit late in responding to this thread. I'm working with a friend to build a new PC using the DFI nF4 Ultra-D, A64 3200+ 90nm, 1GB OCZ RAM, and a Seasonic Super Tornado 350W PSU. We've put it all together, its POSTs correctly, but there's no OS installed yet. We won't have time to do...

I own the Dell 1905FP. Beautiful for text, good for images. Absolutely god-awful for games and movies. I recently saw the AnandTech review for my monitor, and they said the texture blurring in games was minimal. So do other reviews for the Samsung 193P, which uses the same internal panel. I don't u...

does anyone here know if running F@H 24/7 on an A64 will heat a Seasonic up enough to make its fans spool up constantly ? There's a chance it will spin slightly faster than start-up speed, but I doubt it will speed up at all. Here's why: First look at the Seasonic's fan voltage vs. power consumptio...

Have you considered the Dell FP1905? I own the Dell 1905FP. Beautiful for text, good for images. Absolutely god-awful for games and movies. I think the 1905 uses Samsung's newest PVA panel, since the 1905FP and Samsung 193P have the same specs, and because Dell has used Samsung panels in the past. ...

I don't think this computer will be any more difficult to silence just because you are OC'ing. 90nm Athlon 64's generate astonishingly little heat, so just slap a Nexus fan on that XP-120 heatsink and you'll have good temps and high overclocks, with very little noise. My roommate is OC'ing his 90nm ...

All else being equal, I would pick the Viewsonic for its pivot feature. Pivoting is really nice, especially if you web-browse a lot or have to type papers. I have a 19" LCD, and it stays in portrait-mode about 90% of the time. The Viewsonic also appears to have height adjust, swiveling, and possibly...

P.S I seem to be too slow in responding again. Well, at least one of us is double-checking the math, my numbers could be junk for all I know. :) Corporate buyers are more likely than household buyers to look at the TCO (total cost of ownership) in the first place, so it's just as well that the cost...

I've heard a 92mm NMB fan in a Dell. I think it was thermally controlled, but it may not have been the same model. I'll see if I can find a similar Dell and check out the model number on it. For what it's worth, the fan was reasonably quiet, but it ticked a bit. Quiet by normal standards, too noisy ...

dB stats given by manufacturers are often unreliable. Rarely do they measure sounds strictly according to the standards, so someone will have the microphone too close, someone else will be in a carpeted room... Thermaltake appears to make their recordings from another room entirely. SPCR is one of t...

I'm sure they mean more saving than that, but what numbers do they mean? I mean what would it be really... Maybe they don't mean more savings. Let's say the typical office PC uses 80 watts DC. With a 65%-efficient PSU, that's ~125W AC, and for an 80%-efficient PSU it's 100W. So a 25W savings. Multi...

I've heard people say that the thermal grease becomes a glue over time, and can even rip out a CPU from its socket. I've never seen this happen personally, but I think it has less to do with the grease gluing up, and more with people trying to pull the heatsink straight up. Think about it: if you ha...

Thanks for the write-up fredar, success stories are always nice to hear. I was anticipating the effectiveness of each of your mods as you wrote about them. "Did he get lower CPU temps? ...YES, 39°C and slower fans, yesss!"

Why not try undervolting your new Prescott to bring temperatures down? burcakb demonstrated this on an Athlon 64 , and recently SPCR published an article on undervolting the Prescott . I don't know the Prescott series very well, nor do I understand the different steppings and whether new models run ...

Very cool! Thanks for the update, yuit.

EvoFire wrote:Would it be safe to hang the fan off the video card with things like elastic bands or string??

Elastic bands will go bad over time, after 3 months or so. Better to use something that doesn't get brittle, like string, twisty ties, or Stretch Magic.

I just installed a ZM80C-HP for the first time this weekend. It helps a lot to have a second person around for the job, unless you have four hands, especially for that GPU locking procedure jmatucd mentioned. It must have taken at least an hour, but man did it look cool when it was done. I got the Z...

I don't have any definitive evidence but I'm 99% sure it's based on a Seasonic. PC Perspective reviewed them both; the internal design's are identical as are the test results. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=35&type=expert&pid=5 http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=51&type=expert&pid=4 To me t...

Are you sure the PSU is a rebadged Seasonic? I wasn't aware that Seasonic outsourced their designs or allowed them to be relabeled. The two companies I know of that rebadge PSU's are Fortron/Sparkle and Top Power. I'm almost positive the Zalman is a rebadged Fortron with a different fan, and it's no...