I just wonder why they're even bothering... Have a look at their HFX mini case. It's so small an ATX PSU won't fit. When a company needs to have such a powersupply for one of their cases, it's a small step to sell them separately. Especially since there has been demand for something like this for s...

Your message is a bit cryptic (Googling zyprus doesn't give meaningfull hits).

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

The electronics is just FSPxxx-60GLN series, so that's not new. But for SPCR it is also the question: What fan did they put in it? But that's probably not enough to merit it it's own review (unless it is far better of course).

I've read claims that birth control merely leads to increased promiscuity with the same amount of pregnancies. Yes, I've read that argument too. It is usually used by right wing christians in the US who think that telling teenagers not to have sex before mariage actually works. :roll: As if modern ...

Only the middle one is a hole into the tube. The other two are just dents that don't go through the flange.

vitaminc wrote:btw, caseless systems could be hazardous to your health from all the em waves.

I'm still alive and I've been sitting between two caseless systems for a while now.

There's too much paranoia about EM waves.

If pregnancies could be controlled then that could be a solution I suppose. OK, I knew the US government is quite dumb in its present stance about this, but I didn't know they had erased all knowledge about this subject "over there". Try reading up on: condoms, the pill, vasectomy, "having your tub...

If you follow all ATX specs, a 150mm fan won't fit. But this wouldn't be the first PSU that is longer than the specs allow.

The semi fanless Antec 500W PSU comes to mind.
Several Topower made PSU's with two 80mm fans in series were longer too.

"There is evidence that nanotubes and other nano-structures could give significant performance gains," Sorry if this sound very negative, but the whole press blurb above sounds like a typical publication of a research group that is seeking new sources of funding using the nano buzzword. They found ...

This could make an interesting modding project. Replace the inards of that PSU with those of a decent one

That's another advantage of bottom to top airflow [...], that is the fact that high frequencies don't go around corners well. They are very directional. So if they can only escape from the bottom or top, even better. This is exactly one of the reasons why a top blow hole is a bad idea. The top of t...

vitaminc wrote:Do you know if alternate.EU ship to United States? I cbf waiting for M12 here now. =.=

I doubt it. But why don't you just ask it?

The PSU probably doesn't need the heatpipe thing. Somebody at the marketing department saw that empty spot that most 120mm fanned PSU's have, because they use the same PCB's as 80mm fanned PSU's. Then he thought; what to do with it that makes us stand out. Yes, let's do something with heatpipes, bec...

You can't compare the ~5 year old i815 with current integrated graphics.

I'm not exactly up to date in my graphics performance benchmarks, but a new integrated graphics board (as long as it's not a VIA chipset) is probably faster than the ~5 year old radeon 8500 too.

A 330 is more than adequate. (See the SS-301HT in my sig, which is the OEM version of it.) But in most shops the price difference between the 330 and the 380 is minimal. There are even a lot of shops (of the ones who sell seasonics) that don't even have the 330. The 330 has slightly smaller heatsink...

The freezer 7 pro is the noisiest thing in my system. I think it runs at full fan speed. Is this true? You and the other people in the same room with that computer are the only ones who can hear that. Is it not temp controlled? It's not temp controlled by anything in the heatsink/fan. Is there any ...

Europe is still a lot of different countries. There is no big supplier that serves them all. (Some specialists do, but...) So disclosing in which part of Europe you live is probably wise. (I think I remember you posting about moving to the south of England, but I'm not sure.) Komplett is a mainstrea...

The pico PSU should work for such a low power system.

I personally don't think it is worth the price premium over a Seasonic S-12 though. But prices in Canada might be different and I got a relative cheap OEM Seasonic.

Sorry if the next sounds a bit harsh, but if you think that that is an oxymoron, then you lack imagination.

Maybe other people place there gear differently, e.g. because it is a bit hard to operate the switch on a powerstrip if it is tucked away behind some furniture.

People at SPCR are, as a collective (and even some individuals), pretty smart. If moving hot air horizontally was really that ineffective as you think it is, then you would see lots of inventive modding idea's to use only vertical airflow paths. They are not here. What's more; the few times I've see...

1. All powersupplies need to be removed from the enclosures, and made into external single voltage (preferably a standard like 12v) ac/dc adapters. Let the motherboard manufacturers determine what voltages it needs. As for 5v lines for hard drives n stuff, just have motherboard manufacturers put a ...

Wowies... Seasonic REALLY shot themselves in the foot on the release of the M-12. I think even non-advertising and business majors could agree. Not really, they hardly nicked the nail of their tiny toe when they were shooting down this time. Don't forget that for Seasonic the retail market is not t...

Let's call it a difference in coding style then

I try to keep my lines less than 80 characters.
(Yes, I feel ancient sometimes and if you don't know where the number 80 comes from, then I'll feel ancient again.)

Antec Sonata II 110CAD [...] Silenx Luxurae HDD cooler (or anything similar) 45CAD I'm not too keen on the design of the Silenx Luxurae. It's front and back are completely open, so it doesn't really enclose the HD. That makes me doubt it will help much for noise. Read The enclosure Roundup by nici ...

I don't really care if I'm technically right or not. It's more that by calling this passive cooling, it scares people away from trying it. See above.

My guess is that the guy behind the Hoojum was majorly screwed by VIA keeping postponing the nano-ITX. He had a case for it designed and a prototype made. (It was showcased by VIA on some fair in Taiwan ages ago.) It's probably cost him enough money. For a single person home business these things ge...

Not all flash is equal. (Don't ask me for the technical details.) Samsung is constantly improving on their flash technology, those presented SSD devices probably only use the latest of their flash chips. Wear levelling and bad block management also become more effective with bigger drives. Last but ...

Acording to the review - The Scythe Ninja is still King'o the hill! If you have P180 - try the Ninja passive, it'll work. (works with my X2 4400+ toledo and 6800GT) 3Ghz core2duo passive? I'm not convinced. A Ninja in a P180 with two Nexus exhaust fans at 12V is not really passive. Just because the...

Even if the Ninja is not discontinued, then it will be harder to get. Most retailers don't carry all Scythe models (they just have to many). The Ninja and the Infinity are fairly close (looking from the POV of the masses) so newer is better.

I think it failed in the retail market, because the formfactor is so rigid, that it doesn't leave case and heatsink manufacturers enough room to make something unique enough to sell. So they simply didn't design for it at all.