I know many here believe EMF exposure is BS (especially at such low levels) but for me this issue was very real. I'm sure it's real and it's not BS. What is BS is the irrational fear and closing of the mind concerning stuff like double blind tests. The headache one feels while the router LED is lit...

What do you mean? Any modern OS can use more cores. HT is useful sometimes, but like extra cores it's dependent on the task. The i7 has HT, the i5 does not and the price premium you pay for the i7 only makes sense if you do lots of stuff where HT really helps. Lots of movie encoding? Consider the i7...

Sandy Bridge was were Intel really solidified it's dominance over AMD I think. A cheap dual core Celeron became the standard choice in most of my builds since. Two cores, no HT and a little bit smaller cache but still lots of power for the standard tasks. Cheap and power efficient. Not the build you...

Response time, refresh rate and frames per second. Different things.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_1.html

The fan is just wedged in there? I like it!
I would add some duct tape and a standard fan grill though. Safety first.

You would not be able to touch something that's 70C for too long. Not for several seconds. http://www.iig-llc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Thermal-Sensations.jpg Maybe the sensor is a little off, but not by too much I think. Comparing to your CPU is a bit tricky, reported temperature is less ...

Uh-oh. Here comes Captain Sensible, drawing his perfectly reasonable conclusions! Well, yeah. There is of course a natural jumping-off point with increasingly small form factors that pretty much makes a NUC-a-like a no-brainier. I just don't know if I'll be able to handle not actually cobbling toge...

Hi Vicotnik, Thanks for the reply, and while I'm off researching, I had a question about the HD Plex. Why do the heatpipes on each side not have one going the opposite way to spread the heat load to the case better? Both your case and Bobb's do it, so there must be a reason, but it seems odd from a...

Fanless is doable, but a lot of hassle. And for a system that will do some serious work I think fanless is too early yet. I personally don't like quad cores in heatsink cases, even if they are factory underclocked. A heatsink case like the HD Plex can take a lot of heat but in a pretty closed heatsi...

Welcome to SPCR!

Check out the Quiet / Noisy Monitor Survey if you have not already done so.

That Screen Tunes page will make almost any monitor whine I think. My Dell U2412M was singing for sure but doesn't normally make any noticeable noise.

Try to locate the sound. A tube of some sort, like a toilet paper roll can be helpful to do that. It might be that WD Green and its head park feature. When idle for 8s the HDD park its heads to save power. It's fine in most cases, but sometimes the OS is doing something with the disk (for no good re...

wayner wrote:Would that affect the thermal conductive properties of the case?

No, I don't think so. Maybe the case could be made so it could be polished, but I think one would do that for the looks, not the performance.

It will of course oxidize over time. That's part of the beauty.

http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/copper/ looks like copper is at least 3x the cost per pound. and of course copper is much heavier too.. The weight might be a good thing. Heavy deluxe version, aimed at the audiophile market perhaps? ;) But seriously. Copper is a great material, ascet...

It's not hard to build a rpm signal generator. Google gave me this hardforum thread.

But usually there's a BIOS option to ignore fan fail check.

Cropped it a bit, lowered colors to 256 and ran it though optipng. Got it down to ~30kB.

Sorry for all the OT and congratulations again on your very nice system.

Well, a full screenshot with background etc (Furmark image) will be best as an JPEG, but something like the HWMonitor screen, with few colors, will be best as PNG. You could put the relevant windows side to side, take a screenshot, crop the image to remove all the background, optimize the number of ...

Nice system.

PNG is the image format of choice for screenshots like that btw. Small file size and perfect quality.

Good to hear. A picoPSU is only as good as the brick feeding it, and good 12V bricks can be hard to find.

Test another brick. Also, check the voltages (with multimeter or software or both). That flickering LED doesn't sound good, maybe cut the power to the brick when the system is off?

sjoukew wrote:I am using dd-wrt, works fine. Using an asus router with 128 mb ram.

And I use Tomato, but neither is what the OP is looking for.

You could perhaps remove the plastic shroud and the two stock fans, keep the heatsink and attach one or two 120mm fans (powered by the motherboard perhaps) using zip ties.

On the low end there's the affordable LP-2020A+

Any 19V laptop adapter you might have lying around is what I would recommend. Efficiency class V if possible.

Yes, the four mounting holes in a Mini-ITX board line up with four of the holes in ATX-specification motherboards, and the locations of the backplate and expansion slot are the same, says Wikipedia.

You would need very little airflow. I would go with only the 120mm Nexus, at a very low setting. Even fanless might work fine in such a large space and with a large hole where the ATX PSU used to be.

Yes, with a TDP of 88W it will be nothing the Kotetsu can't handle.

Water cooling shines at much higher levels of heat. At relatively low loads stuff like a very good mounting mechanism matters a lot. I'd bet the water temp is nowhere near 74C.

Great customer support!

But zip ties man, you got to love them as well. I could not tell you how many fans I've mounted using zip ties.

Didn't realise this discussion continued. I have a 500GB 850 Evo and it works great, but once you install windows and a few games and all of a sudden other things like photos, mp3s, a few films and it's going to be fill up quickly. I have a NAS I use for backup and media, but connection to it over ...

Yeah. Small, quiet, powerful. Pick two.