I want dead silence man, not a quiet PSU. For instance, I got very irritated with a Panaflo L1A which is declared 21 db by its manufacturer. 18db@1200 rpm seems to be dead silence in theory at least. Can you tell me what pump you use for dead silence? Or is the pump enclosed in a reservoir like the...

Very sound advice for someone with the nick stupid if you want to oc the sempron the gigabyte (or is it biostar) T-Force boards have gotten some good reviews. Nforce 6150/410 based uATX. Not sure if it undervolts (couldnt glean that info from the review i read). Expect a few more ATI Xpress and nfor...

how does your post help the thread starter resolving his current issue? :shock: Why not go with a soft mounting like with elastic string. MikeC has an example in his ship to Thailand PC. I've had to do it for years because I always end up with cases with fan brackets that i have to remove. The fan ...

B-52s were a fun band. Now for something completely different.

Wagon Christ : Sunset Boulevard.

Edit : These are enqued

Four tet - Everything Ecstatic

Mary J Blige - The Breakthrough (this album has a good version of One with Bono).

Where can one buy s939 Opteron 144s for $125? They are selling at $175+ anywhere I can find em. (No stupid comments about locations please)

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m ... php?id=433
is what billbuerger is talking about.

OMG!!! 200+ watt GPUs!! What are we gonna do! http://www.beyond3d.com/previews/nvidia/g70/index.php?p=23 Anyway, looking at the SLI vs single card scores, it looks like the 7800 is just below the 6800 Ultra in terms of power usage. We should see some 512 OC boards supass the 6800 Ultras and push 100...

well they already did a full size ATX quiet case. they should do a mATX case next i think. The P180 is absolutely massive, Isaacs solution is anything but. Needless to say I like his idea (otherwise I wouldnt have bothered responding) but I am far too lazy to engineer such a design for my own use. ...

Thanks for the informative responses, everyone approached the problem slightly differently which is why these forums rock. rtsai, I did look at that page in my searches but alas I find the stretchmagic to have a tendency to unknot itself. Also, I have sweaty hands which really hampers my dexterity. ...

Hi all, I was wondering how you guys tie knots using stretchmagic. I did it for a zalman 7000B decoupling mod but I had to superglue the knots to stop them from coming undone. I cant figure out a satisfactory knot for HDD suspension because the knots seem to want to come undone. I did google for kno...

niels007 wrote:most socket 7 boards aren't spacey around the socket so you might run into capacitors etc...

Yes. The 2500+ Athlon retail heatsinks fit perfectly as they have a small footprint, the 2800+ retail heatsink bearly fits, and may run into capacitors on your board. Best to measure before you buy.

I am amazed by the stupidity of the manufacturers (MSI is not the first). Even if the 7800 wouldn't be just a month away, it still is a very bad move to make such an ultra-oversized-overpriced card (I suppose they would want >1500$ for it). And, by the way, that monster definitely tops 200W! Well t...

I added a dual P3-866 (used to be a P3-750) for folding. In the summer I'll only be using one cpu for folding, in the winter I'll most likely use both. After switching from a single processor box to a dual I love the low latency and dont know if i want to load both CPUs down and lose that. BTW, linu...

i wonder, with the heatpipe, is it better to cool the top or the bottom? hehe I didnt look at your pics earlier, I was just mentioning what I did and looking at the pics it seems that you have done something somewhat similar. In your case, obvious towards the top makes more sense, but I think if yo...

the nexus isn't held down by anything except the weight of the psu cables and rounded cable sitting on it :) perhaps i should duct tape it in place or something, right now it's just standing there, no place to mount/screw it in though. Hang it using strings. I did that to a fan near my zalman that ...

Love the HD reviews so far Mike. You covered off an important area of current drives that all seem quiet. I have a 200JB non-FDB WD (actually 2) and they do suck combared to these. BTW I think there is a typo on page 2 under the Raptor section : Command queuing is crucial to server performance but o...

Mats wrote:Still, I don't understand how they can get under ambient temp(assuming ambient temp>12 C). The EM pump moves the liquid, but there's no TEC function or such AFAIK.... strange.

Pffft thermodynamics shmermodynamics!!

I, personally own this product and I'd tell you it's DEAD SILENT. You cannot hear the pump AT ALL even when your ear is 5cm away from it. It cools really good, my CPU ( P4 2.8Ghz ) rests at 22'C. Below ambient? EDIT : I meant temperature not noise. Anyway nitpicking so ignore me... Now, for those o...

atomidude wrote:would you please mind being on topic?

On topic discussion????? You must be new here.

Translating it into something that the GPU can digest basically means we are adding another chip and another heat source right?? I don't think I like that. This thread is going from the misinformed to the absurd. GPUs do floating point (used to be integer only till recently) operations real fast. A...

Alright, I'm going to have to pull out my yellow card right now. This is a public forum and no matter what names you decide to call each other (sticks and stones and all), it's really rude to refer to an active participant negatively in the third person. BobDog is reading this too, you know. I know...

Nice system :
- Value RAM is gonna save you some $. These days value RAM comes with good timings as well.
- Enermax is the best of the 3 you mentioned.
- Every chipset fan is noisy in a reasonably quiet system. Use the nb47J. You may have to snip some fins off to make it fit.

Good luck!!

http://www.cpuheat.wz.cz/html/main.htm
Also Sisoft Sandra has a section where it estimates your CPU power usage which is quite good. It matches my undervolting/underclocking quite well. Google it

Ok this bit should give the Tt haters something to smile about : Cooltechzone " With our aftermarket Thermaltake Venus 12 heatsink installed on our MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard and our BFG 6800 OC graphics adapter, we could not install any hard drives in four of the six slots because either the...

Nice mod! This is a beautiful case especially in pearl white. Too bad it was barely sold in NA and I missed out when newegg was clearing their stock out. I miss the Korean case manufacturers (GMC/3R systems) that dont bother to ship their designs to NA anymore. This case has been discussed in great ...

also, the 800 by via chipset runs cold all the time, no questions asked, no matter what system. It never needs active cooling, hardly needs much of a heatsink. This reduction of heat is important, I feel, when making a truly near silent system. yes, linux has problems with via chipsets that is true...

That really didn't make sense. What did people need those huge cases for back then? I dont really know (need is such an interesting word) but I remember it being the case in the enthusiast/OC crowds. It was right after people started shying away from desktop cases. Anyway, I think smaller PC's have...

Yeah I thought about that after I posted Not for everyone (especially LAN party, kids/cats), but better than the zalman ZM80D for many.

Yeah dont lose sleep over getting a second fan as the front fan wont do much at all unless you run 3 or 4 HDDs in which case it'll help cool the HDs. If you do find a good 120mm fan where you're ordering from might as well buy one to see if its better than the Antec supplied one. But really you wont...

so how long until we see the "ceiling fan mod" popping up on the forums? :D :) Seriously though, people are getting more and more weary of LARGE computers (I know I am). There was a time when fullish towers were much more popular, now most people stop at mid towers (other than stacker, v2000 etc). ...