slowing down the drive to 8x or lower (dvd) should eliminate most if not all of the noise.


what do you plan to use the drive with that would create such a terrible noise?

the ninja comes with the fan detached, so you don't have to do anything. It should indeed cool that cpu fanless just fine. the solo is a nice case with damping inside already, it will be very quiet out the box with the components you've chosen. the risk with multiple hd's is they start to vibrate ag...

shame can only find the M12-5/6/700 versions in .nl

there's plenty of stores in .nl carrying the modu82+ 4/5/625 versions.

more interestingly, why would you want to deviate from the recommended list of corsairs and seasonic in that wattage range? would the xigmateks be that much cheaper? on a platform with those components, saving a few pecunia for an important part as a psu seems a bit cheap.

thanks, had a look

closest is one that has the terrible 2 wide line of keys above the cursor keys, instead of the normal 3 wide.

I don't get the obsession with these small keyboards.

custom it seems only from 50pcs onwards.

I'm looking for a wireless keyboard, with the following keyboard layout: http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7101/600besthotestkeyboardkbkf9.jpg note the position and shape of the Enter and Backspace keys. Ignore the multimediakeys and what the keys say, I just want a normal qwerty us-102 typing on i...

Scythe has a nice floppy/cardreader combo in black or white, around 27e .

I have the same assignment for an elderly lady, no real budget constraints, so went for a bigass monitor, but further a e7200 and a 1tb drive on a matx, cause it's just a browsing machine really.

here's some info for you: Ripping an ifo from a 4x dvdrw: I 06:03:44 Source Device: [3:0:0] LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1H LL06 (PATA) I 06:06:28 Average Read Rate: 13.891 KB/s (10.0x) - Maximum Read Rate: 16.687 KB/s (12.0x) I 06:07:26 Source Device: [0:0:0] Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200S 1.06 (SATA) I 06:09:55 A...

if your hd is mpeg2, many are available. VideoReDo TV Suite is nice, though not free. How it handles HD bitrates I don't know, iirc it should do fine. sony should have their own software, don't they? comes with the cam? h264 editing is alot more intensive and there aren't many good programs yet for ...

encoding xvid (using AGK) the 4850BE on stock 2.5Ghz is slightly slower than the E2160 on a 2.25Ghz OC, which was about the same as the 4200 X2, which took about 66% of the time of the A64 3000. x264 just takes too long on either to really make me care which is faster, I just leave it encoding overn...

2nd paragraph page 1: "That's what you're hear to find out, isn't it?"


shame about the mounting. really, why can't they think of something that just works?

Because taxing is stealing, and stealing is wrong. Taxes are a protection racket. Fundamentally it's the same as protection money collected by the mafia. Government steals tax payers money using threat of violence. Back in the feudal period people paid taxes to sponsor the extravagant lifestyle of ...

hovering=noise=bad

write to lian li for a sample to here...


but i'd rather see budget -400W models tested more than these high W ones. They're expensive, and nowhere near the average need of pcs.

you'd have to check the benchmarks to see how much faster that E5200 really is. as a comparison, the E2160 @ 2250MHz (that's oc'd) was about the same speed as the X2 4200 s939 I had when it came to encoding xvid. But other than in encoding I didn't see much change from the A64 3000+ I had before the...

Powerfigures: Connected: 2 x 1TB Samsung F1 SATA2 1 x 160GB Samsung IDE 1 x Sony-NEC AD-7200S DVDRW SATA 1 x Lite-On LH-20A1H DVDRW IDE Asus EAH3450/HTP/512M GFX connected to 19" CRT using TightVNC to control it though. Stock AMD cooler YateLoon 12cm (both on onboard fanconnectors) CnQ enabled 220V ...

Powerfigures:

Connected:

2 x 1TB Samsung F1 SATA2
1 x 160GB Samsung IDE
1 x Sony-NEC AD-7200S DVDRW SATA
1 x Lite-On LH-20A1H DVDRW IDE
Asus EAH3450/HTP/512M GFX connected to 19" CRT
using TightVNC to control it though.

CnQ enabled

Idle: 5 x 200MHz=1000MHz @ 0,98V

disagree. reusing a psu is both economically and environmentally more responsible.


those picos are +50$, and there may be a 20% diff in efficiency, it will take a couple of years to pay itself back.


you can always get one later.

that MB I'm posting my experiences with here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=50638 that PSU is very old: http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.php?story=01/11/07/1525211&mode=print (don't pay attention to the chart with W at the bottom, those are all very old maximum numbers) bu...

Perhaps we can start a thread on powercomsumption for peripherals (if it's not there already)

~4W - Sitecom LN-116 4port Gigabit Switch (not under heavy duties)

milfs aren't judged on their mental capacities.




I think most of mainland europe has more than 2 major parties, often forcing coalitions, the us and uk are actually the exception.

the 4850 with stock cooler and stock thermalpad and stock fan off on an open table with no heater in the area, and no additional airflow directed at it, at 20C ambient, rises on a very straight ~30 degree angle from 28C to 55C and showed no sign of slowing down this was playing coral reef adventure ...

the lan is called Atheros L1 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller when installing the driver, so that should mean it's connected to the PCI-E bus.



I'm reinstalling things atm

using different protocols may give me a true max, but since I'm only going to use xp with shared folders, there's not much use to that. I'm switching the machines round today, and with that the need for big fast filexfers is over for now. Thanks for the pointers sofar, I'll keep them in mind for whe...

no clue.


If using PC-A I put a file from PC-A to PC-B, and then also using PC-B I pull a file from PC-A to PC-B, I get 50MB/s average

As soon as one xfer finishes, it's back to 20-30 MB/s


This is all using shared folders on xp sp3.

when i get a certified gbit cable I'll try it on auto again

so is that jumboframes somethiung to be set in the properties of the NIC? currently in advanced properties for this onboard nic (.sig machine) it says Maximum Frame Size: 1514 btw I manually set both MediaType properties from Auto to 1000Mbps Full Duplex, which resulted in an increase from 23MB/s to...

I've got a bunch of different era cables. e'quip UTP Enhanced Cat.5 Patch ISO/IEC 11801 & EN 50173 & TIA/EIA 568A 3P Verified - 24AWGx4P Type CM (UL) C(UL) CMG E164469 that's one I had loose to get near enough the keyboard to type it up. one of the cables is similar to that one, and one cable says g...

I've had my 10/100 switch for quite a few years, and when xferring files between 2 pc's connected to it, I get a solid 9MB/s, which I think is perfectly acceptable and normal. While xferring from one pc to another, I started to move alot of big files, and thought I'd try a gigabit switch. With a the...

depends on the shop. over here in .nl the 1tb drives are pretty much all much cheaper than 2x500