fantastic pictures, best I have seen in the gallery for a long time. Incredible, congratulations! I especially like the CPU duct, what heatsink is that btw?

I know members here...me included (id like to think)...have a sensible view on psu requirements..."1000w+ psu" is a swear word :mrgreen: . But i would have suggested a higher watt psu...maybe a 600-800w. In most cases psu's are most efficient at 50% load. I just think 500w is cutting to close to th...

Hopefully you can clarify this for me. What is something like 3dBA is the world of PC sound? The problem is I see these numbers and don't have a base to judge whether they represent a lot or nothing. Are they pounds or pence? Dollars or cents? etc. :) http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/dB.html#soundfil...

LOL @ the Coolermaster case ad- they may as well just go the whole hog and make the case in the shape of a massive penis. that's how asus comes up with slogans like "rock solid, heart touching"... sorry, but a motherboard has never touched my heart in that way.... honestly tho, who buys a motherboar...

wow....that's fascinating that 99% of the ambient noise is in the sub-200Hz region. would be neat if a measurement could be made at say, 2am in the morning (when there is minimal traffic) to definitely confirm it is noise from cars/traffic flow; but I fully understand after your Herculean labours, m...

Assuming ALL components (CPU, GPU, chipset, HDD) will we properly cooled, how much heat can one 500 rpm SSS throw out of the case? you can calculate it from the heat transfer equation: http://www.comairrotron.com/high_altitude_cooling.shtml CFM = Q /(Cp * r * DT) rearrange the equation then you can...

It looks like the 800rpm slipstream fan can only be bought from the US. I've found them for $7.99 at jab-tech and shipping costs $34. This means I can get three 800rpm slipstreams for the case and one 1200rpm for the heatsink for about £33. Is this worth it considering noctua's are about £13 each...

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/asus-imac-style-eee-monitor-pictured-413609 iMac clone Ports on the rear of the Asus Eee Monitor include Ethernet and Firewire ports, as can be seen from the second picture right here. EeePCnews claims that the Asus Eee monitor is going to cost at least $500 (...

When it comes to electric cars, or even hybrids, nobody is talking about exposure to strong magnetic fields. So why do doctors and technical people go running behind a wall every time they turn on the MRI machine? um, because the field in an MRI machine is many millions of times stronger than the f...

I suppose that a big potential problem would be heat, since steel and aluminum cases act as giant heatsinks... generally, a negligible amount of heat is lost through the case walls. i would say upwards of 90% of the heat is carried away by the forced air cooling. so i wouldn't expect an acrylic cas...

I am very sorry to report to Felger Carbon's friends in this forum that I just learned today of his death last Wednesday. Having known him for the past 25 years, I am very sad that we'll not be reading more of his SPCR (and other) exploits. Good God. I am deeply shocked and saddened to hear of Felg...

Remember that you can underclock one amd and keep responsiveness and performance. This is not possible with intel because it is vital that the FSB runs fast. sorry, this is patently untrue. they can both be undervolted and underclocked (using RMClock or BIOS), and the intel has better performance p...

Governments have already started the mass killings. It is veiled under the "green" umbrella and is called Biofuel. see my response to similar claims of yours in Green Computing. given your earlier insistence on conversing only with "rational" people, claims like this do not cast your own rationalit...

Is the D201GLY2 better than the D945GCLF, if so how? The D201GLY2 has a celeron 220 cpu which has more horsepower. Can anybody explain, why the Celeron 220 with 1.2 GHz should perform better, than the Atom 230 with 1.6 GHz & Hyperthreading? I was in the opinion, that the D945GCLF should outperform ...

I guess one thing is that it would probably run cooler even though the wattage is negligible. Or am I wrong? if there is no (or small) power difference, there will be no (or small) temp difference (assuming same cooling solution). power=heat. would you mind listing the components in your HTPC? 100W...

In reality, it is the result of a few people not thinking through their global warming strategies. It is really sad that millions of people are starving as a result of a nation's ignorance. more specifically, US ignorance. if there weren't such incredibly large subsidies for US corn ethanol (the LE...

Maybe we can sink trillions into creating food from oil and that could solve our hunger problem while reducing our carbon footprint from burning the stuff. :) you can think of the modern food supply chain as turning oil into food. fertilisers, pesticides, etc are almost always derived from petroche...

Next time you test a heat pipe based cooler, try orientate the motherboard differently to see how it affects heat pipe performance. This might be a weak spot for heat pipes, as they partly depend on gravity forr their operation. i doubt there will be much difference. modern heatpipes rely on the in...

Everyday life gets better for everyone. I am sure Indian children living in the slums of Mumbai with no electricity and no running water will wholeheartedly agree with you. And the coalminers of Shanxi province, China, also, who die of respiratory diseases and industrial accidents every day. And th...

Arent' there however cases that are silently built (lian li has some damped cases with fan controls etc?)

unless the case is built like a concrete bunker with 1m thick walls, with 9 HDDs silent is not even an option. the case is not the problem (or the solution) it's the number of hard drives.

I'm sorry, but that fish and that car loose any design distinction half way down their body/car shape....... one ends in a classic fin, and one ends in the arse end of a bus. exactly how useful/popular do you think a car would be with a 7ft tailfin sticking out the back? parking would be a bit tric...

IMHO, it's definitely the PSU. you're not the only one to have trouble with the Earthwatts PSU that comes bundled with that case. (in fact I had an earthwatts with exactly the same symptoms, sometimes the system would power on and stay on, other times it refused to power up at all). replace with som...

http://www.absolutegadget.com/200806221 ... aunch.html

Asus also claimed that the Eee Box would be almost completely silent in operation

like everyone i really hope that the finished product lives up to these claims.

you don't hear much about Somalia today, but the problems now are at least as great as they were when we went in, and for the same cause - local warlords who just cannot resist killing people ....usually with weapons supplied by the US, Russia, China, etc. is it only me who finds it absurd that a c...

i'm surprised by the big difference in noise level between the SFL and SS at basically the same RPM; subjectively, was it aurally obvious that the SFL was the quietest of the fans on test for this particular setup? also this is quite a good result by the slipstream, as it's not one of those fans tha...

Your CPU will always run hot. They were designed with the sole intention of killing the ozone layer and melting anything within a foot of it.

QFT

1) From what I've read the P4 Prescotts always run hot. Is this the best i can expect or would a larger case help cooling? sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the only place that Prescott belongs is the bin. with the money that you've already spent on improved HSF/fans/PSU etc you could have bo...

The U.S. Department of Energy says gas mileage plummets above 60 mph. Really? I get lower mileage in top gear at 65 than a lower gear at 45? it's an undeniable fact that wind resistance increases with the square of your speed, and the engine power required rises with the cube of your speed. think a...

I'm ticked off that it is practically impossible to actually purchase an AMD mobile CPU. It seems the only way to do it is to buy a laptop. So if I want to do something half-way creative like build a low-power, low-noise, desktop or server, AMD is effectively not an option. this is just nonsense. w...

After an hour or so the CPU is 37-38C, and Core 1/2 45-46C and there they stay. Shouldn't they be cooler than so?

seeing as you've (inadvisedly) disabled EIST & C1, no that's normal. CPU is running full speed all the time.