Happy new year and I wish you all to discover new and exciting noises from what you thought was a silent PC!

I just noticed that the X-650 has its exhaust fan positioned on top

It's not, it's installed just like any other bottom fanned PSU.

Congrats for the appearance! Maybe you could get your hands on that Bequiet! case which looks like a worthy opponent of FD Define. I'm curious how effective those silicone hdd rails are.

Since ASRock motherboards seem to have good fan control options I thought we could share our experiences with them seeing as ASUS are always talked about here, with some MSI and Gigabyte thrown in as well. My model is Z97M Pro4. It can control the following - CPU Fan 1 (4-pin) and CPU Fan 2 (3-pin) ...

Just a quick update on the AsRock Z97M-Pro4 board. BIOS and the ATuning (Fan tastic fan tuning) windows app shows possible control for -CPU Fan 1 (4-pin) and CPU Fan 2(3-pin) - same controller(percentage) for both fans -Cha Fan 1 (4pin) - untested ( I don't have a second 4 pin fan and the cpu cooler...

The Crucial MX seems to have a bug similar to what others have have before. Personally I decided not to buy it since there's no firmware fix ATM and will go for the Intel 530 just for the 5 year warranty, tho the Samsung Evo is also appealing. Whatever SSD you get I suggest updating the firmware rig...

The front seems like a poorly designed copy of CM Silencio 550, judging by the pics and vids I've found. Instead of putting the front fan(s) on the inside of the chassis, they're on the outside with the front bezel. So rather than standing behind the side vents, they're in-line with them so I'm stru...

Seems like some people have problems with the Crucial MX not booting. I was almost decided to buy this but I think I'll hold out unless they provide a firmware update.

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSD ... d-p/158815

I have an Athlon XP CPU has happily lived for 8 years at ~52C in idle(target temp in speedfan), survived an overtemp shutdown(a bit of roasted electronics smell included) and that CPU has lower tolerances than Intel's.

As Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Electoral poster from 1964.


Another one said "If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour", perhaps before the political-correct "fascists" complained.

www.gmx.com, since 1997

It's owned by a German company but it does have some servers in the US as well and since it doesn't seem to support encryption it's hardly NSA-proof.

Still no rubber grommets for HDD mouting and building a gaming PC might be a problem with the airflow intake restricted to only one side of the front door and the small slit on the front panel bottom.

Just don't come crying to SPCR when you realise how noisy it is at low load. That's what Anandtech suggest anyway: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6916/cool ... aroundup/7

It's impossible to fit the Cooler Master Hyper 212 in that case. Maximum CPU cooler height according to the SPCR review is 76 mm and you'd probably want to subtract at least 10 mm so that the CPU fan can actually draw some air in: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1320-page4.html Also 3 HDD will ...

I find the EU Political Compass baffling. It makes even scandinavian countries look more right wing than USA. Yes, they've been eroded by neoliberalism but they're still more social democratic, aren't they?

My scores are -9.12 economical and -7.64 social.

British national identity is about celts mixing with anglo-saxon migrants, invaded by romans, danes and normans, speaking a language whose words come mostly from Norman French...and complaining about losing your identity.

The only brand I can think of is Chieftec but even their designs "only" got stuck in the 90s, not the 80s. http://www.chieftec.eu/en/chassis/itx-tower.html (the included PSUs tend to be noisy and inefficient). Beige fascias? Fujitsu Siemens did some partly beige but for their workstations and they w...

I've been using a similar technology for over a decade. It's called...[drum roll]...opening the window.

Compressed air is much more effective than a vacuum. Buy a can, open your laptop(removing the keyboard might suffice to get access to the cpu cooler) and use that.

I'd say (as an atheist myself) that Richard Dawkins is a pretty good example of a both fundamentalist and militant atheist. As for extremist islam - perhaps stopping the bombing of their countries, the targeted assassinations of "suspected" terrorists(and thousands of innocents killed as "collateral...

The 590 has a detachable drive cage. I'd rather buy that instead.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Cool ... 590/4.html

I undervolt my old Socket A Sempron 2600+ from 1.6 to 1.525. Not much and temperatures didn't drop with more than 5C but at least I can keep my CPU fan(Arctic Fan 3) at ??-1500 rpm. I have no idea how low it gets, under 1200 Speedfan stops giving any credible figure(think 30000 rpm). Normal usage te...

The way you lot are moaning, anyone would think we're still living in the days of the Industrial revolution when people worked in 'The Dark Satanic Mills' for barely enough pay to feed and clothe themselves, let alone buy computer(s) and flat screen colour HDTV's. Employees have NEVER had it so goo...

The way you lot are moaning, anyone would think we're still living in the days of the Industrial revolution when people worked in 'The Dark Satanic Mills' for barely enough pay to feed and clothe themselves, let alone buy computer(s) and flat screen colour HDTV's. Employees have NEVER had it so goo...

Does the PSU have long enough cables to be used in an Antec Three Hundred or Cooler Master 590?(yes, I know the cases require modding to be silent). I'm worried in particular about the P4 connector since many motherboards seem to have it positioned on the top-left corner.

I'd ask him what was with all that genocide in the OT, whether directly done by him(Sodom and Gomorrah) or by ordering others to do it (Joshua and his ethnic cleansings).



Well I guess this is one way of making a first post to a tech forum.