Cistron wrote:Aluminium foil apparently works well as anti-static surface. So if all else fails ... your brother just has to remember to remove all of it.

Yeah, that sounds like a recipe for disaster, with a little bit of foil left behind and blowing the thing up as soon as he switches it on

To spell it out: There are anti-static bags with this foam inside. Put the bag in place as the foam activates and it expands as shown in the picture...but I have no idea who might offer this on a retail basis. Again, maybe a local shipper. Ah, I see, so they're anti-static bags OK. So they come wit...

The self-expanding packaging foam idea is intriguing but I can't picture how I'd make a box out of it (guess I'd need a mould of some sort), nor how to fill the inside of the case without making an ungodly mess! You don't make a box out of the expanding foam, you have to have a larger box anyway. Y...

xan_user: you didn't see the big honking Antec P182 cardboard box? :) I liked the big red bars in the video with "I use anti-static foam now"...but I wonder if he still wraps them up in cellophane tape? Expanding foam is what Puget Systems uses. http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/puget-sere...

When you say 'shipping' how do you intend it to be done? To go slightly off topic the word 'shipping' is heavily misused nowadays to mean any form of freight transport which is of course incorrect - shipping is done on... a ship. :lol: Road freight, rail freight and air freight are not shipping des...

This video covers it in detail nicely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMffTpGKBdc Thanks, that's very helpful. The only thing I was surprised by is that he didn't put the Antec case box in another outer box. Obviously it's a pain to try and find somewhere to get such a box from, not to mention the ...

did i miss what case this was, or was it not mentioned? Id use a nice heavy stock cardboard panel or two (laminated), cut to fit inside snugly inside case, right over top of cpu fan. tape or hot glue the cardboard to the case and drive trays to lock it in place. screw cardboard to top of fan with l...

CA_Steve wrote:I'd worry about static electricity/ESD issues with plastic bags...

Oh really? Never occured to me that this could be a problem. Oh well, I'll have to think of something else then.

Perhaps I could wedge some polystyrene in there instead then?

I've got to ship this PC to my brother fairly soon and I'm thinking about the best way to protect it. Not so much the outer packaging, as I've got the original case box and internal polystyrene protection and I know I need to find a larger external box to put that in, cushioned on foam peanuts or si...

Hmm, this is interesting http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cooler ... 284_5.html

It suggests that the heatpipes need to be pointing upwards/at the bottom of the heatsink or else it doesn't work very well.

Well I ended up just cutting the damn things off as I couldn't work out how to pull them off. It's not like they're re-usable anyway and I had to attach the fan with zipties to make it easier to replace if/when it does fail and my brother needs to do it by himself. Shame they didn't use a simpler, r...

My fans are mislabeled. The one labeled chassis is actually the CPU fan (mini-Ninja w/80mm fan using SpeedFan/PWN) and the other two fans are 120mm case exit fans (using manual fan controllers/Fanmates) and yes, when encoding, this machine is a bit loud, but in "low power mode", with the fans at mi...

Well it's quite cool here today (indoor thermo reads 25c) and the PC is right next to an open window. Your temps are a lot better than mine but maybe that's partly because IntelBurnTest heats up the CPU far more than anything "normal" like doing an encode and partly because your fans are running muc...

I've had some success using OC Mode - CPU Mode, which lets me select a percentage to overclock by. 5% tested stable with IntelBurnTest, so I tried 20% for 3360Mhz. That bumps up the CPU-NB to 1.25v despite underclocking it to 1920Mhz. It set the HT to 2100Mhz so I reduced that to 1920Mhz manually. I...

Well reducing the HT didn't help. Asrock pointed me to this table which shows that officially Athlon II X4 630 on a 4-slot board with 2-slots populated only officially supports 1066Mhz RAM http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ddr3memoryfrequencyguide.aspx Testing with the RAM speed set to Auto...

Hi Doveman, Is the G-360 making the ticking on a constant base or has it stopped completely? If you wish, we can take a look at it for you. Well it's gotten worse I'm afraid. I was kinda hoping I was imagining it or it would turn out to be something else I could easily fix as I've been working non-...

Hmm, looking at my settings I used on the previous board I see I had to set HT to 1600Mhz for it to work. I was assuming setting it to 2000Mhz or just under would be correct, so that's probably why I've been having problems. I even noted that problem in the first post :roll: I'll go and try again! M...

those temps are fine. there's zero advantage to keeping cores "cool". as long as they are not throttling back, youre set. Yeah but what I meant to say was that as soon as I run prime95 it jumps to 55c and I've been told to keep it under 55c (I think the max spec is 62c). Tested the other Slipstream...

Well I got my two Scythe Slip Stream 120 PWM and have tested one on my main system's TRUE rev. C, in place of the Arctic F12 PWM. It's not that impressive, with a nasty raspy noise at only 750RPM. At 550RPM this disappears but that's too low to keep my CPU cool (idling Core at 48c, CPU at 40c). It d...

noee wrote:Yes, it might help. I have a 620X4 (no L3) that runs 3.5Ghz stable (for years now) at 1.3695 using mini_Ninja in a NSK2400.

Hmm, that's lower voltage than what I'm currently using for 3.2Ghz. It's set to 1.4v in the BIOS but I think CPU-Z showed around 1.38v.

Hmm, IntelBurnTest caught instability on the second loop, so should I increase the CPU voltage?

I'm using the Athlon II X4 630 on a different board now, Asrock 880GMH/U3S3, which I'm setting up for my brother. Just getting round to setting up the overclock. I've got FSB - 230Mhz CPU - x14 = 3220Mhz@1.4v NB - 2300Mhz@1.175v (NB Core - 1.19v) HT - 1840Mhz (next step is 2070Mhz) DDR3 - 1532Mhz (n...

I actually found a Zalman Fanmate variable resistance fan controller and using that to reduce the Xilence to around 800 RPM makes it practically inaudible. According to my meter, there's just under 1k resistance at that setting (0.958 on the meter's 2k range) but that's so far from the 56ohm or 100o...

Well running Prime95 x64 Large FFTs Torture Test and the CPU gets to 54c (core 48c, motherboard 44c) in under 10mins (BIOS Target Temp 45c). The noise is terrible as well, with the Xigmatek CPU fan running at 1454RPM and the Arctic F12 front fan at 1360RPM. It's hard to tell if one's worse than the ...

I gather this is a top down cooler. Some people have made good experiences with the YateLoon PWM fan, but sample variance is said to play a big part, so you might order a few fans and just keep the best model. A Scythe Slip Stream 120 PWM doesn't break the bank (is listed around 8 Euro + p&p in ger...

So does anyone know if it'll be OK to just get a higher value resistor and replace the 100R with that to run the Xilence slower? For the Xigmatek fan, I think I'll have to replace the fan if I want to reduce the noise, as I don't think I can use a Zalman resistor on the socket as it's PWM and it won...

I don't know if it's cheap enough, but Lian Li has mesh bay covers with air filters. And a 3 bay cover with (pretty loud 1500RPM) fan . At 7V these fans are ok, at 5V they're slow but inaudible (for me). Scythe had a three bay cover with a better fan, the Scythe Kama Bay Plus, but I it's discontinu...

I've got three fans in my case, an Xilence Red Wing 120mm rear exhaust http://www.xilence.net/en/products/fans/fans/red-wing-120.html, the fan that came on the Xigmatek HDT-D1284 top-down cooler (PWM) and a Arctic F12 PWM front intake. The Xilence Red Wing is fine (I'm using a Zalman 100R resistor t...

I've got an Aerocool VS-4 case https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aerocool-VS-4-Screwless-Gaming-Tower/dp/B004OXXQ82 and had originally planned to put more optical drives in but had to change my plans. Now I've got two of the blanking plates removed that I want to put back but it seems they don't go back and ...

Thank you, please do let us know if you run into any issues. In fact it is still ticking at power-up and power-down, so it seems to happen when the fan is spinning slowly. I presume the fan changes speed according to load/temp, so it's possible it will slow down and I'll hear the ticking again at o...