peteamer wrote:Though mine still being there due to me being more 'chosen' might have something to do with it.....

There's an easy way to test both your theory and my theory at the same time! Just edit your sig a bit and save it and see if it turns into code

Perhaps I can amend my little theory and someone who knows how phpBB works can check whether I'm way off or not. I am guessing that phpBB disables [img] tags when phpBB somehow thinks that the URL is not an image (sounds reasonable enough), but a recent upgrade/reconfiguration has changed phpBB's id...

One of us can start a "discussion" and refer people to here :) On the other hand, the article starts with "Your PC's noise is easy to ignore, but tuning it out still takes mental energy." I went to my local library a few hours ago, and I noticed how their dozens of PC's are so loud, definitely not "...

Oh well, there goes my little theory... we need new theories now ...

I believe SPCR's phpBB is configured to not render images if the URL "does not look like an image" (my guess); perhaps it's a result of some upgrade...

I don't fold myself but I notice this when I tried to post some images to the general gallery.

Noticeable whine (with case closed, about 1 meter away): No whine Noticeable whine (with ear next to harddrive): Whine, directional Model Number: SP1614C Supplier: CompuSmart Month of purchase: 2004.12 Motor: NIDEC stamp FDB Revision: Rev A Date of Manufacturing: 2004.11 Any other relevant/interesti...

I have now come to the stage where my PSU (Silverstone SST-40F) is the loudest component (besides the seek noise from the Samsung 1604C (Nidec)). Contrary to the "Low air resistance, low fan speed, low noise technique" post , I found that putting a filter in my case have made it slightly quieter, th...

MikeC wrote:The Samsung is by far the best balance of performance & noise of all the notebook drives I've tried -- including the Tosh, Hitachi. It is almost as quiet as a Fujitsu 4200 but 50% faster.

With so much firsthand information, perhaps the recommended list should be updated?

So it's the CPU temperature that's still over 50 :oops: Is that still a Celeron? Over 50 at idle or under load? I've got a celery with zalman HS (see sig) and it idles around 32, maxes out at 46'ish I believe it is a Celeron. It has the stock heatsink which is just a few fins. The dead fan which us...

Jordan wrote:Susspend it with ellastic or Stetch Magic.

Hmm... the Novibes III is suspending the hard drive in elastics...

So I suppose the original post could be rephrased as "the drive hums even though it is suspended"...

This is so embarrassing... I must have been too tired or something... I think I got the temperatures mixed up. When I re-read the SpeedFan temperatures a couple of days ago, I found nothing for drive temperature. It seems that it was actually showing motherboard temperature and CPU temperature, not ...

If the OEM drives really are worse it'll be total chaos. Around here, it seems that - all real computer stores (even biggish franchise stores like CompuSmart) sell only OEM drives - the only stores which sell retail boxes are stationery / "consumer electronics" stores (e.g., Staples, Future Shop, et...

I was freaked out when I ran SpeedFan yesterday (thanks SPCR for the link!) and found that one of the PC's has a cpu temperature in the 50's and hard drive temperature in the 80's. I shut it down and found a dead cpu fan. As a makeshift measure, I swapped out the dead fan and installed a 80mm case f...

All this is very subjective, but I did very recently replace an almost-new Seagate (Barracuda 7200.7 120GB, PATA) with a new Samsung (SP1614C, Nidec motor). The Samsung does sound somewhat quieter, though I wouldn't say it's a really big difference (considering you'll have big expectations after rea...

jtcb wrote:

mshan wrote:Samsung FDD: quiet and fast!

Any review on that? I don't mind getting another Samsung device as my samsung sata hd is extremely quiet.

I think that's meant to be a joke. Samsung does not make floppy drives afaik.

Sorry, I don't know

inet wrote:Also, is this stuff fire resistent?

According to the manufacturer, it is. ("Class B")

FWIW, I found that CompuSmart (http://www.compusmart.com/) has Samsung drives. This is about the only quiet item it has, it seems.

For some strange reason, its catalogue lists the 160GB S-ATA drive as having a 8MB cache. (Other drives are all listed as having 2MB cache.)

I found them at InMax ( http://www.inmax.ca ) a few blocks west of Spadina and College. The store is listed in SPCR in http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=3564

I also haven't seen Nexus fans for 1/4 the price of SilenX. Here in Toronto it seems that 120mm Nexus fans are about 70% the price of the SilenX. At the 80mm size the difference is larger, but still the Panaflo is about 60% the price of the SilenX (but it's not the most expensive), not 25%. But then...

I have hardly found the site for a month!!

I had been living with my noisy PC for 2 years... I didn't even know I could make it quieter until I found this site. Really helpful

You have missed one VERY important thing!!! There's a function in Windows XP and some Linux at least, possibly in Windows 2000 too. ... mounting partitions in other partitions. Mounting a partition can be done in any Linux (or any Unix system for that matter), in fact it is required, since any Unix...

From my personal experience, you just need to have the driver disk in the floppy drive before it begins setup. It'll seek and automatically install it. Well, most people don't put floppies in the floppy drive when booting up... I spent a whole day trying to figure out whether the driver disk (of a ...

Around here in Toronto, Sillicon Image and Promise seem to be the only SATA controllers available, and they seem to be also the only manufacturers of all the SATA chipsets on the motherboards. I suppose this has to mean there's little difference buying a controller and waiting for a motherboard upgr...

Before I disconnected my WD for its excessive whine, I also had 3 hard drives (also Seagate, WDC, and Maxtor but smaller capacity); the 4th drive is a CDRW (not DVD ROM). So I guess if the problem really is the power supply, I think the setup should work.

I had some similar problem about exactly a year ago. It turned out that my power supply was failing.

Did you run the "full test" in the diagnostics program from the hard drive manufacturer? It should fix the errors (but sometimes it might not, but usually it does). AFAIK, the way it works is by finding the bad sectors and replacing them with some "spare sectors". Once, (when my PC was very unstable...

Wow, a hard disk temperature of 30 degrees with no fans? Mine hover around 40 degrees even with exhaust fans running...

I googled a bit harder :-) and found that Everflow likely has no web site. (Knowing that it is a Chinese company, I googled in google.com.tw and found out the Chinese name of the company [齊泰登]. I could find no company web site using either the English or Chinese name, but did turn up a couple of old...

I think it'd be nice to have RPM and CFM values listed also for the "interesting" fans. This would be useful if one, say, currently have one of the "interesting" ones and wants to replace it with a "recommeded" one while keeping the same CFM values.