There are 479 pins, to prevent you from insearting a PM in a 478 board. Since P4 and PM is electrical compatible, PM does not need an extra pin. But since the pin out is somewhat different, Intel don't want n00bs to return fried PM's because they tried it in a 478.

I have a IC7-M3. I also got tired of the whiney NB fan. I got the zalman NB cooler and glued the thing to the NB with artic thermal epoxy. Never to be removed again. At that time I was looking into overclocking the thing som I placed a papst 40mm fan on top of it. I required that I cut down the fins...

Well, i just read that I can draw 500mA from the connectors, e.g. 6W. The fans draw 2.4W each at 12v. So it will be a close call. Question is, do they draw more, when run by PWM? Is the rating max, or during normal operation?

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I know the inf is somewhere around, but I have tried searching to no avail. Anyhow I have two 120mm panaflo FBK-12G12LH in my system, undervolted to 5v. However I want to run them from the mobo fanconnectors as Speedfan then can take control of them. They do not have RPM minitoring, so I was thinkin...

Well, guess that was kind of a stupid post i wrote. I just found out that the P4-M and P4 is compatible, but the pin-out is different. So eventou a P4-M would work with P4 desktop chipset, it would need a different pin-out.

So much for my good idea.
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I'm building a new HTPC for running WMCE 2005 with the Ahanix D-Vine 5 case. As the thermal properties of HTPC cases in generel are very poor I am considering different paths. MCE5 requires a P4 2.4 to run smoothly and I already have a 2.6. So the question is, what P4-M (socket 478) do I need in ord...

Peteamer Well, it alwas the obvious you miss, because it is just too darn easy. Had I thought about it: both drives passing the SMART test, both drives seems to fail, I should have looked for something that influenced both drives. But I'll remeber the lesson. :) Laurent: Guess so. The SATA connector...

I feel so f...... stupid. Counting on it being a new machine and all, I didn't check the powercables. The 5v connector from the standart powerplug to the two SATA plugs could have been the problem. I have now replaced it, and is waiting to see if it freezes again. And my new drive have just arrived,...

Have already done so. but nothing comes up. I can see in HD Health that one value have changed, but thats all.

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I bought a new comp this spring with two SP1614C drives. It have been running almost 24/7 ever since without a glitch. When I came home the other day I couln't get it out of the pause-screen, so I rebooted it. It couldn't boot and stalled after "Verifying DMI Pool data" where the boot is done and th...

A P133 heatsink is fine for the 9600XT. I have done it, and there haven't been any problems so far. If pcislots is a concern try finding a heatsink for a P Pro for 1U servers. They are about 2 centimeters high, and therefore should only render one pci slot useless, I would think.

In reply to the first post in this tread: (btw I have just scanned the other posts, so if this have already been written I apologise) I assume that the kill-a-watt is measuring the powerdraw from 110V/230V line. If so, it gives no meaning to translate one watt on the 110v/230v side to one watt on th...

Well, no. Cause I don't play any real graphic intensive games, until HL2 arrives. :D Anyhow if I have done it properly then I don´t expect there to be either, since the stock cooling solution is really crappy as you write. I suspect that there is only a fan on this card because costumers expect ther...

I can only second zoob. Did it with my old Radeon AIW, and it worked fine. Just be carefull not to apply to much pressure. As I recall it, you apply some pressure, and after a few seconds you can feel the glue giving in and the heatsink comes of.

So i finally got around to mod my vidcard. I exchanged the stock fan/heatsink on my Sapphire 9600XT 256 with an old heatsink from a P133. The P133 heatsink is from a ICL/Fujitsu system, where the cpu was passively cooled. I glued it on with arctic silver epoxy and left it for a couple of hours to cu...

Neither is it recommended to change the heatsink on your gpu nor fiddle with the mobo. Things I have already done, together with many others here. Many things are not recommended, but we do them anyway. So I don't mind being the first. However if there is someone around who have tried it, then I mig...

Thx for your replies. Looks like they'd updated their site, since I passed by sometime in jan. The material is nonconductive but should not be placed in direct contact with the components and cirtuitry. Well the components on the underside of the mobo mostly resistors and the like and the traces on ...

Some time ago I bought some Acustipac Deluxe, but first now I have the time to install it. I have tried to find information about this material is safe to put between the mobo and the mobo tray. Or to say it differently: Can this material conduct electrisity? Any thoughts and experience with this wi...

I have recieved tis on a PB.: Saw your old post from March - curious if you ever found a solution for silencing the OTES on your IC7 Max3. I'm going to be getting one soon and need any advice you might have. Also - did you replace the northbridge with anything? I'd like to throw on my standard zalma...

Someone over at Ars have done some interesting stuff. http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb ... 9001693631

too bad i don't have the time for this right now.

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A strange thing have happened. I took apart my case to do some modding for a fan. Since I cannot be without the computer I put the mobo tray and the components on the floor. And now my temps is in the 27-35 range for both discs. As earlier reports suggest I can now see that the temp scale is with 2C...

Hey Sad that I have not seen this post before now. I have the same case as yours and same problems. The thing is, this case is poorly designed when you consider airflow and thats proberly why the PSU fan exhaust cool air. As you mentioned there is no air intake and reversing the fan on the top is no...

Has anybody have experience with SP1614C samsung drives with mobo P4C800-E Deluxe? Well, the chipset on the asus is the same as on mine. The raid chip on the asus, however is a VIA6410 wheras the abit uses the silicon image chip. Also it appears that the abit southbridge is a ICH5 wheras yours is a...

The fan/heatsink on my Sapphire 9600XT looks rather flimsey. I have had it apart and it is only the walls of the fan that acts as heatsink. Therefore I cannot justify to my self to go out and buy a Zahlman heatsink as I have the feeling it would be overkill. So I wonder about there is someone else w...

You have forgotten to mention Mushkin. It seems to be pretty reliable but are a little expensive. However I have noting to compare it with. Have two sticks of 512 500MHz.

Have already done that. I'm more worried about the mosfets.

I have already replaced the 40mm OTES fan on my Abit IC7 Max3 with a Papst and made a NB cooler from a modified Zahlman NB heatsink with a 40mm Papst. Eventhou I run these at 50% I am fed up with their noise, so I am thinking about removing them both together with the plastic cover over the mosfets ...

Have you tried the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test software? You can still do the SMART test. Well, I could.

Both of my SP1614C show in Speedfan.

Well, I have a 92, 80 and 40 and PWM driven or not they don't click. Just wonder what you folks do with 'em And no it is not the Ultra low noise versions I have but the next best.