Yeah, that's the main reason I freecycled my lovely little Antec Aria -- the PSU drew 20W when connected only to the wall -- and not even a motherboard! :roll: That had to go. It's little comfort that it idled at like 38W and maxed out at 60, since I knew that 30-50% of that were basically heating t...

Glad you like it. What is the typical efficiency of a wall wart? I can't say. It's a bit difficult to do, but you can actually get the efficiency for your wall wart. First you read the power draw as described above; then you need to place the kill-a-watt between the wart and the device, that is, rou...

My advice: start with the old, if you need to buy something new then make sure it can be re-used in a more modern pc. If the old stuff turns out to be too slow or whatever, buy new and use any old-new parts you may have bought. That, at least, keeps the e-waste to a minimum ... but it does require y...

Can anyone tell me if powering my ATA + ROUTER + NAS + SWITCH + ADSL MODEM +22" LCD monitor from my PSU doable AND worth it? Sure it's doable! Whether or not you survive the experiment remains to be seen, though... :lol: No really, what I would do is this: OK, so there would be actual wire strippin...

Hey, just a thought: have you looked at the mini itx forum? They do tons of custom cases, mainly mini itx of course, but should provide a lot of inspiration for odd placement and such...

Problem (due to be) solved -- turns out my wife has a colleague who lives in Sweden. I'll arrange for the order to be sent to him, he'll bring it to work, and my wife will bring it home. Ta-dah.

1) Very, very tidy case job.

2) Very, very tidy post, too.

Kudos on both accounts!

You could order one from Sweden if you're desperate. ;) http://prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?p=251120 Bought it (from Inet.se), they had tons in stock. That wasn't so hard, was it? mkk, thanks for pointing out that Swedish portal -- I'll be using it again! ...not so fast. They have just sent me an email ...

I wrote directly to Thermalright to ask if they'll sell me one directly. With your help, I found a not-so-local dealer before I received their reply. Would you believe it, they've thanked me for pointing the matter out to them, asked if I had any suggestions for better dealers than shg.dk, and they'...

Dust has a tendency to stay put, you need to place a pulling (sucking) fan *very* near dust build-up to actually move it that way -- that is, if the PSU is sitting in the dust but has its fan facing upward, I don't expect it to pick up any of the dust it's sitting in. Compressed air won't make dust ...

I'd say it's worth waiting for the HR-01 Plus. You could order one from Sweden if you're desperate. ;) http://prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?p=251120 Bought it (from Inet.se), they had tons in stock. That wasn't so hard, was it? It should be on my doorstep within a few days, and it was even considerably c...

Hi, I'll be putting an Intel E8500 on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R in an Antec P182, and I wanted to cool it with a Thermalright HR-01. But now it's been TWO friggin' MONTHS since I ordered the cooler at what seems to be the only Danish reseller, but they've kept postponing the thing by a week again and ...

What kind of output(s?) do you want?

I just bought an Asus EN8400GS, it's got VGA+DVI and a rather big passive profile. I'm still(!) waiting for parts so I haven't actually fired it up yet.

The PSU itself is not going to care which way you mount it. So do what's best in terms of case openings, screw holes, cable positions, et cetera. However, depending on what the orientation does to your general case airflow, it may have an impact on other components. Also, if you're into tight cable ...

Okay so you've defined "silent" to mean "rather quiet". Now please define "pc". :lol: The smallest motherboard would be something in the mini-ATX (mATX) class, a VIA EPIA M10000 for instance, which I've used for a while (but is now no longer modern). There are smaller boards, but then you don't get ...

Or ... you explain why this is the only one in the world that meets your demands, and we have a better chance at finding an alternative for you.

In the somewhat-recent thread Keyboard and Mouse (silent) recommendations , I recommended a very nice IBM laptop-style keyboard, and also an impossible-to-find but truly silent Touchstream. Luke, use the ... um, search. :wink: FYI, the thread starter eventually bought the Apple aluminum keyboard (US...

There's also the Lian Li PC-A05 case, which has the PSU at the bottom front.

No personal experience, but here's a review, semi-randomly picked from a google search.

Maybe I'm seeing a different page than you are, because on the image I see , the cables and connectors are very tiny, too tiny to count the number of leads. ATX ... EPS ... I'm sorry, it's all a bit new to me. :roll: But thank you for explaining. Still, it's kind of moot because I already have the p...

Hi, wouldn't you know it, after a month of delaying my supplier finally admitted that they can no longer ship the GA-EP4 3 -DS3R which I ordered for my new pc -- they can only ship the GA-EP4 5 -DS3R . That it took over a month plus a series of phone calls from me to get this information is one thin...

How did you decided with dual over quad core? I'm building this system for Photoshop and image processing, and not gaming. I've read that raw clock speed works best with photoshop, and am hoping to get and answer if the quad core rounds works better for other computer useage, and is therefore the b...

Oh I'm still here. :) I'm just waiting for a few parts to arrive. Nothing important ... just the motherboard, memory, and cpu cooler! >_< So far, it's a very silent system! Performance-wise, it's not so great, though. :cry: I have looked at the Xigmatek, but somehow the non-smooth surface area again...

Is being captured by your enemy, being tortured, physically and possibly mentally, and confessing to the transgressions of your country a reason to be referred to as a war hero? Shouldn't a hero have to perform something "heroic"? While I never gave it any thought until I saw it worded that way, up...

FYI, my new 182 (non-SE) came with only the normal built-in fans; however it seems that the settings for the back exhaust fan are actually "low-high-high". :-/ The others are okay. No matter, since I've already bought a separate set of fans, Nexus D12SL-12 ones (if Nexus had specified that the packs...

All I can say is ... check out the LHC webcams.

Here's a page which shows the feeds from cameras 7&8.

If you mount the "+" at a 45 degree angle, doesn't that make it an "x"? :wink: Sorry, what I meant to say was, if the thermal profiles of the AMD and Intel CPU match, then you should be in the green as far as cooling capacity goes. Check the processor specifications. I've just bought an HR-01, too, ...

I was in sort of the same dilemma. As far as I understand, it's nice to have about 50% spare capacity because that's where the efficiency is best. I ended up listening *a lot* to the sound recordings here at this site, and ended up choosing the Enermax because its overall noise profile seems less an...

I guess this would just be bad publicity for these psu, and this might hurt sponsors etc... Why not just stick to the recommended list ? In the real world not everything is good. A review site that only shows good reviews is not representative of the real world. I think review sites should be allow...

Am I correct in thinking that a laptop drive will be more silent than a desktop drive? Well, depends. Generally the clickety-clackety seeking sounds are softer in the smaller drives (because the moving parts are obviously smaller), but the overall drive noise is not necessarily lower. Some are, som...

Sweet! I've been considering the same thing, I live in a flat and I don't care for yet another case. Neat to see there's room for a mini-ITX in the P180! :D And also a very nice solution cable-wise; I'd have thought you'd need one of those huge Lian Li cases with dual power supplies, but if you can ...