I do plan to add an active radiator with twin 120mm fans to keep everything under 40c while at full load. Why...? Your temps are good, no need to add noise... Galvanic corrosion won't be noticable after a week, but after half a year it will be, if you don't take precautions. No physical contact bet...

if you need more pressure, go with 3/8 ID tubing, if you want better flow rate get 1/2 ID tubing. The pressure is best kept intact with 1/2 ID tubing (the resistance is less). Assuming the difference in pressure loss between the two tubings is negligable, the flow rate will also be nearly the same ...

If you only get snippets and not complete events, you will lose things like this: I'm watching the 500 mtr speed skating. There is a mopping (?) intermission. Both Zambonis are dead, and they're spraying the ice with what looks like garden hoses... The budget was... 4 billion maybe? A third Zamboni ...

Saw this, and couldn't resist: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b25/spookmineer/forum/ipad-joke-1.jpg Maybe Apple are becoming too confident. The iPod/iPhone are very good products, especially because of all the apps which add to an already functional and efficient piece of hardware. With the iPad ...

While it isn't an mITX case, there is an article on building a wooden case. There have been a fair few numbers of articles and threads of wooden cases on internet, other than airflow and the time to actually build it, it's all pretty straight forward. There are some good tips in this article, and wh...

The first review I've seen is from Legion Hardware . In comparison to the TRUE, they say this: Thermalright has increased the fin gap distance by 20% to 1.9mm, though despite this the Venomous-X only features 13% less fins overall. ... Furthermore, this meant that the Venomous-X was 4 degrees better...

what i really hate from CRTs are the dreaded settings and you HAVE to do it yourself. There are tons of different stupid settings like trapezoid, moire, pin-cushion, etc......and you have to get the damn thing right for EACH resolution you want to choose! With every form of flexibility, you'll have...

Heh me too... thought it was a brand new thread I missed yesterday and replied to poor Neil. I'll keep what I wrote for a laugh (although some parts still apply) Hello: One of the reasons that CRT's are so inexpensive is that LCD's are better monitors for most uses. Twelve years ago (or so) a 20"-21...

I'd say it's pretty useful then.

Noise canceling headphones work so well for two reasons: A) they "know" where your ears are. In other words, your ears don't change position relative to the speakers, so sound waves can be generated that will reach your ear almost exactly when the environments sound does. B) They work in conjunctio...

i know alot of people with motherboards that only accept PCI-E x16 1, which prevents them from taking advantage of virtually all modern graphics cards ? NVidia GTX 2xx and the like are x16 2.0 cards, ATI 5xxx are x16 2.1 cards (its throughput speed is the same as 2.0). A motherboard supporting x16 ...

I realize just about everyone is sold on iPods, but frankly if I were to convert all my vinyl to digital I woun't accept anything lower than 96KHz/24 bit. And given how cheap hard drives are I'd go with 192KHz/24 bit. Nice to meet someone else whose ears can actually hear 40 kHz sounds. Sample freq...

Looks simply awesome. I don't know about the ipod though. 64 GB might be enough for some to save all their CD's in WAV, but not for me (I mean, with that piece of equipment you're not going to use mp3's). If you could hook up a HD to it... but then how to select the files... It really does look beau...

Thanks a lot for the in depth post. I'll try to explain why I don't get why this smaller, lighter, newer car with a (I suppose) more efficient engine doesn't run more economically. Both my former and my current car are second hand cars. Former car: bought with 105.000 km on the clock, sold with 211....

Most 700 RPM fans can be heard in a quiet room, but just barely. A new fan will have to spin at about that same speed to offer the same performance. If the current one is hard to notice I wouldn't spend money on a new one.

Anyway... So yeah, how about that asteroid...?

Riffer wrote:BTW, if you are really into Russian secret conspiracy stuff, look up "Dead Hand"

"Dead hand" doesn't really sound like a conspiracy, more like paranoia...
In order to be effective, the Russians had to make sure it was not a secret.

What about the closer impending disaster? Sarah Palin as president? I seriously think she has less chance of becoming president than an asteroid hitting the earth... As of October 7, 2009, the impact probability for April 13, 2036, is calculated as 1 in 250,000. It is now expected to pass the Earth...

While others relished how much vehicle they got for their money over the last few years when they bought an SUV, I stuck with my mid sized car, 13 years and 258,000 miles, and zero breakdowns. I recently (less than 1 month ago) had to buy a "new" second hand car. It's smaller than my former car, no...

4670: TDP = 70 Watt (other source: 59 Watt). GT220: TDP = 58 Watt. 9400GT: TDP = 50 Watt. Source: http://www.geeks3d.com/20090618/graphics-cards-thermal-design-power-tdp-database/ There are some differences in power saving technologies, if you don't play games, the card will perform at idle or sligh...

She stars in "Deadline" it has a creepy cover, considering how she died:

Merry X-mas to all of you!

No. The parents are responsible for this. Liberal pussies have nothing to do with it. At all. Oh yes they have, they have made it illegal for parents to smack their own children, people have even been arrested for it, are you telling me that the parents put that law into place to stop them from sma...

Disrespect for police and fellow human beings all stem from a fault in upbringing. Talking back to a policeman when getting a warning is not "cool" or funny, it's just downright anti social. As is laughing over an old woman who tripped, when you could help her up and pick up her groceries for her. ...

and Islamophobia. I think I'm done here. That word was made up, why? can be argued forever, and I dont want to argue about it, but it is made up. A phobia is: A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassur...

Over here, whenever national elections are up, a site comes up helping people decide what party to vote for. By answering 25 questions on different issues, ranging from enviroment topics to immigrant policies etc, people get to see what party is closest to their answers and which party is farthest a...

qviri wrote:You can swing your arms all you want, but when you connect with my nose, you've gone beyond exercising your freedom to wave arms.

Single most unique and unexpected remark in a thread like this
Also explains very simply what "right to..." means.

Great post overall.

Isn't voting a right...? Somehow, compulsory voting in a free democracy just sounds weird. Compulsory voting makes sense if all voters get at least a 1 day course where all the different party programs are layed out, objectively. This alone will make it very difficult. Before you know it, all sorts ...

The Seasonic X650 is serious overkill for this system. The 9600GT is about 95 Watt, motherboard about 20 W (?), the Phenom as stated 65 W. Add a few watts for HDD and drives, totals in at about 200 - 230 Watt. The i7 is a whopping 130 W (double the TDP of the Phenom!), totals about 265 - 300 W. A 40...

Compared to cooling with a compressor, absorption cooling is very inefficient. I don't know how much the fuel costs, but it sounds wasteful to just burn propane in order to cool a fridge (but I've never used a propane fueled fridge). The fridges I've seen use somewhere between 0.5 (mini fridge) and ...