That is a very important question.
www.fan-x.de has a lot of tables that show the temps of the power components next to the cpu. In all their reviews. Take your time and look at the charts.

Interesting review. Thanks.

Me with my bent board ....... I must be such a Noob! Did your board come inside a antistatic bag, with the foam outside the bag, or did you board come from the manufacturer directly touching the foam? THe foam on my board was outide the antistatic bag, so I figured that I could not touch the board t...

I'll have to admit that the instructions that come with the Ninja are a bit 'minimal'. I mounted the HS with the motherboard outside of the case, and I did not have any sensation that the board was being warped. The pressure used on the clips wasn't that bad. Just push them down until they clip int...

You will have to get some air blowing over the passive graphics card. A thermally advantaged chassis with an air guide can help. (sort of what you were hinting at). The stock cooler is actually quite effective with and air guide and q-fan and cool and quiet. When the speed of that stock fan is under...

wow all this talk about firm or considerable pressure.... has me scared to get this thing after my failure to succesfully mount the stock amd cooler -- I permanently bent (not broke) the board with the stock cooloer. (more on that below). Would it not help to prevent board bending if you mounted thi...

I am thinking about getting this heatsink or some of the other Scythe heatsinks, but I cannot for the life of me understand how to mount them. I downloaded the instructions, and what confuses me is the use of the 4 point 'x' shaped backplate. But on socket 939 motherboards, is not there usually a br...

Which has a center of gravity closer to the motherboard mount -- Sonic Tower or Ninja?

Oh, which has less tension in the clip for easier mounting?

Every heatsink that surpasses the weight limit for AMD and Intel boards comes with a reinforcing backplate. In fact, a lot of heatsinks that don't need them still come with them. . I don't understand. On a socket 939 motherboard, there is a metal backplate already firmly glued down. Do these towers...

Darthan, Are you mounting these things with the motherboard removed from the case, so that you can hold the backside metal plate when you push the clips down, so that the motherboard does not bend? I must be an idiot, because I followed the instructions of mounting the stock AMD heatsink (both mothe...

Well, I think some people have wondered this here and there on this forum. What tower is best for a Theremally Advantaged Chassis. It seem to me that something that is more flat like the xp120 or Bigwater type designs are more in line with how the air get sucked onto the top of the heatsink. But on ...

For example, AMD quietly released Venice which can work with 4 DIMMs at full 200MHz while Winchester couldn't. Because they released it quietly, stores are still selling remaining Winchester CPUs at pretty much the same price as a Venice CPU. . But can those 4 DIMMS work at 1T under venice or just ...

But is there some sort of built in resistance in the window defrost kit stuff, so that it heats up on the window -- the end result being the window defrosts? Would that matter over a very short span?

I was wondering if anyone can suggest a heatsink that doesn't bend the motherboard by itself or from mounting on amd-64 processor? First off, would you characterize the mounting of the retail heatsink that comes with the processor, as a mechanism that itself would bend the motherboard if mounted on ...

Does anyone have any idea what could cause the system date to change when swapping out a power supply? I had to take out all the connectors from the motherboard, and remove the motherboard , to make space to get the power supply out. I don't think the back side of the motherboard touched anything me...

Thanks interesting.

MikeC, Interesting, thanks. Are you saying then ,that the El Cheapo power supply might in actuality have a 3.3v line reading at the output point something quiet a bit above 3.3v so that after the motherboard processes that line, it comes in at 3.25v? So I understand clearly know how what your readin...

Something is telling me that your airflow in your case is messed up if there is that much warm air coming out the back of the PSU. this means that the fan is blowing the air INTO the case, instead of out of it due to its lower fan speed. I would check to make sure you don't have blocked intakes som...

Thanks for the explaination Thanks for the explaination Devonavar

But clearly the system interacts with the el cheapo power supply to give a 3.3v reading closer to specification.

Hi. I got this power supply, and it is not being loaded too heavily. range of 100-200w total draw depending on operation of pc. Anyways from the various software tools that agree on the voltages (I have a bunch installed) , the 12v line reports a 11.84 v. The 3.3 volt line reports at 3.14v. The 5 vo...

The article talks about a few stability programs. I have a question about what exactly is the technical difference of what a program such a prime95 vs. memtest86 are doing? How is it that a system could pass memtest86 yet fail prime95? What is the technical fundamental difference of how they are str...

Ed, How exactly is your software picking up the nforce4 chipset temperature? I was not aware that there is an internal sensor in the chipset? Is there? If there is a sensor inside, are you aware of any software that could pick out the reading from that sensor from other mobo manufactures? Also, if y...

If you hold a nexus 120 mm fan in your hand, while it spins at 12volts, can you feel a low frequency reverberation/vibration in you hand. I am talking just hold it you hand, not mounted to anything. It is not something that can be heard, just felt in the sigle fan I have. Is this normal? When soft m...

Yeh, report back. I think the sound files here from the 90mm sound nice. I like the non-sound more than the slowed 120mm. But I really don't have 1st hand experience. My guess, is that some sort of short heatpipe box type thing with a slow 90 mm is good for some regular cooling. But did you mention ...

Hi Jaer. Keep rambling, it is interesting, and I bet there are a lot of people curious about exactly those parts in combination. My guess is that you gotta have some more airflow washing over the video card. If you mount a fan on the back side of that particular Sonic Tower (on the memory side), app...

Thinking about getting this case, and I want to inject a little more positive pressure into it, to keep dust out of the dvd/cdrom drive and floppy. So thinking about mounting fans. Or not mounting and just putting some filters in place by themselves to keep dust out of the interior (but would not wa...

www.presence-pc.com should help the questions raised about the ncu-2005 and the SCNJ-1000. Read all the pages. In the bad translation "the food" is a power supply. The Titan Vanessa-L would be an ineresting thing to directly compare to the NCJ-1000 in the semi-passive mode. madshimp.com has a good ...

http://quietpc.com/uk/p4cooling.php#ncu2005

shows some of the questions one of the early posters to this thread was wondering about.

http://www.skynet-online.de/artikel/artikel.php?&id=92&page=4 That is a review of the ncu-2005. Does anyone read German, I was having troubles with 2 points, is the the side panel of the case closed for the temperature measurement? And in the negative column what does "Komfortabilität (Umsetzung)" m...

What Spinpoint? Where did I write about the Spinpoints? I digged up an older c't. The Spinpoint M40 (MP0603H; 2,5", 5400 rpm, 8MB Cache) has 0.6 Sone when idling, 0.7 under load with AAM and 0.9 wo AAM. The 80 GB version is measured with 0.7, 0.8 and 1.1 Sone. So they seem to be quite a bit loader ...