Just twist it several times and pry it out, you can easily see that its meant to be removed.

When taking out the DVD drive later you dont have to replace the metal plate, just put the plastic plate on.

I'd be happy with those temps on a passive heatsink... better than what I got with the U120E passive

$ dd if=large hdtv file.mkv of=/dev/null 16529066+1 records in 16529066+1 records out 8462882179 bytes (8.5 GB) copied, 26.9014 seconds, 315 MB/s run bonnie++ on your arrays, bexx, read and write performance is usually abit different :) Version 1.03 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input-...

o.O .. just transferred files (over the network) from two individual drives to the raid set.. 99MB/s write speed, thats impressive!

I have one, but it only goes down to about 50dB...

A hot tip is to vacuum your pc from time to time too...

qviri wrote:
Did he have other drives, or just WDs?

These were just WD 500GB drives... various models.

My fortron/source 350W 120mm is sqealing.. high-frequency whine, varies with cpu load.. *AGH*

WD has been having MAJOR quality control issues with their 500GB drives, a friend of mine lost 17 of 21 drives in 6 weeks, and replacements died aswell... Another reason to just avoid WD. Seagate is super reliable, but they're having problems keeping the drives silent enough :) Samsung 500GB is reas...

o.O .. sup with me being 10th on "24hr average score" ? we need more people with kickass computers

My new E2140 will be operational tomorrow evening (CET) I think, then "operation overclock" and F@H

I have ordered a Scythe Kama Bay for my P182, cpu temps fell with about 5C when i took off one of the bay covers, so there is definently some negative air pressure going on in the P182 while stock.

CPU temps in my P182 setup drops by 3-5 degrees if i take off one of the 5.25" blocking plates without changing anything with fan speeds.. if I run all the fans at max and take off one or two 5.25" plates cputemps Core0/1 is at 40/35C with F@H running.. This with an U120E, Nexus 120mm fan, noname po...

Save the money you would spend on a 22" on a better video card and a 20", or get a 24".. 22"'s are notorious for the crappy panels (TN), 20" isnt much better, but atleast you get more for the money...

If the side panels start to vibrate, you can really hear it.. i bet that some bitumen will help -alot-

I put in new fans in my Stacker.. Nexus and Noctua replacing the stock Coolermaster fans.. result: almost 0 fan noise, abit higher temps.

Haha

I'm gonna upgrade that box to an E2140 with 1GB ram soon, but im abit sceptical about the 230W Enlight psu thats in it.. while it's virtually silent, its also not very powerful.. and I forgot to order a new Corsair VX450 :/

http://bilder.wibla.net/albums/pcstuff/DSC_7042_DXO.sized.jpg The stock CPU fan was going down the drain, with the bearings shot, so it made ALOT of noise.. had no other option than just to put in a Nexus 120mm fan I had... used double-sided tape and just attached it to the bottom of the psu, blowi...

With that fanduct I'd be hard pressed to call it -passive- tho

Envy...

Cool, abit more sane numbers now (~1700PPD )

Is it just me, or is FahMon abit inaccurate about the ETA on workunits? I know for a fact that my E6600@3Ghz will finish up a 1760 point SMP WU in about 26 hours, but FahMon is saying 4 days... (its using about 16 minutes/1%)

This would have been great if it had:

- two nics, gigabit
- 2-4 sata connectors
- dvi out

I envy your 9650 :P I have to agree on the minimalist stuff, its mostly impossible to get a box like that looking as clean as a P182 with one harddrive... especially since the Stacker doesnt offer any places to hide cables - at all. Works pretty good, but with new fans the temps are abit higher, alb...

I just put in a new 500Gb, currently migrating the array from 7+hotspare to 8+hotspare, and numbered both drives and cables... gonna try to tidy up the cables later, but i dont want to mess around with it while the array is migrating

I'm having stability issues with my E6600 box, seems a drive is going out and when it "disappears" the system crashes... On the bright side, my E2140 OCer box will be up next week (ordered parts yesterday)

the U120E really shines as fast as you get abit of airflow through it... doesnt take much either. My E6600 @ 3GHz running F@H is running at about 38-41C with all fans at max.. noisiest thing in the system then is the Noctua 120mm in the top exhaust. Mike: I'm running Nexus fans on the front HD/middl...

I wouldnt call the Ultra120(extreme) useless without a fan.. my E6600 with a fanless Ultra120eXtreme with no fan in a P182 reached a load temp of about 55C with the rear fan and top fan set to low, also with a Nexus intake fan for the ubber hdd bay. Obviously it performs -alot- better with airflow, ...

So, the P5K-VM supports E2140/2160 out of the box with stock bios? if so, im getting one

Haha, I think thats impossible, so many cables

I did, worked now tho.. and only 25% left of the next WU.. so I'll be pushing some score the next 24 hours

[13:57:58] + Attempting to send results [13:58:19] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server [13:58:19] + Could not connect to Work Server (results) [13:58:19] (171.64.65.64:8080) [13:58:19] - Error: Could not transmit unit 05 (completed September 4) to work server. funky stuff, as my server can connec...