Or more simply, ambient • adjective 1 relating to the immediate surroundings of something. Case temperature isn't uniform - i.e. ambient temp at the CPU heatsink is higher than around the drives/intake point. Also, rate of heat loss increases as the difference between heatsink and air temperature in...

That must be awkward, avoiding covering everything in foam! I'd stick it in a cardboard box myself.

Good Christ! Poor Antec. Apparently there is nothing they can do to ever make the "perfect case". I blame the silencers. If they can't get their acts together and have the same opinions, they don't deserve the perfect case. ;) Personally I think it's great, though I prefer the design and look of th...

I use the filter that comes with the Sonata case. It blocks a fair amount of dust but nothing amazing. Which reminds me...

(pulls out filter and chokes in dust)

I was going to say that software control might work, but I searched and found this.

Maybe it's because there are two mr_plow_king s.

Nice job on the generator! How did you get it to work on folder names (does the script create them on the server?)

Try again in a couple of weeks when the game starts up.

It looks quite clear that overclocking is going to happen, so is this going to be a watercooled project or air-cooled? If quietly air cooled, a 380W is fine. Water cooling allows for overvolting and thus faster clocks within a quiet PC, so I would go up to the 430. No need for the 500W. n.b. I'm all...

I had the Sapphire card. Nothing wrong with the 2D quality, works great with a CRT and LCD (VGA, not DVI) and 3D performance is great for the price too! I'm not sure what else to say, after all the best 2D is a complete reproduction of what's on screen...

The total area of the rear vent is very large compared to the front vent. If the same amount of air comes out the rear vent you would probably have a hard time noticing it - cover up the inside vent and see if you can feel anything then.

The fan control chips are initialised to run at 100% when the PC is turned on. If you have no BIOS fan control enabled (or you disabled it in SpeedFan advanced settings) the fan speed won't change after a reboot.

That's because you're already working on a unit. When it's finished you will get another one.

You sure that's not coil whine?

qviri wrote:I'm really digging that crank thing. It's so obvious, why has noone thought of it before? The radio worked perfectly...

Clockwork computer power planned for next year (date: 1999)

Well I hope you come back at some point in the future... how about we bug you once version 2 comes around?
I'd offer to host it as well but my server has no cron job support (how about you, DryFire?). If I didn't have a bandwidth limit I'd even set up a home server, just so it could continue...

Try using SpeedFan (if you have an ATI card, check its temp with ATITool) which report temperatures from sensors installed in the motherboard, CPU etc. and see how they compare.

IMHO, you should learn to appreciate the joys of constant velocity fans. I find fan ramping more audible than a constant rate. Unfortunately that depends on how you use your system - noise level for an SLI/Prescott system could be high at load, but you don't want that for the 70% of the time it's i...

Congrats! Now all you have to do is wait two years to get in the top 100

Actually...

Art. Lebedev Studio wrote:It will feature a key-saver.

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The card had nothing to do with it. In fact the sensor is between CPU and video card, and I have a slot fan just below the card... it was simply the product of clumsiness

For reasons I simply do not understand, my Asus A8V's motherboard temperature shot up to 52°C after installing a Radeon X700. It was in the low-thirties with the R9600 it replaced. I have to run the fan twice as fast to stop it rising any higher... CPU and drive temperatures are now lower, the card ...

Well, I guess it beats that Transformer that turned into a cassette player...

Speaker is usually red and black (black is common). The +5 is the coloured wire of the pair.

Either DTemp or SpeedFan will do this. Search the interweb.

I cannot remember if the 9100 has a temperature sensor, if not your best bet to find out if it's overheating is touch the heatsinks. You could also see what other people think and upload a picture of it to Hot or Not ;) Seriously though, use the ATI Tool program to scan for artifacts, this will plac...

And while we're posting maps of scandinavian countries: (1 Euro coin) They seem to have left out Norway, with slightly peculiar results. (cringe) One more reason to say no to the Euro! ...maybe the big beer companies here will try to pull an RIAA. But that would be like banning people from performi...

That depends on where air flows in your case. If you suspend it near an intake area (e.g. behind the front fan hole) then the disk will be cooled by the air rushing in. For temperature, 50°C is the accepted maximum, though I prefer to keep it below 45°. Regarding straightness, a post here concluded ...

Keyboard noises can be intrusive as well - I want a silent PC, not a typewriter! However, the first time I saw this keyboard, quietness was the last thing I cared about

Devonavar wrote:Right .. uh ... so what am I supposed to do with the dust once I've collected it?

Don't they have dust recycling in Canada Guess you'll have to throw it away with the rest of the rubbish.

Well, it is THG... the guy didn't even realise about the 12v plug! Does nobody even glance at the motherboard manual if they think it's the problem? I was going to make a joke about new reviews including Futuremark's latest benchmark, 'Idiotmark', but it's quite redundant. </rant> Sorry, just hate i...