miahallen wrote: edit: also, press the button "view mode" on the Sharp remote, and select "dot by dot"

This did the trick. Thanks!

Now I'm figuring out how to get Supreme Commander to work on the 42" (1920x1080) and the 22" (1600x1200) at the same time. I don't think my passive 7950GT is up for it.

Do you plan on using them in series, or as two different circuits? If you use them in series, the water can flow opposite the air. This means the water would go through the warmer radiator first, then the cooler one. The other thought would be to have both radiators on the same side, one above the o...

My first thought is to have the air coming in through one of them and out through the other. This way they will help each other. The air feeding the second will be a bit warmer, but that should be more than compensated for by the increased airflow. If you plan on using them in series as part of a la...

I just took your suggestion to heart and got an AQUOS 42" as my secondary monitor. Looks good, but I'm having problems displaying 1920x1080; the edges of the desktop are off the screen. Any suggestions?

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Sweet. In the battle of getting an entire system effectively cooled using a single fan, you are certainly making headway. I'm still debating whether it is more effective to build custom ducts to route the air, or use custom heatpipes to move the heat. Likely some compromise will work best.

Pretty much anything conducts heat better than air. Solder or TIM would both be significantly more effective at transferring heat than an air gap. That said, the better question is whether that contact point is a bottleneck or not. Bluefront was doing a series of tests with a Ninja, and came across ...

You can put a Ninja or a Thermalright on it, you just need to do a custom bolt-on mounting for it. With the Ninja this is advisable anyway.

Nice duct Bluefront. I like the idea of venting out the back side of the case; this leaves the top/back for case ventilation fans, and is the shortest route a CPU exhaust could take in most cases. I've been thinking of ducting my Ninja to the 200mm fan on the top of my Antec Nine Hundred . Even on l...

Sweet. How did the air feel coming off the top of the heatsink? Could you feel the air rising?

Good stuff. Thanks Bluefront!

Good work Bluefront! Now what does this tell us? There is a bottleneck somewhere. If you increase the heat source, does the "sweet spot" move? If you decrease the heat source, does the "sweet spot" move? This will tell us whether you have reached the limits of the heatpipes or of the fins. If you ca...

Bluefront wrote:This can mean several things.....the cooling potential of the setup is limited by the design of the duct. Or.....the cooling potential of the setup is limited by the design of the Ninja itself.

If you remove the duct and put that 42CFM fan on it, the answer should make itself known...

I use a Viewsonic VP2130b, it's standard location is 9" in front of my nose (on a wall rack, in front of my keyboard - yes, I'm going blind). No noticeable sound from it at all.

It sounds a lot like a single fan, except for the misalignment and rumbling due to it. Air movement is about the same as a single fan, but this is in free air.

andyb wrote:Now if I could only think of a use for such a PC

I'm learning Linux command-line stuff, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was enough horsepower for a small company's web/e-mail/file server.

I should stop talking and just build one... (magic of television) ...done! ;) Used Vantec Stealth fans because I don't mind destroying them. All I did was pull the hub (including magnet) off the fan and krazyglue it to the hub of the other. Some very rough alignment of the axis by hand led to a not-...

Am I the only one that instantly thought of taking the blades/hub off a second fan and attaching them to the hub of the first? Using the motor from just one to drive 2 sets of blades? There is the small matter of the (usually 4) supporting spokes that center the hubs. This is what is known in engin...

Cost effective server? How does 5W strike you?

500Mhz
256MB RAM
Compact Flash -> IDE built in
DC-DC PSU built in, takes 12V
$140

Not up to the requirements you set, I know. But even a cluster of these would be under your power and cost requirements.

Am I the only one that instantly thought of taking the blades/hub off a second fan and attaching them to the hub of the first? Using the motor from just one to drive 2 sets of blades?

My favorite hot-swap cages are the 5-drive ones from Supermicro. Fan-swaps are easy and drive activity is self-contained. Plus, higher density

Depending on what you do for a hard drive, it will likely be the loudest thing in there. Good luck!

I guess that's using Photoshop's "Merge to HDR", with automatic image alignment enabled? That's a very long time for that fast CPU! Yes. And yes it is. Is this CPU-bound, or insuffienct memory and swapping? How much memory does that process take? I'm asking since it might help me better estimate my...

I'm stupid...nevermind....

For photo work I highly recommend the Q6600. I'm in the middle of doing an HDR composition in Photoshop CS3 from my Canon 20D (8.2MP). Even on my system (see sig), these things can take an hour. 4GB of RAM is highly recommended as well. A Q6600 system can be really, really quiet if the space/cost co...

I stand corrected, I forgot about the new slow(er) ones.

2 2Ghz cores vs. 4 2.4Ghz cores? That is a pretty significant difference. A Core2Duo CPU at 2Ghz is also known as an E4400 and is basically the slowest C2D you can buy.

Is it enough for most tasks? Sure, but by current standards it is slow.

That is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. The Q6600 is significantly more powerful than the mini. The mini would certainly be smaller. The Q6600 would likely be more expensive.

If you could provide a use for the system, perhaps other options could be considered?

VIA EPIA systems are nice, I use them for a lot of firewall installations, and I tried a file server install once. They are really slow. Generally, I've heard that a 1Ghz VIA EDEN is about the same as a 500Mhz P3. I think that sounds about right. Then again, what are you using this for? That might b...

Sweet! Finally a replacement for most of my VIA EDEN applications...

How to lap a heatsink.