Cool guys, more folding power!!! 8) You're making up for my stupidity :oops: : I just lost 600points to carelessness. Had a machine crash (not folding related), and lost a 600point WU that was 85% done. Ok, first time to test if the regular backups of my folding directory pay off. Rolled back the ba...

I have a first reply from the "powers that be", as Tibors put it: Jan, I have to say that anything which requires manual updating will quickly fritter away. You may be feeling very enthusiastic right now, but what about 6 months in the future? There are many who have volunteered eagerrly for various...

Welcome to SPCR!! That's a huge work they did. I like the plot of performance vs noise. Maybe that's something SPCR could adopt for heatsink reviews. Invariably there are tables and commments about fan A at x volts matching the noise of fan B at y volts... Graphing the degC/W versus noise would sho...

Welcome to SPCR! When you take the heatsink off your CPU, is the thermal grease well spread and uniformly thin, both on CPU and heatsink? If the contact seems right, my next guess would be to blame the M/B. Did you have your CPU running cooler in that M/B before? I could imagine that the temperatur...

Mar. wrote:it's only about an inch from the bottom of the case, if it falls, no big deal.

Well, depends on how it falls and what it falls on. My guess would be that a drive that falls flat on a hard surface during operation will likely be dead, even if it drops only an inch.

Did you have any contact with "the powers that be"? Not yet :(. But although I am impatient to hear what what "they" have to say :wink:, this thread is less than 24h old, and I'm refraining from shooting PMs just yet. The discussion so far has cleared up many things I didn't think about at first. B...

Yes, placing that info in the location seems like a good interim / alternative idea. I don't think it has quite as much impact as an official status, which implies a recognition for folding as a contribution to the SPCR community. And I think it is. If only because being part of the worlds top 20 fo...

nici, there should be no need to change any names. We'll just need to know that we need to credit you for the folding done under "v_Bell". If we can't come up with a way to do that, I'm afraid the whole thing becomes impractical. But I'm not worried about that part.

I appreciate your input, Zyzzyx ! I would think that people who fold under a different name than they use on the forums would need to speak up, so we add them to some sort of translation table. This only needs to be done once per user, so it shouldn't be too much overhead. I'd gladly volunteer for t...

How will you determine who is 'active'? I thought I'd just use the EOC list of active users Who will add this title to all the 'active Folder' accounts? I have no idea of how phpBB handles this info internally. Ideally there would be a file containing a list of user names that belong to the "active...

Will this work ok with the motherboard in a vertical position? My guess would be that the odd angled position is chosen to make it work when mounted vertically. But that's just guessing, really. EDIT: I'll remember to take the habit of reloading the thread before replying... this is not the first t...

StarfishChris wrote:*comissions a 1.3G Duron & 1G Athlon for folding duties*

As I was thinking about how to best convince other forum users to become members of the SilentPCReview Folding@Home team, I thought that an official status granted for active members would be more efficient than little plugs in the signature (like I and many others have). Something in analogy to "fr...

I didn't mean to be picking on you, Tibors or start a squabble about phrasings. I'm sorry if I came across that way. My only intention was to clarify that the Sonic Tower is not comparable to the BigTyhpoon-type high density fins. Thermaltakes marketing claims about this being a passive cooler had n...

... the Sonic Tower (which spaces fins 1.8mm apart, contrary to what was suggested earlier). Have a look at the Tt product page I linked above. Tt calls it "high density thin fins" themselves. I took a ruler to my AC Freezer to measure its fin spacing. 79mm for 40 fins and 39 gaps, fin thickness ~0...

Way to go team!!!!

Only 30 more folders (how difficult can that be??) and we have good chances to stay in the top 20 for a loooong while.

frankgehry wrote:There are a lot of circuits on the web for contolling speed but I haven't seen one for getting rpm from 2 wires.

FG, there is one site linked from the end of the original 2-wire RPM sensing thread.

Tsk tsk tsk, yet another "SPCR should review..." thread. Maybe the question should be rephrased as "Given a sample, should SPCR review...". Because procuring a sample is only one step. After that, SPCR reviewers still need to invest a lot of energy into getting the review done and written up. So I ...

There is a bit about K7 heatsinks including the Sonic Tower and the BigTyphoon at silenthardware.de: here . Even if you don't understand german, the pictures and tables should give you some info. The table on the first page is weight of the tested heatsinks in gram. The table summarizing the tempera...

Here is the truth all of your cases are made by some chinese company and some American company slaps their own bezel on it and charges twice the original price. :lol: Hard to believe, but there are companies in countries other than China or USA! And Thermaltake, the company that "charged twice the ...

Will undervolting the CPU help temps? If so, by how much? Welcome to SPCR! You will find that this site has a wealth of information concerning silencing computers. It's not always easy to find that information. But rest assured that a thorough search will turn up useful answers to almost all basic ...

A little update on the race against Gen[M]ay: We're well on track to pass them, with a daily gain of over 5k points right now! Way to go, team!!! Looks like their recent stampede is over. And if we keep this rate up, we'll pass them before CustomPC gets us, so we won't drop out of the top 20 teams!!...

Techno Pride wrote:GPU core 52C
GPU ambient 53C

In the past I've found high CPU temps to be caused by high ambients (bad case ventilation). Could this be the case here? Any chance for you to measure the fan intake temp above the CPU?

Wow, I'm surprised at your results JanW. I suppose you're talking about the startup voltage? There may be variations between samples. I have two or three more 120mm Nexus fans I can test (one is in a PSU and I won't be able to pull it out, but maybe I can test it in place). I won't have time to do ...

If you bet your M/B fanheader or your fan controller on the estimate of a fan's power consumption, then that estimate better be fairly accurate. 26W/4=6.5W might be safe, whereas 26W/3.3=7.9W might not. That factor 3.3 is the reduction in power consumption you get when going from 12V to 6V on the Pa...

Jordan - I don't know how quickly the fan would start up. You might be able to get part of the answer by just looking at what speed your current fan starts up --- maybe the fan controller supplies high initial voltage to ensure the fan starts? As for the second question, I don't think the fan would...

EricTerminator wrote:when you use half the voltage, the consumption drops to 1/4 of the original

Ohm's law would apply if the fan motor could be modeled as a purely resistive load. But it looks like that's not always the case.

... I don't think its as noisy as 39 dba or puts out 70.5 cfm ... the less powerful yate loon is going to be closer to 30 dba and 50-55 cfm. Great, thanks a lot, frankgehry ! That is exactly the answer I was hoping for. I don't have this fan myself, but I base my roundabout calculations on how fast...

Yate loon D12SM-12 55 cfm, 1650 rpm, 28 dba, (manufactures spec) I'm confused about this spec. Where did you get it from? The NX3500 Review states its spec as 56 cfm, 1650 rpm, 39 dba. But going to yeateloon.com (which MikeC's review states as source of that info), I see the D12SM-12 spec'd for 70....

I used a small jeweller's scrwedriver to push the thick parts in and squeeze them through. As Pauli noted, they take quite a bit of abuse.