hey guys. i just got my zm80a-hp from frys electronics. i have a problem. i believe heatsink is working fine (passed 3dmark se). however, i'm getting jumbled display (weird blocks, etc.) in the boot up window and in the windows XP loading screen. i believe anything below 640x480 resolution gives me ...

hey mikec, should i buy a soldering iron if i intend to modify the fan in the zalman psu? just a simple question. i'm going to do it right after i get the psu. so as i understand it, #1 open the psu with simple screw drivers (right?) #2 take out the fan. (i was going to clip the wires and wrap the e...

well okay can i ask the same question with a slightly more info? my point is this: are we using ALL the capacity of a heatsink? what i mean is, if we put on another 70w of heat dissipation onto the heatsink, can it handle the extra 70w? I think such heatsink like SLK-800 or larger will be able to ha...

you're talking about the cube. it's infamous for being very unstable. all cube users hate it unless you only use it for 5min at a time to e-mail people and think they're 'cute'. personally, i think you need an active cooling design to cool anything that'll dissipate more than 20w of heat. besides at...

what's a.r.? anyway here are my inputs. if you can wait a month or so, wait for seagate v. they're quiet, and very comparable performance-wise to most drives. my point is this. say you get the WD drives, sandwich them, and still think they're loud, you now know you should've gotten the seagate drive...

actually n/m... i just realized my zalman 300-apf will come with the voltage adapters... but i'm just curious, how is the voltage configured on 3pin?

To run my panaflo at 5v, do I have to use the 4pin power adapter?

is there any way I can get 5v just from arranging the wires on 3pin tail?

when is the V with 8mb buffer coming out anyway? 2mb versions are out already.

Reason why I got zalman is because it's much cheaper (about 2/3 of the price). We also must be economical, don't we?

my vote is for 'that japanese guy' and mikec!

this kinda makes my cancelling slk-800 order comfortable.

what is the surface area of slk-800? which has more? cnps-6000cu has about 2500cm^2 surface area.

try using the zalman fan on BOTH system (i mean mounted on the zalman mount). that should give us more accurate comparison between the two.

i don't know how much do those thermo controlled fans move, but my guess will be more than panaflo @ 5v. i'm getting the panaflo L1a fans soon, and getting the 12v/5v voltage adapter from the zalman psu (it comes with it right?) so i can tell you for sure whether that setup would work. i think the b...

cool.

this is off topic but why doesn't usa use the heatpump method for the conventional air conditioning? it should save them huge electricity over the nh3 compression/decompression, i would think. if i remember correctly, doens't japan use heatpump for their a/c?

good points. i'll try the alarm clock method and evaluate my experiment again. it's never going to be a perfect vacuum with my method due to the lag time between getting the vacuum hose off and putting the cap on. ah wells... it was fun while it lasted... at least for me. i plan to get the aluminum ...

maybe it's best if i best for those plastic heatpipes... yea it sounds like sure thing that drive will fail. i can't imagine radiation alone will dissipate nearly enough heat from the drive.

mmm... my first guinea pig = IBM 75GXP 7200rpm 40gb HDD experiment date = possibly 11-16-02 (or i can wait until seagate v comes out) preliminary experiment protocol: 1. aluminum heatsink made out of 2mm thick (hopefully i'll find one with some ridges). this will be added directly to my hard drive w...

I'm using Zalman CNPS6000-CU currently with my 1ghz FC-PGA2 CPU. It should have more heat dissipation than yours. just as comparison, CNPS6000-CU has 2600-2900cm^2 of surface area. I can't find the surface area of Slk-800, maybe you can figure it out for us. and I'm using Zalman's 92mm fan rotating ...

hey guys, i was just wondering, why don't we use the fan on the psu's as intake rather than exhaust? since we're all running (mostly) passive cooling with minimal air flow, our case temperature should be pretty high, most certainly higher than the normal outside temperatures. we can duct the hot air...

mm wise words from the great minds. well i intend to keep my current psu and the case, and leave it as back-up when my zalman decides to give out on me. my current plan is as follows: zalman psu - replace the fan with panaflo @ 5v. passive cpu cooling by slk-800 passive gpu cooling by zm80-hp barrac...

mm... would i be okay with using a fan with a thermo sensor then? what would you say would be the top end of psu temp is for good reliability? i'm keeping p3 just for reliability so, if psu would like to give out on me, that would defeat the whole purpose of trying to keep a p3. i was thinking papst...

hey guys...

can i just put a peltier pad and slk-800 on top of it with no fan?

that should work right?

i'm running p3 1ghz 133mhz bus. fc-pga2

sorry. i meant to say radiation, or is it? if i remember correct from yyyeeearrrrs back, there are three different ways for heat to 'move'. convection (air) something else (by solid medium) radiation (just as sun heat reaches its planets) correct me if i'm wrong.. i could use some physics lesson :)

i've decided i'm going to suspend the hard drive in a vacuum. the drive will be in a aluminum tray suspended by heavy duty rubber bands in a plastic vacuum chamber. i'm going to rely on convection alone for heat transfer, which would seem to work okay due to the passive aluminum tray/heatsink. only ...

Hello, I'm getting Zalman 300w ps soon. People say after I change the fan it's the quietest ps one can get, due to its big heatsink. So now the question becomes, which fan should I use? I think I narrowed down my selection to the Papst 12db version with thermo sensor. any other recommendations? Wher...

to use zm-80, you need to have two holes around the GPU on the PCB board of your gf3 card. i'm getting one soon (as soon as sharka has them back on the shelves as of the 11th as they said), and i'll post its review as soon as I get it. (if you can wait). you may also look into zm-17u. it may be a ch...

hey guys, i think it'll be helpful to many if we make a consensus on what's the quietest fan we have if we run it at low volts (5v) for 'virtual silence'. okay well, after reviewing numerous sites, i have a few contenders in no particular order. 1. Enermax, UC-001B-TC 2. Panaflo FBA08A12L (apparentl...

it depends what cpu you're running and how big is your heatsink. we probably need more info to answer your q.

hehe cool.. well how about if i were to say, all i'll do is to change the stock fan to an aftermarket fan? and leave everything alone? my first utmost priority is also silence, not performance. i guess what i'm really asking is, zalman or ss-300? they're both on top of your recommended list so i thi...

hey mike, i'm just curious if you were shopping for the quietest 300w ps, which one would you get?

hopefully the zalman zm80 will work. yea i too wonder how can the pipe transfer the heat efficiently to make any difference in the overall performance of the heatsink. well... i ordered one already so if it arrives, i'll check out the temperature of both heatsinks and give you guys a heads up. if th...