Just reading HardwareZone's review of the MSI Neo-2 875P-FIS2R. Its one of the least expensive 875P boards you can buy. And this is the "cool" part: It is one of the most adjustable ("overclockable" in the words of HardwareZone) motherboards they've ever reviewed. Some numbers: System bus speed : 10...

[quote="duglas"]And 2) ANY move away from both of those (fossil & fission fuels) would be a good thing.... To temper what sounds like my distaste for nuclear power, I would have to agree that fusion is good reason not to completely abandon nuclear research. As Zhentar put it "...make him discover a ...

al bundy wrote:I too have received a ProSilence PCS-350W from SilentMaxx.

Yo Al! Where did you get it? I can't find them for sale!

EDIT: Holy crap! Nevermind! Found it through SilentMaxx's ill-performinng site. $220USD! Egads! I didn't spend that much on my 2.53 CPU!

Panaflo 80s should start at 7V, most at 5V. You can use the L1A for most heatsink applications, provided you are using a good heatsink. For Socket-A, see: http://www.silentpcreview.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=47&page=1 For Pentium 4, see: http://www.sile...

I can imagine how much a notebook would save on power comsumption and hence save you $$$ every year on your electricity bill. :D Plus you can stick it in a docking station, drill a whole in the back of the drawer in your desk for cables, and stick the whole darn thing in the drawer! Now that's Sile...

Couple of thoughts: 1) Don't try to take notes in class on a laptop. Unless you type at an absolutely superhuman/super-secretarial speed, you won't be able to keep up. "Short-hand" computer notes don't work, as they are often too diffucult to decipher and a single mistroke can leave an entire sectio...

Generally speaking, modern power plants aren't really culprits in industrial pollution. The only exceptions are those of us in the east and midwest who still get power from fossil fuels (coal and oil -- might be more wide-spread, this is just my impression). Those are obviously producing pollutants ...

Hello: I only know what I've read on Storage Review, and the WD Raptor (10K RPM, SATA, 8MB cache, fluid bearings -- it looks to be a pretty intimidating drive. It's very fast (its up in the higher SCSI range), and fairly quiet (I'd say in the lower third of all drives). I don't know about that quie...

LG Electronics GCE-8520B (BI is retail, BB is bulk). 52x24x52. Supports Mt. Rainier. Can't say that its quiet with a ton of confidence BUT I have the predecessor 48x GCE-8481BB (which I bought on the advice of MikeC) and it is a very quiet drive. Mine doesn't support native Mt. Rainier, but I use Ea...

thanks ez, but i dont have any hardware for monitoring hd temps. Cuda V's have SMART information that is read by the system board and can be accessed via Windows using the right software (see other posts above). You don't need special hardware -- the drive already contains all the hardware you need.

trifin wrote:well i went the whole way and picked the $500 option...

why ?

because id pay that much, maybe more, for a silent pc. ie no fans, silent hd (solid state?), rubber mounted true-x cdrom etc in a sinlge unit (ie not water)...

would anyone else ?

Well, when you put it that way, I would! Absolutely!

Personally, I can't view the subframes at all, and I've tried it on IE 6.0, IE 5.5, and Netscape 4.7. I can link to specific pages, but if I go in through the homepage, I get blanks in the subframes.

EnvyNews.com reviewed a production sample of the new Serial ATA version of the Maxtor DiamondMax +9 (6YxxxM0). It performed really well in comparison to the other drives he tested (Cuda V PATA, Cuda V SATA, Maxtor 740DXL PATA, Maxtor DM+9 PATA). Plus, its quiet. For what its worth, the reviewer at E...

AnandTech also re-reviewed the production version of this drive. Holy crap! It would take some serious sandwiching to make it quiet (as I said, even Anand thought the thing was loud, and their sound measurement standards are notoriously high), but this looks to easily be the fastest, cheapest (proba...

AnandTech als did a very comprehensive look at this drive, comparing it to all the leading IDE drives and 2 10K SCSIs. It didn't do very well at all, because Anand didn't stop with synthetic benchmarks, but recorded read-write commands to the drive and the drive's performance with them during "suite...

I would think about which has the best weight/cost ratio. Heavier = better sound deadening. I don't want to be an instigator, but heavier won't necessarily equal better sound deadening. For the most part that's true, but long-story-short, a "softer" metal will deaden better than a "harder" one beca...

I actually have had trouble with rounded cables. That's why i switched back to flat cables and taught myself how to fold them. Less chance for data loss and (properly folded) they look better than rounded cables filling the case like a bunch of worms. Here's me being a rookie: How do you fold an ID...

So how did you get your IDE cables so neat and out of the way?

Is that thing quiet?!:shock:

The new favorite on the boards seems to be the ExoticPC Silenx series of PSUs. There are a few threads on them in the forums. Here's one of them: http://forums.silentpcreview.com//viewtopic.php?t=3365 And here's another: http://forums.silentpcreview.com//viewtopic.php?t=3227 I'm just about ready to ...

I read acetone (ie, nail polish remover). Is that a bad idea? Seems like it would be safer than WD40? Just wondering...

I think I see what your driving at: incorporating silence into the system design (like I'm trying to do), but not for yourself. Of course you don't want to know how much more WE would SPEND for a quiet PC, but how much WE think a quiet PC is WORTH compared to a comparable non-quiet model. Think of i...

I don't have one, but I've seen reviews of the Sapphire 9500 Pro with the Zalman attached, so it can be done. Maybe Tom's Hardware? Or OCaddiction? I can't remember, but I know I've seen it. I think I read Sapphire has plans to release an "Ultimate" version of the 9500 Pro that comes with the Zalman...

Well, it'll be a while. I'm putting in a new MB and some DDR400. And I'm going away on business next week for 2 weeks. So I'm not going to get around to installing and tinkering with the drive for at least a month. But I do intend to post my findings in these forums. Just don't hold your breath for ...

The SR review doesn't look at the 80GB variety, so its only marginally useful on the topic. However, the quietest and coolest Maxtor they looked at was the 160GB with 2 80G platters. So an 80G with 1 platter ought to be slightly quieter and cooler still. This is the drive that I have my eye on. If y...

AMD Athlon XP2800+ (T-Bred B) Asus A7N8X Koolance PC2-601W Watercooling Case ExoticPC SilenX 350W PSU 512MB Corsair XMS3200 DDR 128MB Radeon 9700 Pro Winfast 2000XP TV Tuner Maxtor 80GB DiamondMax+ 9 8MB cache (System Files) Maxtor 80GB DiamondMax+ 9 8MB cache (Audio Files) Pioneer 16X DVD (Slotloa...

Also, do you have a model number for either the G-410 or G-411 products? Good news! They have these instock in packages of 25 for $7.76. Item # is 9311K138 (G-410), on pg 3436 of their catalog... Brice Okay, I'm definitely not sure what to do with those. Insert into the drive side, then insert into...

The Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 Serial ATA edition is coming out in March. FDB and SATA. That sounds like a good combo.

Of course, a few reviews have noted that SATA did very little performance wise for the Cuda V, so maybe it won't effect the Maxtor all that much, either.

http://2cooltek.safeshopper.com/67/cat67.htm These are chipset and memory heatsinks, but I haven't found anywhere that makes actuall HDD heatsinks. Just snatch up a couple packs of whatever size will fit along the sides of your drive and use thermal adhesive to mount them. Another pack attached to t...