blackstar wrote: i am selling a 350W fanless PSU if any UK peeps are after one btw.

How much?
Does your unit have any kind of buzzing noise?

Check out this.

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/product.php?view=1745

I was thinking along the same lines when Mike reviewed it. I thought hold on a second, surely the back of the card would still emit some heat. My method of cooling my ATI AIW 8500 is similar to the Artic Cooling except it's made out of cardboard and cost next to nothing. The hot air is exhausted thr...

Remove the tiny whiny fan. GeForce4MX don't really need a fan, but looking at the weeny HS on it, I would advice using atleast some airflow. If you have any spare 80mm fans lying around (preferably 80L1a). Mount this parallel to the graphics card at a low voltage and it will be super quiet and safe....

Yes, ideally you want to compare all drives with 8mb cache, but you can only review what you have been supplied sometimes. When it went into their labs the 8mb cache model was not that easy to get hold of in the UK. StorageReview is an excellent site. I have read tons of reviews there too. But as a ...

ez2remember, could you post what the general results of the HDD review? like just which is given the highest rating. Thanks man. It's strictly in the order I pasted it above. The Hitacthi gets 6/6 stars.. QUOTE "Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 VERDICT: Stunning performance at a sensible price Hitachi bought...

Strange I get none of what you are describing... Spyware? Pop-ups? I get none, but you do have to register or simply type in my name. It does not require a password... Sorry it caused you so much bother. Maybe because I am registered and it automatically logs me on everytime I visit, so it does not ...

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=8424 Confrimed here too that the new Hitachi's 7K250 are v. fast.

The added bonus it's not noisy according to the HD roundup. (quiet drives in there too)

Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 Samsung SpinPoint P80 Western Digital WD1600JB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (ST3160021A) Western Digital WD1200JD Akasa Fan Control Pro Cooler Master Aerogate II Mac Power Digital Doc 5 Cooler Master Musketeer Thermaltake HardCano 9 Enermax UC-A3FATR2 IOSS...

I posted this a long time ago, but this could be a quiet SFF by SPCR standards.

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... terminator

I have one very bad experience with UPS. I don’t want to go into it; it will just make my blood boil. Put it this way, the driver was too damn lazy to get off his ass and deliver the parcel to me. He also lied about what actually happened to the parcel. I made tons of calls (30min-1hr wait on the ph...

He could always use his hard disk as storage, but this defeats the objective.

Maybe he could consider a bigger CF.. 2gig may be sufficient for win98 + apps.

wsc wrote:No this no joke, check out http://www.you-are-a-huge-nerd.com

Awesome site.

I was afraid to click on the link.
Thank you for all the pointers people.

Thanx a zillion...

Jan, you run a tualatin in a BX board? - that is, using a powerleap adapter or what? Would like to know a little more ... I believe you can run Tualatin on a BX board with a special adaptor. The only thing is you have to make sure, is your motherboard supports the right frequency. So if your BX boa...

DonP wrote:...company called Gelmec but they only sell to trade customers I think.

Actually you can buy from Gelmec but they are expensive in small quantities, cost more than kustomPCs. However if you were ordering >100 then thwy work out somthing like 20p each.

I read in many reviews the Samsung SpinPoint P80 will be slightly faster than your HDD. They were kings of their time before, but now have been superseeded with new higher capacity per platter drives. Your model has 60gig or 66.7gig per platter compared that of 80GB used in the current Samsung model...

Even if it's just a loud fan? I may do it, somehow I managed to hold on to both the receipt and the warranty! Anyone think I shouldn't RMA the PSU? I have a >7V Panaflo, 2 5V ADDA 60mm, 1 >7V ADDA 60mm, suspended Cuda V, and nothing else that makes noise. Yeah, I think I should, the fan is a little...

Also consider a laptop, this is truly power saving. Many laptops use <60w DC power, so finding a second user laptop can save you tons of money on your electricity bill. I read in the forums somewhere who measure their laptop AC consumption in idle and was less than ~40w. :shock: Even with mini-itx s...

I would like to see the Aluminium version bigger with more fins. I personally think the Thermalright range would rock, if it was similar size/dimensions to those Alphas, Swiftech or Zalman models. When you see these HS in real, it just a narrow strip rather than a real big block of cooling power. on...

Yes didn't see them 1st time, but all those buy it now for £50 have been sold when you click on the link. Is there really that much difference between this PIII 1.4 and the Celeron 1.3??? Yes you are right, they all sold off like hot cakes! When I first saw them they were all available about 3/4 da...

Thanks for the feedback guys. Those PIII 1.4s on ebay aren't that cheap!! Think I've found a good one though - Celeron 1.3 with Tualatin core for £30 from a local supplier! and only 35w according to the charts! Sound good? I have found the P3 1.4s for £50 buy it now or you can make a bid for £30 an...

As a side note, any good recommendations for a fan to replace the ys tech (preferably sub 20db with rpm monitoring if possible) that would keep my alpha relatively cool? The Nexus fan (17dBA) is recommended by many in the forums who have tried it, they say it's quieter than the reference fan Panafl...

I can't believe your supplier (in England, right? Not Uganda or some other third world country :D ) doesn't have something newer than what you've listed. Those Willamette P4's have been out of production for around 2 years now. That's an eternity in Computerland. Haha, it has been out of production...

If you only got 175w psu, I take it you are running a relatively low powered machine? There is just no definite yes or no answer, it depends on how much heat is generated in your system, quality of the PSU, other fans helping exhaust out the hot air etc. But if you system is a fairly old machine, it...

BarCodeBlack wrote:I'm surprised no one as yet has recommended the molex SilentDrive enclosure. These are perfect for the slower, aging drives of yester-year.

I think the reason is because MikeC does'nt recommend it. It may be more effective on older drives than on the current crops of HD.

I love seeing the questions from the guys who say the floppy is obsolete but can't figure out how to burn a bootable CDr to do whatever it is that they think they can do as well as, or better than if the were using a floppy. They'll spent tons of time and wasted CDrs trying to get their bootable CD...

However, then I installed the harddrive back in, it was soooooooooooo noisy :( an old seagate 6gb harddrive. what can I do about this ??? Since it's a very old PC I do not advice buying any of the current HD, it may not be recognised by your mobo/bios. Secondly I would not spend more than $30 on su...

How about using thermal glue to attach a VIA socket 370 passive cooler? I doubt this thing will rip-off the mobo, it's only made of aluminium and is pretty light. It is much beefier so it should work very well..

Cooler Master VIA passive cooler

Why in this day and age are we still using floppies? (unless you still installing Windows 95 or before). I mean a 16mb/32mb+ usb pen drive cost little to nothing (cost about the same as a floppy drive) and is far more handy for storing data. I hate floppies, they develop bad sectors quite easily and...