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by colm
Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:42 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

spring cleaning

hey it is a complete year number 2. Had the cover off after a 16 foot snowfalling record breaking winter (loving the spring time power surges right now). figured I would get it back to spotless and I modified the duct work base to cpu to be all aluminum instead of the plastic base (redundant piece, ...
by colm
Sun Nov 18, 2007 7:13 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

update Nov 19, 2007

Lo and behold I racked up 19241 hours on the hard drive. speed fan still claims well below max temps and fitness is 90%. the temp average was 31 C. (87 degrees F). Claims 708 stop/starts, and it coincides with a few several day runs I let it have.I found several errors software related as I lazilly ...
by colm
Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:50 pm
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Zalman with 56 ohm resistor
Replies: 0
Views: 1583

Zalman with 56 ohm resistor

I couldn't find a review in search so I'll list my year with it and comparisons to other silent attempts. I have learned towers gain an atmosphere and rather than go geek in what I still can't put into words, this fan was tested as the front fan below the hard drive in my slk2600amb antec. The total...
by colm
Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:54 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Is 24cfm good enough for an XP-90 on a 2.8ghz P4?
Replies: 8
Views: 3993

Your setup will work. :o I have a 2.8e HT 1mb cache frying all day long with a nexus 80mm silent fan with max rpm 1600 on the xp90 I am using duct work and custom plate of aluminum on top of the heatsink with the fan at the back of the pc sucking out. To be normal, yours will work. I only have one f...
by colm
Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:31 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Quiet 2400 rpm fan?
Replies: 4
Views: 2729

160*F as a load temperature of a Pentium 4 is fine. I agree. Been close to that as a max for a year. 160 was my personal line drawn. after replacing the 1700 rpm for the 2400 and re-encoding again. I have proven to myself it really needs it. The silenX fan in first post link is what I am pursuing n...
by colm
Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:10 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Quiet 2400 rpm fan?
Replies: 4
Views: 2729

Quiet 2400 rpm fan?

This is my yearly pursuit for an answer. I have in another thread my antec 2600 and cooled by just 3 fans.. the fastest was 1800 rpm (psu) with an xp90 on my hot tamale 2.8e ht cpu. All was well until I re-encoded a movie for the web recently. Originally was 1080p High Definition (3 minutes long 235...
by colm
Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:31 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

Another update... It is going on a year, I humored to take the cover off to check on things in September. Still running , dare I say, Perfect (my best ever since I began in 98) The box as stubborn as an antec is, is helping things along as a better heatsink than where it began. The cpu fan is down t...
by colm
Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:19 am
Forum: The Silent Front
Topic: Ionic Breeze PC Cooling rig
Replies: 84
Views: 103248

I read 2.5 pages of threads and.... I don't quite understand. :? The goal worked for materials given. That is all that mattered. the numbers would be different, if there is no actual CFM of air flow. To make them up like the builder did was ridiculous however. Big heatsink - little fan. Decent natur...
by colm
Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:01 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

Case After 7 months (photo)

I thought to take cover off for fall cleaning- been 7 months. http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7490/case7mozv8.jpg photo is 7 months untouched- just cover taken off. It has been running every day, sometimes for several days. Temps/volts are great. All I did was blow dust off of outside of case and c...
by colm
Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:19 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Cheap, quiet, one fan, micro-ATX PC. *update*
Replies: 11
Views: 22408

the ductwork is excellent if you tune it in like you are doing with heatsink. The best luck I have had yet. Good luck on your setup, I bet it goes well. check out my thread here it is same ideas. Mine is going on 6 months with full ATX. The microatx is a fav of mine, and may have one again soon with...
by colm
Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:08 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

6 month update

Still going silently since my first post of mar1 2006. I haven't had to clean dust out yet for the first 6 months so far- it is still quite clean! I have not had to reinstall or had overheats. The loudest thing in my office is me smacking the keyboard with my fingers. I have to check the power light...
by colm
Mon May 22, 2006 6:44 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

UPDATE

After about 12 weeks, the custom cooling is great. I never find updates for these aftermarket parts and I want to keep you posted with much more than a o/c for 5 minutes and declaring something good. here is quick review (to avoid searching post) ad-02 duct work, for 8cm (80mm fan) antec slk2600amb ...
by colm
Sat May 20, 2006 6:34 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

still going great

My area to live is in warm spring now, and outside lines for power are ragin again... Found my old post , the custom cooling is working great. The volts for everything have become precise, the CPU thermistor is giving a false reading, so, by the back of my hand and knowing the pc, it is trusted. Thi...
by colm
Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:15 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

Update

Again, I ran into 135-140F CPU temp (nasa worldWind for 30 minutes+). So here is cure if anyone is interested (what a precise chore this has become!!): the cpu was a coolermaster ultra silent @1400rpm (regulated 300 important rpm). Now upgraded CPU fan to a nexus silent @ 1500 rpm (regulates the sam...
by colm
Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:00 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

"Woops" Warning!

Upon a strange event with temperatures and no volt regulation, I went back to core cell software this board utilizes. It is a good thing I did! (Even tho the overclock options aren't for me) Speed Fan now uninstalled. Volt regulation immediately took place, a very slow curve barely hits 120F cpu ful...
by colm
Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:52 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

side panel

http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=custcoolside6to.jpg http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/9602/custcoolside6to.th.jpg This is side panel I forgot to mention. Riveted aluminum sheet, some foam. left opening in-line with vga passive heatsink. Only flaw (to me) with this whole Antec case, was th...
by colm
Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:31 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

idle/max temps

Here is some better statistics simply written: IDLE: 103F/40C CPU 99F/37C System 84F/29C Hdd I can go lower with these temps, but noticed a common delay when you come off of screensaver/monitor off to on and gaming or "slamming" iexplore around quickly getting to the net, etc. when temps are low. Th...
by colm
Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:34 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

The Temps

Certainly: Upon testing (the 2.8e is tricky due to the 2 cores) The highest temperature reached for cpu was 132 F(never went to that again yet, 127 to 123 seems to be gaming temp, I could assume it was the initial burn-in). The same attempt with copper cool heatsink by Intel ,was impossible (started...
by colm
Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:34 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

Woops forgot link to photo!
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[Fixed. BTW, Image Shack provides two different thumbnail codes, and one of them works -- just copy and paste it! Mod]
by colm
Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:25 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Silent Antec CHEAPly
Replies: 126
Views: 286401

Silent Antec CHEAPly

Silent Cheaply. System Specs: p4 2.8e/800/1mb msi platinum 865pe 1gb kingston, dual channel wd 80 gb (JB) Ati Radeon 9550se 300w antec slk2600AMB case Fans: 3 total psu fan monitored on board one zalman on its resistor, throttling from cpu fan plugin, via speedfan,pwm one cooler master "ultra silent...
by colm
Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:30 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Scythe SCNJ-1000 Ninja heatsink
Replies: 179
Views: 177632

VRM overheats?

I saw warning on this site's home page (or close to it). Did this heatsink propose a problem with this? I am certain volts dropped on mobos that have this type of heat regulation. I would love the passive heatsink until i heard of the capacitor overheat possibility. I am currently using duct work an...