It does not look good, especially when mounted on the back of a monitor. There seems to be no ventilation at all, no air-holes for air in or out, which means that the only method for removing the heat are the aluminium ribs via the internal air temperature. As we know air is a poor conductor of heat...

You might want to re-calibrate your thinking. I have a 120GB SSD, its not really big enough for everything, a 240GB SSD would o me fine for some time. Whenever I install a new game I "cut + paste" and old game that I dont play very often to my 500GB HDD, when I want to play it I cut and paste it bac...

Many people have replaced their original Shuttle PSU when it failed with other PSU's due to the massively over-expensive replacement Shuttle PSU's. Please tell us the model of Shuttle, and the CPU that you have so that someone here can gauge the real power requirements of your PC and suggest a repla...

Was it not for my SlipStream 800 rpm's which were on a discount (bought for approx. 7 USD each) I would probably have went for the AC fans. If I had the chance to buy 800rpm Slipstreams for that amount I would have bough them instead of the F12's as case fans because I wouldn't need to change their...

I have been playing with Speedfan to see just how little fan speed I can get away with whilst idling (or playing videos, browsing the net etc). The answer seems to be a 20% fan speed with my Arctic Cooling F12 fan (1450rpm @ 12v). Importantly it starts at a very low speed, and at 20% (a mere 323 rpm...

as far as I can tell there are 3 problems that lie with integrated water-cooling systems. The pump is the main problem, some rattle and some dont, some will allow you to run them at a lower voltage and some dont, and if you get a bad pump you will be sending it back. The other 2 problems are directl...

Peter, an off topic question. In the second picture of your shuttle. Below the CPU heatsink is a row of 6 small capacitors (small round cylinders attached directly to the motherboard), to the right of those 6 are 2 larger brown capacitors. Do they have flat tops or are the "bulging" and/or have brow...

I have not seen many reviews of any integrated water cooling system that are quiet, or even outperform the best heatsinks.

My money would be on an air cooler rather than water.

Also cheaper and wont destroy your PC if there is a leak.


Andy

The Intel SSD in question is an X25. I can't remember where I found the 14TB figure now. Also keep in mind that Intel are using an SSD controller that does compression now, where as my older drive does not. They don't state what average level of compression they assume. Before the data is written t...

According to the spec sheet for the Intel 510 series of SSD's. From page 9 of the PDF in the link below. http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-specifications/ssd-510-specification.pdf "Minimum Useful Life/Endurance Rating 5 years The SSD will have a minimum of five year...

26GB is nothing. Also don't forget that writes are amplified. I dont know what this means.! If you are referring to the SSD automatically moving around the writable blocks in the form of "wear leveling", then that is not part of the 14TB of writes, they only list "user writes". Also out of interest...

Sure, but you could save a few bucks and get a non T-version since the difference in power consumption is very small. With that motherboard you could underclock to "T-levels" (or lower still) if needed. +2 Also, there is no real between the "low power" versions of a CPU (e.g. "T") when the CPU is i...

Most of the e-tailers that I use still list standard Seagate drives as having a 1-year warranty, a few have 2-year warranties, but they are companies that are more expensive and I dont buy from them. WD still have 1-year warranties on a few of their drives, but most are 2-year warranties and they ar...

What worries me is the steadily reducing amount of spare capacity on SSDs. I have an older Intel SSD that is rated for a maximum of 14TB of writes. It ran out of spare capacity after about 18 months in my main computer (used mostly for web and software development). Had it replaced under warranty a...

Not sure about that... Velcro is not really that absorbant for vibrations. The material doesn't really stretch. It good to hold thing together (I use it for cable management) but for vibrations reduction... I have to disagree with Frenchie even though I have never used velcro on the inside of a PC,...

The 840 Pro is very fast, and should be reliable (the previous model (830) is), and has very low idle power consumption so are perfect for laptops. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review Various other reviews are out there now the NDA has been lifted. Price TBC, availabi...

Well since there are no lower rpm Noiseblockers, I'll have to pick between Be quiet! and Noctua. The prices are essentially identical, so it will be a hard choice to make. The Noctua fans have proven reliability and sound good and have extras to change the voltage so you dont need to mess around wi...

Zip ties/cable ties, zip clips, whatever you want to call these things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_tie Are great for attaching fans as they wont break for years even with the heat, I have the top fan in my P180 attached with them - its basically suspension without any elastic. You can also d...

Fortunately for me WMP9 does the job very well (I can upgrade to WMP11 but will it really improve my experience without any tradeoffs?) I have no idea, I have not used WMP since about version 6. You might want to check that you can uninstall it before going ahead, I imagine that you can remove it a...

The "K-Lite Codec Pack" is the only media player/codec pack that I will touch. You might want to go to "add/remove programs" and look for any "shitware" that has been installed when you installed it, the last time I did that is installed a "shit toolbar and search engine add-in" called "Klit", which...

I think there is a "problem" with the speed sensor, B12-2 was still spinning till 4V, but it wasn't possible to get a speed return from the fan. You may be right, although I always thought that the "speed sensor" was actually on the motherboard, and the 3rd fan wire just passed the data across. I h...

And translated. http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.hardware.fr/articles/874-19/noiseblocker-xl1-pl1-pl2-m12-s2-b12-1-b12-2-test.html&usg=ALkJrhj46fecapePMY1GsDxbPX3A1WYLZA If you look at the bottom o...

FYI they are available in the UK right now, and are in the Noctua price range. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/search_results.php?sortby=priceAsc&search=eloop This is the original page. http://www.noiseblocker.de/eLoop120.php There is no English version on their website yet, and as its PHP Google Tran...

I have no idea about that cooler, but most (so long as you are using the whole mounting kit rather than some of it and some of something else) you just screw down until its stops. Every one I have ever used that is spring-mounted is the same. But before you continue, wait for someone else to respond...

VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro II IGP That graphics chip is old, and as far as I can remember only had "hardware" playback for a few old codec's, MPEG or MPEG 2 probably. According to this it supports MPEG 4, and WMP9 as well, but I would not be certain about that as it may be a refreshed version of the one...

This has eliminated the vibrational problems I had before, however now I'm seeking to eliminate the spinning noise that these drives emit. There are only 3 real choices for reducing "airborne" noise such as a fan or a spinning platter - in no particular order, and "dumbed down" (so the message gets...

Your option 1 will work OK. I have seen coolers configured this way in order to avoid a conflict between the fan and high-profile RAM modules, particularly where all the memory slots are in use.

+1


Andy

Whether the heatsink is mounted correctly or whether its a TIM issue can be answered by looking at it when idle, and to see how fast the CPU temp drops after you stop the benchmarks. Also, did you have the case side off whilst testing, or did you only take it off for the picture.? As far as the heat...

Looking at the PSU mounting in the BitFenix I would still side with an ATX PSU. The extra space around an SFF PSU won't be any real use in this case other than tidying spare power cables. I would think that a G-360 would be ideal given it's short length, allowing 20mm at the front for power cables ...

In terms of solely gaming: the last couple generations of AMD CPUs haven't been very efficient in terms of fps. Take a look at Anandtech's Bench and compare any of the current gen AMD quad cores vs Intel. Even the lowly Pentium 850 holds it's own vs the X4 980BE. I think that I am just looking for ...