CDSpeed does this, sorry no link
Does not work with my DVD player, but does work with my CD-R

standard Barton2500, SLK 800
Ambient temp 28C

CPU Light use about 42C fan 5.5V - 1425rmp
CPU heavy use, the fan speeds up at 50C, but most of the time the fan stays at 1425rmp

3 SATA drives ?
All the SATA motherboards I know of will only take 2

I agree 60mm fans are too small

I only know one good PC shop in Belgium, can I ask where you are getting the bits from ?

Rusty075 wrote:Mike reviewed the Cenatek Rocket Drive here at SPRC back in November.

True, but the cheapest Rocket drive (1GByte) is $1200

Are you sure it has not been released ?
The review that you linked to is over a year old.

Thanks, most useful

Yes I was relying on MBM, using a multimeter the 5v is actually 4.95 not 4.8, the 12V rail was correct at 12.15v. AOpen SilentTek reports the same voltages as MBM, so the measurement error must be on the motherbord. The only voltage they disagree on is the 3.3 volt line where SilentTec gives 3.47v t...

mmmmm
12v and 3.3v are both 1% high, 5v is 4% low
Suppose I could make a small adjustment

Does anyone know which voltage lines are the most important on an Athlon board ?

I have an FSP PSU, but the 5volt rail is a bit low (4.8v at idle).

Is there an adjustment pot that can be tweeked or some other mod to raise the voltage a bit ? The PC works OK and all oter voltages are within 1% of nominal.

I have modded the fan so can not send it back.

I asked MikeC the same question in
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=3966
towards the end
And he said get an FSP and change the fan, which is what I have done

I have
FSP350-60BTP/PF (£40+tax, Active PFC) modded with Panaflow fan and FM35 mounts
PC not fully built so I can not say how quiet.

Depends upon the power and whether efficiency matters or not.

If this is just for a fan, then use zenner diodes to give a 12 vold drop
For an entire PC you will need something more complicated.

The capacitor will get hot if it is touching metal to metal. Even a small gap would be much better.

[quote=" I bet most SCSI drives are around 1A for each of the 5V & 12V lines. That's to the best of my recollection.[/quote]

No

The Baracuda 7200.7 datasheet says 2.8A max.
SCSI drives would be more than that, so that gives one per connector

What is the power / current rating of the wiring / molex.

4 or more SCSI drives will need thickish wires.

Power companies charge for VA, so PFC will reduce your bill.

The power companie measures your current, not power, they then multiply the current by voltage and express the result as power.
If your PFC is 1 then the power figure is true, but otherwise the true power is less than your bill says.

Example: 120mm L1A at 7V pulls approx 40CFM, that same volume of flowing air restricted to 80mm (50% reduction) would cause the velocity to increase proportionally, to approx 60 CFM (50% increase). No The CFM will not increase, it will decrease a little due to the higher resistance. Only the veloci...

UK only

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/product.php?subcat=39

[That's not the whole truth, if your motherboard temps were about 55oC I am certain you will get lockups, ramdom resets etc. Some people running CPU's at this temperture have found it to be unstable including myself. :D You should tell that to MikeC He wrote in the AOpen motherbord review A. Quiet ...

quote "Is it actually the platters that heat up in a HD and cause damage? How do they heat up? By spinning? That seems unlikely" It is actually the platters. Most of the heat generated by a HD comes from friction between the spinning platters and the air. The faster the platters spin the hotter they...

If the PSU fan is the only fan you have then you need more fans. 2 fans at 7v move more are and are quieter than a single fan at 12v The nexus fan is temperature controlled and normally quiet. If it is not quiet it is because it is overloaded and you need an additional fan. If you reduce its speed y...

Mains noise is everywhere. I used to make battery powered timers, put an oscilloscope probe on the wires and mains frequency was present it is not necessarily the PSU's fault. Electro-magnetic waves go through the air - that is how radio works for example. Capacitors on the PSU output and Audio card...

How can a motherboard be quiet or noisy, well take a look at

http://www.aopen.com/tech/techinside/SilentTek.htm


The second half is the interesting bit

not at $600 + shipping cost from Japan

The 9600 is made with a 0.13 process whereas the 9200 and 9800 are made with something larger, so the 9600 has lower power and heat than the 9800, so it does not need a ZM80A to be fanless

There are only exhaust fans. The case is very open. If your case side is removed then you just need a CPU fan, otherwise you need the input and exaust fans to balance. Is one of the exausts in the PSU ? 2 or 3 exausts with no inputs will always give high temps, Try turning one of the exausts into an...

Do you have any input fans, or only exausts

Seltzer wrote:Sounds similar to the Vantec Aeroflow heatsink...

Do you mean sounds similar have you heard it ?

It certainly looks similar.

Radeon 9700 Pro with a Zalman heat sink already attached (about £320)

second

Sapphire ATI Radeon 9000 Atlantis 64MB (about £55)

This and the Volcano 11 are not supposed to be available until the end of March.

If it was also a 92 to 80mm convertor it would be really good.