That sure sounds like a dead drive to me.

Its true, an aluminum case does act like a heatsink. A really, really, really bad one thanks to the worst TIM joint possible thanks to 3+ inches of air....

when you pour the hot tea, the tea is evaportating due to the heat; therefore the air coming up is very moist. The sides of the tea cup, though warmed, will still be cold enough for condensation.

Sorry kostik, but we have very advanced security methods here for dealing with stalkers and the such. If you could provide me a brief description of yourself and your name, I will ask everybody not to let you into the building. I was informed yesterday not to let a blond haired guy named tyler into ...

I actually found resting my old maxtors on 1" foam worked extremely well at dropping down their whine, though they were still pretty loud... then replacing them with a FDB DM9+ was even more effective.

Tom P, that will work great if you paint that room and every object in it jet black. The other down side is you'll have to buy 500W floodlights to light the room decently.

I dare you to go to France and say that in public... Okay, sure. They might get upset, but then I'll pull out a hand gun and they'll all surrender and I'll be the new ruler of france. Then, I will add anti accent laws to their constitution while the UN is debating what to do about me. I will then s...

and you can even get a credit card with your parents...

Interesting side note: porn sites check that the credit card number is valid, not whether or not its held by a minor with an adult cosigning (is that the right word? I'm not sure).

all those extra accents and letters aren't needed anyways; we get by just fine without them and you should too!

My 3 laptop drives, 2 older maxtors(?) and 1 newer unknown in my IBM laptop click pretty loud, especially the older two. I'm guessing that this is from attempting to make up a bit of the performance lost by the lower rotation speed.

Its probably not too effective... 2.5" drives are typically louder than faster 3.5" drives, in addition to being drastically more expensive per gb.

No, thats more than enough detail. I'm proudly not an expert in feminine hygeine products and I would like to keep it that way.

And that 220 is probably a horrible overestimation.

2100+ at 2.1 ghz, nforce2 mobo, Geforce4 MX, and a 4 gig laptop hard drive on mine

I leave mine on 24/7, need that folding time! And I don't pay an electricity bill.

Mines got 300GPH, 12.2 shut off head and 47 watt power consumption.

I know the power consumption exactly when I get my new Kill-a-watt

Black is also faster, another well proven fact.

correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they a tampon? Not something I'd want in my computer.

90 lbs force wouldn't surprise me with the IHS, and I guess its the same reason for the pad.

and they still don't know... 'what about that little cutie you were dating, with the red hair, what ever happened to her?' " Oh yeah her, one of my roommates friends bid higher so he's lending her to him now" I couldn't do anything like that, my roommate is nearly as much of a loser as I am so he d...

You'd even be able to fit that on a 180 watt PSU no problem.

Not much reason to though; my 180watt mini PSUs are quite noticably louder than the 120mm fortron under considerably less load.

tell me about the time you sold your sister into slavery and took out two mortgages on your house to buy a huge folding farm, launching your team forward in the rankings

if it reduces temps its thanks to improved airflow distribution. For side panels holes, blocking them can potentially affect temps either way.

that must be a cooler pump than mine, mine breaks 90C in open air, 25C ambient

What are the specs on it?

I myself have picked up another 2500+ at work, and I should be getting KVM cables tomorrow or thursday so I'l get up my 2600+ farm node.

Lockheed will probably still pass me though

Do it like this: [img]http://www.whatever.com/folder/picture.jpg[/img] And you'll get something like this: http://nottage.homeip.net/graemlins/ani-smile.gif edit: A bit of detective work shows that you haven't got a pics subdirectory, let alone any actual pictture files. No pr0n either. :( And his ...

yeah, this guy in one of my lectures yesterday was thwacking his lap top keys as hard as he could; you could probably hear him typing from anywhere in the lecture hall.

But even if you hit the keys softly, they can make quite a bit of noise, like my keyboard does.

It looks like AMD plans to shrink the price difference with the hammer. I"m dissapointed by that, but AMD does have to start turning a profit or it won't matter.

And the Athlon 64 should be a good heat/performance upgrade, especially when the 90 nanometer die shrink comes.

Actually, HL2 is supposed to be released the 30th.

Another thing to note: There is a 72 gb raptor coming out soon. The most notable change (for us) is a FDB motor, which means the whine will be silenced. However, the seek time is down to 4.3 ms, which will improve performance but will probably click pretty badly.

1. Pro would be a better OS.

3. I've got 166 OCed to 200 and don't have anything to complain about

4. If it hasn't been fixed yet, you can RMA it.

5. Maxtor will be faster, samsung will probably cooler and will be quieter. Reliable I have no idea.