Why? :? It was a WACC CPU block and a Gainward(?) GPU block. Sorry, my fault for not typing as much as I was thinking. Here's what I was thinking: For these passive loops to be be effective you have to have virtually no flow restrictions, since you're talking about a pumping force that basically ha...

Yes, but as we all know fins attract dust, and dust is evil...with a nice big external radiator you can just vacuum the dust off once a month.

Yeah nici, its the old idea of "hot water rises". I think you were using the wrong waterblocks Pete. I almost got a rig like that working...using a .5m WACC, and an old-style "straight through" Zalman VGA block as the waterblock strapped to an XP2100. The water would flow, albeit very, very slowly, ...

I think you've missed the point... Yes, the paper is about the CPU/IHS interface, but its concept, that making the interface flatter actually reduces the efficiency of the thermal connection would logically apply to the IHS/HSF interface as well. If the "hierarchical branching microchannels" double ...

Actually exactly the opposite: it would work better in the winter when both the room temp and the dew point are lower. Anyone who's ever had a running toilet could testify to that. There's nothing dumb about watercooling a computer per se, but using a system that dumps thousands of gallons of water ...

But there is an alternative. Hook your water-cooled system directly to the cold water line. Rather than a radiator, route the water to the front lawn......double-duty water cooling. Don't laugh too hard......this sort of cooling was used for air conditioner systems a few years ago. If you're not on...

I was under the impression that Yate Loon didn't play the bogus-spec game (Globe, I don't know about). I don't know what to think at this point - if YL has gone over to the dark side, then fan specifications are all useless! General rule: The people who actually make the fans tend to have reliable ...

If it is a malware process that continuosly starts and stops he can miss it with this method. Once a process is closed it dissapears from that list and the timer is reset. I think that it is better to sort it by "CPU" and look at the processes that appear at the top. Good point. Well, if it's stopp...

The motherboard makers know exactly how much heat each component puts out.... and they know that they could dissipate that heat with a tiny little aluminum heatsink.... but they also know that fancy heatpipes look impressive, and that the more-money-than-brains "gamer" market will buy something just...

Turn on the "CPU Time" column on the processes tab, and after the machine has been running like that for a while sort the list by CPU time. Once you get past "System Idle" and "Explorer", etc, you should be able to pick out which process is using the CPU. A quick googling of the process name should ...

Thanks Reachable...See, I'm not totally off my rocker. The heat load from electrical equipment, including lighting, is a factor that goes into the HVAC equipment sizing calc for every building. I brought this up with an ME consultant that I know from work, and his thoughts were that without doing th...

If you are planning on using it as an htpc then i would definitely go Vista, without question. The Media Center portion is much better under Vista than under XP. But if that's not a goal then if you had an extra XP license laying around I would just use that, but if you have to buy a new OS now ther...

Somebody in Ontario isn't thinking this through very well. In northern climates like that incandescents may actually be more environmentally friendly than CF's, mainly because they are less efficient. Here's my logic: The stated reason why CF's are greener than incand's is that they waste less elect...

"Works" and "Works well" are two very different things. You can already run games on Linux and OS-X using Cedega and Wine, and that certainly hasn't caused a mass exodus away from Windows for gamers. The typical "gamer" seems to be willing to pay hundreds of dollars for marginal increases in perform...

Very few of any new mid-to-high end cases come with speakers anymore. They are going the way o fthe Dodo.

Added a new thread in the Announcements forum. No real need to sticky anything in there...there's only 5 threads. I basically copy/pasted Justin's post...if anyone has anything they think should be added to the announcement either post it in here or in the announcement thread and I will incorporate ...

An "Unoffical" SPCR IRC channel can be found here: #SilentPCReview on chat.serenia.net How to chat: To connect from a Java-enabled web browser, click here to chat. If you have Mozilla Firefox or Seamonkey, you can use the embedded chat client, ChatZilla to chat with us. After installation, point to ...

If you read for tone in the Google report, and not just content, it seems pretty clear that they're as confused about some of the results as we are. I would think that if the difference between 5400 and 7200 drive failure rates accounted for the anomolies they wouldn't be grasping at straws for expl...

I think some of you are overlooking what is the most likely potential explanation for the "cool drives fail faster" phenomenon in the Google report: The temperature results list average temperature readings for the drives. Take two identical drives. Place one under continuous Medium utilization wher...

There's no "official" SPCR IRC channel, but several unofficial ones have been created over the years. The idea seems to come up about once every 6 months, someone makes a channel, there's limited chat on it for a few day/weeks, and then it slowly fades away. If you do a search for "IRC" you'll find ...

119. It suffers from some of the same issues that most other online "IQ tests" suffer from, namely that a good portion of it is testing your education and not your intelligence. The language section in particular is skewed towards those with an advanced education, as opposed to those with high intel...

(We don't know what the VERIS mark is about.) "Veris" is Antec's name for their new line of media-centric products. The MX-1 and the A/V Cooler they dislayed at CES are to be among to the first Veris products to be released. I'm glad to see that MX-1 held up to the high hopes we had for it when we ...

On a semi-related note: Audio-animatronic Muppets roam a Disney theme park "seeing" and "talking" to visitors

I don't know about you, I'm more afraid of Muppets than I am of Terminator.

Han described the "titanium" as being a "new finish". That doesn't specifically mean that the P182 won't still be available in black. I got the impression that the titanium was a replacement for the "refrigerator silver" p180 color. We'll have to wait until it shows up on Antec's site to know for su...

JazzJackRabbit wrote:Rusty, just curious, so you don't think P182 internals will make it to P180/P180B?

The P182 is the replacement for the P180/P180B. They're not going to be sold along side each other. Once the P180's in the channel get sold, that model is gone for good. (At least that is my understanding)

Hi Chumly, One possibility is that you got some sort of P180B/P182 hybrid. The P182 is, I would assume, being produced in the same factory on the same machines that the P180's have been. It seems like a reasonable idea that they might have switched the chassis machine over to the new P182 molds whil...

Jaganath hit the nail on the head. Multimedia is the next big growth area for PC's. Pretty much every household in the western world that is in the market for a PC already has one. Now the goal is to try to get all those households to have two (at least). The explosion of digital media into the livi...

THG had an article where they tried to benchmark the effects of Superfetch and Readyboost on application loading times. I think their methodology is a little suspect, but if you assume that readyboost RAM is being used for Superfetch data then the results are at interesting. http://images.tomshardw...

Yeah, I meant 215mb as a minimum "usable for people like us " amount of RAM for XP. My Geode file server is perfectly happy with its single 256 stick running XP, but I wouldn't want to try to multitask on it. Beyonder, I timed the first install of Ultimate on my machine at a little over 12 minutes. ...

The amount of FUD about Vista that gets passed around is pretty staggering. just to clear a few things up: -The EULA for Vista is almost identical to that for XP. Under XP's eula you were required to have an MS OS installed before installing an "upgrade" edition. Under Vista the OS just now checks t...