is extruded aluminum really that expensive? i know the common die sizes aren't big enough so you might have to go with a few 7" lengths joined together, but aluminum is sitting at around 90 cents per pound and an apple/dell could probably negotiate an 8 pound case-size sink for $15 or so. right? ce...

I don't know if any of you guys have priced large heatsinks, but they are not cheap. There is no way such a gigantic heatsink makes any sort of financial sense, even to a big company like Dell or Apple. The bean counters at either company would be in a fist fight with the engineers who suggested suc...

None of the radio shacks I've ever been to have had the right kind of connectors needed to plug into a motherboard's header. However places like Jameco and Digikey have the connectors. Look through the interconnects section of Jameco's site. Make sure to get the matching female crimp pins to go alon...

What a cool project!

I'm sure alot of people would be greatful if you could post some info about the undervolting and underclocking options present in the BIOS as your mobo is the only socket 939 uATX available right now. Keep up the great work and keep posting pictures!

That is seriously cool.... I wonder how much they'll charge for it?

if I was in his schoes, I would probably release the source. Who cares about the NDAs now that you're not going to be supporting the software anymore?

you sound very much like myself edward, only you have the budget for nice audio goodies

oooh.. that is very tempting to purchase. eager to hear your results

thanks fellas - exactly what i was looking for!

I was talking to a few folks on another forum who swore up and down that a 7200 RPM hard drive pulls more amps to spin up than a "typical" CPU would under 100% load. Obviously this struck me as ridiculous. I was wondering if anyone had heard a rough figure for HD start up? I searched and searched, n...

Good work

I wasnt too thrilled with the seeks of my Samsung either. But I decoupled the drive and now I can't hear the seeks at all... you should give it a shot!

I never go back to my noisy old box... I'm spoiled on my current system

Very nice! Great find

I wonder if its feasible to run the 14W version fanless... hmm...

Gunzee - IMO the two "stealth" fans are probably causing the most noise. My system runs totally fine with no case fans - even though I keep one in the case and hooked up for emergencies, it stays turned off through software. You'd be suprised how little airflow your computer really needs once the ca...

what model Samsung drive do you have in your machine? I have the 160gb SATA model and it did produce a bit of seek noise until I suspended it, and it has since been inaudible... It never created any whine that I could detect with the case closed...

al bundy - I asked my professor what he thought about Einstein stealing all of his ideas. He said although he is not an expert on Einstein's time period or Einstein himself, he has read a good deal and has never heard of anyone with any notable academic status try to accuse Einstein of intellectual ...

Al - that is very interesting indeed. I'm going to ask him about this topic and see how he responds. What I dont understand from your posts though is where the idea behind the math came from. IIRC Lorentz used sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) but it was for something entirely different than how time changes as you...

eniacs wrote:i cant belive so many people are fooled by this thread!

They now have several videos of the motors operating ... look on the top of the original page I posted...

... :lol: I dunno what all Einstein did that was great but I don't accept a lot of his theories... The academic community has long known Einstein to be one of the world's worst plagiarists, especially regarding relativity theory. He simply restated the ideas of Poincare, Hilbert, Maxwell, Lorentz, ...

http://japan.com/technology/index.php

whoa. and his technology is nearly silent too. aboslutely amazing.

EDIT: they now have several videos of the motors operating, be sure to check them out.

My friend has a Toshiba laptop with the foldable/turnable screen and the Centrino package, it is very quiet... I could not hear any pick out any real noise from it... Is that a tablet PC? Maybe it's fanless? Thanks for the other replies too. Yes it's the tablet PC - it's been a month or two since I...

My friend has a Toshiba laptop with the foldable/turnable screen and the Centrino package, it is very quiet... I could not hear any pick out any real noise from it...

I say give it a shot, recycling parts out of old electronics is really cool IMO

That is so cool... great link!

Ed - if you're skilled at soldering, you can get pins that are factory bent 90 degrees. I would be hesitant to desolder pins from a motherboard for warranty reasons, but it looks like you're faced with modification anyway. IMO replacing the straight connector with a 90* equivalent would be the most ...

daniel - I'd also recommend an NF7-S, that's what I'm running in my machine and it's got everything you need once you add a passive northbridge cooler to it. It's a great motherboard and not very expensive at all.... good luck!

I've only been here for about six months, but I think (or hope maybe) that my silencing quest is just about over now that I have suspended my HD. I still come to SPCR several times per day because the forums are so great though. It is kind of addicting...

Unfortunately no pictures just yet, I can hopefully take some tonight. I'm half ashamed of my ghetto-rigging but it is still somewhat interesting

I bought an $0.89 package of 54" white nylon shoestrings and used my creativity and dexterity to weave a rig through the various slots, holes, etc in the front of my Evercase 4252 to suspend my drive. The drive will hardly move up and down or front to back, but some side to side motion can occur if ...

I use floppy disks for bringing files around campus because the school email rarely works faster than just using a floppy. I also used a floppy to install SATA drivers. Mostly I bought a floppy because my case (Evercase 4252) came with an open spot for a floppy, and it was just all around easier to ...