Seems like it has a lot of silent pc potential. I am just concerned to all of the references to defective or damaged brand new cases. Is this typical for Aspire or do you think it is due to initial production run lack of quality control? I've been eyeing that case. Bluefront recently updated his po...

Just an idea off the top of my head... Why not try a car sponge (or two). You could cut them up to size. I'm sure you could arrange it so they couldn't be seen. They'd slide nicely on the floor. And it would be cheap as chips! Plus, if you spill coffee right next to your PC, you just scoot it over ...

the Z720T looked pretty strong. Incidentally, Gigabyte seems to be on the edge of releasing a nice s939 MATX. That board looks kinda nice...I'm definitely looking for an AMD64 board that has gigabit lan, and SATA, and there is a definite lack of those. However, aren't the ATI/ULI chipsets shown to ...

I didn't see if you checked this or not, but you might also want to try using a different PSU. A few months ago, I was trying to restore an old PC to useability. I pulled a working PSU out of my working PC and plugged it into the old motherboard. The LED on the motherboard lit up...but the board wou...

Edward Ng wrote:Paradigm Studio/20s are my loudspeakers.

Speakers?!? Ahhh, that I understand! (I sound like that doofus Dad in that Dell commercial).

Thank you for your very patient and fully understandable (honestly) description of what you were saying. Today...I am a little smarter.

I don't rip to uncompressed, I rip to lossless compressed (a format known as FLAC; used to use Monkey's Audio before). I use foobar2000 to output via Kernel Streaming to an Echo Audio Mia MIDI sound adapter, which then sends the data via 75 ohm digital coax S/PDIF to a Benchmark DAC1, converting to...

My question is should I connect the Panafol to the CPU_FAN connector? Your motherboard manual SHOULD indicate the max amps/wattage that the motherboard fan headers can handle. My ASUS manuals do. Note that sometimes the values listed in the manual are for all 3 headers combined, not individual head...

I'm using my old P4T motherboard for my media PC. Works great, but it's still just a tad louder than I'd like. Part of the reason for that is the PSU I have in it. I'd like to upgrade to a newer, quieter PSU, but the P4T has that unusual "AUX" power connector on it's motherboard. That limits what po...

No, Brand/Model (and revision) are pertinent. Just because a HDD supports SMART (almost all), doesn't mean it reports . Well, that would certainly be an explanation. I've got some Western Digitals, some Maxtors, and some Seagates. Hehe. So, I'll have to find out what they actually are. The thing is...

By the way, I have a question regarding SpeedFan. I have a Hitachi 7K250 SATA and Seagate 7200.8 SATA (250 GB and 300 GB respectively) installed. The temps reported are always identical for the two drives. They go up and down together in lockstep. Now, this could be a fantastic coincidence, but com...

Well, the first temp1 and temp 2 are both just above ambient at the moment and the last temp 1 is below ambient temp. I guess that means the last temp 1 can be disregarded aswell. That leaves what? A northbridge temp? A motherboard temp? My experience so far with Speedfan and various motherboards i...

Thats exactly what I did. I had it plugged in and was too lazy to shut down. I just yanked it out and.... BLISS!!! Well, no luck for me on my Silverstone PSU...it was just a shot. Strange though that it's rpm never goes below about 1500. Maybe Speedfan is just reading it wrong. It doesn't seem as l...

Oh my god!!! thank you so much for this. I have just tried it and it works like a dream. The computer is dead silent and the fan is still turning.. very slowly, but turning. THanks for this post! All you SmartPower 2 users.. disconnect the blue and black! How lucky do you feel? I wonder what would ...

I've been trying like crazy to figure out how to adjust the AAM settings on my hard drives, particularly my media pc. It has two HD's in it, an 80GB Western Digital (probably caviar), and a 160GB Seagate. The 80GB has some pretty loud seeking noises. After doing some searching, I read something abou...

alleycat wrote:Here's a simple version of cpemma's rotary switch fan controller which I posted a while back.

Thanks for the info. that's a better picture than cpemma's site, I think. Added it above.

idiot wrote:The manual never distinguished between the screws. I hadn't installed any hard drives yet, so I guess that's why I didn't notice that they were the wrong ones.

Owie. Sucks, man. Sounds like a mistake anyone could make, so don't feel like an idiot.

8) Cool, glad to know it really works! I like the cheapness and simplicity of this... maybe I should build one of these things too. :mrgreen: The terminal block is really pretty clever. It gives you the ability to connect any number of fans all at different voltages....so whatever voltage a fan see...

sthayashi wrote:I'm biased as an EE, and in my mind, this is worth keeping for the link information alone. I'm stickying it.

Woohoo! Is making a lasting contribution to an SPCR forum equivalent to making a Paypal donation?

In the past few weeks, I've done a lot of searching on this topic. As I look around me at the tangle of molex connectors, piles of ruined diodes and soldering iron burns in the carpet, I thought...perhaps I could spare someone else this pain. So, I've decided to compile a short guide on how to feed ...

He thinks this is a rather unusual way of regulating voltage, .... Heheh...ya, I'm sure it is, to someone who actually understands this stuff. Perhaps "regulating" is too strong a word. :lol: Maybe more like dumbing it down...beating even. But anyways, the rumors are true....hooked up a fan, then r...

Isn't there an issue though with that fan placement in regards to the filter? I would think filters are only really effective if the intake fan is directly "sealed" to it. Once the side panel goes back on, then it looks like you have a sealed duct from the fan back to the filter in front...except fo...

No PSU tester, just didnt plug in the PSU Fan wire into the motherboard. You can definatly hear the fan, but like I said, its really not that bad, I've dealt with a lot worse before! I'm not sure the purpose of the fan being plugged into the motherboard except for rpm measuring, which it doesn't so...

Mike you designed this thing with Antec and this is what we get? Explain. Now. Tis a bit brusque for a first post. Perhaps a re-read of the P-180 preview would be in order.... I became the design consultant for the product, code named P180. Design consultant . Try to find in that definition anywher...

peteamer wrote: Good thought on the Sticky, any takers on the task?...

Well, I've learned a fair amount trying to do this, I'd imagine I could collate that info into a post. Then what? Don't we have to throw it at a mod to get it stickied?

The microATX world is new to me, and I'm not thoroughly convinced I'll jump in yet. But I've been looking into it, and I've noticed the serious lack of options, as far as new technologies are concerned. Do microATX boards lag behind ATX designs? So, there WILL be more options at time goes? Gah, pati...

I checked your schematic and was also wondering "Why the hell doesn't that work?". If there isn't any load =>GND in the circuit after the diodes (by this I mean a fan) the circuit is open and the diodes or far that matter any other component will not work. Ya know, if I'd paid attention in my EE cl...

A. Tinning the tip is VERY much a good idea. Also, the idea of putting solder on the tip before the wire can work, but the solder will burn quickly if left to long. Burnt solder == bad. This is something I've not fully understood. So, leaving the tip on solder too long causes it to burn, right? But...

*GRUMBLE* I swear, I'm getting tired of buying wrong parts. So I go back to Radio shack...they're out of 1N4001 diodes because I bought them all a few days ago. Fortunately, they have a 25 diode pack for a couple bucks, and in there is an assortment of 1N400x type diodes. No problem, I figure. So I ...

IsaacKuo wrote:Honestly, the system seems stable at 5v even under load. But the extra "oomph" of the fan at a loud 12v is reassuring.

Hmmm...a new forum, perhaps? [Fans & Psychology]

Ok, an intake duct makes the most sense. I'd have to improvise a filter then. I live in AZ, where dust is the state flower. So you disconnected the smart power from the motherboard and turned it on (with some PSU tester or some such, I assume) and listened to it, and it's definitely louder when phys...