... lol. The noise drives me crazy, not to mention everyone else in the house. My son tells me that sleeping in the next room is finished when I fire it up. ...
Hi, group. I am visiting my family in Japan, and, as usual, I checked out book and computer/electronics stores in Osaka. I found out that AOpen is selling...
... VERY INTERESTING!! I have a spare 1.4 Ghz Pentium M, I'm dying for an "affordable" desktop Pentium M motherboard to pop it in. Please pass on any news. ...
Top Ten Ways to Make Sure Your Vote Counts By Mark Ritchie, AlterNet. Posted November 1, 2004. Every vote matters on Nov. 2. Here are a few tips to ensure that...
DFI seems to follow Aopen with 855GME-MGF µATX mobo : http://www.x86-secret.com/popups/articleswindow.php?id=113 (not available yet) Low power consumption for...
... Unfortunately, according to the magazine article, AOpen rep says that the board is exclusively for Japanese market. So, if you want one, start sending...
... Maybe and maybe not. For my family and friends other than me, I'd stay away from Mobile Athlon 64, just because it's pricier than other choices. For me,...
I am planning for a new pc. My current pc sounds like a vacuum cleaner, so for the next one I want to use silent parts. I think I will get me a Coolermaster...
Ge, In my opinion it would shed heat better at the top as it would have ore liklihood of getting a bit of thermal chimney effect going. But not much. You...
I am not sure that I agree with that comment about the bottom PSU as a simple catch-all Rus. It depends on where the air comes from, and what you need to cool...
In a message dated 11/5/04 12:53:14 AM Central Standard Time, duroby@... writes: The air is sourced from the top/back and exited from the bottom/back,...
Bother, bother, bother, BOTHER! I picked up Mobile Pentium 4, 2.80GHz at rather more than I meant to spend because I thought the enhanced SpeedStep technology...
... You can speed it up by increasing the front side bus setting in the BIOS. There is a fair bit of interesting info. on this at silent pc review forums. ... ...
Aidan, speeding up the FSB above the manufacturers recommended is really living on the edge. In the past they used to have some tollerance built in, that...
I had a case at one time that had the drives on top and the power supply at bottom rear. It also had a fan at the top rear position, and worked fine. ...
... really living on the edge. Umm ... geeze. So basically, to get the chip running at its rightful clockrate, I'd have to overclock it. And - from what I've...
... Yes. It is not that complex of a thing to do, if you have some decent instructions. Um, there is a web-site that explains how to do this, I will see if I...
... Hm. Well, I wouldn't mind reading up. But since I'm starting to get the feeling that I'll put the chip up for sale, I want to think at least twice before I...
Be forwarned: comments from an idiot that doesn't know what he's talking about follow... I am aware of overclocking. Overclocking is based on the fact that ...
P.S. I failed to mention that the REAL justification for overclocking is that the so called "binning" will SOMETIMES brand chips at a lower rated speed than...
What is the Silent-PC group current peek for a quiet 60Gb 4200rmp hdd? Recently I got a Fujitsu MHT2060AT (60Gb 4200rpm) from newegg.com to use for backups and...
I just wanted to clerify that in the previous post I only refered to the idle noise. Of cource, seek noise of those notebook hdds are almost non existent in...
... Two weeks ago, I bought Panasonic Toughbook Y2. This weighs 3.3lbs for 14" laptop, with CD burner and DVD reader. 40G HD. The 14" LCD is 1400x1050. CPU is...
I wanted to buy a Seagate at the beginning (mostly because of it's 5year warranty) but it lookes like 40Gb is the maximum size they make. I need 60Gb. ... ...
In short, the margins are much tighter now than they were when Klamaths were the chips of choice. I stand by what I said. If you do not know my background, do...
newegg sells two Fujitsu 60gig drives, the one you bought and for $10 more the MHT2060AH which says "Fourth-generation Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motors ...