I have a Coolermaster Stacker. It does not have thick side panels, but thin aluminium side panels. It also has a lot of ventilation holes (at the bottom, top,...
Thanks for your previous replies. I'd like to know how to calculate the power required for a quiet computer I'm building. The specs of many PSU are impressive...
Thursday Morn Many persons will advise you to get a high wattage PSU. Not needed. But they will advise it anyway. Time for science. And research. I have 2...
Jesse was quite right, I think. Note that most power supplies are not at all constrained by the total current limit, but by the limit on the +12 volt line. The...
As far as totally silent hard drive cooling ther are a couple options. If you go watercooled the Koolance Hard drive Hydra-pak cooler. As for fanless...
Zalman and Thermaltake have several fanless video card cooling options. Some models are: Zalman noiseless VGA cooler ZM80D-HP, Thrmaltake Fanless VGA heatpipe...
Hi Folks, I need to purchase a more powerful vidoe card and had a couple of questions. ( Sorry for the long post ) I have an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 . I would...
Joseph Gannon
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Mar 8, 2005 7:54 pm
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Dear Joseph, I think your guess is right, the price tells the story. I use the FX5700PDF myself (128 bit, 256MB, ViVo, Dual Monitor, S-Video, etc), I'm...
http://www.directron.com/sf350stainless.html For the price, $29.95, a good off the shelf solution. Been pleased with my purchase. Have not tried this one ...
Thanks JReeder, The folks on this forum have always been helpful. I was all set to buy a 6200 when a friend of mine offered to sell me his FX 5700 256 MB for a...
Joseph Gannon
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Mar 10, 2005 2:27 pm
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http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-125-142&depa=0 You might need to stitch it together to work. Gigabyte 6800 that is fanless. Big...
actually i'm pretty sure it automatically underclocks according to temp. I have a geforce 6800 and it has it's own temp sensor. Besides, in 2D it'll probably...
Hello Joseph, This may not be the sort of answer you expected... and it may generate a storm of outrage, but my reading of the benchmark results for the latest...
"I just cannot be bothered changing the resolutuion every time I start Flight Simulator." um... huh? The game has it's own resolution settings, and usually it...
With respect to FS...we all do things our own way James. Normally I run two screens, so it does not run well to use the "internal" screen settings. And I...
Hello! Does anybody know a piece of software monitoring the temperature and fan speed of the PSU? I need that badly as I got and mounted over the weekend a new...
Alexander Petrari
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Mar 14, 2005 2:27 pm
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Greetings, all - As many of you probably know, the Shuttle XPC keeps its processor cool with what it calls an Integrated Cooling Engine (ICE), basically an...
... If the motherboard supports fan speed control (pwm), you do not need to use fanmate. ... As long as the temp is lower than speced, that's fine. ... Temp1...
... This makes a lot of sense, and much thanks for your help. Two things still concern me, though ... One is that I haven't been able to find anything online...
... I agree with your final comments. :D The temp monitors in mobos are only a rough guide. Intel & AMD's CPU safe temps are in their tech docs, and they're...
Mike Chin is saying monitoring the throttling is the best way to see if your processor is running too hot, he didn't say anything about burning a p4. ...
As a starting point Alexander, I would check to see if the PS fan is a sensed one. All the PS fans I have seen have been two wire unsensed examples with a...
Having just successfully built a near silent pc, I thought I'd share. Specs: Athlon64 3400+ Retail (stock HSF) Asus K8V-SE Deluxe, motherboard 1GB RAM Samsung...
Hello! Does anybody know a piece of software monitoring the temperature and fan speed of the PSU? I need that badly as I got and mounted over the weekend a new...
Alexander Petrari
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Mar 16, 2005 8:43 am
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Hello, John! On Wednesday, March 16th, 2005, at 13:26:35 GMT +11:00 (EST) (at the same time it was 16/03/2005, 04:26:35 my local time), you wrote (at least in...
Alexander Petrari
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Mar 16, 2005 9:30 am
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Hey, Me again. Liking the discussions lately. I follow them with interest. Question 'bout PSUs: Does someone here have any experience with the 500W Ultra...
tomshardware reviewed the X-Connect and a dozen other PSUs recently http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050228/index.html mostly covering voltage and...