... There are a lot of french sites reviewing, and sometimes it's interesting. Most figures speek for themselves even to english-speeking people, but ask if...
Hello Naoyuki Tai, Thank for your reply. ... Well, Anand's PSU & case reviews are very few and far between. Regarding Tom, I don't want to start a flame war so...
Hello Gwenn, ... Which are considered the best? ... Well, sending my daughter to French immersion school may yet prove to be the right decision... :-)...
... The problem is that I don't know any good french silent PC reviewing site (actually there's http://www.pcsilencieux.com/sections.html, but not enough...
Dear Joseph, "Doc" Don again - Also, (this may be too obvious) you don't want a line of sight from inside the secondary room into the main room for the PC and...
Hi all ! I'm building a very quiet PC. I'm sleeping 1 meter from it so it must be very quiet. I want it to be very low power consuming too. It's a Jetway miniQ...
Hello! Does anybody know a utility that would slow down the HD RPM when it is idling? E.g. in the evening I go home and my office PC is running 24/7, during...
Alexander Petrari
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Jun 7, 2005 10:20 am
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... I don't know any of. But I think it's technically impossible. The heads need some speed in order to "fly" above disk surface. Slow down the speed and...
Sorry Alexander, but this is not a practical thing to request. The heads ride at a specific height above the platters on an air wedge. There is a difference in...
That said, some machines permit spin-down of the hard drives after a period of inactivity. When the drives stop, the heads are "parked" in a safe area. Look at...
... Well, Microsoft has one setting that's intended for that purpose -- Settings / Control Panel / Power Options / Turn off hard disks. That said, it doesn't...
It would seem that some fanless psu still make some noise (transformer hum maybe?). I am searching for the best solution, so does anyone know of any fanless ...
I don't think you will be able to do this without some kind of solid state drive, which are very expensive for little space - but very quick. However, I too...
... If you've got the RAM available, put your pagefile and $TEMP on a RAM drive, http://users.compaqnet.be/cn181612/RAMDisk/ramdiskfree.htm, to get around ...
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Jun 9, 2005 9:47 am
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... Sorry, old URL, it's http://www.ramdisk.tk/. Peter....
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Jun 9, 2005 9:52 am
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Dear all: I think most PC PSU use high frequency switching power supply type with about 40 kHz or higher. I don't think the hum will be heard, even if the...
I hate to spoil your hopes on the C: drive spin down David... but have you looked at the reality of this under Windows 2000/XP? If you set these OSs up for...
Mula, if you are going to have this sort of noise, it is going to be at the frequency of the mains power, either 50Hz or 60Hz depending on where you are in the...
John, These days, I use Windows as little as possible. There are *many* issues with it I am not happy with--such as the atrocious "keep alive" signals on the...
if u mean solid state as in flash-based they're very slow. ... <http://www.e-mailpromotion.com/register.php?ref=swin70> ... __________________________________ ...
Dear John, Yes, we live with 50 or 60 Hz. I live in the 50 Hz environment by the way. I do electronics DIY, and some "bad" transformers do hums, some even...
I think the hums come from the transformer, which was not well vanished. It will generate 60 Hz or 50 Hz noise owing to the vibration of the coil. Usually...
No, solid state as in RAM based cards. Thanks, Chris <http://www.e-mailpromotion.com/link.php?id=swin70> Click here to join E-mailpromotion.com, and start...
... Not that much. I installed Win98 on an Epia motherboard (via C3 CPU) and a 256Mo Compact Flash, and it was ok What I understand is that CFs have low...
... That might make sense for temp, but surely it makes no sense for pagefile. The pagefile is used when the system runs out of memory - and you want it to use...
Sorry David, but I believe that unix/Linux is quite similar in the boot drive behaviour. Since it is frequently updateing the inode table the drive must be...
I suppose the quick answer to that Roger is that all the Operating Systems are a little bit crazy :-) They all have their origins in times when desktops did...
... Yes, it's true and this is, I think, very dangerous for the drive. ... Almost. But it happens sometimes. ... I agree. We are better silencing our drives. ...
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