Hello: Has anyone yet bought a Shuttle SS51g barebones kit with heatpipe, put in a silent Barracuda IV (or so) hard drive and tested the noise level? I'd be...
Nothing we didn't know already, but a good article nonetheless: http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1540.1/...
Andrew Hon
ashon@...
Oct 2, 2002 12:21 am
8102
... "The Barracuda IV actually was quite an engineering marvel as it had some of the lowest noise levels we measured and yet offered performance that was just...
... Noone has reported any reliability problems with the IBM 120 GXP, as far as I know. Have you seen anything differently? (And I don't consider the uptime...
... V. good point, Mirar, but the acoustic settings only affect noise during write / seek. Looks like the test was done at idle, though it isn't specified....
... The IBM has higher whine then the Seagate, but it's also quite easily dampened. It's considerably less then previous generations. I was quite impressed...
Anyone has any experience with DVD-writers? I'm considering getting one, backuping my photos to CD-R is too much hazzle (one session = 400Mb, easily). Are...
Folks -- I just received a notification that this group has been added to the Gmane archive (gmane.org is a bi-directional usenet<-->mailing list gateway, for ...
Kurt Lieber
silent-pc@...
Oct 2, 2002 5:25 pm
8108
I was doing one of my almost routine searches for silent computer solutions and came across this computer called OpenBrick. Doing a search for it on Silent-PC...
... I looked at this quickly when it was mentioned on Slashspot, it looks like an Advantech embedded PC. If you go to the Advantech web site (start with the ...
pgut001@...
Oct 3, 2002 3:04 am
8110
I have no experience Mirar, but I did read a review that compared the Sony to either a Philips or Panasonic... the Sony is recording in a proprietary format...
I am running a 120mm fan over my CPU on my gigabyte GA7VRXP. I have the fan mounted on one of the card screws on the side of the case. It works a treat for...
... Woah! you got a little typhoon monster fan there! Firsty, that sounds like a mean fan, i'd simply urge you to get a slow 120mm panaflo or Papst, they're...
Mike, an easy way to at least partially silence that fan would be to make it thermally controlled. I made a thermal control unit following the directions...
first off I want to say thank you very much for the great reply. I am now runing the typhoon at 5 volts it is actualy very quite, silent compaired to the...
that is a great page! thanks for the link, when i am dont at the shop today ill take a look for thoes parts and see what i find. let you know if i get any...
I found a case with 5.25" bays at the bottom that should allow mounting hard drives in NoVibes suspensions: the Enlight EN-7280. newegg.com has the best...
... temps ... 'too high' you say. How high? Don't be too scared with a (AMD) cpu thats running at 60degrees, use stability as a guide i'd say. It can get to...
Hi all, i've got a speaker front 'left over', its a thin black cloth stretched onto a plastic frame. Thought it would function well as fan guard (the cloth is...
I got myself a lsi logic scsi card and a 15000 rpm ibm 18.3 Gb Harddrive, talk about seeking noise yikes! Hey I just don't like quiet I like fast too!!!! Can...
onlinemetals.com and a hand drill good luck! ... http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/...
ashon
ashon@...
Oct 4, 2002 6:42 pm
8121
Back when we were building the first purpose-designed 486 machines at Cheetah International, we found those early chips to be tremendously hot. Experimentation...
Rubber pads between the case and the drive? This nonsense was mailed to you by: Aprazeth ... Webmaster of PlanetApra.COM // Unsteady-Corp.com Don't try to do...
The instructions on the cooler say that the fan should blow toward the chip. I am thinking about adding a duct over the cooler to have the fan blow heat out of...
... That was a problem with Macs for years (we have some experience with this here). The original model had the vents on top where students put their lecture...
pgut001@...
Oct 5, 2002 3:06 am
8126
Generally speaking, if you are blowing air towards the heatsink/cpu, the cooling effect is better than blowing away from it. The comparison is based on using...
Actually Mirar, I just bought myself an aluminum plate 3/8 th of an inch thick 15 by 15 inches and a jig saw will be making 6 plates for my three ibm hard...
Actually a lot of computers like it if you suck the air from the mb to through the heatsink it works a little better with a thermaltake volcano 7 and the...
... SPCR's ... http://www.silentpcreview.com/goto.php?t=s&id=35&a=1 Hi, Sorry for been late on this thread but I'm new on this list. Because I'm working all...
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