Hello I've just joined this group and I would like some advice on creating a quieter PC. I don't want to go through a great deal of construction and I want to...
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Dear innercity, I have a similar system (with the hot AMD 1400 & AIW8500DV 64MB, etc. to test it the hardest) and I quieted it several ways. The first step was...
Thanks for the reply. The 400W is already on it's way back to Directron. It was loud! At least much louder than my "loud" Enermax 450W supply. I have to say...
Get some Akasa Pax-mate liner from Directron.com. I believe I paid around $30 a box. It makes a great gasket and is very easy to mark and cut out. You won't...
I just used Pax-mate on a build and I liked it. Read some of recent posts for more info about it. I would suggest you give a look at Zalman's 7000 Al/Cu CPU...
I've done some searching on the internet, and the information that I'm coming up with regarding CPU temperatures somewhat perplexes me. Here's the situation: ...
... Many reviews are done with the motherboard on a test bench, not inside a case, so even if the room ambient is the same, the actual "intake" air temps, say...
Ok, I suspended my thermal probe about an inch from the CPU fan intake, and I'm reading around 26 deg. C., and I show 50 degrees reading from the BIOS menu, so...
Make sure you applied a *very* thin layer of thermal grease. Once I was too generous with the grease and the CPU kept crashing every 10-15 minutes, while the...
Ok, just for fun, I pulled the heatsink back off, cleaned the thermal compound off, and re-applied it a little thinner than before. Thin enough that the...
... Well, given that IBM baled out of the hard drive market altogether after that DeskStar fiasco, I'm guessing that they are probably under instructions from...
At 06:00 PM 6/1/2003 +0000, you wrote: [snip] ... [snip] I'm using an MCX4000 (rev 2) with a 92mm Panaflo (FBA09A12H) to cool my 2.4B P4. With my current...
It's just struck me that the HD's that I have that have heat dissipation issues seem to be painted black, while the others seem to be bare silver metal. Now, I...
... I think you're on the right track with the mounting surfaces; it's probably the way they want to dissipate heat. I would also guess that the heat sensitive...
Please forgive me Eric, but I was apparently doing other things, with my attention distracted, at the time of the fiasco you refer to. What happened to IBM...
In a message dated 6/1/03 5:20:54 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Is the 7000 CPU the copper radial one? Rusk [Non-text portions of this message have been...
In a message dated 6/1/03 7:09:44 PM Central Daylight Time, ... True, but IBM has always been a source of technical information, even if it is not about their...
In a message dated 6/1/03 8:22:49 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Check and see what country your hard drives were manufactured in. Rusk [Non-text portions of...
In a message dated 6/2/03 3:00:39 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Oh, well, a lot of people reported problems with the 75 series, and 60 series as well. I don't...
Thank you Rusty ... From: JReeder460@... To: Silent-PC@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [Silent-PC] Re: DIY good idea In a...
... attention distracted, at the time of the fiasco you refer to. What happened to IBM during their Deskstar fiasco? Is there a website that chronicles the ...
... I ... Well, given that all the 7200 drives that I've used have to dissipate far more heat than their 5400 predecessors, and overheating is so much of an...
... The two deskstar labels say they are made in Thailand, but there's also a sticker saying "assembly made in China". But its not just IBM, all my 7200 drives...
... Here's a review of it from FrostyTech: http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1393 A quick summary: Fairly quiet at low speed (although not...
OK, have found the techhie specs for the IBM Deskstar 60GXP on the new site at http://www.hgst.com , and for that particular drive ... , but if someone reckons...
