Hi, I have been a happy user of Fortron's 300W CPU with 120mm fan. I bought three or four of them and have been recommending to anyone who ask. I paid $30+ or...
thanks, think i'll stick with antec considering it's always rated number 1 in practically every psu review and i need all the help i can get when it comes to ...
... Many moons ago, the component quality mattered. I had a SCSI CD-ROM drive, costed around $500 which still runs just fine. I got rid of it last night. 2x or...
you have a point, i could buy two or three fortrons for the price of one antec of similar output, but when a PSU dies the PC is dead so you're either PC-less ...
Unless I am badly mistaken, Antec is a marketer and has their power supplies made by others. This is extremely common in the business...and the same...
... I would like to know: What are the odds of a PSU failing in such a way that it takes out the rest of the PC (frying the mobo, HD, whatever) permanently? ...
Hey guys, My situation is that I have a 5.25" External Enclosure for a hard drive that is used for backing up my computer (and is always on 24/7). The 40mm...
I would simply cut the wires if I were you. One hard drive in an enclosure of its own hardly needs active cooling....
Peter Haglund
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Dec 14, 2004 1:56 am
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The case is aluminum, so heat dissapation must be pretty good. I will definitely try that considering the costs (lack of) and benefits of it. To play it...
... I have had two occasions that dying PSU broke CD drives. Once at home, and once at work. When it died, it probably did some sort of surge. -- +--+--+ |...
... I had a similar situation. What you'd want to try is Panaflo 40mm fans. FBK04F24H or FBK04F12L from www.digikey.com This is 20mm thick. FBK04F24H is a 24V...
Anyone familiar with these PSUs? From test I've read they're quiet, even with two 80mm fans. Also their upcoming version will have active PFC. And a 120mm...
One of the many PSUs claiming low noise thoroughly reviewed at www.silentpcreview.com See the PSU section: http://www.silentpcreview.com/section4.html ... ...
Call me biasd Ankit, but I would be very careful of anything from Sony. They make good components, but they always seem to need special drivers. They are not...
Hi. I'm looking for a fanless, or very-very quiet PCI Express vidcard (i'll do a bit of gaming, but mainly office stuff). I don't want to mod the card. Is...
... The newish NVIDIA Gefore 6 series, at the lower end of the price scale, i.e., the 6200, is passively cooled. It will let you do everything the faster...
thanks ... From: A Martin To: obarthelemy Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [Silent-PC] Silent PCI-Express $200+/- video card ? ... The...
Thanks Tai for your thorough solution. I will try without a fan first and measure the temperature but if it runs to hot, I'll try your suggestions. Just out...
Greetings, I have bought a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160 GB Serial-ATA hard drive, which I find noisy. The idle noise level is fine, but its seek noise is quite...
Peter Haglund
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Dec 21, 2004 11:46 pm
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There are some DOS based 'Disk Manager' Seagate utilities that used to be on their website that would enable adjust AAM. You might try poking around...
Hello Peter, One option to silence would be to use rubber bands to suspend it in a 5" bay - it is described on www.silentpcreview.com. Another option which I...
Hello, I have a ASUS A7n8x-Deluxe motherboard with an AMD 3200 processor and three hard drives. I'd like to use it for a home theater PC but the power supply...
water cooling only costs a fortune if you buy a complete kit. A radiator that fits two 120mm fans is only $20, quiet 120mm fans are only $5 each + shipping,...
Unless I am mistaken, the P4 may be about the same -- or perhaps *more* -- of an energy consumer than the A64 (don't know because of the overclocking), I would...
