I plan to include a dvd writer in a system I am building. An old trick with noisy cd drives was to use a drive speed limiting software. The problem was that...
Thanks for all your answers. David, I did find via systems here, but your discussion with Mike showed me there were performance issues. Mike, thank you for...
Frederic, Please note that 2.5 inch hard drives are *slow*. It matters little how fast your CPU is if you cannot retrieve hard disk data quickly enough. I...
... Have you used them recently? The 5400rpm models with 8 or 16mb cache are quite speedy. The 4200mb drives are definitely slower, but it's still not that bad...
Mike, The engineering parameters of the two drives are quite different. Shock ratings have mostly to do with the methods the head assembly is designed, since...
If I may add my little experience, I have had three laptops which account for 4 hard disks. The two first laptops (and the three first hds) did become noisy...
anyone here know of a good peltier system I can use for my system? planning on using them for cpu, gpu, and case cooling I want to somehow use heatpipes to...
Most peltier coolers I've seen have a relatively short life, and when they go you suddenly have no cooling at all and the system may quickly burn up...which is...
I tried a peltier once, The you need much more cooling than just the normal cooling plus the peltier overhead. They are strange things peltiers, not just a...
Hello, Joseph, Sorry - I've been away for a while, but my experience is that a standard computer will raise the temperature of entire insulated 15' x 20' room...
Thanks Doc - no problem. Actually - I may not start to build my room for another month or so - so the timing was good.!!! From: "LIbrary"...
Joseph Gannon
joseph_gannon@...
May 24, 2005 5:23 pm
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Hi, My story is: a box is cheaper than a closet. A while ago, I built a simple wooden box (3/4" MDF) to house two of my servers. The box is 20" x 20" x 24". I...
Hello guys. Today my brother bought a "Median" branded multimedia computer from the outlet called ALDI; I understand it is a fairly well-known outlet chain in...
all the Median products I've bought from Aldi's in the US have been poor quality so far, maybe it's different over there but I wouldn't recommend them to...
... Aldi is a cut-price European retailer who buy on the reverse-auction principle (they'll go to a vendor and tell them they'll take 10K units at $x each,...
pgut001@...
May 30, 2005 10:31 am
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Do you happpen to know what their URL is Peter? I was trying to learn a bit more about them... apart from them being in the poo for bad employee relations...
Certainly it is a Intel 64-bit James. There was a P4 on offer in much the same chassis for about $500 less... we were not interested in that one. I do not...
... http://www.aldi.de, then follow the per-country link. ... In Australia it'd be http://australia.aldi.com/. Oh yes, their front page has a "MEDION Titanium...
pgut001@...
May 30, 2005 12:22 pm
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Thank you Peter. Note that the computer that my brother bought is NOT the Pentium 4 that you found on the web site. I just want make certain that you are...
Hello people, I just started buying components for my next PC. I still have to decide on the case, PSU and HSF (if any). I have read the reviews on the Silent...
... Well, obvious sites are: www.tomshardware.com www.anandtech.com www.hardocp.com and www.overclockers.com may have some too. Tom's sometimes talks about the...
... 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
ap@...
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...
