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    CPU Fan Failing and Temperature Question

    You want to NOT WAIT to replace that thing. Get something like the following: http://www.directron.com/volcano10p.html As for removing the old one: Just stick the screwdriver in the little place that the clip should have and push down gently just enough to lift the clip over the little hooked...
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    My computer wont play any games other than counter-Strike.

    What's wrong with Counter-Strike?
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    Thermaltake Silent Boost

    What is to prevent you from using your own fan on the Thermaltake's nice heatsink, with a Zalman FanMate 1 or something to control the speed? A Panaflo M1A should do the job quite nicely for max. cooling on demand and silent cooling when fast flow is not needed. What I really want to see from...
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    How do you guys like this case? It's microATX.

    You can take out that rear fan bracket and then put in the Fortron power supply with the 120mm fan and have silent case cooling. I'm very much liking the big rear vent.
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    Finally: A new "lifestyle" series Case from Antec

    The minuet looks like it has potential for the Silent Computing market. The metal stamping and placement of the passive vents reminds me of the Dell small form factor and small desktop cases. These might open the door for some passive Zalman Flower experimentation. I bet a Zalman flower cooler...
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    Radeon 9800 always overheats!

    What's this about a BIOS flash? Is it possible that an outdated version of the BIOS is doing screwy things to the card?
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    Radeon 9800 always overheats!

    I have a friend who has an ATI Radeon 9800 that is always overheating and showing artifacts. The artifacts get consistently worse, and then my friend shuts his computer off. The card is not overclocked. My friend has tried adding a Thermaltake Giant II heatpipe-cooler to the card, but that did...
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    Building a Quiet PC - Seeking your opinions

    Here is a list of hardware that I am putting into a quiet PC for my bro. Thermaltake 360-watt dual-fan Silent Purepower Supply Papst 92mm VarioFan Case Fan Biostar M7VIT KT400 Motherboard + 512MB DDR333 RAM AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8GHz Thoroughbred microprocessor, OEM packaging Albatron...
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    Product Idea: Programmable Thermal Fan Controller

    I have an idea for a new product (if any manufacturer representatives visit this board): People that have cases with many fans traditionally don't worry too much about noise. The thing is, though, some people have cases with many fans and wish they could have less noise while they're at it...
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    Does a Northbridge NEED to be cooled?

    In my case, with the Asus A7V266, the northbridge is in a position that if it gets a passive heatsink, some of the output from the CPU fan will actually blow across the heatsink. Right now it has this stupid little fan that doesn't even have a heatsink, just a flat metal plate. Gee, I wonder how...
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    quiet 80x80x15 mm fan, anyone?

    It deserves to be noted that the "Hydro-Wave" bearings on the Panaflos are technically sleeve bearings but their design is different and far superior in quality, so they should last about as long as a ball bearing fan used in the same operating conditions (mostly referring to dust concentration...
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    Where do you place the subwoofer?

    Computer subwoofers are not like regular subwoofers in that their crossover frequency is between 200 and 250 Hz where most home theater subwoofers have a crossover point of between 150Hz and 80 Hz. Bass below 125Hz or so cannoy be localized by the human ear. However, bass above that can easily...
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    Help me silence my PC

    OR... You could check out the HushKit which is on the page before the quiet cases. You could use that set of quiet stuff to make a pretty quiet PC, I think. Is your case an A500 or S500? (just for the sake of asking.)
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    PC Power Question

    If you can't find a place to plug these in, then they probably aren't necessary. Try starting up and running first without them.
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    VPR Matrix with raid and p4 3.06

    vprMatrix doesn't really seem all that bad. I think one might be cool.
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    Do the Logitech Z560 4.1 speakers have a hiss sound like the Logitech Z680 5.1 speakers have or use to have?

    No, I don't think so. There is a way you can find out hands-on: Go to a Best Buy store and make sure the speakers aren't selected. Then, with no input signal, turn the volume knob all the way up and see if you hear the hissing. Please turn the knob back down when you are done otherwise you will...
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    Will I die if I do this?

    I replaced a fan in an Antec SmartPower 250-watt power supply just fine. I opened it up, unscrewed the fan, cut the wires, screwed in the new fan, used wire caps to attach the wires back together with the new fan, and closed it up. I did not touch anything else. There was no problem. I guess the...
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    Vantec stealth + case + Power supply

    If you want a quiet computer, you do not want 4 fans in your power supply. You want an Antec TruePower unit. They are generally regarded as being some of the quieter units on the market. Also, insted of getting the Stealth, get the ThermoFlow fan from Vantec. It has a thermal sensor that run s...
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    Chipset cooling

    Do you have an Asus A7V with that stupid little ARX fan on it? Those things make me wonder if they think anyone's at home in the consumer's head. I actually have two machines that are running A7V266 boards, and on one that's in a dusty environment, the fan has already gummed up and quit. Never...
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    Asus A7N266-VM AA Beeping Alarm continuous

    I had an Abit BM6 and when the case temperature got real hot when my one big 92mm case fan failed and my PSU fan couldn't keep enough air going, the thing started beeping like the british police siren and I came upstairs one day to find it doing this. I think the high temperature is what killed...
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    Computer is randomly rebooting while I'm not at it, and now the hard drive is erased.

    Could his power supply be going to dead-PSU-land? I read that failing power supplies can cause read errors on disks, and reboot madness, and other performance anomalies.
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    Running a Celeron 433

    Yep those were the days my first computer was a Celeron 433. I remember buying a golden orb for it. And it had a Voodoo3 2000 that burned up on me when the case fan went out and the only cooling was that little PSU fan Now it's my grandparents' computer. I threw it in an InWin A500 and gave...
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    ***New Cooling Idea***Feedback Wanted

    u don't even really need to have it in the intake fan, just have a fan in there recirculating the water through. It would be like a thermoelectric water-sourced heat pump.
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    Dead Quiet OEM PC's

    They use a large 92mm fan in the rear and it is thermally-controlled in most cases so that when cooling is not required, you can look in the back of the case and see the the fan and because the fan blades reflect light slightly differently you can see the individual revolutions of the fan. The...
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    Vantec Stealth v. 80mm NMBs @ SVC - opinions?

    I have a Chieftec clone of the SX1030B case with 4 Vantec Stealth case fans installed, and now I am seeking the next level of quiet. I am wondering if it would be a worthwhile investment to buy 4 of the super-quiet NMBs from SVC to replace the Stealth fans. Any opinions, advice, tips, etc. would...
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    4-fan PSUs

    http://www.kingwin.com/product.asp?cid=9&pid=99 http://www.directron.com/tt450ss4fan.html These power supplies have 4 fans in them. There is an 80mm fan in the rear and in the front, and there are two 60mm fans on the underside. Now, can you think of any advantage to this 4-fan design? Or are...
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    40 mm fan has started being noisy at startup for a few minutes- fixable?

    This generally occurs with sleeve-bearing fans. Ball-bearing fans are generally regarded to be the best for anything, but Sunon Vapo Bearing fans with Magnetic Levitation are also capable of really long life. Their only downside is that as of yet they are hard to find.
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    This should be the future of PSU design...

    Instead of adding more and more fans (some power supplies even go so far as to add 4 fans), this is, in my opinion, the best configuration for fast airflow through the power supply and out the rear of the PC. http://us.st7.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/directron_1726_16693218 This is a...
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    Maxtor drive dead

    I'm getting dual Seagate Barracuda IVs @ 80gb each (160GB of storage) for Christmas. This is definitely a good thing.
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    ECS K7S5A + AMD XP 2GHz - Help needed!

    (I think Microsoft just lost in an antitrust trial about the Java thing.) K7S5A is a poor motherboard all-around. It is more finnicky about power and memory than any motherboard has any right to be. That and the fact that it starts to drain its BIOS battery and then you have to buy new ones...
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    Why do people buy "Apple" computers?

    In many things, Macs are like Bose speakers. On paper they look terrible (the Acoustimass-15 has a frequency-response hole - 10 dB down between 200 and 280 Hz, it does not go below 45 Hz, and it does not go above 18kHz.) So why do people still buy Bose? It's because they couldn't care less about...
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    HD ?'s

    an IDE channel runs only as fast as its slowest device. Two hard drives of different speeds on the same channel, as well as a hard drive on the same channel as a CDROM drive, are both bad ideas.
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    8x card in 4x slot?

    Is it possible to put an AGP8x card in an AGP4x slot? I am looking at an Albatron GeForce4 MX480 (8x instead of 4x AGP) because it's cheap but it's a GeForce4. I'm just looking for a good deal on a cheap video card. I don't want face-blistering performance, I just want a decent price. Many...
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    Why do we never hear about Seagate Barracudas?

    Is this sufficiently so enough that if you knew your budget would be tight in the coming years, you would still pick a far less reliable, faster-performing drive over it? I want this to be able to be quiet, but I also want them to last a long time for me. I'm not a white-knuckle performance...
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    Why do we never hear about Seagate Barracudas?

    I have the chance this christmas to get two Seagate Barracuda IV 60GB hard drives. I hear these are very reliable and have a good track record. The prices I find on them are also usually very decent. I understand they get a little warmer than most, but this doesn't seem to cause a problem. (this...
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    what speakers/sound card to get for a cheap 5.1 system?

    And another thing: If you're going to shell out for a 5.1 system, get something better than Logitech's offering. It is good in the mid and upper ranges but its subwoofer has a lot of watts and that's about it. The bass is boomy and doesn't go low. It just delivers the response that most J6P (joe...
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    what speakers/sound card to get for a cheap 5.1 system?

    He means the Z-640, not the Z-680. The Z-640 has a subwoofer with a some size woofer cone driver (must be a decent size, like 5", cause that is fairly decent output) in a Bandpass speaker enclosure. These contain two chambers with the baffle mounted in between them. The woofer uses one chamber...
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    suddenly running hotter

    Actually, apparently the fan does not pass its full voltage through the thermal probe. It just passes a small voltage and then reads it with a microprocessor to control the actual voltage going to the fan. This is why the Tt Smart Fan II is patented. And if the thermal probe breaks, the fan...
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    best silencing technique?

    A good power supply to try and get is the Antec TruePower series. But your problem may be a fan that is going Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and that is the sign to you that a sleeve-bearing fan is about to die. Open the power supply but be careful to touch NOTHING except the fan's power leads (unless you...
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    Is a PC Power & cooling HSF going to cool my Tbird 1.1 ?

    Actually, it is only 8CM. This HSF is only good for Durons 700MHz and below. But their other versions, such as the Socket 370 cooler, do very well on my grandparents' 433MHz Celeron
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