With 100 gig 7200 RPM drives to be available within a couple of weeks, the drive is really a non-issue. The stock 4200 RPM drive will make a nice portable when installed in an external enclosure and provide for simple backups.
If only there was a way to remap the keyboard and put the control...
I picked up one last week. It's a peppy machine. My only gripes are the location of the function and control keys, and the 4200 RPM drive. There's a pretty fair review of it here.
Wait till your boxers won't stay up and that $400 Marmot parka in your closet has no elastic left in the sleeves.... God forbid that you should have an expensive pair of speakers in the vicinity.
Any citrus based cleaner will leave a residue in the microscopic surface imperfections and compromise the thermal interface. Alcohol will not remove the residue.
Parallel cuts the flow rate in half and is difficult to implement properly to insure equal flow for each block. Take a look at the chart below by Bill Adams of Swiftech. In a series plumbed system, the amount of heat transferred to the water after the first waterblock is minimal.
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I would like to play with pelts again if I can ever find the spare time. ;)
Swiftech is the only supplier of a heatsink that's designed to work with your pelt. Watercooling is your best bet.
Some good links on pelts.
Applying Pelts
Pelts in Practice
Picking a Pelt
Marlow Design Guide...
Amen. I am glad to see others realize this. Have a look at the difference between Thermal Design Power and Maximum Power in Intel's latest data sheet. For example the current 3.06 GHz CPU has a Thermal Design Power of 87 watts and a Maximum Power of 96 watts.
You may want to read this article at Game PC. Game PC has a ton of other Xeon blurbs that are well worth reading.
Going Xeon generally means going dual, in which case you should log on to 2CPU and check out Team Xeon. FWIW, even though my Xeon box is slower than the P4 system I use at work...
Think again. Have a look at these P4 Xeon specs from Intel. For example a 3.06 GHz Xeon has a Thermal Design Power of 85 watts and a Maximum Power of 101 watts. Intel's Thermal Design Power or Thermal Guideline refers to the wattage at the average load expected by a heavy user, not the...
Sure they can. You can use an Iwill DP400 if you change the DCRGs. The advantage is peppy PCI slots for your 15,000 RPM SCSI array.
Otherwise your best bet is the DPI533 but the PCI slots leave something to be desired.
Check this and this thread on the DP400 and this thread on the DPI533.
Check out page four of this blurb from Intel. Note the temp sensor your motherboard reads is in the cool part of the chip. The sensor the CPU uses for throttling is in the hottest part of the chip. Because of this, the CPU can be throttling momentarily and you won't see a difference in the...
Oh, this is too much fun. ;)
I dug the following out of my standard reply file for lapping Athlon cores:
I have lapped several of them with good results. 3C measured with an in-socket thermistor.
First you need to make sure the core is not convex. If it is, the odds are you will only make it...
Good choice on the Swiftech and just in case you want to learn a bit more....
Applying Peltiers
"]Peltiers in Practice
"]Picking a Pelt
"]Marlow
"]Peltier Info
"]Overclockers Peltier Section
"]Kryotherm Pelt Software
Some links on pelts to help you learn.
Applying Peltiers
"]Peltiers in Practice
"]Picking a Pelt
"]Marlow Design Guide
"]Peltier Info
"]Overclockers Peltier Section
"]Kryotherm Pelt Software
In my personal experience, both Danger Den and Swiftech have high quality components and kits. If you want quiet in a prebuilt case, consider the Swiftech Quiet Power. My complete thoughts on the Quiet Power can be read here.
I would go with the 533 MHz FSB. For memory questions, take a look at Supermicro's recommended memory for the E7500 mother boards. Supermicro, Tyan and Iwill make Xeon boards. My personal preference is Iwill's DP533. For a premium SCSI RAID card, ICP Vortex is THE choice. You may want to...
A dampening material like PaxMate will cut some of the high frequency noise from the Quiet Power. While there may be better materials, PaxMate was well worth it in my box.
I would also recommend the Swiftech. It's very quiet with the fans running full speed although for a recording studio, I would try reducing the fan speed. You can read my complete thoughts on the Quiet Power here.
Danger Den has been mentioned. Swiftech also provides a fantastic kit. Their Quiet Power deserves mention too. Having used products from both companies, I highly recommend them. Quality with superb service.
Hey don't feel bad. A lot of folks have used and recommended Goo Gone. That's why I posted the information. Goo Gone uses citrus oils and is also often confused with Goof Off. Xylene based Goof off is outstanding for removing thermal pads.
Read the instructions at Arctic Silver and you will note that Goo Gone is not recommended for the CPU die or the heatsink base. It leaves an oil based residue that will compromise the thermal interface.
Perhaps the chipset is overheating. You may want to check the thermal grease on the Northbridge. Abit is notorious for scrimping on the goop.
Obviously little more case ventilation would help. Have you tried running the system without the side panel on>
The Iwill DP400 I use is about $425. Here's a review of it. The other bargain board is the Supermicro P4DCE+, priced at about $385. Both are excellent boards.
Regarding CPUs, even the 1.8 gig Prestonias ($209) fell pretty dang peppy, especially if you have a fast SCSI storage system.
If...
The newer Xeons with 512 Megs of cache support Hyperthreading and SMP with two physical CPUs. Xeon MPs have an integrated L3 cache and support SMP with four to eight CPUs.
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