On Saturday 09 September 2006 17:48, Basil Chupin wrote:
One of the things I liked about it was how the heatsink contact surface was prepared at the factory. It required no lapping or polishing - all this was already done at the factory. Most impressive.
That is nice. The thermaltake heatsinks I've used are nice also. Always quiet, and pretty easy to install.
Most are very quiet even when running at full speed. And I've got two 8cm fans blowing on three HD's, two more for pulling hot air from the cpus, two more above the PSU for exhaust, and two in the PSU. One of the fans in the PSU is manually controllable. The system isn't that noisy, as I can still hear the wife when she calls me for dinner.. ;-)
Well it could also mean that your wife makes a rather loud call :-) .
No.. she's actually pretty quiet. ;-))
With all those fans (plus all the other components drawing power) what do you use as the PSU?
Thermaltake 480w ATX type. Don't remember the exact model, but I've had it for quite a while. It just keeps working. And it's got more connectors than I'll ever need. If you are really interested, contact me off-list, and I can tell you more about what is being powered here. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 6:20pm up 6 days 9:21, 4 users, load average: 2.16, 2.18, 2.17