Recent content by woodix

Totally with you on this one. Maybe b/c it's middle of the day on the CONUS and many of the over 30 set are not posting until close of business, but I for one remember many a mod shop offering custom sleeving and connector insertion as a service if you bought your name branded PSU through them...

Oracle does this every quarter. Rather than burden those of who support their products with a monthly exercise in self-flagellation, Oracle limits the pain to just four times per year. Now this isn't to say they should be let off the hook or praised as a model of vendor virtue. Oracle are...

Excellent point with regard to cooling. Massive, please forgive the threadjacking but i wanted to throw out another idea since it sounds like I'm not the only one considering the xpack. The voyuermods solution seems to be somewhat appropriate in that they just use screws to put some distance...

Massive, First up, nice work. I've been thinking about doing this since I saw my first link to xpack. I'd like to propose an alternative configuration for consideration. Hang a single 120mm rad on a swiftech radbox on the back of the chassis. Run the tubing through the plate above the...

Fellas, Check out the review of the new koolance case. Normally I'd pass but they're using a Lian-Li V series with a 3/8" tubing. They step down for their smaller diameter blocks but why not just use Aqua in this? http://www.systemcooling.com/koolance_pc3-725bk-01.html thoughts?

Regarding cooling laptop drives, until very recently laptops used 5400RPM or less drives. The difference in heat produced between a 5400 and 7200 rpm drive is significant. The platters and motor are spinning half again as fast at 7200 RPMs. At 10k and higher cooling becomes even more...

2 things: 1) Software RAID will always, always, always be inferior to hardware raid solutions. A raid card with a dedicated processor for computing XOR in RAID5 uses virtually no CPU time. 2) onboard NICs tend to suck. The idea of a mini itx filer is pretty kickass, but after watching...

Multilane SerialATA is starting to make its way around too. Multilane=1cable for 4 drives (it attaches to a backplane). 3ware has some seriously sweet hardware raid SATA cards with multilane capabilities. There are a few case manufacturers working with them to support the standard along with...

I love how many threads get opened and replied to on this subject. Go to arctic silver's website (the URL on the side of the tube). Read the instructions. I've observed NO demonstrable performance gain from the spread-it-super-thin-with-random-tool method. Put a dot in the middle, mate your...

So was the original desk a custom build? I was considering this option as well before I installed an Elfa wall unit.

Just had the chance to spend a few minutes in Far Cry at 1920x1200 (I think that was the res) in the local microcenter. No ghosting, no flickering, tracing, etc. Absolutely stunning image quality. Naturally it had a 6800gt powering it via dvi but DAMN! the 1700 US price tag gives it a WAF...

We're anxiously awaiting an update on the status of the collective's construction. C'mon guys throw us something! Anything! Maybe too late to use in this project, but in early posts there was the mention of building several more of these beasts down the road. Any research into multi-lane...

Enough to piss off my firewall admin :D

Search is acting all weird and I'm still getting 404s and ASP errors. I need my newegg!!!!

...and not in a good way. My two netapp filers sport similar amounts of disk space in slightly different form factors. They sit in a datacenter that's constantly cooled and on other side of soundproof doors and windows from me. I can still feel some vibration through the floor. You're...