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For an industrial application in a heavily contaminated environment I have to build a completely enclosed computer. With the new Pentium M for desktop boards and the available high efficiency power supplies I can address two of the three main heat sources, but now I run into the issue of HDs...

I have a Hyundai L90D+ as my gaming LCD and I'm very happy with it. Now I found that the local Samsclub (aka hassle free returns on bad pixels) is selling a Samsung 913T with the same 8 ms response time. Anyone any experience with that monitor?

I build a new system for a friend, and at his request added a tuner card. To my great dismay it turns out the tuner card uses an ATI chip - and in the age of unified drivers installed the full catalyst set. What promptly made the 6600GT I installed crash like crazy. Any suggestions which...

My attitude ti wireless has always been: I don't understand the security issues, so I stay away from it. Now I'm forced to install a wireless router to enable recipe searches in the kitchen and cloth shopping on the balcony. So, my question is - do normal wireless routers allow you to exclude...

It's been a while since I ripped all my CDs to MP3s, and a new stack of CDs is awaiting conversion. What are good conversion programs today to produce high quality mp3s?

Usually I use two partitions on most drives over 40 GB. Now I'm switching to a 74 GB Raptor for faster disk access, and realize that I have no idea what multiple partition on a physical drive do to access speed. I have an older 80 GB IDE drive for documents I plan on reusing, so I don't need...

I appologize for the title, but I just don't know what else to call it. I have Comcast broadband, usually get up to 3 Mbs, with very high uptime. This weekend I had my usual good connection (I play an online game and staid connected well, with sub 100 ms pings). But I could not reach a single...

Any idea why an A7N8X-E Deluxe will not take more than one stick of 512 MB corsair at 400 speed setting? If more than one stick is inserted, it fails memtest with any speed above 266 - with 5 different sticks (all passing single), 2x2 were sold as paired. Relaxed timings up to 5-5-5-10 don't...

I'm currently running a 3.2C w/ 1 GB at 200 FSB on an Asus P4PE-X. The problem is, that the board is non-SATA and I'd realy like to put in a Raptor as primary drive and move the current 160 GB clunker to a purely archiving function. I'm not ready yet to do the switch to PCIe, mainly due to a...

Being new to the whole "benchmark your sytem" business I'm trying to judge the influence of non-video card related system parts like memory, CPU and MB on those results. Since Win XP realy gets the fits once you start swapping components it's impractical to just run all configurations possible...

My 3.06 on a Asus P4PE is bios set to run at 1.55 default voltage with "auto" enabled. Nevertheless when I use the Asus probe program to check the actual voltage is seems to consistantly be in the 1.64 V range. Is this typical for "auto" voltage setting, or just a sampling error (like the...

Finally got my set-up completed. I build an external box with 2 120 mm 87 cfm fans (still playing with voltage for best noise-cooling ratio), 77 bonefille heatercore and a 1 gal reservoir with submerged Eheim 1050. Connected to the computer using these Link to quick-connect image quick connect...

I'm trying to run a bulkhead fitting through a couple of unused PCI slots in my case, and I'm trying to find the dimensions (or even a dealer) for dual slot covers (like they're used on oversized graphics cards). Anyone got a link (or knows what something like that is called for a more...

My water cooling set-up will to into a machine this weekend, and I'm wondering which of my two machines to pick. One is a P4 3.06/533 on an Asus P4PE, the other a P4 2.4/800 on a P4PE-X. The advantage of OCing the 533 board is the higher allowed OC rate (50%, sure to lock before I max that)...

I noticed several people asking if they should combine a phase change unit with a peltier element and did some reading. From what I found, in theory you can reach lower temperatures on the cold side of a peltier element by chilling the hot side to below ambient. The deltaTmax of a peltier...

Still missing some parts on my project, so I went and measured the flowrates to at least get something going. I first installed a Dwyer RMC flowmeter inline to get accurate direct readout. Connections were made with 1 ft 1/2" ID tygon tubing, the pump was imersed in a large reservoir to...

In my spare time I work in a facility that uses carbon fiber. Carbon fiber has two very bad properties when it comes to computers - it's conductive and it's all over the place. As a result we go through power supplies by the case. Now, I can cool a whole system with water and have it be...

My set-up approaches finalization, but one decission I still have to make is - do I submerge the pump or leave it out?. Submerged is usually quieter, and cools the pump. But I'm worried about the added coolant damaging the encapsualtion (it's an aquarium pump afterall, not designed to get in...

I'm currently building a computer room for water cooled QUIET operations (aka I don't want more power, just less noise). The idea is to cool 2 p4 based machines (3.06/533, 2.4/800) with Ti4600 ann FX5800 respectively using a single circuit. Danger Den Maze4 and TDX blocks, Eheim 1250 pump, 1/2...