Forum: Cooling
03-29-13, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 935
I remember the olden days here where someone...
I remember the olden days here where someone tested a spacer with vanes to help straighten the airflow. I wonder if something like that would help the 140 achieve better results? Of course part of...
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Forum: Games
06-22-12, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 7,577
I can't stand clicky keyboards....probably...
I can't stand clicky keyboards....probably something to do with having classes in high school with nothing but IBM's. The sound of 20+ keyboards going at once has scarred me for life.
My...
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Forum: Storage
05-21-12, 06:01 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,307
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Forum: Cooling
03-10-12, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 10,791
When I was doing PC repair we always used a...
When I was doing PC repair we always used a grease instead of oil. Regular old petroleum jelly worked well, I also used used wheel bearing grease at times.
The solid aspect seemed to keep the...
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Forum: News & Community Announcements
11-22-11, 09:37 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,049
I've seen that on several Dell's before. And...
I've seen that on several Dell's before. And it's not like that slot or channel is damaged, I've run them with 3 sticks (of course single channel), but that slot works fine. Put it back with a...
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Forum: News & Community Announcements
11-17-11, 07:16 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,049
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Forum: News & Community Announcements
11-17-11, 07:14 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,049
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Forum: News & Community Announcements
09-27-11, 07:27 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 8,856
Well in terms of an OEM PC I can see how this...
Well in terms of an OEM PC I can see how this could actually be helpful.
If Joe Six Pack has an OEM PC with Win8 and can't install crap ware because it's not signed that's probably a good thing. ...
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Forum: Storage
07-24-11, 10:45 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,999
I agree with that above anything else.
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I agree with that above anything else.
Well it's the use aspect/data type vs. real world size. Obviously on a non-compressing drive like standard rust stuff data size is data size. But say...
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Forum: Storage
07-23-11, 11:55 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,999
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Forum: Cooling
06-05-11, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,223
It does look nice. I really like the PWM setup...
It does look nice. I really like the PWM setup vs.the old resistance based stuff. I'm not sure the solid cap stuff is as needed as say on a motherboard, but for a few extra cents it's nice to see. ...
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Forum: Storage
04-24-11, 11:11 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 16,933
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Forum: Storage
02-20-11, 10:08 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 8,546
Not to offend anyone but I've never been...
Not to offend anyone but I've never been impressed with OCZ. I've never purchased anything from them, but I have dealt with the products first hand and for the price and the reputation they seem to...
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Forum: Water Cooling
09-20-10, 06:33 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 9,953
Scratching head....
I'm not sure why this is really a big surprise...
Water has one of the best thermal capacity vs. thermal resistance of any "cheap" liquid. There are only 3 reasons you really even add anti-freeze...
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Forum: Cooling
09-03-10, 05:27 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 9,116
Excellent review. This is the kind of stuff I...
Excellent review. This is the kind of stuff I like seeing.
What ever happened to that thermosyphon stuff Ed or Joe was working on?
I know the design called for a minimum temperature to reach...
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Forum: General Motherboards
08-18-10, 04:42 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 13,356
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Forum: Laptops/Netbooks/SFF/Smartphones
08-16-10, 07:40 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 13,678
In most switching power supplies efficiency...
In most switching power supplies efficiency increases as load increases. In reality if your system only ever pulled 300-400W then an 800W PSU is just going to be wasting a little more power in heat....
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Forum: Memory
08-03-10, 07:59 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,740
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Forum: Power Supplies and Electronic Devices
06-06-10, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,050
Modular?
It's probably just me, but why do they make the ATX or motherboard connector modular?
I suppose I could see it if you offered various lengths or different end connectors for other type of systems,...
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Forum: Storage
02-22-10, 07:46 PM
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Replies: 69
Views: 18,442
Fragmentation in a file?
I hope I don't point out something someone else has already brought up, but here goes...
If you are using a VM to test with you are essentially using a single file as the virtual file system. ...
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Forum: Storage
01-26-10, 03:36 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,748
Perhaps I'm wrong.
I'm just not getting it. If Trim has been run on the drive then it really shouldn't matter how much space is being used. All the free space would be available to be written to. Isn't that the idea...
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Forum: Intel CPUs
01-26-10, 03:32 PM
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Replies: 201
Views: 184,913
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Forum: Cooling
09-16-09, 06:13 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 521
Not sure I'd go that route.
In theory the idea sounds good, but I see a potential drawback:
The GPU is going to be much hotter than the memory. It would appear to me that you would be spreading the heat from the GPU onto...
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