I now have in hand some ARCTIC F PWM fans, with their patented PWM Sharing Technology. I can described exactly how they are wired, and how they are to be used. I do not understand what aspect of this design could be covered by a patent.
These fans are advertised as being able to be...
It dawned on me that there's an unchallenged assumption in standard advice for overclock stability testing: We declare an overclock stable if it survives an uninterrupted full load on all cores for 24 hours.
My current stress test is a representative parallel computation of the sort I build...
A hot swap 2.5" drive bay for my new build came with a pair of 4-pin to SATA power adapter cables, to split off LED signals for the drives. The 4-pin end was as cheap as they come, and a pin came out while moving the cable to add another component. I wasn't even touching that connector, didn't...
ARCTIC F PWM fan (PWM Sharing Technology)
ARCTIC F Pro PWM fan (PWM Sharing Technology)
Nowhere does anyone say that the Arctic F12 Pro can only be used for intake, but the "feature" on the non-Pro is ominous, and I can't for the life of me picture how to reverse the Pro, staring at...
I just completed a build using a Sunbeam Rheosmart 6 Fan Controller. (I'm about to start overclocking; the assembly is stable.)
I've convinced myself that I'm happy with the Rheosmart for now. There were however some quirks with my ASUS P8P67 Pro motherboard, that may be quite common. I'm...
I've posted some notes on swapping fans for the WiebeTech RTX220-QJ dual SATA trayfree enclosure. The crux issues were making a fan header conversion cable, and safely cutting a 120mm fan hole.
This minimizes fan noise with the drives asleep, but does not address the drive noise.
Modding...
I am an early adopter of solid state drives, having paid $621 last November for an Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, and $189 last month for an OCZ Vertex 60 GB SSD, both from Newegg. I made each purchase after closely studying Anandtech's storage articles on solid state drives...
Yesterday's Benchmark Reviews cooler roundup should certainly increase interest in the Prolimatech Megahalems; it lead the field.
Here's the Benchmark Reviews cooler roundup:
Best CPU Cooler Performance LGA1366 - Q1 2009
Here's the Prolimatech web site:
prolimatech.com
Here are...
I remember about half the time to edit my posts so the last character is text. The rest of the time I somehow end up with several returns after my text, which the forum software needlessly renders verbatim. (See below.)
Do we have access to forum software source code, or any leverage with the...
Does anyone recall what document at Intel authoritatively specifies how cores are numbered in a Core 2 Quad?
I've made the following collage to help picture what's going on inside the processor:
Quad Core Core Layout
The left image is my motherboard, oriented as it sits vertically in my...
The following mod adapts a Scythe Kama Bay, used with three 5.25" bays as shown here, to use two fans and a tube.
I used a 5.5" length of 5" diameter acrylic tube cut for me at TAP Plastics.
Kama Bay fan tube
Interior view
Exterior view
My theory is that the tube couples the fans...
Here's my first prototype for a DIY binary fan controller:
DIY binary fan controller
The front plate is for an Antec P182 3.5" bay; they'll sell more, ordered by phone. I should have used a stepping bit, for a cleaner 1/4" cut for the toggle switch holes.
The circuit is simple: Each...
Has anyone spotted a source for empty 3.5" bay enclosures, for DIY projects?
I'd like to experiment with various DIY fan controllers. My 3.5" bay (where the floppy would go) is my free bay, and big enough. I've been to what I consider all the usual sources, and inexplicably I've never seen...
It's a good thing I haven't ordered WC gear yet, my friends are now interested in experimenting with
General-Purpose computation on GPUs
I'm advising them it would be insanity to proceed without water cooling.
We wouldn't need to connect the cards SLI, they can be used independently, so...
We're attempting green (e.g. we've gone solar) and we don't use air conditioning in California summers that often reach 100 F. Instead, we aggressively cool the house with outside air at night, and close up for the day. Our house is beginning to resemble a computer case, with homemade arrays of...
I'm overclocking a Q6600 to 3.2 Ghz on air, for scientific computation. This is an arbitrary stopping point, with max core temps 60 to 62 C depending on ambient.
The title of this thread is taken from the "Erlang" parallel programming language, developed by Ericsson, a phone company. Like a...
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