Re: [Hampshire] HDD carrier for Dell optiplex (or similar) wanted please

2012-05-05 Thread Tim
On 04/05/12 11:03, Edward Beckmann wrote: Hi I've acquired an old optiplex to revamp and thanks to Imran an HDD. All works fine. However, the drive bay is much larger than the HDD so I presume there is a metal slot-in carrier or something to keep it in place. Although I have made a temporar

[Hampshire] Up for grabs, rack server cases

2012-05-05 Thread Paul Tansom
I'm planning on looking into how much these might fetch on eBay, but thought I'd see if anyone here was interested first. I have 5 full length 2U rack cases, all with 300W PSUs and FDs fitted. They all also have a bank of 4 fans across the centre with a bay for HD caddies at the front and a 5.25" f

Re: [Hampshire] Quiet and cool PC running?

2012-05-05 Thread Ian G
undervolting works well. its also important for either chassis fans to maintain a flow of new air rather than allowing ambient temperature to rise inside. pastes are good but again needs to be accompanied with sufficient cooling. liquid coolers are cheaper these days, but for a p4 would probably

Re: [Hampshire] Quiet and cool PC running?

2012-05-05 Thread Samuel Penn
On Thursday 03 May 2012 18:32:30 Gordon Scott wrote: > On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 20:53 +0100, Samuel Penn wrote: > > Heh. If you think the CPU fan is the loudest noise, you haven't heard > > a gaming rig with 4 GPUs... :-) The loudest noise in my study (which has > > three running computers in it) is m