Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I'm not an audiophile. There's an upper bound on the amount of money I'm willing to spend (which, granted, is more than most people).
I just have good hearing.
I just have good hearing.
Yes.Mercutio said:Does the Scythe Ninja require motherboard removal to install?
Fortunately, Canberra is quite far from Brisbane. You two should sit at opposite corners of the pub. And your beers will be served in cartoon mugs, just in case you plan to throw it at each other.time said:Not as much as LiamC, I'd guess, although we share a similar source of frustration.mubs said:Feeling a bit ornery today, Time?
Mercutio said:Does the Scythe Ninja require motherboard removal to install?
One series of radial fans goes: L, M, H, U, for low, medium, high and ultra speed. They get louder as the speed increases. This is the series most commonly available. The CFM / dBA numbers I quoted above are for the 120mm FBA12G12L1A.Sol said:There are several different panaflo ranges, some are quieter than others.
CougTek said:Yes.Mercutio said:Does the Scythe Ninja require motherboard removal to install?
ddrueding said:Mercutio said:Does the Scythe Ninja require motherboard removal to install?
Yes, custom steel backplate attaching to a custom plastic frame on the MB. Basically it causes the AMD to look like a P4, so the 4-point clip can work for both. Really easy.
Mercutio said:The nforce4 + Scythe Ninja + X2 4200 is seems to be doing just fine @ 2.6GHz. I had to drop the Hypertransport speed to 800MHz but I'm still at STOCK voltage.
Certainly, Buck! You don't seem to visit as often as you used toBuck said:If I may muse along with the mubster . . .
You are too!Mercutio said:I'm not the expert on that issue!
Mercutio said:As far as my new build went... I don't know if anyone else had an issue with this, but my Gigabyte board (GA-K8N Pro) absolutely refused to install XP until I disabled all the SATA channels. I'd get a bluescreen error while it was loading the initial driver set.
AFAIK the SATA ports are native on that board, and shouldn't need drivers, but I wasn't using them anyway.
That's the weirdest thing I've seen from a Gigabyte board in a long time.
Also, just about everything you have to connect on that board is concentrated in the two square inches around the lower right corner of the board. Attaching the SATA cables, I/O headers, system fan and USB took longer than installing Windows.
CougTek said:ATI's X1?00 series offer enhanced video image quality with the most recent Catalyst driver. The older X?00 series doesn't have the hardware to support the new quality enhancement IIRC.
mubs said:Do DOS based utilities like PartitionMagic, Drive Image and Ghost (each one) work with SATA drives? Do I have to load SATA drivers on the boot floppies to access the drives? Thanks.
I tried DriveImage 2002 and Partition Magic 8 today; they both work just fine as is (no additional drivers) with the drives connected to the NForce 4 onboard SATA ports. I'm a happy camper.Merc said:Yes they do. Ghost needs the -fNI option (Bypass onboard Disk Controller) set to properly. IIRC.
Mercutio said:Well, yeah. That's the problem.
But realistically, who upgrades a CPU these days?