The HARDWARE Short Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

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two_beer_bishes: Jun 27, 2004

I'm looking for a nice watercooling setup for my E6600 to go in my P180. I plan to only have my cpu cooled and get a quieter fan for my graphics card. I'm in this mainly for noise reduction. I have the 3 120mm fans all set on low and I can still hear it in the next room over. Recommendations?

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two_beer_bishes: Jun 27, 2004

Zorilla posted:

Weird. I have a P180 and the house can get pretty drat quiet. I can still barely hear the case fans when I'm in the room, much less outside. If it weren't for the fan noise issue, I would just recommend the Scythe Ninja cooler, as it wouldn't add any more fans to the system. It fits the P180 like a glove.

I'm not sure how hell the E6600 does fanless compared to my Venice 3200+, which works very well that way. I guess you could move one of the case fans and clip it to the heatsink for more direct airflow.

I'm a putz and neglected to mention that most of the noise is coming from my loud CPU fan and not the big ones that came with the case. I guess I could just spend a few bucks on a quieter fan instead of a $200 accident waiting to happen

# ¿ Aug 28, 2006 00:42

two_beer_bishes: Jun 27, 2004

Zorilla posted:

In that case, I would definitely recommend that cooler I mentioned:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835185001

Out of stock now, but there are plenty of places that sell it. I think I bought mine cheaper because it didn't come with a fan, though.

Cool, thanks. I'll be ordering from them in the next week or so, hopefully it'll be in stock.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2006 01:15

two_beer_bishes: Jun 27, 2004

Frisbee posted:

Okay, this might be a stupid question. I have a decent PC and a crappy laptop. Is there any way to use the laptops screen and keyboard to play the PC? I know that you can buy a cord that will let you forward your PC's monitor to a TV, would it work for forwarding a monitor to a laptop's screen? I don't know what to do about the keyboard though

Is this a really unfeasable idea or is there an easy way to pull it off?

You want to control your PC through your laptop?

I used to do this with a program called RealVNC http://www.realvnc.com/

# ¿ Aug 28, 2006 03:31

two_beer_bishes: Jun 27, 2004

Xanar posted:

I just picked up a Zalman heatsink which was on sale and I am currently using the stock AMD heatsink.
From the installation video, it looks like I'll have to use the thermal grease that comes with the Zalman heatsink. I noticed that when I installed the stock AMD heatsink, it already came with some thermal grease already on the bottom. Is there any particular way to remove this before applying a new layer of thermal grease? Water doesn't sound like a safe option.

I always use something alcohol-based like denatured alcohol and a q-tip and it works great. I think I have also used rubbing alcohol and zippo fluid.

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two_beer_bishes: Jun 27, 2004

I think it's kosher to ask this here...

Does anybody remember which goon works for Mushkin? I remember reading about someone in one of the long core 2 duo threads but I cannot for the life of me find who it is.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2006 03:22

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