Yes. Damn thing got too hot even with it's cover off, so I modified
it to use two Zalman CPU water heatsinks connected to my reserator.
Well, if you're rich enough, you can always buy a fanless PSU:
<http://www.silentmaxx.net/catalog/ps_prosilence_comparison.php>
<http://www.pcsilent.de/en_group_yesico_power_supplies.asp>
Zalman also offers quiet PSUs, but only up to 400W (which may not be
enough for you), and not perfectly silent.
<http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/code_list.asp?code=015>
PERFECTION ONLY!
Is your water pump perfectly silent?
BTW, do all modern motherboards (i.e. motherboard that you can buy
right now) support 48 bit hard drive?
Peter said:I see a lot (for example my Gigabyte dual athlon GA-7Dpxdw+) that have
ATA-100! Surely everything should be 133 by now? Does this mean it
won't do over 128GB? It is happy with a 160GB, but it may just corrupt
everything when you write past 128GB. Also, I've seen drives that are
160GB aTA-100 - how is this possible?
Don't confuse speed with addressing.
ATA-6 is a standard, which defines but does not require UDMA-133 and LBA-48.
I see a lot (for example my Gigabyte dual athlon GA-7Dpxdw+) that have
ATA-100! Surely everything should be 133 by now? Does this mean it won't do
over 128GB? It is happy with a 160GB, but it may just corrupt everything when
you write past 128GB. Also, I've seen drives that are 160GB aTA-100 - how is
this possible?
Will my board take 160s on the regular (non promise raid) controller?
You'll have to look in your manual for "48-bit", not the speed (133 vs
100).
Besides, I've got a few low-end recent PCs at work, and I still wonder
if they support 48-bit: I've plugged a Western Digital 250 GB (cut in
three NTFS partitions) on one of them, and the 3 partitions are well
recognized by Linux (which I used to read the files that were on it),
but not at all by Windows 2000 SP4 (the disk manager only sees one 128
GB partition).
Peter Hucker said:So when a board says ATA-133 or ATA-100, this is meaningless?
Peter Hucker said:So it's half an ATA133 standard?
Obviously that depends on what you think it means.
To most people all it means is that the maximum IDE bus speed is 100 or 133 MB/s.
What do you think that it means?
Actually, ATA-6 defines LBA-48 (end 2000) and ATA-7 defines
UDMA 133 (begin 2002). So there is at least a year between them.
Let's put that around: why should that be impossible?
What is half an ATA133 standard?
Obviously that depends on what you think it means.
To most people all it means is that the maximum IDE bus speed is 100 or 133 MB/s.
BTW, what's the difference between 100 and 133?
I mean, is there a situation where a 133 MBps IDE bus speed really
makes any program faster?
Peter Hucker said:people are misadvertising again.Nonsense. Both were independently invented, then included in ATA-6, theIt thought it also meant you can;t use anything over 128GB - so how do we know if the board does or not?
Maxtor invented ATA-133, and in it included the 48-bit model. It seems
standard.
Peter Hucker said:people are misadvertising again.
Nonsense. Both were independently invented, then included in ATA-6, the
standard.
Not what I read on websites when it came out.
And every time I've bought a 133 controller, it'sa taken large drives over 128GB. 100 controllers always screw up when you fill the drive up.
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Peter Hucker said:Not what I read on websites when it came out.
Stop using gaming websites as your source. Read the ATA standards.128GB. 100 controllers always screw up when you fill the drive up.Clueless. Intel never supported ATA-133, and supports LBA-48 on all ICH IDE.And every time I've bought a 133 controller, it'sa taken large drives over
You are quickly becoming the resident troll. Stop posting so much crap, and
listen to the experts for a change.