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I've looked up what's inside CPUs since I never really thought to investigate it. It seems the actual core is somewhat smaller than my transistor mounting plate, although that is more or less equivalent to the IHS of the CPU since the transistor die is really the core equivalent. If you say the...

Esat, you replied while I had my response open. You mentioned something that I questioned, which was whether the direct contact was a cost saving ploy rather than a real benefit and it sounds as though it is. My transistor package has around 22-23mm length to span the 3 heatpipes. They do need...

Hi, Definitely not my first project, but the surprising thing is I'm still living with my first project which was a power supply and by this point it's very inadequate. LM317/337 job with analogue pots and totally undersized heatsinks, one has turned from black to grey colour! I'm assuming...

Hi, Dimensions are 100x80mm. The cooler does need to have 4 holes really, some have just 2 and that would be unstable. I will be making a custom back plate from 6mm aluminium plate, just a saw and drill job. That is an interesting point on the heatpipe vapour flow. It would be almost...

Hi, I basically need the spacing as tight as possible, both because the PCB size is restricted and because I need the base smaller since my power transistor mounting pad is smaller than a CPU top area. This is for cooling of a linear power supply, I've put an old Arctic FP7 cooler into service...

Probably an easier question, does anyone know which cooler is newer? Particularly, which cooler will still be manufactured in the near future, because I see that CoolerMaster now have the H412R model which may be a replacement to the Evo? It's too wide for my purpose but if the Evo is becoming...

Hi all, Bit obscure but worth a shot, in short does anyone know the dimensions of the base plate and screw holes of the Raijintek Rhea? Longer version, I have an electronics project which needs a lot of cooling and I had planned up till now to use the CoolerMaster TX3 EVO which handily...

On the test I got 4 out of 6, picking 320k mp3 on Jay-Z (it's a pretty brutally limited master to begin with) and more disappointingly on Suzanne Vega. But this is on small (but good, DIY build) full-range speakers using a (again DIY) mini-amplifier and Asus Xonar D1 internal soundcard. The...

You're hearing something quite different to a modern DAC in your old CD player. Your CD player contains a non-oversampling DAC (NOS DAC) running at a native 16-bit depth, in fact the DAC chip itself is so un-integrated that it accepts parallel data input having first been read as PCM from the CD...

I have this and can confirm it's copper throughout. Great value, quite robust yet flexible too.

Nice job, good to see some serious consideration of room response here! How do you find the ATCs? Supposedly some of the finest midrange drivers those domes.

I haven't used those exact ones, I bought amplifier output posts, contacted seller ahead and he said brass base metal, turned up and they were. It'll be pretty obvious if they aren't, no need to use acid, simply scratch away the gold and/or use a magnet! I suspect a majority on there that state...

It's pure brass as per the description, this is about the best base material in use. It has good conductivity but is harder than copper, which is too soft to hold a good screw thread, and it readily accepts a gold plate. I've bought plugs like these and they are fine, definitely not a steel...

If you can solder the wires together and heatshrink to insulate this is the best join you can make. Alternatively you could buy some binding posts and bind the cables together in one post to make joins, or if you can find a large enough one (30A?) a screw terminal block achieves a similar...

It's going to be awful of course, and traffic will be abysmal with everyone heading back and likely diversions because areas near my work flooding. Like many here sleep patterns are a bit off, it's going to be a shock when the alarm goes off tomorrow! I find it hard to believe anyone...

Amplifier technology doesn't exactly change rapidly so my recommendation is to search the bay for a second hand unit from Rotel, Marantz, Denon or similar. Otherwise 2 x 100W won't come cheap! Also check power output is into 8 Ohms as many amplifiers may quote a figure for 4 Ohms and would...

Thanks all :) I've upgraded to 8GB RAM, might as well put that 64bit OS to use :D . Also got a better CPU cooler, same as I have, Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7, it'll fit OK in the small case and gives overclocking potential if the system feels slow in the future. Unfortunately £400 was...

Hi all, this won't be a build for me but it will replace an outdated Windows XP machine. Primarily for office tasks and simple (not 3D) games, but a fast boot up is desired. Current PC has only 60GB of hard disk used so the 250GB storage should be ample; using 2 drives (as I do in my machine...

Black finish looks nice though! Going to guess PMC :)

Only have a short time with the PC today but I ran memtest. It completed a pass in about 45 mins with no errors found. Might be of note that the memory detected in the BIOS as only 1333MHz and when I built the machine I just set it up to 1600MHz myself and left it there since the memory...