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  1. Re:The Poor Man's RAID Array by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Home Network Data Storage Device

    I don't know if this would qualify as a poor man's RAID setup, but Enlight sells hot swap enclosures that will fit most mid-ATX towers. There are two models that will fit either 2 or 3 consecutive 5.25" bays. And there are fans mounted in the back. I'm not sure how noisy these things are though.

    http://us.enlightcorp.com/Product/Product_Detail.a spx?ID=201%20

    http://us.enlightcorp.com/Product/Product_Detail.a spx?ID=195%20

    So now you can take that old P3 computer out of the closet and put it to use. ;-)

  2. Re:The Poor Man's RAID Array by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Home Network Data Storage Device

    I don't know if this would qualify as a poor man's RAID setup, but Enlight sells hot swap enclosures that will fit most mid-ATX towers. There are two models that will fit either 2 or 3 consecutive 5.25" bays. And there are fans mounted in the back. I'm not sure how noisy these things are though.

    http://us.enlightcorp.com/Product/Product_Detail.a spx?ID=201%20

    http://us.enlightcorp.com/Product/Product_Detail.a spx?ID=195%20

    So now you can take that old P3 computer out of the closet and put it to use. ;-)

  3. Re:And this just in. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Crack Windows XP With... Windows 2000

    bah, it can be easier than that. you can just pull the front cover off some cases with locks.

  4. buy a 'book pc' & spray it black by DABANSHEE · · Score: 2 · on Choosing a Good Case

    Just use that spray on vinyl dye that car detailers use to change the colour of car interiors.

    Afterall the vast majority of computers have plastic bevels, while the metal sides are painted with acrylic paint.

    You can buy a PC Chips S370 'bare bones' book PC (its even avaliable in black as the 'Delux' model with IR keyboard & mouse/remote .

    Or you can buy Book PC cases in LPX, NLX, MicroATX or FlexATX format, & build the bugger yourself. Many companies make them, including Enlight ( 7180-mATX , EN-7396 ) & Asus/ElanVital

  5. buy a 'book pc' & spray it black by DABANSHEE · · Score: 2 · on Choosing a Good Case

    Just use that spray on vinyl dye that car detailers use to change the colour of car interiors.

    Afterall the vast majority of computers have plastic bevels, while the metal sides are painted with acrylic paint.

    You can buy a PC Chips S370 'bare bones' book PC (its even avaliable in black as the 'Delux' model with IR keyboard & mouse/remote .

    Or you can buy Book PC cases in LPX, NLX, MicroATX or FlexATX format, & build the bugger yourself. Many companies make them, including Enlight ( 7180-mATX , EN-7396 ) & Asus/ElanVital

  6. buy a 'book pc' & spray it black by DABANSHEE · · Score: 2 · on Choosing a Good Case

    Just use that spray on vinyl dye that car detailers use to change the colour of car interiors.

    Afterall the vast majority of computers have plastic bevels, while the metal sides are painted with acrylic paint.

    You can buy a PC Chips S370 'bare bones' book PC (its even avaliable in black as the 'Delux' model with IR keyboard & mouse/remote .

    Or you can buy Book PC cases in LPX, NLX, MicroATX or FlexATX format, & build the bugger yourself. Many companies make them, including Enlight ( 7180-mATX , EN-7396 ) & Asus/ElanVital

  7. I have to second these Enlight cases... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Easy Access PC Cases?

    I have to second that enlight case. I have a couple of them. They are, by far, the best case I've found yet. Front snaps off and on (lever at bottom). It conceals two (optional/unnecessary) screws that hold the left and right side panels on. Those are the only two screws involved in opening the case. The 5.25" bays have two spring-mounted clips that screw on to the drives, so drives can be trivially removed and replaced without any tools. The entire 3.5" bay comes out the same way, on spring-loaded clips. (Really great for tweaking jumpers!) Lots places to mount fans. Good airflow. By far the best design I've ever seen!

    PS: Their website lists all their cases. Including some shots from the back.

    PPS: I'm not associated with Enlight, other than by being a satisfied customer. Posting anonymously as I'm at work.

  8. I have to second these Enlight cases... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Easy Access PC Cases?

    I have to second that enlight case. I have a couple of them. They are, by far, the best case I've found yet. Front snaps off and on (lever at bottom). It conceals two (optional/unnecessary) screws that hold the left and right side panels on. Those are the only two screws involved in opening the case. The 5.25" bays have two spring-mounted clips that screw on to the drives, so drives can be trivially removed and replaced without any tools. The entire 3.5" bay comes out the same way, on spring-loaded clips. (Really great for tweaking jumpers!) Lots places to mount fans. Good airflow. By far the best design I've ever seen!

    PS: Their website lists all their cases. Including some shots from the back.

    PPS: I'm not associated with Enlight, other than by being a satisfied customer. Posting anonymously as I'm at work.

  9. I have to second these Enlight cases... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Easy Access PC Cases?

    I have to second that enlight case. I have a couple of them. They are, by far, the best case I've found yet. Front snaps off and on (lever at bottom). It conceals two (optional/unnecessary) screws that hold the left and right side panels on. Those are the only two screws involved in opening the case. The 5.25" bays have two spring-mounted clips that screw on to the drives, so drives can be trivially removed and replaced without any tools. The entire 3.5" bay comes out the same way, on spring-loaded clips. (Really great for tweaking jumpers!) Lots places to mount fans. Good airflow. By far the best design I've ever seen!

    PS: Their website lists all their cases. Including some shots from the back.

    PPS: I'm not associated with Enlight, other than by being a satisfied customer. Posting anonymously as I'm at work.

  10. Re:Other Form Factors - NLX not NTX by rtechie · · Score: 1 · on Improving Computer Form Factors?

    Basically, the NLX and to a lesser extent the FlexATX form factor are dead. Witness the lack of NLX and FlexATX Pentium4 and Athlon motherboards.

    If you really wanted to though, you can still build an NLX system. Enlight makes a pretty good NLX case, and you can get a motherboard from Gigabyte, no AGP though. For an AGP motherboard you're probably looking at i810 or i815, these guys seems to have a couple. You could also try Ebay.

    You'll also need an NLX-complaint AGP video card. These cards have the VGA connector at the top and a "notch" below, like the one in this picture. As far as I know they stopped making NLX video cards after the GeForce, so that's the best you'll be able to do.

    Basically, there is no REALLY good reason to go for a NLX system anymore. If you don't care about performance, you can find plenty of FlexATX Socket-370 boards with onboard video/sound/LAN.

    If you DO care about performance your best bet is to go with a MicroATX i845 board like this one. Pentium 4 is better for a small PC than Athlon because of the heat issues with the Athlon. You should be able to pair up this kind of board with any video card you want, like a Geforce3.

  11. Re:Buy a G4 tower then :P by skt · · Score: 1 · on Concept PC 2001
    I would have to disagree with you as it sounds like you are describing the new Dell Dimention 4300 case. I really hate that thing to be quite honest. I prefer something normal (and higher quality) like the Enlight 7230 which is quite good for a midtower. It uses 5.25" drives on rails so that your cd-rom drive, for example, isn't bolted to the side of the case. It has a much more modular feel. But again you have to unplug the power and ribbon cable, but that doesn't take very long. Both cases have enough room so that it's not that big of a deal..

    Unfortuntely I can't buy those from Dell and thus am stuck with the new 4300 design. I really don't like the rounded look of the 4300 case. The floppy discs are difficult to retrieve because of the recessed floppy drive. The black components really bug me because I have an office filled with spare white components! Even though I don't care what the computer looks like, the users seem to care.. They get upset when I replace their broken black Intellimouse with a standard white one from M$. Of course all Dell cases (including the 4100 series) feel cheap to me since the outside panels are made of plastic rather than metal.

  12. My quiet case project : it's an answer ... sort of by Prozzaks · · Score: 1 · on Building Quieter Computers

    Well, it seem these days, most of the power user just care to get something like 200fps in Quake III. Why ? Beat's me ! I'm not on a quest to get the ultimate frame rate, I just want my box to be quiet as possibly can be.

    To help you understand my take on the subject, here is the background :
    My PC has the following components :

    • A OEM case
    • A 235W OEM power supply
    • ASUS P3B-F
    • Intel Pentium II rated 400Mhz @ 400Mhz
    • A cheap OEM SECC2 Heat-Sink made of aluminum
    • A 128MB CAS2 no-name DIMM
    • Two 32MB CAS3 Samsung DIMM slowing down my memory timing, but preventing the appearance of the all mighty evil SwaP
    • A ATI All-In-Wonder Rage128 16MB
    • A Creative SoundBlaster Live! Value
    • A Realtek 8139 Ethernet NIC
    • My beloved USR 56Kbps ISA Real Modem. Sorry but to me a component that uses CPU power to do it's processing instead of taking the load off is not worthy of being in my computer. Not to mention the M$ Win part...
    • A Creative 48x CD-ROM drive. It's the loudest damned thing in my computer when it's spinning
    • A Quantum Fireball AS PLUS 40GB (7200RPM) in a removable tray
    • A Quantum Fireball CX1 10GB (5400RPM) mounted inside the case
    • Of course the stupid old 1.44 MB floppy drive only used for booting Tomsbrt in case of emergency

    Soon to be :

    • A Adaptec 2940UW
    • A Diamond Monster 3D II for Glide games

    It turn out that the Quantum Fireball AS makes less noise than the Quantum Fireball CX1. I still have to figure it out ...

    I use my PC for :

    • Running Linux and learning as much as time allows me (Jez I had so much time when I was a student... Think of all the time I wasted in High-School running the evil W monster)
    • Doing some gaming i.e. : Diablo II, Unreal, UT, Undying (Although that thing is going to cost me a new box)
    • Spending numerous nights filling my brain @ Slashdot, Tomshardware, Anandtech, Arstechnica, StorageReview, Developper.Intel.com, and most importantly, hounding the web for all the case manufacturers and their take at a quiet box.

    As I'm writing this post, that is probably going to be the base documentation for my Silent Case Project, you're guessing that my sleepless night of browsing have not yielded the desired result.

    I've check out many options such as water cooling, moving the PC to the closet, returning to the forest where a PC is pretty far from your everyday quest for survival. None of them suits me.

    The objective of my project is to build a case that meets the following criteria :

    • A silent as possible
    • Accessible
    • Provides sufficient ventilation to maintain all the components running within thermal specs
    • Be light enough to be easily transportable (Let's not forget the Lan parties ;-)

    To attain those goals I have to :

    • Read all I can about noise, sound, aerodynamics, PC specs
    • Find suitable materials : A case is not just a protection against unwanted fingers and dust ; it must provide EMI shielding, proper grounding, resist to impacts, and fit into my conception of the king of object you want in your bedroom (If you were thinking about plywood and a box of rusted leftover nails, forget it)
    • Find the tools or the companies or individuals with the means to work the materials I choose to build the casing

    For the sound isolation I was thinking about some kind of foam. Mineral lint would be affective but that takes too much space and it's not the kind of thing I want beside my bed. Form the casing itself, metal is almost inevitable if you want EMI shielding and grounding. And as for you who wonder why I have not mentioned water cooling yet, the greatest source of noise is not my CPU cooler and your just moving the problem out of the case (Nice ; you have water heating up but unless your reservoir is like a bathtub or something you will have to transfer the heat for the water to the air).

    That about as far as I am. If you have any idea that might help me, please fell free to send me some bits forming ASCII characters at Prozzaks@operamail.com

    To finish up, here is a list of thing that might help people wanting to achieve similar goals :

  13. i built a system like what you were describing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Full Powered, Compact, Gaming Rigs?

    about one year ago. i set two limitations to the design of my "lan party computer"

    1. it must use standard components (to make it easier to find parts to buy)
    2. it must be cheap (at least cheaper than a comparable laptop)

    this is a list of components that i used to build the system.
    i updated parts of the list to reflect what components i would buy if i was going to build it today.

    case mini tower $60
    monitor 14" lcd $600
    motherboard micro atx $100
    processor P3 800Mhz 100FSB $160
    ram 256MBpc100SDRAM $100
    video Geforce2GTS64MB $195
    keyboard mini-keyboard $40
    mouse cordless optical $70
    hard drive 40GB ide $100
    cd-rom drive Plextor16/10/40A $250
    floppy 1.44MB Generic $10
    sound card SB Live Value $40
    network card netgear FA310TX $20
    cat5 cable 14 feet $20
    headphones koss td61 $20
    carry strap GearGrip Pro $35

    other stuff:
    cable bag a small, strong bag to attach to the side of the case to hold all the cables
    power cable with 3 outlets that have 3 prongs each to accommodate the power cables for your system and monitor

    i attached the lcd monitor to one side of the case and the cable bag to the other side. i put all the cables attached to the computer inside the bag to get them out of the way. then, when i went to a lan party i would only have to take one power cable, one network cable, the mini-keyboard, cordless mouse, and headphones out of the cable bag. everything was already connected at the back of the computer so there was no onsite setup involved.

    i also screwed a piece of plexiglass onto the lcd monitor to protect the screen. (yes it was stupid to drill holes into a monitor that i just spent $900 on at that time, but it worked)

    i had a lot of fun with that computer. i even dropped it down a flight of stairs once and the case was bent and all the pci cards popped out of their sockets. i put it back together and it worked fine.
    the only downside to building this system was that it weighed about 30lbs. although if you spent more money on a lunchbox case with integrated lcd it would still weigh a lot.

    unfortunately i never took any pictures of it for posterity and i ended up dismantling it for parts about 6 months ago, but i'm sure you get the idea.

    -stan

  14. Cases... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Compaq Kills Off Online Competition

    No, there are some good non-commercial cases out there. Check out Enlight's page.