SilenX doesn't perform as advertised for most people. Add in their high cost and extremely deceptive dB ratings, I'd avoid them like the plague. No 120mm fan hits 14dba unless it's been heavily undervolted. Nexus fans are considered the gold standard for silent cooling and they operate at 22 dB.
Personally, I'd suggest buying any branded PSU (preferably Antec) that operates off a 120mm fan. Run it for a while and see how it goes for you. If it's too loud, replace the existing fan with a Nexus/Yate Loon. If it's too loud still, undervolt to 5v or 7v and it'll be completely inaudible at just a few feet away.
If the nexus fans are too pricey, look around for Yate Loon 120mm fans. They manufacture for Nexus and typically sell for half as much and offer the same build quality if you can find them.
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Rogers. I used them for a few years until my neighborhood's cable network started getting too much traffic. Once my speeds were down to half what I used to get, I switched to Bell and subscribed to Astraweb.
Well, you really have no choice in the matter unless you go to an independant music provider like Vitaminic who will provide the music in good old fashioned mp3 format... but don't expect to see Eminem's entire music collection on there. Actually, don't expect many current major musicians at all.
You could try allofmp3.com. The music is provided in the format of your choosing but the legality of their pay service in North America is questionable at best.
I personally found iTunes to be a system hog and Napster isn't a whole lot better - but at least it works with Windows Media Player. Of course, that's useless to me because I can't stand the setup of Napster, iTunes, WMP, or even Winamp when it comes to handling my music library. I leave that to Foobar... but that means getting locked off my content.
If you ask Apple or Napster how to use it on xx player, they'll just tell you to burn then rip to mp3. It works well enough, but expect a bit of quality loss from the transcoding.
You've got it right there, but the majority of hash-based, reliable filesharing started on eDonkey I think.
As for the new BBS phase, I know a lot of people running usenet already. For the time being, that'll be pretty reliable and secure. Give it a few years and the *AA's will crack down on news providers and that'll make way for the return of BBs.
Let me get this straight - these people are moving ON to edonkey/emule? Most people who do filesharing started off on eDonkey and then switched to Bittorrent for the speeds it offered.
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SilenX doesn't perform as advertised for most people. Add in their high cost and extremely deceptive dB ratings, I'd avoid them like the plague. No 120mm fan hits 14dba unless it's been heavily undervolted. Nexus fans are considered the gold standard for silent cooling and they operate at 22 dB. Personally, I'd suggest buying any branded PSU (preferably Antec) that operates off a 120mm fan. Run it for a while and see how it goes for you. If it's too loud, replace the existing fan with a Nexus/Yate Loon. If it's too loud still, undervolt to 5v or 7v and it'll be completely inaudible at just a few feet away. If the nexus fans are too pricey, look around for Yate Loon 120mm fans. They manufacture for Nexus and typically sell for half as much and offer the same build quality if you can find them.
Rogers. I used them for a few years until my neighborhood's cable network started getting too much traffic. Once my speeds were down to half what I used to get, I switched to Bell and subscribed to Astraweb.
Well, you really have no choice in the matter unless you go to an independant music provider like Vitaminic who will provide the music in good old fashioned mp3 format... but don't expect to see Eminem's entire music collection on there. Actually, don't expect many current major musicians at all. You could try allofmp3.com. The music is provided in the format of your choosing but the legality of their pay service in North America is questionable at best. I personally found iTunes to be a system hog and Napster isn't a whole lot better - but at least it works with Windows Media Player. Of course, that's useless to me because I can't stand the setup of Napster, iTunes, WMP, or even Winamp when it comes to handling my music library. I leave that to Foobar... but that means getting locked off my content. If you ask Apple or Napster how to use it on xx player, they'll just tell you to burn then rip to mp3. It works well enough, but expect a bit of quality loss from the transcoding.
You've got it right there, but the majority of hash-based, reliable filesharing started on eDonkey I think. As for the new BBS phase, I know a lot of people running usenet already. For the time being, that'll be pretty reliable and secure. Give it a few years and the *AA's will crack down on news providers and that'll make way for the return of BBs.
Let me get this straight - these people are moving ON to edonkey/emule? Most people who do filesharing started off on eDonkey and then switched to Bittorrent for the speeds it offered.