circuitry installed. That's because the necessary additional cooling can only be had by upping the rotational speed of the notebook's cooling fan(s). Dismounted: To the left, the cooling assembly, to the right the graphics card with video RAM and graphics...

system invariably runs louder with new circuitry installed. That's because the necessary additional cooling can only be had by upping the rotational speed of the notebook's cooling fan(s). Dismounted: To the left, the cooling assembly, to the right the graphics...

as our guinea pig.. The device has slots for two SO-DIMMs. A little less than ten minutes later all the components are in place Once all components and the CPU cooling system have been assembled, the keyboard and the top cover can be replaced. The keyboard...

Assembly And Mounting Of PC Hardware. home theater pcs. A multimedia PC is only accepted in the living room if it has the look of hi-fi equipment. THG introduces four such HTPC cases, and the toys that go with it like remote controls with special operating...

• -Assembly Of PC Hardware

5: Ready for assembly Then, install the hard drives one at a time and hold them in place with one screw. I leave a full drive's worth of space vertically between drives in the case, for better cooling. Install the power cables to each drive, then install the...

Assembling The Cooling System. confessions of a serial htpc builder part 2. Part 2 of Michael Baggaley's series explores whether smaller is better when it comes to building Home Theater PCs. Opting for an MSI Mega180 small form factor PC and an ATI 9600 passively-cooled...

Cooling Kit Installation. confessions of a serial htpc builder part 1. Michael Baggaley likes to build Home Theater PCs and will be describing a few of his builds for us. Part 1 of this series examines a water-cooled oldie, which was low on decibels but a bit...

• -Taming HTPC Noise