ever since 754 processors have been out, the amd has been always the better choice besides for those freak, 2 hours a month moments of multimedia encoding. Yeah, Like, I do that all the time. I just have soooo many home videos of my non existant family I need to transfer, or oh yeah, that claymation...

A classy 90's hip hop quote for your Birthday Cheer:
"You so quazy, I think I'm gona have yo baby."

Happy birthday SPCR

Hm, Ok, I will give it a go then. I would love to have one of these lian li's become dead quiet, that would be a pleasing accomplishment. I probably would use that case for every computer that still conforms to atx standards in the future. I keep buying non lian-li cases wishing i bought one! i tihn...

Yeah, I am wondering about this anti-aluminum bias myself with a possible new dampening build I want to begin next week. I want a pimped out Lian li with that door on the front. That solid, sealable door. I want to put 1/4 inch super soundproofing mat from http://soundproofing.org/sales/prices.html ...

I am possibly the stingiest member of SPCR, so my reason to avoid the Phantom is extremely simple--it costs too much! If I want a fanless PSU, I'll take the cheapest PSU I have lying around and remove the fan. I agree with Tobias that the hard drive is the most annoying sound in the system. You can...

Zalman is indeed 'better than most', but out of the box not often good enough for the Silence Purist. Mostly you have to change the fans and then they get really good. Most of the time you will find that brands like Seasonic, Nexus and FSP have better and less noisy powersupplies in their lineup. T...

Not many amd64 mobo's support undervolting at all. I have heard rumors about 90nm ones (not sempron, I dont consider them for performance) that they do not want to go very high in terms of OC'ing.

I would gather a 2.0 ghz 90 nm on a DFI board would be best to test all of this. maybe gigabyte.

I was thinking of replacing my duct with an exhaust fan, maybe angled a little because it's not directly over the CPU. Might be a nuiance if you want to open the case however. this is a very loud suggestion. Sides of cases should be solid at least, and better yet, covered with soundproofing junk. I...

Am I right to assume that Plextools Professional either comes with the drive or is downloadable for free from their website? Plextools Professional came with my Plextor... The bundled version was very buggy, so I downloaded the latest version on Plextor's website and installed it... I mainly use Pl...

thermal grease and its application make up for more degree differences than copper or aluminum.

just think of that.

Lol sux yeah Cavalier

lol

There really isnt a point to all copper HSF. In a very low airflow case.... Heck, we all have low airflow cases! That's the forum! I dont know of anyone I talk to that has a high quality fan going over 5volts besides our stupid PSU's which require either modding (dangerous), Phantom's, or like under...

Yeah, people claim some of those mesh fancy aluminum ones are actually kinda quiet. yes, kinda. But impossible to make really quiet. Sound insulation is a good idea in any case, that's a rule. unless you are running near hot hot/passive, then I would hesitate to add it (or not even bother to) Cooler...

yes the coolermaster is a wide case that is built a brick sh$$-house. The front drive cover, being rigid, thick aluminum on a S curve shape, seems to block a lot of sound from the front top where the cd drives are. The problem I see is the bottom vent for the front fan. its not a grill type. Ialways...

~El~Jefe~ asked: I wonder if real US steel (which is bought by other countries and not the US normally, corporate bs type stuff) were to be used, would it resonate much better? ALL steels, regardless of alloying elements, impurities, and any other properties that could define "quality" have THE SAM...

steel is a dirty material, steel that is in computers is one of the worst grades ever. We used to call it japanese steel, by far, the most resembling the strength of a paper bag ever in steel history. A junky composite of recycled steels. I wonder if real US steel (which is bought by other countries...

yes, I totally agree, I would have it completely sealed off from the rest of the case and then on top to freely breath. and also a hammer to kill the blue light.

I really do think that notebook hd's are made better than regular ones. They just have flimsy-ish parts inherent to their tiny designs. They take a sick level of heat.

I am wondering if I can make this chimney a sortt of nuclear power plant cooler shape, if that would work better or just the traditional tube.

When I came up with it was from a modders forum a few years ago that did autopsies on overheated hd's and found that the items on the pcb's were fried, yet when opened up, the motors and disks still could spin and arms could move. I also asked ibm before I purchased 2 20 gig deskstar hd's back sever...

Toshiba MK3006GAL

just check out Tomshardware.com

I am not sure anyone here has mentioned it yet.

Kinda nifty ! easy to silence this guy, heat disipation is not a problem as it has like no mass at all to begin with.

Unfortunately, this is not outdoors and the heat differential is not great. the outside air flow helps wick the air out of the house, also, fireplace has so much heat, it rises rapidly, creating suction, further propelling the stuff out. The air at the bottom is also more dense, as it rises, it deco...

holy crap thats all i have to say. Really, he could mount a pump in the next room with true sound deadening mat and suspend it so it has no vibrations... something like that. and it would be a silent system. cool idea. cooling down a whole network of comps with a huge radiator. i cant imagine the pr...

i had a backplate on my mobo, it was tough to remove by hand, i thought it was like permanently stuck, i just used a letter opener, smoother sides, and shoved it beween the board and the backplate. Popped right off! that gluey stuff on ati heatsinks, i tried freezing, didnt work, blowdryer very war...

http://img212.exs.cx/img212/2011/supercopper0rj.th.jpg I think this is it! wow thanx dood! The blue is soundproofing heavy stuff, I havea theory about a balance between heat dissipation and reduction of sound, thats for another day though. The back of this case has no fan, just a baffle, exhaust is...

I have a design that I drew for this but I dont know how to post it or link to it. I suck at web stuff.

I will show you if you can find a place for me to post/link to!

After quieting down the rest of my system, I finally noticed the buzzing in from my Viewsonic PF790. It varies greatly depending on what is being displayed and which resolution/refresh rate it's set at. I currently have it set at 1260x960@85Mhz and it's pretty bad. I tried many other settings and t...

I had a viewsonic monitor that buzzed, and it drove me absolutely nuts. I generally get LCDs now, because I think they usually are more quiet than CRTs. I also find that LCDs are much easier on my eyes than CRTs, but that's just my opinion. Also, in my office, someone kicks on the microwave and my ...

I never have the temperature in my house below 74 degrees F. Also, none of my fans that have thermal guages ever drop below the medium setting for exhaust, my system doesnt exit as much heat. The psu sensors, as a rule, I believe are too agressive in flipping to their higher settings. Sometimes this...

odd, i hear everything besides the hd. But anyways, I am going to get that phantom next week, I think it is worth a shot. I might also put a panaflo 80 on the gfx card, the zalman is vgood but i might as well go silent as it needs minimal air flow on this zalman blue sandwich heatsink. Pabst on the ...