How about running the Tri-Cool on lower voltages and lower selector settings? I don't have a Nexus 120 mm to compare it with, and I've not bothered to remove it from the case to rid of the turbulence from the fan guard, but my Tri-Cool runs rather quiet on 7 V at the Low setting.

Ambient temp = temperature of the room that your system is in. I agree on your definitions except that I think that ambient temp can vary depending on the context. If you are talking about which ambient temperatures a PSU can operate in, I would specify that temperature as the intake temperature, n...

I want a 3.5" 7200 rpm 8MB or greater cache drive for home recording, but I read in the reviews that the 2.5" drives are quieter. [...] I need the big cache of the 3.5" 7200 drives, but lots of bad reviews here on those types of drives. Will the laptop drives be better? There are 5400 rpm 2.5" driv...

Try to see if you can get the model number and check the last two character (or the characters before 'BOX' in boxed packages). It would be BP for Venice cores and BI for Winchester.

I did my suspension in an Antec 3000B case by cutting off the middle part of the HDD-rack and suspended my drive with elastic cords. To keep the drive cool I pulled the cords through aluminium profiles and screwed them to the drive instead of suspending it directly. This made the drive (Barracuda 72...