I had a weird thought a few days ago and tried to search on google. All I got was acdc music or washington dc links for my trouble. My thought had to do with the antec cp-850. It is able to give efficient, quite, and cool ac to dc power conversion, using cheap parts because it's put in a much bigger...

http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/skymtl/GPU/CROSSFIRE/CROSSFIRE-42.JPG Going by this, here are the power consumption for the HD4850/4870. System Idle Load 4850 115watt 110watt 4870 106watt 158watt 4850 Idle Load Single: 45watt 133watt Crossfire: 90watt 266watt 4870 Idle Load Single: 78watt 1...

SPCR has a article with your answer. They used the ATI Radeon X1950XTX which is a hot card.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article793-page4.html

Accelero S1 (Nexus 120mm)
5v
~20dBA
67°C

Zalman VF900-CU
12V
28dBA
89°C

HardwareCanucks is back at it again with a review of the Radeon HD4850 using the Accelero S1.
http://tinyurl.com/57xhjz

CA_Steve not sure if this was the review you were talking about. http://tinyurl.com/4yrlv8 It was a Thermalright HR-03 GT on the 4870.it had a 40c drop at load and a 20 at idle. That was replacing a two slot cooler. These companies need to get on the ball and start providing a better cooling solutio...

There is the cover that goes on the top to hide the cables. It's like the cover for the P182 that hides the top fan

http://en.expreview.com/img/computex08/ ... 189sWM.jpg

Also won't the power supply bring in room air from the bottom and shoot it straight out the back...

I thought I should post a news article another website did on a interesting case. I don't want it to get lost in the shuffle of news coming out of computex and not get a review by the fine people here are spcr, because it looks like a winner. http://en.expreview.com/2008/06/04/computex08-coverage-ra...

Does anybody know of a good harware based, OS independent box that I can plug fans into that will change their speed. I've seen a few but they don't have enough connecter or they don't change fan speed automatic. If there is a motherboard that can do this that would work too as I still haven't picke...