I am down for some testing.

Reopened it and had a look at the imprint the paste left on the hsf and it was pretty bad. Half the heatsink was completely clean. There was a very thin layer on all of the IHS its just that half of the IHS made no TIM imprint on the HSF. I knew the imprint was light but I didn't think the GPU would...

(56c idle/82c load with a intake temp of 24C) That looks perfectly good, imo. If the stock cooler is quiet enough, then I'd leave it all alone, personally. The sound at stock seems fine I am just not accustomed to having something so hot (especially under folding) running inside my case. The urge t...

Doubtful that cutting the grill (which I assume is what you're talking about) would have much impact except at very high fan speed -- at which point the fan would be the main noise maker anyway. Lapping? Why would you bother with such a high risk/labor operation? What's the issue anyway? Noise? coo...

Acoustically speaking would cutting the slots on the PCI bracket (shown here) have any appreciable effect in the sound signature of the cooler? I tried searching in this section but I didn't find a post about it. If anyone has tried it or know of someone who has tried it I am curious to hear about i...

When you went from two sticks to four, you added significant capacitive load to the circuit. That added load at these high speeds slowed down the timing waveform of one or more lines enough to throw errors. Slowing down the timing allowed the race condition to disappear. I doubt that changing memor...

Just to follow up I burned a new copy of memtest 2.11 Retested the patriot kit under test 5 (about 100 runs) and tests 1-8 (20 runs) just to be sure. Kit did just fine undervolted and stock volted. Tried both kits together at stock timings and volts with the nb from 1.2 to 1.28 and gave up when it w...

Mixing RAM often leads to problems like this. I'd suggest loosening the timings down to 5-5-5-15 and see if that aleviates the problem, and/or kicking the voltage up a notch. Both the Patriot and Corsair kits should be able to handle 1.9-2.0V without any troubles. When I was shopping for a second k...

What do you think about raising the Vram? Could try it. During the troubleshooting process I tested each kit at both the recommended volts (2.10v) and much less than what they recommend (1.90v) without problems but the kits were tested in a 4gb configuration. I have tried 8gb at 1.90 to 2.10 in .2v...

With 8gb plugged in I get intermittent errors on test 5 in memtest 2.10. The entire system is being kept bone stock. The stick timings and voltages are being manually set in the bios. Bios is version 1613. Other than pen and paper if there's an easy way to copy/paste my current bios settings let me ...

I keep a very large speaker magnet on hand for wiping out hard drives in general.

awesome, thanks so much for the link and the advise it helped tremendously

I tried a few different search terms before asking this but couldn't find anything. I even went looking through google images for examples but came up empty handed (probably due to search terms). I am sure someone will get a good chuckle from this question but I am worried about messing things up as...

Dont do that. Mount it vertical, one fan in push. The rear and top exhaust will handle the rest. Btw, you should really make your own thread in System Advice for these questions :) Ah ok will do and thanks for the replies I am sorta new to this whole silent computing thing (I used to use vantec tor...

Also in addition to the questions I had above is there enough space to use an Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme with 2x 120mm fans in push pull? Or will this depend mainly on the motherboard I am using as far as where the cpu socket is in relation to the rest of the board's components.

I had a few questions about this case that I was hoping someone might know the answers to. I did a few searches but its possible I put the wrong key words and so some of this might have been covered already. Friend of mine is currently picking one of these up for me as an xmas present. I was just wo...