I decided to wait and see what's going on with the next gen cards. The 7970 is already here, won't be to long before the 7950 and word is we'll see a new geforce in feb or march (no way to know for sure though). If they are all as expensive as the 7970 I'll probably still get an older card, but hope...

True, so far I've only had trouble with in-game cinematic bits where they turn up the effects etc and parts with lots of particles etc. I bought the witcher 1 & 2 in a steam sale and witcher 1 was mostly ok except for some locations (druid grove) but the witcher 2 is just to much even with most effe...

I'm not really interested in mods as that wasn't really the point for this thread but I'll keep it in mind. So far I only see the most powerful cards mentioned, does that mean you would choose the second option from the first post? (= power over quiet under load but weaker) I found another noise tes...

I currently have a gtx 285 and it's been (more or less) quiet enough for me, but lately it's starting to struggle with newer games causing the fan to rev up till it's noisy as hell. So now I'm thinking about getting a new gfx card and comparing all the idle/load noise levels got me wondering what wo...

Only sign of them in the shops here (The Netherlands) is one webshop claiming to have them in stock on may 6th. I did spot them in both the US and UK webshops though so I'm not sure what the deal is.
Has anyone seen them in other EU countries?

also, if using 1600 is considered an overclock does that mean more cpu cooling > more noise? and if so how much more cooling/noise?

Riffer: I just read this http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/exclusive_retail_core_i7_cpus_more_powerful_originally_reported and from what I can tell anything besides the engineering/preview samples are unlocked so with anything you can buy now, you can just set it to 1600 in the bios. Am I mi...

I've been wondering: with the improved air intake of the p183 would i still need the kama bay?

Read on 2 sites now that the p183 and p193have been officially introduced. http://tweakers.net/nieuws/59364/antec-brengt-nieuwe-performance-one-behuizingen-uit.html (dutch site) mentions it is supposed to be for sale with immediate effect, with the P183 costing €161 and the P193 €190. Haven't se...

Came across this test on hardware.info:
http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/articles ... _casefans/
It's in dutch but there are plenty of graphs. One thing to keep in mind though: measurements were made from 10cm not the 1m usually listed in specs.

http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=M ... FzdCwsLDE=
does that mean we'll be able to buy it soon? thought it had been announced a couple of times already.

Hmm just noticed the store only sells the ultra-120 not the hr-01, so noctua it is I guess. How hard would it be to replace the fans with scythes (same 800 rpm slipstreams as the casefans or different ones?)afterwards, when everything is already installed? I might just try it with the standard noctu...

Just noticed that the Noctua NH-U12P was actually reviewed here as well: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article850-page6.html The Noctua NH-U12P is possibly the best heatsink we've tested thus far, rivaling the Thermalright HR-01 Plus for the CPU cooling crown. The SE1366 version has 2 fans though an...

I haven't had time to do much more research today but i did notice that nvidia's official psu requirement for the 285 is 550W http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_285_us.html That doesn't say much unless you know what the rest of their test system is though... Interesting to see that the...

the noctua test btw: http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsu ... i=3268&p=6

Ok so to be clear: take out the bottom fan, replace 800rpm slipstream at the back, 800rpm s-flex on top (because slipstream doesn't do horizontal well) and/or 800rpm slipstream intake at the front. Some questions next: I take it that removing the bottom fan won't work for all psu's, would the Enerma...

I know people like silence here, but common not one comment? latest update: After reading an article at anandtech i'm thinking about dropping the raptor and getting a ssd when win7 gets released / prices drop a little bit more (60gb ocz vertex is around same price as 150 vraptor, I'm hoping 120gb wi...

I'm planning on building a system in a p182 (or 183 if it manages to actually appear in stores) and people here seem to have the most experience with them so I was hoping you could give it a look. I know it won't be silent but I'm trying to get it as quiet as possible without losing (to much) perfor...