I have a SilenX 14 dBA 400W PSU and a Nexus NX-3000. While it's true that the SilenX has only vents in the front while the Nexus has them on the bottom, the Nexus runs significantly cooler than the SilenX. The noise is about the same, although the Nexus may be just slightly more quiet. Besides fan n...

But strangely, the ferrite acts as a speaker for the hard drive, and emits the same grinding seek sounds that the hard drive makes. :? I had a similar problem with an Asus P4PE motherboard and a Seagate Barracuda V. The Asus motherboard has a built-in buzzer, I guess as a substitute for the cheap P...

Thanks to everyone for all the great advice. Obviously, my CPU heatsink/fan was doing a poor job of cooling and my GeForce4 Ti4200 card with the Zalman heatsink generates a lot of heat which is below the CPU and so the heat goes right into the CPU fan and "cools" it with hot air. Then, to make matte...

I had a Q-Technology "Ultra Quiet" PSU that I replaced with a Nexus NX-3000. For the time, the Q-Technology was more quiet than most PSU's. The Nexus was in a totally different class, the reduction in noise was astonishing! It was also cooler. I just couldn't believe there could be such a high quali...

I removed the SilenX PSU and set it on top of the tower case (the cables are long enough to reach the components). I repeated my test to see what the temperatures would do. SilenX In Case SilenX On Top of Case Nexus CPU Temp: 67C 64C 61C Case Temp: 45C 42C 42C So my conclusions are: 1. The SilenX fa...

I replaced my Nexus NX-3000 with a SilenX 14dBA 400W PSU today. I am building another PC which will take the other PSU. When I first got my Nexus I was in heaven for about 2 days (it replaced a Q-Technology so-called "Ultra Quiet" PSU), however, I did not have that feeling today after replacing the ...

I bought a SilenX PSU from ExoticPC which is apparently identical to the ones SilenX sells. I wanted to buy from SilenX at first, but I had some minor problem (I think it was that their site wasn't secure for credit cards, or something minor like that). Anyway, I called ExoticPC and they were very f...

I just ordered a D8000 from Coolcases.com http://www.coolcases.com/cases/D8000_s-m_p2.html . It is a modified CompuCase LX-6A19 (same as Antec SLK3700) with the fan grills punched out. I suspect the reason no case manufacturer does this is because it is illegal. It probably causes the case to fail t...