Well, I think the system has held up very well in the last year. Aopen bios updates now allows me to stably lower the vcore on the P4 2.4C to 1.1V (reported as 1.06V in Silentek). It does a lot of divx encoding without any problems. Temp ranges from about 55-70 for varying levels of load. The pc rem...

I have a P2.4C at 1.1V, NCU-1000 and a Prosilence 350 in a 1 fan system and I have had the almost exactly same experience. My first prosilence died after about 2 months. I had that replaced and it has been stable for 6 months since. But the problem with both of them is that once I increased the powe...

I definitely chose the iStyle purely for vanity. It is obviously not designed for optimal airflow. I don't have a floppy and don't have many loose cables (but now that I have seen what Ralf Hutter does with folding flat IDE cables, I'm going to have to do that some time). But the iStyle is steel/pla...

Yes, heat has been a major problem. I built the PC on one of the hottest days of the summer in New York and for a while I was having problems with post and with CPU-intensive processes. Now that it is cooler (around 20C), it is much easier to maintain the computer. In the iStyle, the 92mm Zalman fan...

Not including the use of some old parts, I just built a P4 2.4C with heatlane and a prosilence350 for under US$1000. It has only a 1500rpm case fan and is as quiet as I think possible without signficant modding. Search my messages for a brief note on that machine.

Oh wait, the HD silencer is the _Smart_Drive2002 which as far as I know is safe for a 7200rpm drive. It is the solid black metal with copper plates on the inside. I don't have temps of the drive but I seems to work so far.

I have read this site for several months and in the process made improvements to two older PCs which now emit a bearable amount of noise as an HTPC and a computer at my Mom's. But for this new project, I started from scratch with all off-the-shelf-products, no-mods and put together the quiestet poss...

It's in a strange little mAtx aluminim case sold by Chilli. I have no pictures but the motherboard going up the side and then the AGP card is slotted horizontally facing up. Both the PSU and CPU beloware at the bottom of the case.

The card is a horizontal position with the HS facing upI've tried a number of different fan positions, the best (touch-testing only) seems to be having a fan directly overtop the heatsink. The weird thing is that this happens at POST, then the machine starts into XP normally, all other things run no...

I was wondering if any has had following problem or any advice? I have experienced a problem with the ZM-17. I snapped off the original ATI 8500dv heatsink and fan, applied the adhesive (one on the core; other on the zm-17) and then when it had set, I reinserted it back into the pc. Immediately, the...