With the turbo module attached, does the VGA card with the Accelero S2 installed take up 3 slots in total? Thanks.

I'd like to do a staggered spinup but my ATA RAID controller (3Ware 7506-12) doesnt support it and I dont know of any ATA RAID controller that does. It seems only SATA disks and controllers support staggered startup. And I dont have the money to replace 12 ATA disks and buy a SATA RAID card. The oth...

I've had not one but two hard drives fail in the media server at the same time. One was a 60 gb Maxtor ATA being used as the system drive and the other was a Western Digital 500 gb SATA drive (WD5000KS). Both drives were new and hadn't been used and I had had the media server running for only a few ...

Can anyone tell me the maximum amperage of the 12 volt lines for the Antec Trio 650? The sticker for the Trio 550 lists a maximum of 42 amps for the combined 12 volt lines but the sticker for the Trio 650 isnt shown and I cant find the info on Antec's web site. I have a media server with 15 hard dri...

I'm considering buying a new graphics card for my HTPC, the HIS 1950 AGP card http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov.php?id=278&view=yes and I was wondering how quiet the IceQ cooling system is. The IceQ cooler looks a lot like one of the Arctic Cooling VGA Silencers which were considered one of ...

My HTPC has a Intel PERL 865 motherboard with 3.2 ghz Northwood CPU, Zalman AlCu 7000 heat sink and fan and 1 gig of dual channel PC3200 Ram. I have three Hauppauge PVR-250 capture cards, MadDog Entertainer sound card, BenQ DW1620 DVD burner and (normally) a 128 meg ATI 9800 Pro video card equipped ...

I have a HTPC (Silverstone LC-10 case) that has poor airflow and thus runs hot which causes the PSU (400 watt Super Tornado) fan to speed up and become noisy. I was wondering if replacing the two 3.5 drives (60 and 200 gb Maxtor PATA drives) with a 80 gb Seagate Momentus 5400.3 drive and a 120 gb We...

I have a HTPC (3.2 ghz Northwood CPU, Zalman AlCU 7000 heatsink/fan, ATI 9800 Pro with VGA Silencer, 4 HDs, DVD burner, 3 PVR-250 capture cards, Seasonic 400w Super Tornado PSU, Silverstone LC10 case) that's running hot. The heat from the rest of the components causes the Super Tornado's fan to spee...

I have a HTPC case with two 60mm exhaust fans that I've replaced with SilenX 9 cfm 8 dba fans. They are very quiet but I need fans that nove more air. Are the 13 cfm 12 dba or the 18 cfm 16 dba SilenX fans much noisier than the 9 cfm 8 dba version? Thanks.

Shining Arcanine,

What is the phone number to call to order the EAR grommets? And what size grommets should I order to mount hard drives? Finally what's the cost of the EAR grommets? Thanks.

[quote="Slaugh"]NCIX.com sells these fans in USA and Canada... The following links are for the USA: AHANIX SILENX 60MM FAN 2 PIN SILENX 12DBA SILENT CASE FAN 60MM 1900RPM 13CFM 3/4PIN SILENX 8DBA SILENT CASE FAN 60MM 1400RPM 9CFM 3/4PIN SILENX 16DBA SILENT CASE FAN 60MM 2500RPM 18CFM 3/4PIN Slaugh, ...

Can someone tell me where to purchase 60mm Ahanix SilenX fans. I've tried all the online retailers listed on Ahanix's web site and none of them carry the 60mm fans. I even emailed Ahanix itself and they seemed to indicate that they had some but they havent replied once I stated that I only wanted 2 ...

Does anyone know of a place that will perform case modding for a fee?
I need a few things done to a case I'm about to buy and I dont have
the tools,the knowledge or skills to do it myself. I dont want to
ruin my new case by trying to do it myself. Thanks.

Thanks to everyone for their replies. Looks like I'll be going with the
Nexus fan.

I'm considering buying a HTPC (Home Theater PC) case that can take either a 80mm or a 92mm intake fan. As this case is going to be fairly packed with hardware I want good airflow but I also a quiet fan as well. So which is better in regards to silence and airflow: a Panaflo 80mm or a Nexus Real Sile...

I'd like to see a review of the Silverstone LaScala LC10 & LC11 cases here at SPCR. I've only seen one review of the LC10 at Anandtech and none of the LC11. The Anandtech review stated the the LC10 was very noisy but I'd rather see a review from a site that I trust more as regards the subject of noi...

I was wondering if SPCR was going to do a review of the new Silverstone LC-10 case. This case is oriented towards Home Theater PC use and I was wondering how good or bad it was in terms of cooling and noise. I know the fact that it uses a pair of 60mm rear exhaust fans is problematic for cooling and...

DonP, given the information you've provided it looks like the Cavalier 4
isnt what I want either. Thanks. I'll just have to keep looking.

Trip, thanks for the suggestions of alternate HTPC cases. I'll look into them. I dont think I want to do any case modding though. As for the system I was going to use was a ECS motherboard with a 3.2 Ghz Prescott that was on sale at Outpost.com. That and a Hauppauge Win-TV card and a Maxtor hard dri...

I'm looking to build a HTPC and am wondering what case to buy. I'm using a full size ATX motherboard so the mATX cases are out. I also need a ase that supports at least 3 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot. I was looking at the Antec Overture but its heat problems made me decide against it. Next I was thinkin...

Given that one of the main reasons for the BTX form factor was to provide better cooling due to Intel's very hot running Pentium 4 (Prescott and above) chips is BTX still necessary now that the P4 line has reached the end of the road and will be replaced by the much cooler running Pentium-M based ch...

Can someone tell me where in the USA I can purchase the Medium version of this fan? Also, what kind of power connector does it use, a 3 pin or a 4 pin Molex? Some posts in this thread mention RPM monitoring but thr link I followed to PCCaseGear in Australia shows a 4 pin molex which doesnt support R...

Guapo, do you have the name of the store you bought the revision A1
Super Silencer from? I'm looking for one.

Lethal Injection, I havent read any posts here on SCPR about Super Sliencers
having problems with clicking noise. Have you had a different experience? And
what is the B revision of the Super Sliencer? I know there's a A1 revision
which is what I'm looking for) and a A2 revision.

Thanks Ralf.

I've read the various Seasonic Super Silencer and Super Tornado threads and I'd like to purchase a Seasonic Super Silenver Rev 1 power supply. Does anyone know where I could find one? Also how do you tell a Rev 1 Super Silencer from a Rev 2? Is there some way to tell the difference between the two? ...

Anyone know anything about the new Soyo Raptor power supply? I just saw it at CompUSA for $100. It claims to be a low noise design but I was wondering if anybody had actually used one. Could it simply be a rebadged Fortron? One strange thing about it was that it didnt have the overall wattage listed...

Would it be possible for MikeC to do a review of 120 mm fans? I've read the various reviews posted by other people on SPCR and they vary so much in methodology and fans tested its hard to draw a conclusion as to the quietness and cooling of the fans. The Panaflo seems to be the consensus choice for ...

The only place that I could find when a purchased a 5412 about 9 months ago was: www.gigacase.com I called them and was able to get the case without a power supply. Barry, thanks for the info about Gigacase. I checked their web site but they didnt have the 5603 listed. Judging from other posts in t...

Does anyone know of a USA based vendor who sells the the Yeong Yang
YY-5603 cases mentioned in one of the threads in this forum? I really
like the looks of this case but a search with Google didnt turn up
any American vendors.