My wife compaq presario 2100 fan only start at a certain temp so if it is cool enough it is prefectly silent, but once the fan start, well you can hear it. I wouldn't be able to sleep next to it. Personnaly I would go for a 15" lcd and a Antec Minuet case, it takes matx board and it's psu is supose...

what exactly is powered by the 3.3V line? The +3.3v stardard is used to power motherboards with cpus 100 mhz and above - ie. your cpu. Is the CPU not fed by the 12V line? No. The +12v is used to power disk drive motors and other similar devices. Some motherboards also pass this voltage to the ISA e...

MikeC wrote:I'd leave it the way you modded it already. Quieter. Chances are it'll survive a couple years unless you live in.... Thailand (hot!), and even if it fails... you'll want something new in a couple years anyway.

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Hey MikeC, I was just thinking of getting the low speed 92mm panaflow and installing it, since I'm worried about the 80mm not being able to vent enough heat. However, I was thinking of reversing the airflow for the 92mm and making it vent hot air, from the psu instead of sucking air in. My case does...

Edward Ng wrote:And, on a different note, jord...

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jord -- please, that's the kind of question you should reserve for... wizards and angels. Impossible to say. You already know it increases heat-related failure. You'll have to judge for yourself about the thermals in your situation and whether the risk is worth it. hhmmm...thanks anyways MikeC, I g...

replace 80&92 mm fans with panaflos -- use the low speed ones. This is probably the best option if you are going to hack in there anyway. They have much quieter bearings than the ones in the stock Antec ones IIRC. Hey MikeC, I have the same Antec 430 PSU too and I just swapped the outtake fan to on...