I'm going to use two 512s for now and squeeze the most perf I can out of them until I start hitting games that are happier with over a gig; I'd rather get better perf in most of my games and sacrifice one than speed up one and lose perf in all the others. hmm, Ive heard that C'n'Q wont work with 3 ...

Well, I thought I'd piggyback on this thread since I'm considering the same thing. My P4 2.8C seems to have died this morning. My P4P800-D's POST reporter is yelling at me that the CPU test failed and I get no video. I'm guessing the CPU is dead. I even tried pulling the CPU, cleaning off the AS3 an...

L1A - Low SPeed
M1A - Medium Speed
H1A - High Speed
U1A - Ludicrous Speed



Seriously, U1A - Ultra Speed

You have some of your acronyms mixed up here. All optical and hard disk devices are IDE today. They all have the drive controller electronics integrated into the drive. The attachment technology is different though. The major attachement technologies are ATA, SATA and SCSI. IDE - Integrated Drive El...

It was more for look than anything else. Since I added a Zalman Fanmate 1 today, it's also to protect the fan if I should accidently brush it while adjusting the fanmate. At $20+ for one fo those I really cannot afford to have one ripped to shreds. I killed a 92mm M1A when I accidently drop somethin...

I need to apologize. I've made a pretty stupid mistake. While playing with fan orientation and some other things in my machine earlier tonight I found that the NX-3500 is NOT the source of noise in my system. In fact it's my Panaflo L1BX. As I was playing around with things at one point I forgot to ...

MikeC, no it's an older True480, it doesn't even have the SATA connectors on it. Maybe you are right about the speed it's running at. It's possible I'm creating enough heat, even at stock speeds to cause it to spin up faster. Hmm, I guess I'll be playing with it some more on Monday, when I get some ...

I realize the dBA ratings from the manufacturers don't mean a whole lot, but still, I was expecting at least the noise to be in the same range, but it's not even close. I guess maybe this wasn't as clear as it should have been. I know and realize that manufacturers cannot provide real world use noi...

Air flow noise is all the noise I have with the NX-3500 too, but is pretty significant in my machine. It's much louder than the Nexus "Real Silent" fans I have and they are supposed to be louder (at least Nexus' rated dBA for each part shows the fans at 22.8 and the PSU at 19.2). The reality is that...

It's "bated" breath. Anyway, thanks for checking into the Directron/Verax sticks. I don't plan on moving my machine a whole lot, but on the other hand I don't want to have to worry about moving it if I do happen to need to move it. BTW, I did a search and didn't find what I was looking for. Perhaps ...

Nope, that's going a little too far for me. $80 for it is just a bit much for me at this point in time. I'm still paying off a Nikon D70 package so my funds for this was limited and I'm already a little bit over budget as it is. The only other currently planned changes will be a fanmate on the CPU f...

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After looking at the other quiet alternatives I'm thinking that you are right. It won't be worth it for me from a cost perspective. I should say that I'm certainly not disappointed with the overall noise level of the computer. It's much quieter than it was previously. However, I wasn't expecting suc...

So no one wants to take a stab at which one would be better?

I got my Panaflo L1BX from Jim at Coolcases.com today. I installed it, and it works almost as well as the M1BX did. The CPU temps rose 1C and case temps stayed the same. The noise did drop, and for the first time ever I've been able to tell the difference in noise between the hi and lo settings on m...

Most likely you would have damaged the board already if this was going to cause a problem. Since both the RPM sensor and the power cable both are grounded I would think everything would work no problem.

The other rheobus is installed in my server and now it makes almsot no noise. I cannot hear it from a few feet away with the fans at about 5v. DG, unless I'm mistaken this CPU header needs to have a fan on it to allow the system to boot properly. I'll have my L1BX and Zalman fanmate installed hopefu...

I got my Sunbeam Rheobus today. Very nice, I must say. I removed the LEDs and put it in and rewired my stuff a little. I don't have picks yet, as I'm waiting until I get my 92mm Panaflo L1BX before I take them, but the wire ugliness is gone now. I went to town with some small clear zip ties and clea...

Wow, the Zalman web site looks a lot better than the old one.

I wish I could say but I haven't done a lot of noise testing yet because the Panaflo M1BX is so loud. It just drowns out any other noise and makes it hard to determine if anything else is making noise or not. By the end of the week I should have the new L1BX fan, fan isolators, my Sunbeam rheobus, a...

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=11658

Not the fans you had in mind, but it's what you are looking for. I have 2 of the Nexus fans and whole-heartedly concur with his statements. Even at 12v those things are silent.

Right, that would put them in the path of the fan a bit more. I'll have to add that to my list of things I need to change when I get the rheobus. Thanks.

Well, I'll be adding a rheobus soon and I'd rather just wait until then to do it. I don't want to go through all the work of getting the cabling nice and neat only to have to redo it all again when I'm running everything into a 5.25in bay instead. I'll be zip tying some other things at the same time.

Apparently the P4P800 Deluxe under-reports CPU temps by about 7-9C so please make the appropriate calculations in your head when looking at them. Even with the temperature correction the change in temps is still very good.

This is going to look like a copy of Ralf's P4C rig. I understand, however, I must say that I did do research and had ordered the parts for this thing far before I had even seen his gallery post. I haven't been around here very long, but I have been reading the main page for a while. I've been readi...

The funny thing I always notice about drive failures are two fold: 1. When a few people run into a batch of bad drives, everyone with a drive of that brand that has failed jumps on the bandwagon. All of a sudden, a manufacturer has gained a "reputation" for crap. The fact is, however, that compared ...

For fans: #1 http://www.directron.com/fanfasteners.html or #2 http://www.siliconacoustics.com/fanisolators1.html or #3 http://2cooltek.safeshopper.com/62/464.htm?311 I have Nexus 120mm "Real Quiet" fans. The ones that someone reviews in a thread around here and seemed to like quite a bit so I decid...

Heh, that's kind of a blind shot in the dark trying to balance looks, price and speed. I don't actually have it put together either. The case, PSU, fans, fan controller and mobo are still in the evil clutches of the UPS man. It all should all arrive by Monday. The other parts going into that system ...

Thanks for the reply Mike. I realize that something like this is a huge undertaking. No matter what you do someone isn't going to like it. It's also hard to choose exactly how to go about it. That's why I offered to help if need be.

MikeC's machine isn't anything close to what I'm talking about. The PSU is outside the case which pretty much makes it impractical. Ralf's is probably the closest to what I'm looking for. It's a fully working machine that doesn't have a lot lot in the way of extras done to it. It's a fully usable ma...