i just bought a sheet from www.britishaudio.co.uk - £13 for a 6x6 inch sheet. Hasn't arrived yet though. Is a small Stanley knife sufficient to cut through it?

the XP-120 comes with 2 sizes of clip, as far as i remember, but maybe 80 is too small. anyway if it's a Winchester then you might try it fanless? works OK for me.

hi all, as i said, i don't think it's a sensor hypersensitivity issue, because the temp decreases gradually over a period of five minutes; the initial few degrees drop rapidly, as one would expect, but thereafter it's a very gradual decline to idle temps, which makes me think it's a genuine temp inc...

hi, my mobo is as in my sig - A8N-SLi deluxe. The screensaver is a blank screen. I get the impression that the CPU is cool while the screensaver is engaged, but it's the waking procedure that causes the peak. When I wake from screensaver, the temp is initially cool (in the 30s) but after a few secon...

My 3000+ Winchester is happily cooled with a fanless XP-120, and idles at 29-35 deg, depending on ambient. But when i move my mouse after a few hours, and it wakes from screensaver and i enter the password, the CPU temp jumps from around 30 to almost 60deg, then rapidly falls. NB: this is with no pr...

my A64 3000+ Winchester is cooled by a XP-120 without fan. but it's quite close to the rear 12cm case exhaust Nexus. With CnQ enabled, idles at around 29-36 degrees, depending on ambient temp. Load - no idea, haven't loaded it yet! will try to get cpuburn and see. i have a feeling that as long as i ...

hello all sorry for the delay in replying; have been busy. Here are answers to the various queries / more questions: VM-101 The XP-120 is difficult to fit with the VM-101; however, since my nForce4 board has 2 graphics slots (SLI, remember?) I just put my video card on the second slot, which is mile...

my VM-101 came with 2 sets of arms, one small and one large. looked like it would be able to fit holes at any distance

Oliver: I had an XP-120 + Nexus 120 on my A8N-SLi deluxe, and the left panel fitted on fine, even with the round air guide. however, when applying acoustipack to the case, i took off the air guide (easy to do) and haven't put it back yet (don't really see the need to. Also I removed the stock rear c...

Also, I just found this....


(WD3200JD, apparently in stock, at a UK site)

it was too good to be true. Having noticed that every single SATA disk was the same price, I telephoned them; they don't have it in stock, the prices were wrong, and they have no estimated date of stock arrival.

Ed - the -PB suffix was to temporarily denote the FDB drives while they were being introduced; according to a news item I posted elsewhere on SPCR a few days ago (albeit from July 2004), WD had always planned to go back to JB and JD etc. once all their drives had FDB, which I believe by now they are...

zenith - but, can you push the fan controller backwards or is it maximally backwards already?

coolin - which model did you buy? was it SATA? i am thinking of WD3000JD or WD3200JD - but neither are on sale in the UK yet.

according to this UK news item from April 2004, all WD drives should have FDB by now.

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i've just ordered one of these (VM-101) for my Leadtek PCI-e 6600GT, and am hoping that i'll manage to make it avoid my XP-120. Was just wondering, are there any opinions on whether one should use the thermal paste supplied with the VM-101, or use AS 5 or perhaps AS ceramique (i have both of the lat...

it's on the silicon image controller of my A8n-sli deluxe. Am sometimes running Asus Probe, but not always.

it's slightly worrying because i think it means i cannot rely on accurate readings for my hdd.

just got email from Aerocool confirming it'll fit my pci-e 6600gt.

found vm-101 to be cheapest on casetech.co.uk

will order & fit ASAP!

Dtemp.exe only reports the temp of my sata samsung sp0812c. Interestingly, it only ever reports the temp as either 23 or 30°C - it wavers between the two temps, and never has a reading in-between.

any explanation for this?

i have the Leadtek card. It is NOT quiet.

i don't mind using WinAAM or anything, in fact. I think that the WD3000JD is looking like my first choice drive - hopefully it will be quiet, AAM-able, cool, & reliable. Next problem: where to get one in the UK? I whacked "WD3000JD" into UK-specific Google and got zero results :( hopefully no more r...

hi, do you mean the NB-1 is a better cooler than the NB47J? i didn't know that. about VM-101, i had considered it, yes. but is it really true that it will fit ALL vga cards - incl. my Leadtek 6600GT? Also I don't know where I could buy a VM-101 in the UK. The Arctic cooling NVidia silencer 6 is also...

aha! yes you're right. on this page it says that the 300 and 320GB models (such a small difference - why did they bother marketing the 320 as well?) operate at 28dBA idle, while the 250 is 34dBA idle. Many thanks for pointing that out to me. Looks like i'm in the market for a WD3000JD then. Problem ...

are you referring to the Caviar on this page , called "Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250GB 2500JD SATA 8MB Cache" because i just found errors on my old data 120gb, so need a new one VERY soon!!! so, they're quiet are they? what about AAM - configurable on WDs? and is reliability better than...

to confirm rumours that Seagate 7200.8s do not have functioning AAM, I emailed them re: the 250GB 7200.8 as follows: I am interested in purchasing the SATA NCQ 7200.8 250GB hard disk. I want to know: 1. does this disk support the Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) feature? 2. if so, what is the def...

Has anybody seen or used the product listed at the bottom of this page: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Akasa.html It seems like a cheap way of taking hot air from your graphics card & dumping it outside. What i want to know is, how quiet it is. (am desperately looking for a quieter w...

yes indeed. i've been thinking of swapping my NeoPower for a Phantom, but will miss the cable management system of the former. Anyway my graphics card and old data HD are currently much louder than the NeoPower so i'll work on those first, by which time maybe Antec will have released another upgrade...

http://www.sysopt.com/reviews/luxpower/index2.html doesn't look like the best review but may be of interest. for my info, which fanless PSU has the highest wattage? i know there's more to it than that but... [EDIT]: i've just looked around the site a bit more and they also seem to have reviews of a...

Jordan (& others)

here was my post:

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=18196

i found the articles very interesting.

hi, i saw the earlier post about the AGP version of this card, but i have this PCI-e version: I had been blaming the groaning noise from my computer on my NeoPower, but the noise disappeared when i unplugged the fan connector on the 6600GT. Thus, I am looking for a better (& quieter) cooling solutio...

is it true that SATA 7200.8's have AAM locked to performance mode? If not, would Hitachi FT recognise them and change it?