I am willing to place a bet that my PC is a lot quieter than his is and runs at normal tempatures. I know that my PC probably sounds like a tornado compared to some people here. The shear number of fans in that thing has me skeptical. I have two fans in my entire PC and one 120mm only runs at 3v to ...

Sounds like you might have a weak CMOS battery. Try sticking a new one in there. They are usually CR2032

tywen wrote:I heard that the M-Audio Revolution was good......
It is using the VIA Envy 24HT sound chip, and considering
this site is sponsored by VIA, maybe they'll like this advertisment.

Oh thanks a lot! Now look what you have done! I have gone and spent $100 on a new soundcard.

I rip the cables apart and shorten them so that they allow for a nice tidy setup but no more than a single fold in them. I love how the back of my HDD is about 5cm from the motherboard IDE connector. I don't care about making the cable useless on another motherboard since motherboards come with them...

I spent $150US on getting mine silent so I had to pick $200. My water cooling setup cost me about $120. I spent another $30 aquiring three virtually silent fans. My PPro firewall only cost $10 to shut up. Just changed the PSU fan and suspended the HDD. Quite is always an important consideration when...

A simple thing that makes a dramatic difference is to go get some dryer vent stuff (that stuff that looks like a slinky wrapped in vinyl) Cut a section long enough to attach it to the top of the CPU fan and the other end to reach the back of your case where you have a spot for an exhaust fan. Doing ...

UPS sucks. Plain and simple. UPS is also wrong about FedEx. FedEx builds the brokerage fees into the shipping price. They know how much it will be because they are their own broker clearing house. UPS, on the otherhand does it different. They choose to advertise shipping prices without this fee. Tha...

It doesn't seem to work on my NForce2. I get 33°C (36°C load) if it runs or not.

AGP runs at 66Mhz and PCI runs at 33Mhz regardless what you do to the frequency. Unless you have an NForce2 motherboard, this isn't true. Non-NForce2 chipsets work on a divider system. You set the FSB and everything is calculated from that. Any modern board will have a range of dividers to work fro...

The A7N8X is about the best MB I have had since owning an AOpen Slot 1 board. Very stable and nice features but the analog sound has a lot of hiss. If you plan on getting it, use digital audio. The sound is as good as a Live besides the damn hiss on the analog. I have a 2400+ in it that easily runs ...

Quite and cheap never go together in PCs it seems. As for cost of water - My current setup cost me $130 to take it from a small jet engine to a gentle breeze. There is also the cost maintinance. Fans are install-and-forget until the bearings fail. Water systems need routine cleaning, refilling, and ...

Hard drives - A Seagate or a Maxtor using liquid fluid bearings in an enclosure. Or sandbags, though I find that a bit ugly. Powersupply - Use a very slow fan and mount it vertically so that the exhaust points up. Make sure there are holes in the bottom side of the PSU - My own Enermax 365VE is almo...

I have an XP2400+ and an A7N8X. The L1 bridges of the CPU are intact. No modification made to the board or CPU. Here is what I have tried: BIOS 1001C - Runs only at 133MHz FSB. Won't run anything else. Could only go as low as 13x (1730MHz) and as high as 17x (2261MHz) BIOS 1002.003 - Runs at 100/133...

It is indeed possible. Although I don't passivly cool my PC, it will work passive. I am watercooling a 2400+ running at 2.2GHz. With a 92mm fan on my heatercore I can keep the CPU at 34°C with ease. If I shut the fan off the tempature goes up to about 48°C. I think that it would top out at around 50...

My system is the same. Oddly enough, no matter what I do to it, there is always something that seems loud to me in it.

I am down to a single fan and the HDD. I was seriously considering getting a HDD enclosure until I heard my roommate's new PC and realized just how quiet my system really is.

Just be happy that you don't live in Canada. I was about to buy a stick of 256MB DDR RAM. The shipping was $15! Add in the $5 customs fees and $5 brokerage fees and I would be paying $20 to get it here. A friend of mine sent me a HDD a few years back. Cost me $5 customs fee and $4.80 to ship. Even C...

All that really needs flipped is the AGP card. I doubt many people have hot PCI cards. A sound or ethernet card isn't going to benfit from being the otherway around. That being said, I wish a video card manufacturer would make a flipped card. It wouldn't be ATX complient, but so what. At least that ...

Back when I first started trying to go silent I did the same thing. I've discovered that it was a waste of my time. Why? Yes, fans do vibrate but the vibration of a fan with good bearings and balance produces so little noise versus the airflow that you would have a hard time hearing any change. A HD...

My water cooler is silent if I want it. You don't need to use Eheim. Most submersible pumps are near silent if they sit on a block of foam. Eheims are just built better than say, ViaAquas. You will have problems going silent with an internal radiator. You have 30°C+ air coming out of your PC (could ...

Picture quality on the two GF4s that I have used has been as good as I have ever seen. Running at 1360x1024 85Hz on a 19" and it looks sharp. (MSI & Pine XFX) As for noise, about the only card with a real heatsink on it is the Abit. The rest use heatsinks that are all show so they need horribly loud...

Fantastic ideas. Now you need to convince fan producers to send you lots of free samples. About that ticking. THANK YOU! I thought my fans were all failing. I didn't realize that this is normal. Are you using a sound level meter? If not that then how about setting up a mic to record the noise produc...

I've sanded my GPU but I hope to god that I never have to crack the expoy off of it. I suppose one day I will. Maybe by then the Ti4200 will be as well regarded as a S3 VirgeDX

My PSU is running a fan at 5V, but I only have a single CPU which is water cooled. The air tempature inside my case is only 4°C hotter than the air tempature outside the case so my PSU runs fairly cool. The only way I can think of making a truly quiet dual CPU system is water. Dissapating another 40...

what seems to be the problem? i figured if i have it setup tight and sealed (i plan to seal up the reservoir as well; i can then run it forever just like i would with a fan. why clean it every week or evey other week? i think if you add one of those additives, then it should prevent any algae growt...

My PSU? Why I removed one fan (Enermax 365VE) and replaced the other with a slower NMB fan. Runs a little bit warmer but otherwise fine. It hasn't hiccupped in a month now.

1. Use metal tube straps and leaks aren't an issue. Make sure you tape the strap with black electrical tape first to prevent the strap from cutting the tube. Zip ties are not a wise choice IMO. Leaks aren't an issue for me. 2. Use a disinfectint in your water. Iodine, chlorine, or a quantinary solut...

The Chieftec clones are pretty good for silence due to their massive size (assuming you go with a mid+ tower).

They are rebranded by Antec, Elite, Enermax, Thermal Take, etc.

Yes it is a custom set. Pretty bodged together but works great. Pump noise - Don't make the mistake of comparing a fishtank filter pump with what people use to cool systems. Fish tank pumps sit against a pane of glass and are not made to be quiet. An Eheim, Danner, ViaAqua can be dunked into a bucke...

My watercooled PC is so quiet that you have concentrate to hear it.

Waterpumps are not that loud if you isolate the vibration. If you run submerged it is even quieter. I am running a heater core passive. Works fine on my 2.27GHz Althon which has never went over 40°C

My TBred 2400+ is unlocked (all L1 bridges connected). So far as I can tell, everyone that has a TBred has reported it having intact L1 brigdes. There is one L5 that is severed but NForce2 and KT400 chipsets can work around it. To date I have not been able to get my CPU to work at 166MHz. I have got...