Well.... good to be back to the forums - there has been a loooong gap for me for many reasons.... I am presently posting form a hellishly noisy laptop - although my quietest rig is running fine also under the desk - it is not as quiet as it was (I had to add a 120mm fan due to instability that turne...

this from another thread but on the same topic - I would not go so far as to say loud, more disappointing because I have another "stock" case that I spent money quieting (I actually spent about what a nexus costs) and I got far better results from my quieting than from my Nexus Breeze build. Having ...

is there a thread just about the case? I found one, but the guy had 5 fans and its loud... Well I have it - was it my thread you found? /me goes to count fans.... let's see I have VGA, CPU, NB and then there are two that come with the case (one case 120 and one in the PSU) so I guess you might mean...

Sorry if I should not have started new thread, but I thought this was a variation on the theme I began here . Anyway, having taken power in leads for the fan on my Arctic VGA cooler and unplugged them from my 9700 pro fan pins in order to connect them to leads from a molex I modded the molex, first ...

Now today I had like a total disappointent on this score... followed Tibors excellent tip - although discovered I had to remove a connector as I had no female two pin fan lead, but that was OK. So I have the molex and modded to 5V per article - power up, VGA Arctic fan is stationary! Power down - mo...

OK so I loaded ATItool - cannot see anyway to adjust fan speed there though?

You could also use the ATItool to slow down the fan via software. Really? And what tool might that be? I am running 4.10, the latest Catalyst Drivers, but have not seen any such facility. Also wondering if it is going to operate on the Arctic cooler - or only designed for native fan (tyhough if the...

now why didn't I think of that! (you see I already have such a lead, now I just have to be careful to do it right!)

Although I am well aware of this article I need to slow the VGA fan on my Arctic I cooler - now this fan does not draw power from Molex and I have been warned not to try plugging it to my Nexus fan controller, which may not be effective apparently. So my question to you guys is where can I find a gu...

thanks for that tip Trip - I shall sometime soon be going in there and stopping things and listening to work this one out - need to verify my fan controller is up to scratch anyway.... The level where HD's are the main noisemakers is about where I stop with quieting (or at least where I TRY to make ...

thanks Teejay, for the caution on my VGA cooler fan (that being the only one left for me to connect.... unless I open PSU). See my post over at System Advice on the Nexus Breeze - disappointment thread where I have been able to tell from my fan controller adjustments that it appears the noisy culpri...

Right- I now have a Nexus 4-way fan controller in there - presently only connected to Case, Northbridge, and CPU fans. However this is enough to tell me that thew majority of the noise is coming from either my PSU or my Arctic VGA cooler! Seems since people here have recommended the VGA cooler as a ...

Model number for mine is NXP-201-SL, it was the only one I had seen on the web..... seems to do its job more or less.....

I have just fitted a Nexus fan controller in a spare 5 1/2 bay... Apart from some fiddling leading to yet another cut from my Zalman 7000 fins I was pretty happy with it - quite a step up from the fan mate. My main motive here was to gain control over the NB fan on my MSI Neo2 board (a pig to heatsi...

I have just taken side off my quieter old system alongside the new Nexus.... immediate impression is that HD noise aside the old rig remains quieter even despite case! This is interesting and especially points to noise from (maybe) the Nexus PSU.... that and the VGA .... plus the NB fan.... all the ...

I'm now looking at a SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9600XT Video Card, 128MB DDR, cooled with the Zalman (ZM80D-HP). Anyone forsee any problems with this solution (does it fit the mobo)? I have exactly that situation - silent and no problems, not with your mobo (I have an MSI 939 mobo where there would be iss...

Philmoune - glad to hear someone else has achieved quieting with the Nexus case - albeit looks like you managed to get ahoild of the 400W PSU model (I could only find ready supply for the 350). AMD / P4 issues aside temperature-wise (I find that a very facile arguement( looks like our differing spec...

sorry teejay - only just picked up your post.... I may well do as you say exactly but I have been focussed on getting my system FUNCTIONAL before addressing quieting again and have had to migrate Windows from IDE to SATA HD (not trivial!) ... So when I regainb enthusiasm I may well indeed go in and ...

Well I have a 9600xt 256MB passively cooled with the Zalman heatpipe solution - any model would do I think (and some of the early ones are on sale prices). I have a 9700 pro also - got that inside your budget because it came second hand - but it needs active cooling....

yeah - this is one of the reasons I went from an ASUS A7V8X-X to an MSI K8N Neo2.... and at first I was thinking of sticking with ASUS.... you probably did OK though - at least you have no NB fan!

Now here is some thing I have been finding a lot and I have NO IDEA what the cause is.... it seems sometimes my system just arbitrarily runs 10oC hotter for no apparent reason I can see.... Below is another speedfan shot, again at 95% load and after a resonable warm-up time. See how everything is di...

burcakb - how did you know I used Arctic silver and followed their instructions? (It is terribly heavy paste!) I may well try that again. Trouble with heatsink is I have to cut it to fit around my AGP with it's cooler. But I MAY do it - one step at a time to catch the noisy monkey... plus first I ww...

Thanks for the feedback - you are right of course, the way I run my rigs is on full load during daytime when ambient temps and noise are warmer ad louder I turn fanmate up full - then at quiet/late times I turn it fully down (but as you may know this only cuts revs to around a thousand, not as low a...

I seem to recollect when I was complete Noob here and considering case and such for my new build there was some level of interest in how the Nexus Breeze would be found to be. Thought I would attempt to give something back to the forum with some of my feelings about the case so far. I cannot begin t...

Aha - I believe MSI Corecenter has known issues with case temp reporting. Mine is currently reporting 8oC when I know my CPU is at 65oC and my HD at 40oC, so it must be wrong. I am running the very closely related K8N Neo2. I can also confirm your mobo is listed for MBM, so would maybe recommend tha...

HMMmmmmm well last time I was in the case I put my finger as close as could fit and seemed my small NB fan was hot, as if it might get too hot to touch in operation. This makes me feel it had a job to do and also I have read MSI forum posts to this effect. However I have found a mobo utility that le...

and I have the 939 Neo2, with the fan.

it comes off nice and easy and I do have a heatsink that COULD replace it - just would have to take out the mobo and saw the heatsink to fit under my arctic VGA cooler in there and not sure it is worth it or a good idea..... But that's another thread....

Pleased to see you are getting such nice results with your Winchester processor - I have the identical model in my new rig, with a Zalman AlCu and am presently showing around 53oC under 95% folding load. However I have to say sometimes this has risen to 64oC or even higher and I am mystified as to w...

mr.data - I didn't hear back if you had a Northbridge fan? But if you do then I have news - install and open up the CoreCentre utility that comes with your mobo driver CD - then click on the CoreCentre in the middle and select manual control and there are sliders with which you can control both NB f...

I have a Winchester 3500 installed now - but am having troubles with the machine (it will not find the slave HD nor recognise external one touch drive). Also I have upgraded from an XP3000+ so cannot compare with Newcastle directly, only by someone else posting their results for Newcastle here - the...