Typically there's a little space between Mobo and whatewver drives-and you cound do a homebuilt bracket to mount a fan. A low rpm (800 rpm?) 120 would be quiet and should give enough added cooling. NF4 was a nice chipset but Nvidia screwed up not doing a hi-tech heatpipe HS for it...so you get the n...

Don't you have a case fan? If you don't TELL the bios...it will be blissfull...though ignorant. I know folks who thrive on that mix.

I'd be concerned about the lifespan of the CPU if it's hitting 70C peaks. With the case exhaust and duct fan extracting...you may be a bit restricted on your inlets. If you can duct even some cooler room air to the inboard side of the CPU heatsink you should get some temp drop. Maybe a couple of pie...

Took another look..... Seems you can put some feet on this to get 1-1 1/2" bottom clearance. You then cut....mount a 120 on the floor...and concoct a duct from there to the Vid card. 1 fan ducting directly outside should do more good than 2 just moving air around inside. Another option would be to b...

Is that CPU overclocked? Seems a bit lower temps should result from a stock CPU and a 2 fan Ninja. While the setup for the vid card may extract the heat from the GPU....I'm not seeing the CPU + GPU heat getting out of the case quite quick enough,so the effect is that too much of the heated air is ge...

If you plan to built a lot of these....do a couple of great designs..build prototypes....then get some good woodworking gear,like a radial arm saw or table saw and probably a router. Hunt around for some good "Parts" like switches,a panel-like you mentioned-for USB etc,sheetmetal or? for mounting yo...

I'd have done the wood first. Wood that's 1/2" x 6"...really isn't. Then the cuts have to allow for the thickness of the blade. A circular saw cuts faster straighter. You C clamp a straight edge-or at least a straight piece of wood in place so the base of the saw follows it. Metal window screening i...

rather like Artic's ideas,their HDD setup is the best so far. They are one of a very few who include a high grade PSU with active PFC. They are one of even fewer to not have any front fan,and to creatively use the base/floor for intake (and PSU exhaust too) They also pretty much twist around the usu...

jaganath wrote:if it's all about power saving the Antec Earthwatts is even cheaper and v. efficient at low loads.

And the Fortran Green is even a bit less $ and about equal efficiency.

The Pico Psu may eventually have competition at under $60...a price point where it can sell some volume.

The Sparta has been available about a week--and was a pretty low profile release compared to Phenom/Barcelona news.

It would just seem that the die shrink has to mean a couple of Watts/degrees/decibels of progress. Maybe no giant leap..but something a bit more.

Were temps about equal?

I have an XP90 on an E4400 right now. At stock voltage (Auto setting) on an ASUS P5K-VM @ 2.9GHz TAT registers right at 70C. And this is with a proc with a TDP of 65W, not 95W (or higher) with your Q6600 EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention that my proc's stock speed is 2GHz, so my O/C is 45%, so your goi...

Yep, Socket 754 is another option, but one I wouldn't consider buying today if your are going to buy a mobo+CPU unless you never plan on upgrading it - You are stuck with single-core CPUs on that socket. True...still...a better option than hunting down a socket A board and CPU.....and I rather LIKE...

Hola Mates, :D I am gonna buy in few days a PC that will be used for music recording (Audio & Midi), some gaming and general usage. I am willing for a Strong & Quiet PC. Would appreciate your comments, if you have any recommendations, changes etc. CASE: ANTEC P160 Aluminium AP160 POWER SUPPLY: Ener...

Would the cheaper 945 chipset do just as well as the higher-end chipsets, or would I see a performance gain by going the way of the P35 or 965, or even the 865? Hi, The chipset has little to do with performance. So any chipset would work. Now, as for what's best for you is a different story. 865 is...

Fortron Source 300W PSU it has 82% efficiency, so it's definitely good. as for case, i dunno, something small is fine, i'd say an HTPC is overkill for this. something small and cheap is fine, having at least 1 120mm fan would be great. a fanless or at least good heatpipe cooler for this would be th...

Might be a bad fan or a coil or Cap on the mobo. There's not much history of a CPU making noises though it might be a factor in the mobo making a noise.

Very strange. The shrink to 65 nm has to result in less watts and less heat for a Chip that otherwise is pretty similar. Very little gain seems evident. I'm guessing there may be some bios/motherboard factor that's not letting the Sparta get it's best result----and if that's the case-maybe a week-or...

Hundreds of Fins!!!!! Well.....maybe 60 or 70...... The "Quiet" Antec stuff...whether a Sonata or a 182...are a commercial effort to be an off the shelf improvement over an OEM case. They still are limited in that they aim to be usable by newbies as well as experts and have to accomodate the full sp...

Bah, PC speakers... they're all the same inside the price categories of value(which are crap), budget(which only suck) and premium(fancy, but nothing special). Creative, Cambridge and Logitech have worked the best so far, in that order. Logitech was the least convincing, although Cambridge sets are...

The smaller hub seems to allow a bit more airflow than normal for a low rpm,and 500 rpm without extra $ / hassle to undervolt is also REAL neat. Note the CFM on the 800 rpm. It's about what you usually get from 1000-1200 rpm. There's no details on the "sleeve bearing",and there's quite a range of qu...

Laying the computer on its side-mobo on the bottom,means the heavy HSF is not hanging on the board. There's MANY forms of HDD suspension. Ways to stop a HDD from swinging about... Guy lines'which can be string from the HDD to eyebolt attached to the case or whatever. If drives are suspended in a bay...

Be sure to see what RAM voltage that Mobo can accept....and what volts that RAM runs at. Some new boards won't do RAM beyond 1.8 V,others are 2.0v or less. However....some RAM runs at 2.2v. They won't mix well....not at all.

The music is mostly MP3 sampled at 320 kHz, but I'm working on implementing FLAC. Unfortunately, FLAC is a lot of work, I have to re-rip my CDs in WAV format, then encode them with FLAC, delete the waves, and seperate them so I still have the MP3s. (I might be missing something here) Yes, get EAC, ...

Seems Samsung's utilites don't inclue a temp monitor

Google up HDD Thermometer,which is a freeware prog.

After some experimentation, I believe the following: Temp 1: Northbridge Temp 2: System Temp Temp 3: CPU temp, measured by the mobo Core : CPU temp from the proc NOTE: I had to add 10°C to the Core temp to bring it in line with the value for Temp 3 and the temp from the BIOS screen. The northbridg...

I have not done any tests but I'd think a thin layer of sheet metal,even basic window screen or aluminum foil-if grounded can make a wood or plastic "sandwich" structure have good EMI screening. I've thought out a few odd DIY wood cases where the main panels would have a layer of steel or aluminum s...

The Cosmos looks like a nice case. Seems bigger which could help airflow. A few tweaks might make it even better. Since it comes with decent 1200 RPM fans-I probably would not bother to buy a set of 1100 rpm fans but if your rig is fairly cool might look at fans at 800 rpm or less---and try to get b...

about the most OPEN I know of is sold under the brand "Ark" at Newegg. Had beed sold as V-Tech. Most of it is perfed mesh backed by a paper type filter material. The look is a bit like the Power Mac of a few years ago. They go for a bit over $50--with a low quality PSU. Could be an interesting mod p...

The iCute S901 and the Xclio look very nice, but unfortunetly they are not available here. But I don't think there is need for (or of?) a front intake fan, since the side fan alreay has good airflow. Am I right or the combination of bove fans is better? Not a fan of front fans. A big fan's secondar...

Felger Carbon wrote:

ronrem wrote:...looks less ghetto than the Ritz box.

You clearly don't understand that Ritz cardboard is ritzy!

Ritzy..or Cheesy? It's a matter of taste If it tastes cheesy...it's cheesy.