Is your uncle a tech-geek? If the answer is "No" then I might suggest leaving off the fan controller. Simply put - if he doesn't know any better he may fool himself into thinking "Wow, this machine is so much quieter when I turn these kobs all the way to the left!" Especially since you mention the M...

Not accusatorial at all here - I just happened to notice what I may mistakenly believe is a discrepency in the review of the 1283 about the temperature rise over ambient... On Page 5 the Cooling Results chart shows: HDT-S1283 w/ reference fan 12V, 13 deg rise 9V, 15 deg rise 7V, 18 deg rise Yet on p...

Have you considered using the unused rear PCI ports as part of your VGA ducting solution? Imagine a half sized PCI card 2 slots away from the VGA cooler. In other words air is drawn in through unused PCI slots, over the cooler and then takes a right turn around the divider into the PSU. The divider ...

Hi all, newbie here! I have an older (circa 2002) Allied PSU: AL-A300ATX REV:B +3.3v, 20A; +5v, 30A; +12v, 10A; -12v, 0.8A; -5v, 0.5A; +5VSB, 2A I'm not even sure it'll power my current system as it's from a 500MHZ Athlon and I am currently running Athlon XP 3000+. It is a P4 power supply though (20...

Man! I was planning this same build in a Cooler Master Centruion 541 . Essentially the same case but inverted BTX style. The differences are obvious but conceptually identical - ducting the CPU out of the dual 80mm rear fan ports and using the PSU (Seasonic S12II-380) to exhaust the heat of the vide...

All the negatives aside, a notebook drive may be the answer. Even more negatives aside possibly consider two or three notebook drives in a RAID 0 or Raid 5 array to potentially your current performance and storage needs. I am aware of the various pitfalls of RAID; I am offering it as a potential sol...