Hi Mike: I was thinking a similar thing. That SilenT3 looks perfect for me. Although I was thinking of asking them to put in an e5200 ($50 less) and then looking into a fanless 4670. However, I see there are no fanless 4670's yet, just a fanless HIS 4650 iSilence. I was wondering, do any of these GP...

i sort through newegg cases every few months. still havnt seen anything to top the Solo/P150 for full atx, or the NSK3480 for micro atx. Sure there are other cases that work better for other situations, but not when it comes to silence. Which is the only thing SPCR cares about when reviewing cases....

I second QuietOC: If you want to go Intel, consider an e5200 + a cheap P35/G33/P31/G31 motherboard. At AVS forums, a lot of folks are satisfied with a 4550 GPU for their home theatre PC's. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138125 $50 G31 mb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...

I think those are impressive noise numbers. I can not remember any other system down at the 15 dB mark. Am I correct in that they don't use a case fan? How do they manage to get away with that? It seems that the PS fan is not engaging at all at these low power draw numbers, so the only sound from th...

The AMD platform is very good, but I would be more interested in seeing what the E5200 + the new 730i (GeForce 9300) can do rather than going with a lackluster G31 that necessitates a separate graphics card. ... The thing that struck me was the price/performance when using the G31 approach. I finis...

...And I'm not pulling the 1/2 price out of thin air- I actually went to newegg and priced out a BYOKMD system for $290-325 depending on choice of 1GB RAM (like the mac) vs 2GB, and 80GB notebook drive vs 640GB WD Green 3.5". ... I've done the same thing myself, and the price has always been compar...

I have had this PC since last January, and wish to sell it for ~ $400: http://www.cappuccinopc.com/slimpro-sp635f.asp Mine is the 0 dB version, with an 8.0 GB SSD, and no optical drive, and a single VGA connector. When I first loaded it up with XP Pro, updates, I.E.7, and a few apps I need for work,...

We rarely get any good deals on this side of the border, but the new newegg.ca site might get things started:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6811129024

That's just $53.46 in southern bucks!

do you need to do something to enable powerplay, or does it operate all the time automatically (I have a HIS 4670)?

Thanks.

ksanderash: Helped by your glowing review, I just got a Biostar G31-M7 TE + e5200 + 4670 system. Got it up and running yesterday. I was hoping you might help me with a small problem I am having - I cannot get it to recognize my USB 2.0 ports? It thinks they are 1.1. I have XP SP2 installed, and I in...

Great Nick. I will take you up on that. PM sent (although it's still in my Outbox and not in my Sentbox?).

Cheers,

Ian

I live in Vancouver, near UBC. I was planning on getting Anitec (or NCIX) to build a system for me based on the parts I order from them - they charge $50. But it occured to me that I'd really like to watch the build being done in person. So I thought I'd throw out this request on the offchance there...

... Something else that might concern you with using the solo as your case is having your PSU breathing in hot air from your CPU cooler and the VGA card, causing the former to run a lot hotter than it ideally would, and the fan to ramp up and make noise. If I had a clean slate build, I'd get a case...

Reading many forum posts here, it seems to me that there is a consensus brewing on the low power budget platform(s) of choice: AMD : 4850e + 780G integrated price ~ $180-$200 CDN idle draw ~ 38W general ~ 65W heavy load ~ 105W (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article807-page8.html) Intel : e5200 + g31...

For those that recommend a mb change, would you recommend one from this list (I will be buying from these folks, and have them build it):

http://www.anitec.ca/subcategory/77/mot ... GA775/all/

Thanks.

I need to put together a system for my boys that they will use for some games. I am not sure what games yet, but their friends are getting into them, and I know they will be looking to run some. But I'd still like it to be low power, and inaudible from a few yards away. At first I was thinking 780G+...

Here's my current shopping cart from Anitec.ca here in Vancouver. Before I hit the 'Buy' button, can anyone tell me what I might expect, in terms of dB level? How much different would the noise be if, to save 80 bucks, I went with a NSK3480 or NSK4480 with stock PS/ fan? Xigmatek HDT-S1283 or Ultra-...

I am thinking of getting a 4450e/780G system built by my local reseller (Anitec in Vancouver). I am eyeing a 780g onboard graphics system for low price, low power and reasonable graphics performance. Does anyone have a strong preference for either the Asus board or the Gigabyte board? I am not a tin...

X-25 M SSD from Intel:

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15433/1

Please allow me to do a quick thread hijack with a question ... You guys mentioned 'checking' that your tuner card worked with XP. My question is - how does a tuner card work at all if you are receiving an encoded digital signal over cable? I'd like to use a HTPC as a PVR ... but how does that work ...

I have been using a SSD exclusively for 4+ years now. I have a 0 dB system, with no moving parts. I use it 5-11 hours a day for work and leisure. I am in the stock/financial business, and have many browser windows open simultaneosly, all day long. I don't do a lot of writing - as I am reading data m...

please link to the adapter. Does it require resoldering, or can everything be screwed or linked using standard connectors?

thanks.

How difficult is the fan swap in the stock PSU? Does it void the warranty?

What speed/model Scythe fan should it be replaced with?

Thank you.

Mike's review of an Asus 780G board is lukewarm at best. If you search the forums you also find posts like this: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49340&highlight=m3a78 DanielG: "DO NOT ever, ever buy an Asus M3A-78 EMH HDMI. It's a bad motherboard. It has a poorly written BIOS, w...

I have been using one of these for 8 months now: http://www.cappuccinopc.com/slimpro-sp635f.asp Mine has an 8 GB SSD, an Intel Celeron M 1.6, 1GB RAM and runs XP Pro. I use it daily for 5-9 hours. I am a stock/fund/investment guy, and have it running ~ 8 windows all day long, feeding me various data...

http://www.samsung.com/us/aboutsamsung/news/newsIrRead.do?news_ctgry=irnewsrelease&news_seq=10402 I like the idea of ubiquitous, cheap, fast 16-32 GB SSD's. I have been running my main XP system off an 8GB SSD for the last 8 months, and it has been very snappy and flawless. Before that I ran a '98 s...

I am trying to find the quietest case/PS possible for ~ $100. (It seems that here in Vancouver, we get great local pricing on everything but cases.) My target is a 20dB system. It will house a G45 ATX (or uATX) mb, C2D e7200, Xigmatek HDT-S1283, 1 or 2 SATA WD GP HD, 1 optical drive, low-level gamin...

I plan to have Anitec build me a system that I specify from their stock items - http://www.anitec.ca/pc_builder/. Anitec is a local PC builder here in Vancouver, who has sold an SPCR-designed 'Stealth' model in the past. Since they don't currently have a Stealth model available, I thought I'd specif...

How about something in-between, where the stock case and PS are of reasonable SPCR quality? (I hate the idea of buying a NSK3480 and throwing out the PS - how eco-friendly is that!) Here's what I am thinking: Antec NSK3480 with stock EarthWatts 380W PS - $100 Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H mb with 780G inte...

I need to buy a new PC for my kids, as the games they want to play (and the ALICE environment I want them to run) demand orders of magnitude more processing than what they have now. For myself, I am on my second 0dB, no moving parts system. I love the absolute silence, the zippy performance of a SSD...