X2-4400+, Toledo, JH9-E6, 55°C, 1.35V, 65.0 / 40.6 Watts

I get two values in the TDP field (65.0 / 40.6 Watts)

The pioneer A11XL comes in silver as does the LG 4167BBS Are these AU exclusive items? Google turns up mainly Australian sites. Could be - it would be a first :-) I've ordered an NSK 2400 and an A11XLC (the silver variant) although I'm torn about whether black would look better. Both these items ar...

I don't think there is a any difference between CPU and case fans but there are some differences which may affect the use of a fan in any particular application: 1. 120 mm fans come in two thicknesses - 25mm and 38mm. I use a 38mm fan on my CPU cooler and 25mm fans for my case fans 2. Some fans come...

marybutts - have you had time to take new pictures? Also - The front is silver. The 5.25 drive bays don't look like they have flip-down covers. I did a pretty light search but found nothing - does anyone know of any silver-faced optical drives? Jay The pioneer A11XL comes in silver as does the LG 4...

Thanks for the pic, that looks great! A few things I wanted to ask though: 1. what did you use at the top (bottom of the FDD cage) to attach the bungee cord to? 2. where/how does the bungee cord attach at the bottom (cannot see it in the pic) 3. do you just have two pieces of cord? One for the fron...

Hi there and thanks for the quick reply. My case is the Antec SLK3000B case. The problem is that the HDD cage is for 5 drives and thus there is virtually no space on the top/bottom of the cage. THis makes it impossible to either soft mount or suspend; and I cannot get a hold of an alternative cage ...

kinzo2006 wrote:ok, but how to get round this, and where is the 12v rail?!
im a little confused now!

The 12V rail is available on most of the connectors from the PSU. Connect a drive to one of the molex power connectors and that may be enough to load the 12V rail.

so SLI can be enabled in the BIOS I assume? It doesn't really need to be modded to SLI right? (with the pencil trick thing) The NForce4 chip supports 20 PCI Express lanes. These lanes can be assigned to the PCIe slots in two different ways. The normal format has the following lane assignments x1 x1...

v3n wrote:I'll try it out with the pencil mod and see if my 3dmark score improves

Just FYI. You don't need to do the pencil mod to get 8x in the lower slot. It's just the jumpers.

Glad to hear that you are stable. You said that the Chipset reached 51-52C but with an ambient of 33C that seems perfectly reasonable. I doubt the stock cooler would work any better in that kind of heat. Incidently Macman, how is that VX working out for you? Are you running off the alternate jumper...

V3n, Macman, terrific job man. We are all indebted to you. Can you let us know how stable your setup is with the sides on under load and temps on chipset? Also, any advice on whether you think a longer card like the 6800 or X800 series might work with either of these slots and the Zalman NB cooler ...

The SLK3700BQE manual (what Antec supports points you to if you request an SLK3000B manual) says to insert the "Phillips-head" screws into the brass standoffs. (1) Screws with round semi-spherical heads, (2) screws with a flat head, and (3) screws with a semi-flat head and a semi-regular cross-mark...

Macman, I see you tried the 2x PCIe slot. Did you happen to try moving the SLI jumpers to see if you could get 8x in that slot? My reading indicates that there is very little difference between 8x and 16x on current cards, and if we could use the bottom slot at 8x that would be a great solution. I ...

I just hope the VF700-ALCU GFX cooler doenst cause any trouble on a 6800 GT I should point out that, obviously, the extent of the modding required to the Zalman will depend on the length of your video card and what components it has near the end of the board. For some it may not be possible, at all...

I've answered a few of these questions in another thread
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 430#156430

Overall, mangling a Zalman works for me so far.

Macman which 16x slot are you putting the GFX card in the left or the right? How did you hack the Zalmans fins? If possible post some pics 8) I've been doing a lot of testing and discovering a few things. Firstly, I have a 6600GT Gigabyte passively cooled graphics card in the right slot - the one c...

I have my Ultra board now and am putting together my system - still waiting for drives. So far, the chipset fan is really quiet. I'm just playing around in the BIOS and not stressing the system, so time will tell whether it is loud under load. At restart it does rev up to full speed and that would b...

mshan wrote:What is the purpose of those perforated, spot welded metal things in front of the 5 1/4 bays?

Increased rigidity?

I have had to twist them out to put anything in a particular slot.

They are for EMI shielding when you don't use the slots for a drive.

Has anyone done this? I'm not talking about the whole front panel just the door piece that covers up the drive bays. I'd like to remove mine but it seems like it's on there kind of permanent. Hate to break my brand new case. :( I have removed the door on my 3000B front panel. I don't like doors and...

Yes, many hard drives... the bottom 2 are Seagate Barracuda 200GB, in raid0. After too many crashes with old systems I'm paranoid about data loss. The raid covers the boot, OS and all program files... plus personal storage (itunes folder, pictures, etc...) Shouldn't that be raid1? raid0 actually lo...

Aleksi 's post contains a lot of good information, but it didn't make one point clear. There is no "pure" RPM cable on the Nexus fans. It has a 4-pin pass-through connector for direct connection to the PSU and it has a 3-pin connector to plug onto a motherboard fanheader. You should use only one of...

I have ordered this board and have the same concerns. I will wait and see what the noise of the nForce cooler is. I am contemplating hacking into a zalman northbridge heatsink if the noise is bad.

I received my 3000B about a week ago. So far I have not put a system in it yet, as I'm still waiting on some components, but I did notice a few things about the case that are worth mentioning. On my system, the front case fan holes are drilled for a standard fan mount. The plastic fan holder can be ...