How compressible is silicon? I.e., if I want the silicon to be 1mm thick when compressed, then I should get a silicon sheet x mm thick.

Would it be practical to just shove the screw through the silicon and cut off the excess?

The screw shaft is 2.5 mm in diameter and the head is 5 mm in diameter. The closest thing that I have found is this but they still look too big. Now that I'm thinking about this - are there strips of silicon/rubber that can be used to isolate different sections of a chassis? My computer case can be ...

Dynamat is to stiffen surfaces for car audio installations. Why use consumer grade materials when one can use industrial grade soundproofing materials? Acousticpack is an inferior product as it is not thick enough. You are correct; I should have been more open minded. I think what you've done is th...

Dynamat is to stiffen surfaces for car audio installations. I pay to have this done professionally or I don't do it at all. Essentially, the modder I'm using has Damptek in stock, and I was wondering if it would be worth it to buy Acoustipack (which appears to be the better product) separately and s...

Title says it all.

Does anyone have any information on when these fans might become available? I've contacted the distributor and they don't know. I noticed someone here managed to get one for a review. Yes, I know they aren't the quietest, I am attracted to them because they are the quietest that maintains DBB constr...

Are fans always quieter blowing than sucking, regardless of heatsink used?

The fan's rpms are temperature controlled, I cannot possibly hold rpm constant. I am not going to test whether the temperature increases if I put the fan back right side up because I know it will. I don't care exactly how much. If you don't believe my conclusions, test for yourself.

I have no idea what heatsink it is, it's whatever comes in the box. The fan is a Delta and I had the model number written down but I lost it. The max rpm is 6000. Your theory about inadequate cooling causing the rpm increase would be correct if the temp went up. It doesn't. You're wrong. I have "min...

Ah, so you are saying I may wear out the fan faster this way? I did try it blowing with the case closed and I got up to 49 C under casual use, let's call it. After flipping the fan over, updating my BIOS (which fixed some Cool and Quiet bug), and installing AMD's driver the temp under casual use wen...

Check and see if your motherboard 1) has a utility to let you look at the CPU temp in Windows. I'd be surprised if you couldn't at least see it from the BIOS. 2) can thermally control the CPU fan I strongly dislike the notion of manually controlling the CPU fan, and I wouldn't use the Fan Mate 2. Ra...

Michael, we need more information to judge your information. Are you allowing thermal control of the CPU fan or are you manually controlling the voltage? (Some motherboards have thermal control for the CPU fan if you don't use the OEM cooler.) What exactly were the temperatures? What thermal greese ...

I recently read a tip here about putting the fan on upside down. I always thought to myself it would be more logical to have air blowing away from the CPU so it could be ejected by the case and PSU fans. I only got a 3 degree drop from doing this. And I'm not sure it is because of the direction of t...

The Zaalman 7700 is a 120mm version of the 7000. The 120mm coolers have the problem of a) frequently not fitting on the motherboard b) exceeding the 450 gram weight spec of the processor. Well, the 120mm model from Arctic Cooling may be within weight spec, I haven't checked. The 120mm fan heatsinks ...

I am half eating my words - I bought a Japanflo. But I am using it as a case fan and it has a fan monitor wire (or I wouldn't have bought it).

Japanaflos suck. Add a glob of grease to the axis and call it "Hydro Wave bearing." Give me a break. And they only sell one 3 wire (L1B) model, and it's 92 mm. I think people are nuts for using them for CPU fans.

Yes, the offending line is " Intel's stock P4 coolers use thermal fan speed control."

The correct statement is "Intel's 775 pin P4 motherboards use thermal fan speed control."

Big difference. cooler = heat sink + fan assembly when the term is used properly.

When the stock Intel CPU fan was described as having thermal control, I took that to mean the fan speed would be variable even if it were merely connected to a 2-pin power connector. Maybe I misunderstood and it was just a reference to thermal control being a standard feature on motherboards.

There is an important implication here. A motherboard that wants to thermally control a fan and a fan that is self thermally controlled constitutes an unacceptable conflict. Thus, the second question. It is possible that the Intel fans come with a switch (though I have never heard of such a feature)...

Yes, I started that thread. The second question above is the more important one.

I have just read, in a review article here, that Intel 775 pin CPUs come with thermally controlled fans. First off, if the fan is self-controlled why'd they bother with a 4th control wire to the motherboard? Second, and more pressing, if you intend to buy a motherboard with its own thermal control f...

I must have 120 mm for case fans.

Does the fan on their CPU coolers have the same quality as that of their VGA coolers, i.e. - noisy? The review of their CPU coolers here is positive, but I understand Arctic Cooling likes ceramic axis fans which are quiet at first but quickly get noisy when used.

The Ceredyna C bearing is brand new because ARX's catalog just says "call for availability" for Ceredyna C versions of all their DC fans. I don't think Ceredyna is anything proprietary to ARX, I think that is the type of bearing used on ceramic axis fans. I suppose Ceredyna A didn't work so great. I...

I stumbled upon them first when I bore witness to a case from a company called "Super Flower." It was some horribly oversized behemoth with 5 80mm case fans. The fans were awfully quiet, though I never heard any other case designed to be quiet, and so I looked closer and saw that they said "ceramic ...

You just made me think - PSU fans. I'm going to get Antec Neopower and I'm sure there's nothing special about the fans it (2 X 120mm). I'd feel real quesy about opening up a PSU to replace the fans. Doesn't that void the warranty? Er, it's one 120mm fan vs. the 2 80mm fans typical on their other PSU.

Well, it's interesting that you say that the CPU fan should be DBB, because the fans that AMD currently sells are either sleeve or SBB (according to people at Overclocker's). Also, someone says that the stock Sempron heatsink doesn't have a copper base (whereas they used to put one on Athlon heat si...

While we are at this, what do you think of the Delta fans that Swiftech uses on its heatsinks? I found one very negative post on some message board but that was with an extremely high RPM model, and, frankly, was the idiot's own fault. Found Delta's web site. They are Taiwanese. Their product inform...

Well, I went by the mechanical drawings of the fans in the pdf documents, so it's not my fault. Looking at the specs, the Antec DBB fans are lower in noise and higher in CFM. Unless you know that Antec's specs are...specced to look good I see no reason to get JMC. The Acoustifan Dustproof has a genu...