winguy wrote:take a look at this

which is yours?

very good find!

i'll check on friday or next week (i took the drive back and got maxtor but should still have some seagate 320's in stock at work)

Test Setup: Gigabyte K8N-sli Nforce4 SATA2 AMD 3800+ X2 2GB DDR400 All drives tested were set to Sata 3gb mode. -------------------------------------- ST332062AS 7200.10 320GB 16mb buffer ATTO http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/3562/14ye2.jpg HDTACH http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/456/10ej1.jpg ---...

Ok at work now and i can think logically about all this (yes i did have the seagate jumpered to 1.5 lol) Also my boss is away for the week ;) time to do more testing! If there are any benchmarking apps and configurations you would like to see used post them here, for starters ill probably be using h...

here we are http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7503/bench4ux.gif if you're purely after every bit of performance you can get, seagate seems to be the way to go. im curious how the burst speed is only what one would expect for a sata1 drive.. although the maxtor and a 7200.9 ive tested in the past (bot...

Where did you get it from, was it by mail and are you not going to try another in case it's just a faulty drive? yes i im always concerned about that, but i work at a computer parts store and tested 2 7200.10 drives in shop, they both sounded the same in noise, then took one home and yes... in a qu...

I just got a 7200.10 320gb sata2 today. To me it is NO GOOD.. now i do have a slight hearing impairment where some high frequencies irritate one of my ears .. i have 7200.7 and 7200.8 sata1 drives which do not exhibit such problems. I also managed to note it is louder than either one of these drives...

ive seen a prescott idle at 55-60C and thats after i gave the HSF a full clean.

remember not all CPUs are created equal so just leave it as is (but clean it of coarse and check its seated properly) then if you encouter stability issues seek better cooling (which you are anyway i presume)

zalman make nice heatsinks but these days have crappy fans
7700,7000B,92mm case fan - are all average in terms of quietness

so im guessing its the same for their PSUs

Antec TPII 480W Antec TP 380W (sonata psu) both quiet on idle except the fan creates an annoying whine when under load I am considering a fan swap for the TPII i wish to retract my statement about the TPII. it turned out that the zalman CPU fan was the source of noise. the TP 380W however is still ...

s'all good

i used to lan allot and my PC had a 700g zalman 7000cu on it. not one problem (i should also add that i wasnt careful when driving either)

Sounds like all your suggestions worked :) I have been emailing James from PC Case Gear in regards to the availability of the Nexus fans, and he said that a shipment is due to arrive to them around October 7th - 10th. nice one :) i used that little suggestion form a couple times as well, it will be...

the stock fan is junk, do the fan swap you will be happy.

start here
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=25478

as far as actually doing the swap goes theres some guides in this forum. just search i guess.

went up about 2C. currently sitting on 29C semi-idle

The nexus is practically silent at a low rpm, i cant even hear it up close.
Its uncomparable with the crappy zalman fan.

this picture was taken while the fan was on..

hmm mine does make a bit of noise right up close but i cant hear it a couple metres away.

atomidude wrote:
so Slidax, how quiet are they? enjoying the silence you are?

put it this way, im thinking about getting 2 more haha (i have many loud boxen here)

have you tried updating your bios. there is a slim chance the sensor is inaccurate

the 2 i bought last month sound quiet, very nice fans compared to my antec sonata one (this fan is still quite good), zalman 7700 120mm and a generic "quiet" fan.
Although i havnt compared them to a panaflo.

yeh i used the same mehod my old via chipset, works well. you just have to be patient and careful at bending the wire so it fits.

Antec TPII 480W
Antec TP 380W (sonata psu)
both quiet on idle except the fan creates an annoying whine when under load

I am considering a fan swap for the TPII

well unless you are suspending the seagates (or some other form of dampening) they will be noisy.
From memory the samsungs have a decent warrenty so they are also a good option.

Of course it all depends if you will be doing any modifications to your case (i.e suspension)

what i think of both drives (SATA only)
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 252#193252

BTW elastic suspension works well
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=8240

I'm still trying to figure out how to measure temps on the card. ait tool http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ mine sits at 40C on idle WITH airflow around it, so if you get higher temps than that i wouldnt worry unless it becomes unstable edit - oops didnt realise this was from the first page haha

well they arrived today packaging http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1294/packaging9ht.jpg fans http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4946/fans0kb.jpg so basically the total cost of each fan when you factor in shipping is $28.11 i guess it isnt too bad when a cheapish fan costs around $15 and a panaflo cos...

its not too wide, roughly 20-25mm from the top of the PCB

fits the 7700alcu ok so perhaps compare its dimensions with the xp120

you definately wont need the zalman then

what location?

yeh pics of the fan mod would be great, i plan to do it when my nexus arrives

edit
it arrived, all done, very easy

just cut a couple fins off it, should be ok unless your graphics card has a big cooler

however i've dealt with this board a fair bit and have never had any stability issues, if your case has some airflow it will not be problem with the stock heatsink.

timmytimmytimmy wrote:Whats the price like?

$56.22 AU got charged to my creditcard for 2 x 120mm nexus fans. inc. $11 US for shipping.

that was about a week and a half ago, hopefully they will arrive by sometime next week (keyword 'hopefully')