Just removed everything from the case and had a good look at the cooler. Turns out that the retention thingy of the CPU itself was skewed which in turn let the cooler only touch about 10% of the CPU heat spreader. It's a miracle the system had been working at all :). Now it's running idle at 42 degr...

I've got a Scythe Mugen 2 heatsink. As far as I can tell I cannot move it at all, but I'll check the mounting again.

I just built myself a nice Core i7 920D running at 2.8GHz (slight automatic overclock), but it runs very hot idle (more than 80oC) when I've got my P180 right side up. Now when I put the case on it's side, the temperature lowers to 45oC. The funny fact is that under load, the temperature doesn't rea...

After reading up one the asus forums, there seems to be a way to get these temps down by installing a front intake fan. Though I still think that ~47 degrees isn't too hot. I can always try putting the CPu fan in the CHA_1 header. judging from the manual, that header get's more juice when the Mobo t...

In both the A8N-SLI and the A8N32-SLI the mobo reading comes directly from the northbridge. The heatpipe system on the 32 transfers the heat from the southbridge via the northbridge cooler and all the way up to the radiator. This makes the 32 even hotter than the original a8nsli. But, they both util...

I did find a lot on the p180 and the door. But never found that it was temperature related. It would've been so easy to make the door made of two materials and put it together so that there was room for this kind of expansion and contraction. Ohh well, I guess I'll have to turn up the heat

My PC is in a room that isn't heated at night (saves me some energy), but when I come into the room in the morning the door of the p180 (revised version) is bent outwards. When the room temperature get's above 18 degrees the door is in it's normal shape again. I guess it's caused by the fact that th...

... hi there! i too have the A8N32. I was thinking of buying the Ninja+Coolermaster 120mm (rated at 22db, 42.7 cfm, 1220 rpm). i was reading the instructions for the ninja but i'm a little confused. with this board are you saying i do -not- need to remove the backplate? just unscrew the rention fra...

i dont know if the A8N32 is the same layout as the A8N SLI Premium (looks like it) but when you say the RAM issue, can you take RAM in and out, (even awkwardly) with the Ninja installed? Yeah. You have access to all the banks. There's one but though, you'll have to remove the fan first, but that tu...

Is that the new 7800 gt by Asus with the passive cooling? Where did you buy it from? I can't seem to find any store with it in stock... I wish! It's a 6600GT, but the cooling technique is the same.though two of these babies in SLI migth be differcult to cool, as the arms of the cooler will be in ea...

Might I recommend that you take the Nexus off the Ninja and use it to replace the 38mm fan in the bottom of the case? You'll probably find that the San Diego still runs quite acceptably cool without the Nexus (unless you plan to overclock) as long as you have just one Tricool running nearby. Yes, t...

Have you experiment with "the arm" and vga duct? :o Seems that if it can be rotated near rear ventilation holes it may get fresh air(little get heated with PSU exhaust maybe)and the negative pressure would tunnel air through the arm to exhausts. The VGA duct is too thuick and won't fit between the ...

nici wrote:Yay, nice setup. What camera do you have? the pictures are skewed.. wide-angle obvective?

Thanx, it was taken with a Minolta A1 in closeup macromode (28mm) in order to be able to make pictures from inside the case. I was too lazy to switch it off to make the "full case" pictures

The complete config is in my signiature. Overview of the whole case http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/4586/pict12821uo.th.jpg I currently have a Nexus fan on the Ninja, but it's off almost all the time. Under load the cpu won't get hotter than 45 degrees at the moment (that's with the two tricools ...

Nice:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/40710 (in dutch)

http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/categ ... /id.417/.f (in english)

Nice for a silent small mediacenter system?

Just a quick post to say that I just built a system around this combo and that installing the Ninja was a piece of cake. I chose not to remove the metal bracket holder that Asus kindly glued to teh motherboard as it's larger and better attached than a piece of double sided adhevise tape ever will. I...

Apple has been known to have problems with overheated laptop processors. It's one of the reasons the went to Intel for their new platform. I'd just return the whole thing and buy a Dell. Or you could wait a while and buy a new IntelMacTop. My gf bought a Dell Inspirion 9300. Truely a magnificent mac...

I had a different idea, but am still waiting for the 9500 to be delivered... I was thinking of bolting two 12cm nexusses against both sides of the zalman. Or one nexus and a piece of aluminum. This would give a nice push/pull effect. Could this be any good? 2 fans (|-|---|-|* |/|===|/| |/|===|/| |\|...

Hi all My first post here, please be gentle ;-) Welcome! I'm in the market for a whole new rig. One of the most important things when choosing parts will be noise level. Performance and stability are obviously also important. At the moment my list of parts looks like this: - Antec P180 Seems to be ...

Man, that board is freaken sweet. Makes me kind of bummed I'm using Socket 754. All the cool new tech. is only available on S939. :( Well If you didnt know Im about to make your day. For socket 775 the P5N32-SLi Deluxe will be released at the same time as the 939 a8n32-sli deluxe. And to be frank i...

Wouldn't it be much easier to add another 120mm fan to the back/top of the p180 case? It might give a little bit more noise, but a watercooling unit must be cooled aswell and usually has a cooler of its own, might aswell add a bit of additional airflow to the whole system.

John Howard wrote:...the 8-Phase Power.

The fact that it is more than 15% more efficient is pretty nice. It would probably make it easier to use passive CPU cooling as. (Normally the CPU cooler is used to cool the area around the CPU aswell)

Another review I'd love to see is a comparison between this card and the ASUS AEX 800 using the same silencer, I'm still not sure which one to buy :( The Radeon has ViVo and 2xDVI, SLI not available on my current MOBO (at the time of writing). The GeForce is a bit cheaper and is ready in SLI mode on...

another useless review: 2 silencers in SLI :? What makes this a useless review? The fact that you can't have these in a normal SLI setup is something to note. Although I think that if you put these copper coolers in an L shape: -- # | <- CPU #-- # |--------#----- |--------#####- Then they should fi...

It has been the first real review. So for me it was much welcomed!

I posted the link + a snip from the conslusion to the other thread (hope you don't mind).

Someone posted a review of this card in another thread. Just for completeness I'm copying the link here aswell: http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=458 ASUS has provided yet another very competitive, very unique GeForce 6600 GT product. The ASUS Extreme N6600GT Silencer is undoubtedly the ...

The first shop in holland that has this one is Azerty. They price it at 191 euro, quite a bit cheaper than the French put it. http://www.azerty.nl/products.do?pid=4448 Now the choice is between the gigabyte 6600GT 256MB and the Asus AEX800 256MB. The only difference between them is th echip that pow...

There's also this other card by GigaByte, but it's a little too expensive to my taste (290 euro) http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-RX80L256V.htm And this 6600GT 256 MB card, which I haven't been able to find a price for here in holland. It is dual DVI however which makes it a nice al...

<snip> - ASUS EN6800GT Silencer 1xDVI 1xVGA (PCIe) VO - GigaByte 6800GT Passive VIVO 1x DVI 1xVGA (PCIe) <snip> AFAIK, these are available as either 6 6 00 or 6 6 00 GT cards, not 6 8 00GTs. Unless you've spotted something I haven't? Kingsley My bad... fixed it. must have gotten all mixed up by the...

Cool thanks, I'll have something to read in the train tonight.