Some have had success with suspending the entire cage sideways.
I had trouble with 2 drives.
First, it was difficult to suspend because of the weight.
Second, the noise wasn't reduced as much as with suspension in a 5.25" bay.
I ended up building a wood box to suspend 4 hdd's.

$1.29/4 + shipping for Closed Corner Fans
However, I would suggest the zip tie method. I use weatherseal foam instead of tubing.

Thermalright HR-03? That thing is a beast. It could work, but I doubt it'll run passively if he has trouble running a VF900 with active cooling. Putting a 92mm fan on a Thermalright HR-03 would be better than a VF900, but you'd be taking up 2 slots and strapping quite a bit of weight onto your grap...

kentc wrote:so i went mad with the drills today. a cyberhug goes out to anyone who correctly identifies what i was trying to make the new front intake look like.

A spinning fan err fan casing? Don't get too close though, I don't want e-rabies.

It's got lights, it's rad.

You're right to be concerned about my HDD temps. With that SonexMini block in there the temps rose to about 52C under load! Without it the temps are at around 37C but I can hear the seek noises. I'll need to figure out how to suppress the seek noises while allowing more airflow to the HDDs. I'm not...

For you US people, it's in stock at Heatsinkfactory at 49.99.

A bit expensive.

Q-fan reduces my Nexus from 1000rpm to 660rpm. Approximately 7-8 volts. Is that with the "Silent mode" setting? When i use Q-fan with my CPU-fan (stock fan@ Core 2 Duo E6300) and silent mode, I get about 600-800 rpm (don't remember exactly now) and an error message (warning?) when I boot. Something...

I'm a fan of the Antec Neo HE 430W (comes with p150). There were some problems at first but they should be worked out by now. It runs very quiet.

It more than likely will.

The ninja should outperform the 9500. Or maybe the Thermalright Ultra.

I'd guess your ram or video is slightly unseated. Reseat both! If the problem persits, disconnect everything except:
cpu
one stick of ram
video

Does it post?

Silverstone cases are beautiful but expensive!
Both could be nice cases but will probably be overpriced.

I have the Gigabyte 7800gt version. You can control the fan speed through a program called RivaTuner . It allows you to set percentages for 2D, low power 3d, and performance 3d (25-100%). The physical fan connection is 2 wires, no tach. There isn't a way to read fan speed on the 7800 & it looks the ...

Gorgeous pictures. How can the drives be running so cool? I see now fan near them? I tested with and without intake fans. They didn't make much of a difference. I was very suprised the filter didn't affect temperatures more. I would think the air was bypassing the filter but the drive temps are fai...

nici wrote:To the point, nice setup What is the duct made of?

The duct is .040" styrene.

nici wrote: I use polycarbonate, but thats probably not it... And smoothen the edge on the hole fo teh exhaust fan man

But what if I like to bleed!

The photos may not be available, I didn't realize geocities had an hourly bandwith limit! I'll have to find another host. Anyone know a decent free host that allows direct-linking? Preferrably with FTP access as well.

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Soundproofing looks very nice.
I'd like to see your hd temps!

If so, that's awesome.

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There website says "Two types of installation methods for better compatibility and easier installation".
Does this mean it can be mounted like the vm-101?
Or there are different methods for different video cards?
Or it can be fanless or fanned?

I can't comment on a specific distance but this picture from the spcr review might help.

You might be able to get the cpu and vga fans to report correctly! In Speedfan, go to: configure > advanced... Then you'll have to find the chip that reports fan speed, normally it's the first listed. There should be an option for fan divisor. It is normally set to 8, but if you set it to 16 it shou...

Q-fan reduces my Nexus from 1000rpm to 660rpm. Approximately 7-8 volts.

Pulse width modulation - Wiki I don't quite understand the scientific properties. I think it reduces fan speed by switching the voltage on and off quickly. A note on undervolting: Undervolting alone does not reduce the processing power of the cpu, only the voltage supplied to the cpu. I run a Athlon...

1. Recommended Fans 2. I don't have any experience with the Antec p180. Check the general gallery and see what works for others. 3. There is a passive 7950GT made by XFX ( SPCR Discussion ). You should also be able to use a number of after-market video coolers (Zalman, Arctic Cooling,...) 4. AMD Coo...

If you mount the hard drives lower, they'll run a little cooler.

Also, in my experience, intake fans don't make much of a difference, try without and see what temps you get!

Wouldn't the Scythe Katana fit as well (98 x 96 x 130 mm)?...
& and the Noctua NH-U9 (128 × 95 × 70 mm)?

I'm dissapointed with the lack of a stealthed optical drive bay! Bah.