people please understand why english became the international language first...it's all back in the days where the British was ruling the world...

you do not lose warranty on ps3 if you open it. They encourage you to change hd's and modify the system (without the soldering gun of course!). only m$ crapbox voids all warranties and is actually "illegal" to open it. If I had one and didnt care about messing with its really nice looks (eek) I wou...

nice build...pretty similar to what i'm gonna build in the near future...how're the temps btw?

if you are concerned about air flow, take out the air duct first...

omg please...a language is here for communication not confusion...use simple words...and let's your creativity shine elsewhere...

you looking for a super quiet psu or just a decent psu that will do the job?

either ocz or corsair...

speedfan will do the job, but the annoying thing, at least to me, is that the program needs to be initiated (manually or automatically) every time the computer boots up...takes a couple of seconds to load...not too long but i hate that...just me...

it all depends on whether you are gonna overclock and plan for future upgrade...from the specs alone, a decent 400-450 would suffice...but if i were you, i would get one with at least 500...

if you have money, thermaltake toughpower is good...

it's more important to say what CPU and video card you are running...and whether you are gonna overclock or not...

when it's audible 6, 7 meters away, i would say it's most likely a defective unit...

your choice of CPU kills everything...i know you have $$$ please go for C2D...

Sorry, I don't think it's that eye-pleasing, probably due to the choice of wood. And it looks massive.

Yes, that's what you needa work out. Some people actually cut one or two fins off the Zalman NB47J to make it fit with the big video card cooler.

Ninja performs better than Zalman 9500.

You can replace the noisy southbridge fan with the passive Zalman NB47 or NB47J. It's cheap and does the job well. But if you are into overclocking, I would suggest you go with one with a fan.

HDD vibration will induce weird noise off the side panel.

I don't know what's wrong with yours. I got a SP450 that comes along with Sonata II and it's quiet like hell. Where did you record the sound? At the back of the PSU or what?

Enermax Noisetaker. Cheap and Quiet.

One of my WD HDDs also hums very irritatingly, but it's been almost 3 years old, so I'd say it's getting old and that's why the hum. By the way, the hum is totally unpredictable. And like yours, once it comes, it won't stop until you tap/wiggle/slide it a little bit. To me, this is way more annoying...

Well, i asked a computer technician today and he said it's pretty much useless.

How old is your Seagate drive? Do you know the cause of the hum? HDD aging? And I think m0002a's method is to reduce vibration so it's no doubt it can't take away the hum.

But shouldn't Sonata II (~11kg) be heavy enough to suppress this kind of noise? One of the HDDs (the bootable one as usual) is rotating/vibrating more than the other one. Would it help if I put that one in the lower rack? Those are really nice ideas, but I don't really want to spend any more on this...

Hi, I got a Sonata II, and there's some weird vibration sound coming off the side panel. It comes randomly and goes up and down. If I press against the side panel, the sound tends to go away. I was wondering if any of you, particularly those who own a Sonata II, have ever experienced something like ...