As a matter of completeness I add the "new" Scythe Mugen 4 to the list, which actually seems to be the bang for the buck cooler. Moreover it is slightly lower in height than the Macho and so it would fit well inside the Antec P183.

Provided you have enough clearance inside the case (and that depends on your motherboard and socket), I think that the Thermalright HR-02 Macho would be the best solution, if it comes cheap in your country. A cheaper and effective solution would be the Thermalright True Spirit 120M.

Anyone has any more tips? Yes: change the heatsink, it is really bad. Mine does an awful noise, and also in my case the main issue is the attachment system: it is not well engineered, that's the truth. It does not cool as expected, and is noisy as a jet engine: well, for an heat sink I guess that m...

Unluckily, yes: that's the best price I have found here in Italy, where I find Thermalright products to be quite expensive. It would cost me less if I buy it abroad and pay for the international shipment (46€+7€)!

If the Thermalright Macho is available, I would recommend that. It seems to be a good cooler and the fan is really good in terms out noise. There is a smaller 120 version available, although I don't believe it's stock fan is regarded nearly as quiet. The Macho is really a well regarded heat sink, b...

Some months ago I built my new silent rig... which is currently not silent at all! I wanted to swap the awful stock cooler for something more quiet and effective. In the first place I have taken into account the possibility to mount the old cooler, a Thermaltake Sonic Tower, which is not well regard...

The discussion has got me even more curious to find out how much the difference is in real life. So, I will be testing that as soon as my case is done and my hardware is in. (Which will be a couple of weeks, I think...) I will post the results as soon as I have something. ...and that's the way to d...

In recent systems, the GPU heat load is significantly higher than the CPU heat load (often more than twice as high), and in addition the GPU heat sink air flow is significantly poorer than the CPU's. So you really shouldn't be concerned about an "upside down" CPU heat sink; it will work just fine. ...

Well, computing heat pipes rely on mesh type wicks. It is quite an effective wick, but cannot do miracles... It is quite effective when put in horizontal position for lengths up to half a meter. The usual configuration foreseeing the heat source at the lower end and the heat sink at the upper end (o...

Bad thing, I see! However, I'm going to test it this evening, so in the next days I would be able to provide informations myself, if I'll manage to do that!

I'm pretty sure that there are utilities able to get you the vendor informations under Window$. However I'm a linux-only user so I cannot provide you any program name better than hdparm/sdparm.

After a lot of googleing I've found someone saying there's a Samsung drive inside. Anyone confirms this (good) info?

I'm searching for a silent external storage for my laptop. I've seen that there are a lot of producers of 2.5" external HDs. I know that there are a lot of good products out there, like Western Digital, Samsung, Seagate... but it's usually difficult to find which of them are selled inside re-branded...

There are carbon fibers which can have a thermal conductivity up to 1100-1200W/m/K if properly treated (just search for K1100 fibers). Usually they're used to manufacture high conductivity CFRP panels, so with an epoxy resin matrix (chronically low conductive). Nowadays there are some chemical indus...

An heat pipe could be damaged by excessive bending. It's possible that micro-cracks have occured due to bad bending or enclosing during the production of the device. However, I find difficult to believe that all heat pipes are damaged! Scientifically heat pipe testing it's not so simple, but if they...

400rpm and its still 24dba? Thats pretty loud for that slow. It's not "that slow": peripheral blade speed increase linearly with diamter. The bigger the fan, the bigger the peripheral blade speed at the same angular velocity (lets say: at the same rpms). Those seem to be reasonable sound levels for...

It seems to be one more heat pipe mounted on Tmgs.. I've never seen one of them, but you can clearly see that from the TT website. Arctic cooling heat sinks have got 3 heat pipes instead. Don't know how much this can influence the cooler perfomances: I suppose that there's a better heat transfer to ...

The heat pipes usually used in electronics applications are copper-water heat-pipes. Freons boiling point is too low for those applications: in fact is used in devices with "lower" temperature ranges (generally, refrigerators). A copper-water heat-pipe has got in it ONLY water, if some air remains i...

BillTodd: lovely job!

Suggestion: a couple of heat pipes properly soldered would make possible to use the whole aluminium vessel as an heat sink.

Foam will stop the noise, maybe, but it'll raise hd temperature for sure! I think the only big lack in your project is the casing material. It's a good thing to use pressed carton between heatsink and psu, cause it insulates those heat sources, but for external casing I suggest to use aluminium: in ...

There is gravity in space, just not as much of it. :wink: Yep, there is. Sorry: I'm used to speak about space in terms of no gravity as micro-gravity conditions. Call it bad habit! spookmineer: that's right. An OVERheated heat pipe is in fact useless! When you exceed the maximum heat transfer rate ...

There are a lot of different types of heat pipes out there. The materials used to build them, the fluid type and the wick type play a big role in the heat transfer capability and they're varied with respect to the work temperature range. I've worked on heat pipes for a certain period and I can assur...

What really matters is if the fan @7V provides enough airflow in order to take away the heat produced by the PSU. There's a good empirical method to verify that: put your hand at the exhaust with the fan @12V. If the temperature does not raise too much or does not raise at all when running the fan @...

Here in Italy I bought my TT SonicTower (NEW) from an eBay seller at about 23 euros, 31 euros including shipping.

My pc is running on a Socket A Sempron 2400+ and the heat sink is a Thermaltake Sonic Tower. That's a goog heat sink, and after a little cpu downclocking & downvolting I can run it passively staying 10°C below the stock heatsink temperature (now: 43°C, before: 53°C). I think there are other good ...

The better way in order to reduce the noise of a fan is to put it in a tube. This increases the fan efficiency and so the fan moves more air at the same sound level But surely the tube introduces some impedance (friction/adhesion between walls of tube and airflow) thus reducing CFM? Are you sure th...

I think there are two main reasons why producers do not concentrate their engineering effort on this way. The first: the air flow is relatively slow and so the noise coming from there is not so high (the fan blades are noisier and so reducing the hub noise does not make the fan more silent). The sec...

Where did you get the heatpipes? The ends of heatpipes are usually inactive, so the copper plate need to be attached 2cm from the end of the pipe, attaching it to the tip of the pipe as in your photo will not work. I think that's not true... A heat pipe works good all along its length. For heat pip...

As far as quality goes, a few years ago Abit had some real issues; lots of their boards were pure crap. Just check the reviews and RMA horror stories on e-tailers like NewEgg.com. However, in the last year or so Abit has definitely taken steps to clean up their image and ship competitive products. ...

Before swap the fan it's better if you look at the one mounted and search for info about it. It's important to find out how much air flow it produces at maximum speed an search for a fan with similar air flow and obviously less louder. Maybe if your fan spins up it's not a matter of fan not pumping ...