try muting your mic, line in, synth. midi etc

cooling the vrm on the x1950pro was a nitemare for me when i changed the stock cooling, good luck!

the 640 meg version price just went down! maybe you may want to reconsider it

my zalman zm80c not enough for my 9800 pro passively
i doubt youre zm80d can evacuate heat fast enough?
it probably needs more surface area for all that heat

you definately need a fan on that hr-03 plus
in the end, the cooler will take lots of space but its cooling performance will not deceive you

my silenx 80mm was silent enough for me, small motor noise. noisier then a panaflo80l but better then a vantec stealth

are seasonic and corsais psu on the same base?

i fully agree with autoboy
330 would probably be not enough

i dont recommend anything else then thermalright

i read somewhere its 1 inch and a half

really nice review.. its the review i was looking for actually....
haven't found any passive reviews until yours came up :D
still waiting on my hr-03 plus order though

im wondering how much air that 9700 was pushing on the hr-03
the hsf was probably set at max speed?

i have tried bf 2142, oblivion, stalker, command conquer tiberium in 16080x1050 max settings with AF without aa. none of them would use more then 310 meg video

s3 blinks my power light and turn off pc
s1 doesnt
isn't it s3 suspend to ram?? if you suspend to ram.. shouldn't everything else be turned off???

im from montreal too and order through ncix too

sounds like a hard job installing a 120 mm fan in that small hole???? unless there is some kind of duct???

my leadtek gts started out of the box real silent, after a few days, the fan got a bit more noisier, i would estimate the noise comparable to a vf700 at 7-9 volt. but overall, i consider the fan silent enough for the average people but probably not enough for most spcr users. so ordered a hr-03 plus...

hey willy, i got the hsi heatsink for gts.. it is much smaller then i thought. actually it came in before the whole vga cooler, online store problem
its the same as the standard one with except with some cutoff corner