Wow - just wow. Thing of beauty; nice videos on youtube too!

Hi All, I've been roped into doing Movember this year. To make it worthwhile I'm asking one and all to pull together and sponsor me with enough money that my other half can't help but be persuaded it's a good thing! For those of you not in the know:- Movember is the most awesome of all charity event...

Thank you MikeC!

Thanks for the reply!

I did add my forum name in the payment notes. I don't want to bother Mike unneccesarily if I'm just being impatient.

I paid on June 22nd so it's been a couple of weeks... Do you think I should PM MikeC?

I donated $50 to SPCR a little while ago now. How long did other people have to wait for their forum names to be tagged with patron status?

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I've done this - it does reduce the noise and no vibration is audible hard mounted (although vibration can be felt ever so slightly on the case frame). I have since purchased a 3.5" scythe quiet drive (to put the 2.5" quiet drive in) as seeks got noisier over the space of about 18 months on my scorp...

I have an Antec Phantom from a while ago now. If I were to buy a PSU today it'd be the enermax 87+ 500W as I still have fans in my system running at > 300rpm (550rpm). The only reason I didn't go seasonic or something back then is the PSU would have been louder than the rest of my system. Fanless is...

Thank you!

4) Fit the terminal part of the cable so there's minimum strain applied to to the thermal tape (ideally there should be none, but that's hard to achieve), or in the long run the sensor WILL come off. Yeah, I found this bit too hard. Also - who wants more cables in their system? In the end 500rpm fa...

I tried with the BigNG and gave up as I couldn't find a way of reliably attaching the sensors to the sinks.

Sorry - just had to chime in. Firstly, I'm not sure debating the validity of the OP's question is helping the OP with his question. It might be valid to say that an SSD would be quieter and you could consider remote storage but I don't feel that abuse is helping the boards to flurrish. Secondly - wh...

Hi all,

Anyone know why the scorpio black is listed by WD as quieter than the scorpio blue? From threads on here the black can be pretty noisy...

Also - which are the single platter scorpio drives, without this crazy larger segmant thingy that screws up XP.

Thanks,
Chris.

Sure, how do I donate?

Found it. For all the help SPCR has given me over the years I'll happily drop £20 in. Will sort it out when I get home.

Thanks for the replies. Decided to live with my drives until I need more capacity.

Tzupy wrote:If it would work (it doesn't) passively on a 5770, I'd probably go for it.

While I will admit mine is next to a 500rpm fan I've found other forums where people are running them passive with good case airflow. I guess it works passively for some and not for others.

I've had my 2 blue scorpios for around 2 years now. I can hear them through my scythe quiet drives when seeking from 1m with the case under my desk. I'm pretty sure I couldn't when I first bought them but then my other components are quieter now. So - my question is - do hard drives get noisier with...

Eager for update too!

Just the heating - that I can hear anyway. Don't notice anything with my headphones on really. Only noises I still pick up from my PC are disk-seek and coil whine (only get coil whine when very close to the back). Need new drives as they are nearly 3 years old and I think they've gotten noiser over ...

We're off-topic now but if you buy an HR-03 for the 5770 it should be fine, mine is!

I'm an impatient man - where's my review!

Thanks all - will probably just ignore the damn thing as long as I don't get crashes.

Just to let everyone know I ended up buying a second hand 5770 with an HR-03 pre-fitted and an unlocked bios. Paid a little over the odds (£110)but the chap who sold it to me was very curtious and offered to help with RMA, so I recon I did quite well. The other really cool thing about the HR-03 is ...

Hi all, I'm running an e8200 @ 2.73GHz <1.1V with an IFX-14 and a scythe 500rpm 14cm fan. I get idles of around 42C and load around 58C. This feels much too high. What do other people get and what's your cooling like? Chris. Thread rule no 1: I'm aware that different setups generate different circum...

Thank you - you're a simply wonderful person. That's a really detailed and helpful answer.

May you only find happiness - and much computer-related peace.

HIS have a non-reference PCB layout on some of their HD5770 cards - looks like it might fit an S1 which would be pretty cool.

Anyone wanna take a guess?

linky: http://www.hisdigital.com/gb/product2-490.shtml

Wow - not only have you got a no moving parts PC (ignoring other's comments about the semi-passive PSU), you've also made it beautiful.

I'm in awe.

Hi all, Was wondering if anyone has had experience with this fan? I believe it has the same magnetic bearing idea that drives the enermax marathon enlobal but it doesn't have clear plastic and it does has oil in the bearing which are the two things Mike mentions are wrong with the enermax in fan rou...