I did some googling on the fan. Its a globe fan?
Rated at 24.9dba.

for the price its worth the risk I guess.

after reading nightmares with the new TX650V2, I've started to look at options...my 380w psu sounds like a turbine when gaming (80mm fan does its best--despite being an antec). I figured with Christmas being generous its now time to update the PSU... However, that being said I'm the bang for your bu...

when I did this with an old antec I wired the fan to the mobo and used AMD's Cool and Quiet to silence the MOBO Fans...so when the CPU started getting warm so would my psu fan...

thoughts on the frozen cooler?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814125353

Depending on your need...the 550Ti, with an 'silent' solution might be okay...(using rivatuner). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125367 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127573 Of course these will be louder under load than your passive counterparts, h...

Don't know if you got your answer, but right now, a seasonic 650W is on sale at the egg...$100 with mail in.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817151088

I promote the new Dell Latitude 12". I have an older X1 and its a fanless design. they now have SDD in them so its completely silent. They have C2D's 1.6ghz in them I believe.

I have 2x 500GB WD 5000AAKS drives.

I highly recommend them.

your still running the tri-cools that came with the case? why not ditch for some quieter fans?

Depends. the HDDVD front begs to differ. You ever play a 1080p rip? that makes my X2 4800 debate a ancient japanese tradition of soldiers that fall in battle. honestly, if I was to build an ultimate rig, it would be close. I would of opted for the digital tuners instead of dual analog's...but it wor...

In my experience Simple Logitech's did the tricks. I beat you don't care about any of clarity since they aren't for you. From what I gather, the young generation often doesn't know what music is.

Believe it or not I registered because of this thread. Obviously you spend a little more than the average person on audio and that is fantastic which makes us best friends. I currently run the following setup. Yamaha RX-V659 -> B&W601 S3 I'm using a AV710 by Chaintech (the 7.1 you mentioned) I would...