I've decided to "retire" my 80GB, 500GB, 1.5TB and 2TB HDDs. I'm going to add 3 WD Red 3TB HDDs which will give me 4 WD Red 3TB HDDs in total. Should be more than enough storage to keep me satisfied for a few years.

Help? I feel like I failed miserably. I mean, overkill PSU, we all like that here. And replace the D12SL-12s (the SPCR reference fan).. I'm in tears over here. ;) The reason I chose that PSU is because up to 30% of its power (with a standard deviation of 5% in both directions, so worst case up to 2...

I've also cursed that bottom compartment of my Antec P182 numerous times for the reasons mentioned above. :evil: +1 I agree totally. (P180, though). I removed the damned fan.. :idea: They should have made it possible to place a fan in front of the HDD cage in the bottom compartment instead of addin...

Help? I feel like I failed miserably. I mean, overkill PSU, we all like that here. And replace the D12SL-12s (the SPCR reference fan).. I'm in tears over here. ;) The reason I chose that PSU is because up to 30% of its power (with a standard deviation of 5% in both directions, so worst case up to 2...

I've ordered the following new components a few minutes ago: - Fractal Design Define R4 Pearl Black - Seasonic Platinum Series 760W (going to use its 'Hybrid Silent Fan Control') - Intel SSD DC S3700 100 GB (to replace my 80 GB OS Disk) I'm going to run the 2 included 140mm fans @ 7V using the switc...

All casefans are connected using a molex connector, so I guess they run at full speed (12V). I would guess some type of fan control would do good ? Maybe also swap some them if they are noisy by default. After fans (and maybe PSU) you will want to silence your hard drives. In a P182 you could easil...

What are the main sources of noise in the current setup? Seems to me that you could just reduce the speed of some fans, maybe replace the one in the PSU if needed, and remove the most noisy drives. You could put the OS on one of the bigger drives, or use a cheap SSD or even an SDHC card. The fan ho...

Hi guys A few years ago I've built myself a quiet PC which has been used as a fileserver. The fileserver (in its current state) consists of the following components: - Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160. - Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R (no PCI-E videocard installed, just using the onboard Intel Graphics). - Therm...

I can't be 100% sure, but I'm going to say yes. By pics, it looks like the NB is in the same spot. Think about the SI-128 SE, too. Now why would I think about that one? It only has 4 heatpipes on each side instead of 6 on the ultra 120 extreme. So it will probably not cool as good as the ultra 120 ...

Are you on 100Mb, or GbE? If 100Mb, PCI has lots of room. Let's say the overhead is 100% (unrealistic): that's 20-25MB/s out of ~110. Use a switch for your network (a typical multi-port router counts), and your bottleneck is still...the network. Even with software RAID, and multiple users on the sy...

I, like many other people on these boards, am using a ninja on my q6600 sitting on a P35-DS3R. Pushpins are fine, I really do not understand why people make such a fuss out of it. My CPU idles at 32C and tops at 44C when stressed (prime 95). The whole assembly feels solid, I moved my P182 a couple ...

Considering what you're intending to use the system for -- "fileserving so that my windows laptop, the windows pc of my parents and my mac mini can dump their files & backups on it" -- your hardware choices are unbelievably overkill -- why 4 RAM slots? You could use something as modest as a $70 Int...

Hello folks, I'm planning on assembling a linux fileserver. At first I wanted to use my old Celeron 1,7 Ghz S478 (Willamette core) but since I didn't find any decent motherboards anymore (at least 6x SATA300) I discarded that idea (I don't like pci card sata solutions). The primary goal of the PC is...