I have built this machine which is my HTPC as well holding all my data. I leave it on almost 24/7 so im looking to make it use less power. I have 8GB ram and 3 hard drives in it. I dont need much power, just enough for boxee or xbmc no gaming at all really. The bios has a bunch of options but i gues...

i know this is an old post, but looking for the broadcom adapter i came across this thread. i then found the link to making a diy external video card connector, which is equally great.

thanks for the link, im gonna start building my own

I have a mainboard with a bad gpu that wouldnt display any video, i repaired the gpu and it now boots. However the heatsink on the gpu gets very hot at idle i would hate it imagine under stress.

Is there anyway to get it cooler?

whoa thanks for the warning before i ordered 3 of them
didnt realize they were bad they got high stars on newegg

i will probably have to stick with the fan i already have unless i want to spend a bit more on this unit. which i will probably do on my next htpc.


thanks

i thought some of them were decent though just not the fanless version but i found this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=719582&Sku=T13-200 so pretty much any heatsink that has a 120mm fan would work fine? just remove the fan? i have the ninja scythe 2 on my...

I have an atx mobo with an amd athalon 64 x2 cpu with a thermaltake cpu fan which cost $9 and has a printed db of 18. I was hoping to locate a quiet cpu cooling solution perhaps something passive. I found this and thought it would work well without the fan http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_r...

Actually, it doesn't cool that much better due to a poor mounting system. See SPCRs Official Review . It's heavier and more expensive, but the performance isn't there compared to an HR-01 Plus. Ahh i hate you lol, i wanted that copper so bad. Guess ill have to wait for a review on the Ninja 2 hopef...

damn i want that all copper fan looks a beauty and cools alot better too

I have a P4 478 in a sonata iii, i replaced the stock fan with a mini ninja due to the noise. Apparently now the ea 500 psu is the only thing making noise, is the psu supposed to be a tad bit noisy? Well i am using the ninja without the fan as the fan is extremely noisy, but besides that it provides...

Spend alot of time researching 120mm quiet fans so much information so many different opinions and reviews its hard to choose. Using a Sonata III with the stock antec tricool which is pretty much unoticeable at low speed setting even medium isnt noisy at all but high is definately LOUD. Right now im...

just bought a sonata iii didnt get any extras

ya i was looking at the rosewill, but wasnt sure how the brand was compared to thermaltake antec etc;

Just bought a sonata iii and its extremely quiet compared to my other antec, the only noise is coming from the stock intel fan on my p4 2gig As its an older pc but still my MAIN pc i want a quiet fan but not worth something too expensive i found http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtm...

xan_user wrote:seconded on good ups!
one brownout coulda fried the drives easy.
you can't rule anything out until you get a ups.

my 2 sense...

i do, a apc ups

oh alright, i assumed the temps would fluctuate constantly the same way the cpu temps do the main reason why i was concerned it was incorrect was because of the burnt hdd i had, but maybe that was a bad hdd so apparently cooling is not the issue could my power supply be the issue as in the power flu...

alright, i used everest and the hdd were both at 34c tried scandisk and defrag they both remained however the cpu temp would raise a few degrees the only thing i would think is that im using an older mobo so i had to purchase a pci sata card in order to use 2x WD 500 which are both sata obviously an...

yep apparently speedfan doesnt work with my system, upon starting windows the 2 hdd are at 30 then climb to 35 where they stay

next my actual temp stays at 12* and doesnt move at all, however looking into the bios the temp says 30*

guess i will never know my temps

lol ya i just checked its only lik a inch bigger or so, ill do a bit more research on the cases, your probably right bout the hdd. the thing that confuses me is both hdd remain the same temp


guess this old antec isnt so bad though

hey thanks alot for the info, i did get speedfan and its reporting both hdd as 34c even though hd0 has the os on it and i even did some copying and dling yet they both remain the same, however when i touch them they both feel a bit hot the only reason i was leaning towards the sonata 3 is because it...

this case seems to be mine http://www.antec.com/us/support_productInfo_details.php?ProdID=92600 SLK2600AMB Support Page Metallic Bronze Mid Tower Now i have no problems with the case as its housing an old P4 system, but i have had 2 hard drives die on me 500 gigs ya i know Thus led me to hdd cooling...

annoying i know, probably a marker, otherwise resistors will require more work