It's Monday here in the EST timezone. I'm pretty confident in this build and I'm ready to order! I will give it until tomorrow evening, and if no one comments, I'm going to order everything as listed. Oh, I plan on using a max of 6 slipstreams too. 1) Stock (front) Bottom intake 2) Stock (front) Mid...

The Slipstreams seem to have really good reviews too, plus it's bragging rights I think to say... "I'm slipstreamed" I also thought keeping them all at 1200 rpm verses the varying rpms will give a smoother resonant frequency if any noise comes out of them and a better airflow result. I've noticed on...

I certainly hope so! The only non-sweet thing about this build is going to be final price tag when I am finished, but it still should be substantially less then my other ideas. I originally debated about the watercooling vs aircooling vs hybrid water & peltier cooled systems. I dropped the watercool...

FWIW - I have a client of mine that uses several external HDDs to accomplish mass storage, backup, etc. I certainly recommend an external enclosure for your purpose, and follow the advice of MATS to assign static driver letters outside of your "usually used drive letter range." It is the best soluti...

Thank you all for your advice. I think I'm going to try out the basic EVGA 9600GT with Accelero S1. I want the S1 for future upgrades and I'm fine with a little passive overkill ;-). As stated, I have posted my complete "future" build. Please feel free to shed your SPCR advice on the new thread also...

Greetings SPCR! :-D I am working on doing a P182 build similar to many other SPCR fans out there. Just as a quick preface, I do some gaming but I'd rather sacrifice a few FPS for a few degrees cooler, a few less watts consumed (since that is a measurement of heat anyway!), and a few less db's. My on...

That link is amazing! I had no idea the power consumption went down that much. I'd imagine it would be easier to cool then, making another wonderful point. I'm not very diehard about loosing a few FPS. I'd rather shave off the temperature instead and load. I'd get upset to lose a lot of FPS to sacri...

I have also done some additional research, and CA_Steve is probably right on the money. The 1GB version of the card only proves beneficial at this point and time if you're driving higher resolutions, but even then, it is marginal improvement. For me, I will probably never exceed 1600x1200 on my desk...

This sounds like pretty sound advice. $20 isn't going to kill me, plus I will probably learn something by swapping the heatsink on the card, and get a better solution! Any knowledge about the EVGA 1GB vs the basic single-slot cooled 512MB? I'm willing to shell more $ for the 1GB if it's of any value...

I did find some other passive ATI information for the 38xx series, one was the HD3850 by Sapphire. That takes a performance hit compared to the huge HD3870 though! I think I'm going to stay clear of the ECS brand. I hate to run the risk of getting a low quality product at the cost of convenience (pr...

Greetings SPCR, I have read many postings here and I finally decided to post! I am working on creating a P182 design similar to the many builds listed here. After doing some homework on Newegg and reading about VGA cards, I am determined to find the best solution for a passive video card. I am not g...