Thanks for the answers, apparently there's both a straight power 10 and a straight power 10 CM (from Cable Management) and I could only find the completely non modular one here.
Corsair RMx it is. Hope I don't get buyer's remorse

From limited options. I'll get gold, I don't dare try fanless, would prefer modular but I'm not extremely fussed about it. I picked 500-550W because I have more options that way and definitely don't need more power (could prolly get away even with 400 W). Want quiet, and long life. Based in Romania,...

Are there any mini PCs like this with the PSU fully inside the case? Passive or low noise active cooled.
Besides the model made by a certain fruity company, I mean.

The problem with the Spinpoint M9T is... where can you buy it?
I want a PS4 for Christmas... and I want one of those inside it before I start installing games. I have a feeling I'll have to do with the 500 Gb hard drive

Another lone data point here: I've had a G360 for at least 2 years and it's still going strong. On a 50-150 W load though.

also of interest to ps4 fans No, PS4 doesn't boot . I ordered one in an external enclosure, hope it's not the version with soldered on USB. It should arrive today. This drive has been announced month ago, but is just now showing up in retail channels. For PS4 owners who come across this thread, the...

AMD Jaguar is the Atom competitor right? It has nothing to do with the decently performing APUs called A8 and A10?
Their lineup is becoming as confusing as Intel's

Does this buzzing issue show up on fanned PSUs as well, or just their fanless range?

The OP has been using Linux for years, including software development for Linux/embedded Linux. All these years, he has never bothered to figure out how to set up lmsensors, which is why he prefers BIOS or simply hardware based solutions. The Nexus 120 PWM fan that he was whining about is humming al...

Did you know that PWM fans are *not* temperature-controlled? The PWM input can be connected to a constant signal (for example, ground) or to a variable signal (for example, a temperature-based controller like the one in a motherboard). I would prefer that you not bash the PWM fan for the fact that ...

To be honest I prefer fans spinning at a constant low speed to temperature adjusted fans; the noise "quality" change with load is more annoying than a constant whoosh. This PWM experience just reinforced that. Come to think of it, I'm not so sure I *need* a case fan. This is an Ivy Bridge i7 with an...

In case anyone wonders how the saga ended, I gave up on the PWM and plugged the fan through a fanmate. Had to cut off a bit of plastic to make the 4 pin connector fit the 3 pin fanmate. With the voltage control in the lowest 1/4, it's now silent. Not sure if it does any good, the airflow seems a bit...

You can boot off a PCI Express SSD on your average retail motherboard from the Sandy/Ivy Bridge era? Or you need to wait till <whatever comes after Haswell>?

How silent is the rest of your PC? I used to have a 9600GT that i personally modded to passive, then a 450 that I also modded (to a S2 or S1 with fans though). However, this year I've had personal experience with both a 650 and 660 with the DirectCu cooler from Asus, and they are silent enough for m...

What was the control system for your Antec fan? Specifically, was it PWM? The Nexus PWM fan may indeed have a design defect, but more likely, your motherboard is not set to allow the minimum PWM speed (0% duty cycle). I'm not familiar with the Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H, but my similar MSI motherboard ha...

The place where i usually get fans was out of the black and white 3 pin Nexus 120 so i bought the clear plastic 120 PWM. I had a faint idea it wasn't that silent but i thought "how bad can it be?". Well. It's bad. For one, the PWM sucks. My Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H runs the fan at a minimum of 1200 rpm....

thanks. The system I'm installing weekly compose of: 1 Pentium G2020, 4 GB of RAM gigabyte B75M-D3H motherboard http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4150#ov plus 1 x SSD, 1 X DVDRW So w/o using the PSU calculator, I would agree that 360W is enough IN the future, there is the possi...

Okay, lesson learned: don't go cheap with the kid's PC, just bite the bullet and upgrade it when it's ancient. Also, the case is somewhat of a pain. So I managed to get all the hardware - which was before in a decent mid-tower case - inside the CoolerMaster. The coolermaster Hyper TX3 Evo wouldn't f...

Update: my CPU cooler doesn't fit
Deciding on taking it back vs buying a low profile cooler... can't get away from the upgrade treadmill

Ah well; i ran across a CM Elite 361 in a brick and mortar store so i bought it.
Will post photos when I get around to setting up the system if anyone's interested.

It's inside a desk; the front and back of the said space are open; the back is a few centimeters away from the wall. I think it should be reasonably well ventilated.
And if i get the CoolerMaster i have ~15 cm of extra width to leave on the sides.

I need to move a pre existing build. Unfortunately, i have just one possible space with the following dimensions: 40 cm height!!! x 30 cm width x 40 to 45 cm depth. It's a full ATX motherboard; I'm hoping to just get a different case (PSU not needed) instead of going on the neverending upgrade tread...

With software raid you're stuck with the OS that made it. With fakeraid you depend on OS driver support, and it may be not compatible across operating systems as well. With real hardware raid you're screwed if the card dies, as you need to find an identical one to access your data. Tbh i'd use only ...

A hackintosh-ish comment; if you decide to go dual/triple boot, it's much less hassle to have OS X alone on its own disk. So you may want to leave the option to add a second (spinning i guess, because of the price of 2 SSDs) hard drive in there for the secondary OS(es). I.e. keep one drive cage.

An not so precise update to my initial question in this thread: I ended up buying an Asus Geforce 650 DirectCu and it's pretty damn quiet. I'd say the Accelero at 7V i had before is more quiet, and neither options are as quiet as a fully passive card, but this retail card is acceptable. I haven't he...

The problem with Ati^H^H^HAMD cards is that they're still operating with reduced functionality - if at all - if you run linux and, to a lesser extent, a hackintosh - and i do both. Software fan control is also useless if you dual/triple boot since it tends to only run on windows. So, nvidia it is fo...

CA_Steve has been hard at work compiling reviews for the junior cards. You can find them here (660) and here (660 Ti) . An excerpt from Techpowerup, one of the more respectable review sites: Just like the ASUS GTX 670 and 660 Ti, the GTX 660 Direct CU II offers phenomenally low noise levels. ASUS a...

Hmm if the 670 DirectCu does so well in the silent department, does it mean that the 660Ti and 660 DirectCu versions will do the same or better? Anyone has one of those and can share some impressions?

To close the case, so to speak: I ended up ordering an Arctic Cooling TwinTurbo pro - instead of the passive S2. Fits allright (had to fit a VRM heatsink diagonally across 3 chips), noise is gone (fans at 7v using the included adapter) - or to be more exact, now i hear the cpu cooler or the power su...

Thank you! Thank you! That table of video card mounting holes is pure gold. I didn't try the HR-03 that i already have because i'm still using the old 9600 in another PC. Now to decide if i order another HR-03 or get an Accelero... although on a quick glance the HR-03 doesn't seem to be in stock any...