Love passively cooled rigs! And that Thermalright is a Godsend. Are you still using the stock Tricool on the rear? Is the 4850 stable at high loads? I remember having troubles with the VRM temperatures on many games that led to blue screens. I took out the rear fan and taped the hole shut. With the...

Hi, just popping by to post up my new desktop! http://gallery.rhapsody.st/albums/ironfist_blandat/021210_1.sized.jpg Specs are Intel Core i5 661 with a Thermalright HR-02 8gb Kingston KVR DDR3 1333 Gigabyte GA-H57-USB3 Motherboard Sapphire Radeon 4850 with a Accelero S1 Rev2 Asus Xonar Essence STX 1...

There's also the Noctua NH-U9B, a tower cooler with a 92mm fan. Silent and quite effective.

Just poking my head in to say the cooler fit well, even in the wider configuration, temps are 30C idle, up to 52C at load overclocked to 695/1090. Must say I'm quite pleased with this thing

I was just going to start this topic, bought the same card after reading reviews claiming it to be somewhat silent, baloney I say! The thing sounds like a vacuumcleaner even at 25% fan speed :-( Anyways, I got my Accelero coming but just got this nervous twinge that it might not fit my Sonata II cas...

simple- i like :) if i were to build a pc right now- it would be freakily similar to what you've done, except i would get a 500gb scorpio blue and a smaller case. what i'm most interested in is the psu, it's one of the lowest priced, low wattage, decent, 120mm fanned psus that are readily available...

The RAM would be a little cooler if the sticks were not right next to each other. maybe the OP needs to run them like that for dual channel? The Op is running that board in Single Channel mode. All the AMD chipset boards I have seen so far require you to put RAM in alternate slots (0 +2 or 1+3) to ...

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First i'd like to thank all the people who write here for the wealth of information made available, and ofc the reviwers at SPCR. I've wanted to do a really silent desktop for a long time and now I think it's as close as it gets with conventional products :-) Components are: AMD Athlon64x2 4850e pro...