nutball wrote:
Five fans? Five 1450 rpm fans?

Hard drive louder?

What is going on in this place?

Yes, five Scythe gentle Typhoon 1.450rpm and (+) one 220cm.
For the air intake, that is.

The case is very big, you know.

The most silent and in the same time performing 12V 120mm fan is Scythe Silent Typhoon 1.450rpm. I have 5 of them in my case and the most loud thing was the clicking of an hard drive (that was replaced with Intel SSD). The fan is so silent you will hear only a very gentle airflow. If you wish to shi...

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Antec six hundred

I've got some good news (for those with Indilinx controlled drives). The cutting edge brand behind SSD drives, OCZ is dipping Indilinx. OCZ's next generation drives will future SandForce controllers. OCZ is also preparing for a huge capital injection to enlarge the SSD business. http://www.ocztechno...

Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB performs much better than Velociraptor.

Oh God. If Antec dare unleash that ... thing upon the world, I can guarantee you one thing. There will be no survivors. article from Hexus-Cooler Master spying on Antec Evidence seen by HEXUS indicates that a marketing representative of Cooler Master gained access to an invite-only, private press b...

thejamppa,
with 12 LED fans, it's possible to present the case on Champs-Elysees for New Year!!
And the sound! the Brits would salute to a Concord airplane, without thinking twice (that it was taken out of service).

http://www.rosemaryaugustine.com/Champs ... ts%202.jpg

MikeC wrote:hmmmm.... I think the look is related to function: It seems to be similar to mechano or lego -- it's modular, different modules plug in/out as needed. I wonder if the size can be changed too?

I doubt they had Origami in mind...

I really love that PC case!!! The most important thing in a silent PC is the PSU-power supply. GPU-graphic card makes a lot of noise when you're playing games, but that is not something that would bother that much. I must say however, that one thing is how loud, another is when the sound emitted is ...

This case is beyond temptation.

(subsidized by Lego??)

The cooling performance of the motherboard is worrisome. Custom PC magazine has completely shredded the case what cooling goes. I think that the cause of such poor performance was in their setup; they use a completely passive system as a reference. Considering that the case is seriously lacking in s...

like the lian li's a lot. especially the b10 looks nice. however it also has the problem of the door that i have to avoid. but the a71 is also available w/o a door it seems. that may be a good option. any ideas how quiet the included fans are? since there's not so many 140mm aftermarket models to c...

Silverstone has on its website a small image of the new Fortress02 and the writing CES above it. The case is apparently going Vegas. As customers we can only hope, that they solved the internal space issue and the lack of sucking elements on top of the case, which make the Raven02 a poor performer i...

Lian Li PC-B10 175euro
Lian Li PC-B25 200euro
Lian Li A71 200 euro

I do not know your budget, but give a look here:

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this is the optimal and price/wise solution for a i5 based PC; you can take a Nvidia 250 if you wish.

Okay. I think that you're throwing away some serious money here. An i7-920 system has the advantage of TWO full x16 lines, meaning that you can upgrade with a second graphic card; an i5 has one x16 slot (possible to use as two x8 slots-for two GPUs; unless you plan to upgrade to Nvidia GT300 this sh...

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I second the Asus Xonar advice from the member above.

I would go for, at least, 650W PSU.
Not to mention, that the PSU will be a LOT quieter if not under full load and will also last and perform longer.

Just to steer the thread away from becoming an Intel love-fest, Anand has the following to say: Those who spent over $600 on Intel's first SSD deserve to be taken care of but instead they get no TRIM support and no SSD Optimizer. Both of these are things that Indilinx has offered it's customers bef...

...his parents should have taken a switch at him, when they still had a chance. 10 minutes later I was banned from the forum... Didn't see that one coming... Not to be off topic, but I'd like to recommend to you, that even when you strongly disagree with someone, keep your manners and stay professi...

It is not my analysis; it's Intel's.

Considering that Intel has warned not to play with the update till further notice, Intel is not going to recognize the warranty if something goes wrong.
So, better not to be tempted.

I have the Win7 64bit and no inclination to test on my SSD. ) ) )

The problem was apparently in the upgrade tool (version 1.3) when combined with Windows 7 64 bit and not in the 02HA firmware itself.

Anyway, Intel has reacted at once an clearly, not as others, with subterfuges.

I also decided for an Intel SSD, however I received the drive at a later time.

Intel SSDs are the best choice at the moment.

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I was just discussing them here.

Maybe you could wait till January and buy one GT300; I'm afraid however that the price will be some 400 euro.

there are some interesting PSUs, however we are talking about 400-500 Reias, as far as I can see.

How are we supposed to advice if you have NOT specified the BUDGET???

I think you have made an awesome choice in regards to the motherboard and processor. Megahalems are really nice, I have one combined with Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1.450rpm. However this is more for overclocking since it blows as a real hurricane; the noise is very pleasant and outside of the case (ATCS...

It's more about the masses. On the whole mass of people it is possible to target-select a profile of members you wish. Some think on these lines: "I made a bad decision, why not pushing someone else along"; others are egocentric, some bad informed, some do not wish to inform themselves since it requ...

If you buy a SSD than Intel. Samsung uses "looks like TRIM"function. The controller uses NTFS as a map for free areas when the drive is not in use. NTFS is Windows, just to remind you, so bye, bye: MAC, Linux. The drive needs few hours idle time to correct itself, so do not think about coffee breaks...

The Obsidian is much to expensive, the cooling capabilities are laughable, the design is okey. Raven 02 with the front in metal and with those V parts more pronounced would be the best looking case. FT02 is very essential in design, therefore a nice RECESSED door covering the slots would make a very...