toke them three years to find a factory to make the fan and solve legal issues?

and the cult comments.

Considering the price, I would get the pallas. £20 can buy you a few different fan to replace the stock one "if" the stock one have some odd ball sound.

If you have always on hdd , they will most likeky to be the dominate noise. I dont really think energy consumption should be a real concern even if you are located energy expensive euro. Typically diy or off the shelf nas idle at 20-30w, which is like 2-3 led/ccfl bulb. And you can use network sleep...

Dark Rock pro 3 is overkill, I would get a 30-40 120/140 tower and be done with it. Look at true spirit 120 or cryorig h7 if height is limited.

Use the rest to upgrade to a better GPU? Maybe if you game.

Did you isolate which part is loudest BTW?

The number look OK ish for a 92mm fan, 1k-1.3k is around slightly quieter than a quiet HDD. 350w will take a i5 + 970 at Max load.

Probably don't want hotter components if going sff anyways.

All (i think) of the thermalright have migrated to non-solder, I think they call it fin penetration or w.e. Don't see anyone complaining ~ and I think thermalright know what they are doing~. There were actually some debate (hr-02 change from solder to non-solder(hr02 macho) in 2012?) in the asian wo...

Not sure how price work in euro, how about the g2 instead of p2? In the US, dropping from 600w to 500w usually only save one 10 usd on a 70-80 PSU. Personally, I wouldn't touch seasonic at high end, since it tend to whine here and there, even the latest revision. The chance maybe slim, but there is ...

I used the gelid one on 7970 290(x) and fury. All 3 can control arctic f9.
On the 290, I tried a few other fan like ss120, ty147a, slim scythe pwm and those all work. The ones that didn't work was nzxt x31 stock 120mm fan.

That s what happen on some of my heatsink with copper base.

Make me want to re do paste, I had a tube of pk3 back when I used laptops where every degree counts. I also have a big tube of creamique 2 for maintaining computer around the house. I used creamique 2 for my new computer just because it is cheaper. Pk3 seems to leave some black substance on the heat...

A little extreme but not that extreme is to remove the GPU fan shroud and tie some 25mm thick fan, 2 x120mm or 3 x90mm.

I am not really familiar with the Mac pro layout, but if just going by look, it had already been done, by the Chinese.

Did not really read through the kickstarter.

pump noise, try slow it down, if that doesn't work, then air ~

Nas performance, if money no objective, simple, 10gb lan.

I guess it is a good time to get a new PSU, maybe a passive one. NVENC or AMD VEC don't seem to get any love for x264, so you can probably dump the separate GPU if just for encoding. For editing, it will depend what the software package you like more, opencl or cuda. Complete passive CPU cooling is ...

The pump tend to be the dominate noise during idle. The best air cooling card probably is the zotac amp extend or msi lightning.

Typical 1g nic can push close to 100MB/s which is close to single 7200 drive. If you mostly work within the scratch disk, would that be enough? Otherwise, 10g nic seems to be a justified investment for you. I am not sure if 10g nic can do direct client to client, if it does, then you can just get 2 ...

Custom pico PSU seem to be popular in china, I read up they had pico PSU "rated 500w", when pair with Dell 240w, they have no problem running a non k i5 and 970. that is not possible. you can not get more watts from dc/dc PSU than what the brick puts out. (in fact, you will always get less, due to ...

Custom pico PSU seem to be popular in china, I read up they had pico PSU "rated 500w", when pair with Dell 240w, they have no problem running a non k i5 and 970.

3x 90mmx25mm fan, zip tie screw.

New thermal paste does help to varying degrees depending on how it was done.

You can also try under volt to reduce the heat output, assuming you aren't trying to squeeze the last fps out.

Since I start building, I was plagued by GPU coil whine issue. I have had thought to put my whole computer in the closet with a 15ft cable, which never underwent because I was "confidence" I can build a silent rig w.o the use of "cheat". After months of swaping/rmaing/mounting fans for GPU(at least ...

You can get pcie extension cable to fit the GPU.

Trying to go small and maintain a low budget don't mate well together.

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The 2 round up review.

For low budget with some grapic power, I will go these 2 route.

1. Skylake i3 or g4500 with its iGPU

2. Haswell celeron/g3258 with a dedicated gpu.

The am1 platform is not worth adding extra component(a gpu) on.

Motherboard header with splitter is fine for dc controlled gentle typhoon since they run with low amp, otherwise, they are selling pwm version, and both is around the same price. Personally I think they hum rather awfully when not decoupled/suspended, but that's just me. Thicker rad have rather bad ...

Talking about feature?

idk, maybe try to fit good wifi on a microATX board w.o adpater card?

Long story short, my main use a z97-ar with speedfan and everything is awesome, including the 2 mode fan control. So now I am building a htpc/general use pc for family and grabbed a h97i-plus, everything is mostly smooth sail (except maybe the cpu fan happen to don't have 2 mode, but it gonna have p...

baii, might be a bad version. My U2711 doesn't hum and I always thought the backlight's brightness was voltage controlled, or least with a very hight frequency PWM signal. It is only audible at relative close distance in absolute silence or if I tip my ear on it. As I said, I only noticed it recent...

Nice, but too complicated for me to do :shock: rather sell the u2711 and get something elze xd. I like my ccfl very much, only recently discover the hum with a new silent pc. My u2711 stop humming at 79-80 mark. I lower the brightness with the rgb gain, (with a calibator). I don't really mind the he...

I don't know how close the slipstream resemble the glidestream, but the ss click in both type of control.

I got 2 with the define s, one of them have ticking sort of bearing noise.