My big NG just arrived and I am learning how to use it. I have a couple of questions I wonder if anybody can help. 1) The RPM is reported wrong by the big NG? At 12 a Nexus 120 was reported by the MB running around 1000, but the bigNG reports 800. Plus when the fan stops the rpm is not reported as z...

Bought May 2006 @ caseking.de
No problems at all.
P4C 2.6 with Asus P4P800
2 raptors, low power graphics, 1 DVD, sat card, music card
P180 case.

Yay! That settles it. Thanks guys, I did not realized that it has been already discussed. mhv10, please let us know in case you succeed in mounting the zalman cooler. Now I just need to decide between the 945GT with Intel core or an older 915 with pentium M. Fact is even a pentium M would be more th...

I am not so sure. Intel specs for the core duo, page 43 states: "The processor is available in 478-pin Micro-FCPGA and 479-ball Micro-FCBGA packages". I also checked alternate one of my preferred, but it is even more confusing: The board 945GT is listed under socket 479M together with all other boar...

Getting information about the 945GT, I noticed that the processor socket is pin type 478 for yonah. Unfortunately I cannot find any retailer with this kind of socket CPU. I find Intel Core only on ball-type 479 socket in EU. Am I understand correctly the processor support of the 945 GT? Alternativel...

We have tested the P4P800 with the ST30NF and had no problems. Good news on my bad diagnosis. I wonder what my problem was. Not necessarily a bad diagnosis, since it is a slightly different model. Who knows. Anyway I had no problems and I have been running the ST30NF for few days now on the followi...

SST Guy, thank you for your help. ASUS confirmed too: no problems with P4P800 which apparently do not require -5V.
Ordered my ST30NF and will report back in few days.

hmsrolst: (2) I tried the PSU with my P4P800-VM system and it wouldn't boot at all. RE (2), testing the PSU shows there's no -5v line, and maybe some mobos require it. I am thinking to try this PSU, but since I have an Asus P4P800 motherboard this comment of course worries me. Can anybody confirm t...

My experience has been that Nexus disktwin is better a few degrees than the zalman. On the other hand the conditions of my experience were with the zalman first version (C1) and with a low cfm fan blowing on them. I don't know if we can use this result to infer the same data for a version 2 zalman w...

I don't think the rubber mount of the Disktwin will be as good as a suspending solution. I assume it would be pretty similar to your current setup, but I do not have first hand experience. I did not use the mounting facility of the disktwin. On the other hand I have 2 raptors 74 on disktwins with 1 ...

I have the LG and I like it very much. Very quiet and very good quality burns. I had a Lite-on before and I can say that the LG is much more quiet even at high speed.
The LG is slower and with less features than the Plextor, but to me it is good enough. Also LG has DVD-RAM.
Good luck

I have an ASUS P4P800 and I noticed the same hiss. It starts when I switch on the small switch on the PSU, that is a Nexus 3000. Nothing else is running because the PC is still off.
Is very faint thought, so it does not bother me.

Ibliss, you are welcome. Unfortunately I did not test the part were these two coolers attach to the case. I do not believe in either solution, so I just put HDs on foam or on elastics. Needless to say that the noise was exactly the same for both having the HD on foam. And needless to say also that t...

I answered my question:
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 356#137356

Here is my experience with the DiskTwin: Config: Single Raptor 36 in front on the floor of the case on foam. 2 Nexus 80 blowing on it @ 12V, case Lian Li 6070A. Mounted on the case HD cage: 31-43 (idle - defrag). With Zalman ZM-2HC1 (not the current C2): * Idle (win desktop after 2hs): 35 * Normal w...

Has anybodv compared the cooling performance of the ZM-2HC2/1 with an heatsink solution on the sides of the HD, like the nexus DiskTwin or the heatsink in the "Effective Passive Hard Drive Cooling" article on this site? I am planning for 2 Raptors on foam on the bottom front of the case with a moder...

Thanks, this is encouraging... My first problem would be how to calculate the size of the pump and how to check afterwards that the flow is correct. And will I find a pump big enough and still silent? If the pump would not be silent than it is not worth to go the WC way as my current air setup is pr...

I have a normal house water heater at the wall behind the desk with the PC. I never use it because the room is always warm enough. Would it be possible to use it as reservoire and radiator for WC the PC? Surely I would need to adapt the pipes and probably a big pump. I got the idea watching the Inno...

I have used w2k for 3 years. I was forced to upgrade to XPPro to use hyperthreading. I have never seen any difference except from hyperthreading support and faster boot. Both make the PC snappier and nicer to use. So I stick with XP. If you don't care about boot time and do not have hyperthreading I...

I have that card and I substituted the whiny fan with a zalman passive north bridge cooler ZM-NB47J and it is working fine since 3 months, but no 3D games tested as I don't play games.
Temps from smartdoctor are between 40 and 46 C.
Good luck

To reach the front fans here is what I did: Slide away the HDD case Take the front door away The front panel (covered by the door) is fixed with four small screws on the side. Unscrew them and there you go. You are right about the push-pins that hold the ADDA fans in place. You cannot use them for t...

It worked for me. The screws are not long as the tubes (25mm), but they fit enough to fix securely the fans.
Also it is adviseable not to fix the screws too tight to avoid voiding the effect of the dampener.

Good luck.

slavic, I understand you are cautious about HDD. I plan on adding a zalman ZM-2HC1 HHD cooler and hope the temps remains acceptable when i will uncouple the HDD. I used gel mounting rounded thingies for screws found in the Vantec Fan Dampening kit as suggested here. http://forums.silentpcreview.com/...

Also check
http://www.silentpcshop.nl/
They ship internationally not sure if worlwide.

Slavic, I have recently notice the air noise too. In the front intake is more annoying than in the back. Don't know how to handle that either except trying to undervolting the front fans. 1. Cutting away the rear grill 2. Enclosing WD HDD in a Smart Drive 2002 3. Adding to the dampening material ins...

Yes, good point, it is the only easy solution I also see. I am going to try that for the front.

All 3 fans are runnig at 12V. JVM, yes you are right. My comment about not a top silent solution was related to the fact that I see most people have only one intake fan when they have something. Inaudible was a comment related to the fans when I tested them before mounting them. Effectively very goo...

I have seen these as well. Do they make much difference? From what I have read and experimented, the difference depends on the fans and the case. If you have a case prone to vibration and strong fans, they do a bit of difference. With a good steel case and low RPM good fans probably not. The air fl...

How did you mount your HDD? And what temps are you getting for the HDD? That is still in bad shape, hard screwed on the HDD case. Temps: 32-43 C (idle - defrag). That is my next step for silencing it. also, mario: are you using the vantec power supply dampener kit? No, I am not, only the fan dampen...

On top of my experience with the PC-6070A I have written here: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=8468&highlight= I would like to add that I can hear hum and vibration. Looks like the case resonate very easily. I don't know if this is common to all alluminium cases (see Ralf's P160 rev...