Have mine hooked up to SpeedFan based on the excellent tutorial on this site. Running basically 40% at idle and then ramping up.

Jou Jye BW-1225P-LV Low Voltage 120mm Fan as reviewed here:

Funky Kit Jou Jye BW-1225P-LV Low Voltage 120mm Fan Review

It'll be great if it works and doesn't sound like a cricket

That should have been 120mm Fan is marketed to start at 3.3v

Have the LG CH10LS20 drive. Find that it gets noise when writing.

:wink: By "locally" I meant being able to get in my car, drive to the store, buy it and put it in the trunk! Guess it shows I am over 40! Usually I use Canada Computers as, with a couple of large exceptions, their prices are pretty good. Find the cost of shipping, plus tax on top is off putting. If ...

Thanks for the response. The Solo is not currently available locally and I don't think it's a big enough cooling boost. It's a nice case but the cooling setup is basically the same as the SLK3000B and I would have to sacrifice either my optical drive or my card reader to keep the Kama Bay. Under two...

My existing Antec SLK3000B is showing it's age housing a Phenom II X4 955 BE. Unfortunately I can't use a case with a door due to the case placement. Have shortlisted the Antec Nine Hundred Two and the Coolermaster 690 II Advanced. Like both as they have large top exhaust fans that can exhaust the a...

I Have a similar situation with the SLK3000B or whatever it's called. The down side of the roof felt material in this situation is that sticky side traps dust cat hair etc. Have never seen a purpose designed blanking plate, the only things I have seen are filters which would not have much of a sound...

Can't speak for the standard fan in the P180 but the Nexus fans cool well with very little noise. I would tend to replace the stock heatsink myself, any decent tower heatsink coupled with a Nexus or Scythe fan is going to provide better cooling and lower noise. I am running a 125W 955 plus a Radeon ...

If you are concerned about write induced failure why not write the Linux installation to CF and have the swap file on a cheapo 1GB USB thumb drive? When the thumb drive fails just have another handy to replace it.

Just a suggestion from the one who does not know!

Inmax http://www.inmax.ca at College and Spadina used to be the only local place to stock Nexus 120mm fans. Am keeping my fingers crossed that they will eventually re-stock.

Unfortunately.. this card is still the best value budget card right now.. Sad jimmyzaas FWIW recently bought a Sapphire 512MB card from CC and it had the classic non-digital VRM. For my plugged ears the stock fan is quiet at idle and is drowned out by the seeks from my two 1st gen raptors. Tried to...

The non-ultra fits fine in my case E4252 but I think that it may press on the damping foam I have on the side panel.

With a papst on the the U120 and a nexus 120 exhaust my E6600 sits at 50 degrees celcius while folding.

fabre The E6300 is very tempting but on second thought if I went that way I will have to upgrade to DDR2 and a PCIE video card, I think I will just end up being frustrated if I ran it with DDR and an agp card. You don't have to upgrade. One of the reasons for suggesting the 775Dual-VSTA is that ther...

Your current system looks like a similar spec to mine and I have been doing a lot of thinking about how to upgrade in the near future. Silence (TDP) wise AFAIK the difference between the AMD and Intel product lines are as follows; 1. The AM2 EE SFF X2 3800 only puts out 35W but requires the upgrade ...

Your temps look OK to me. I am running a XP 2500 M (2.2GHz 1.55vCore) with a Zalman 7000 Cu and am currently running Cinema Craft Encoder (forcing 100% CPU usage) and hitting 50 degrees C CPU temp. The 40 C system temp isn't that out of the ordinary you are running NF 2 right? My KT600 is at 43C cur...

Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu. The earlier model was the favourite around here for a long time and is cooling the XP2500M I am writing this with. You have to be carefull with the placement of the socket if there is no space between the motherboard and PSU in your case.

You could also try the Coolermaster E3W-NPTXC-01 for CPU cooling with a 120mm case fan behind it. Have read elsewhere that this works well. Interesting. Unfortunately, the case I'll be using doesnt have room for a 120mm (Lian Li PC-72 full tower), but it does have two 80mm's back there which I plan...

You could also try the Coolermaster E3W-NPTXC-01 for CPU cooling with a 120mm case fan behind it. Have read elsewhere that this works well.

ferdb wrote:Where do you get the Blue label Panaflos? I'm willing to try anything.

Only place I have seen is ThermalFX.

The XP2500 M is a great chip, very versatile. I have run mine at stock MHz and 1.325V with good stability. I don't know about the 20W thermal output, there are CPU power output calculators out there (try the links page) but the lowest any BIOS I have heard of will go down to is 1.1V. There is a thre...

intx wrote:hey, would a 80mm fit?

Shouldn't be any problem, anything less than 38mm thick or smaller than 120mm diameter should be fine. My exhaust fan is a 120mm diameter and 25 mm thick and still has clearance.

How much space is there between the top of the motherboard to the psu, approximately? I'm trying to decide what motherboard to use in the case with a cnps7000a. Will any motherboards have a problem? intx I have the case and I don't believe that any board listed on this page under "Power Supply must...

I'd say option 3 is your best bet. Let us know how it goes. Finally got off my backside and dealt with the noisy TP. The 3 options went out the window when moving my system into it's new E4252 home. I took a cheaper option and removed the stock 92mm fan and taped up the hole as suggested by Pete. T...

intx wrote: So that's saying that it would, or wouldn't interfere on the KV7? I'm a little confused

It would not interfere with the KV7.

Thanks for your input! I want to run a panaflo 120mm oem fan there unfortunately so I guess that's out of the question. You could still mount it outside of the case and it may actually work inside the case but you would have to mount the fan before you mounted the motherboard. Did your HSF have any...

Hi intx, Can give a qualified recommendation to the Abit KV7 with the E4252 as that is how my system is set up. The qualifications are; The ATX power connectors are a real fiddle to fit as they are close to the heatsink You can't fit a 38mm deep fan like the Panaflo 120mm L1A to the exhaust as it wi...

Errm... don't know about Parrots but this is what happens after my machine sharing space with an occasionally shedding rabbit or two.

My experience with two early model 36GB Raptors is that you have to have a suspension mount before you can consider the 'seeks' to be quiet. It may be dimensions that effect the Silentmaxx enclosure as they seem to be a little deeper than some other drives I have seen?

Just for the record my motherboard (ASUS A7V8X - KT400 chipset) BIOS can't identify the Mobile XP2500+ and therefore defaults the FSB to 100 MHz. As there is no PCI lock on the chipset I am not able to increase this number much. Neither does the board allow voltages below 1.575 so I also stuck with ...

After digging about on the FAH I decided to switch to the graphical client yesterday and it's now running with the -advmethods and -forceSSE flags. The reason for using the screen saver was that when gaming with IL2FB (uses 100% CPU) even with 512 RAM, memory usage, with plenty of background process...