Thanks fwiffo. I sent you a few photos. The backside of the video card has memory heatsinks, I added them, they do not come with the card. The NSK2480 has a custom made wood front panel and then stained. I moved the front USB o the side, not pictured. Sorry for the low quality photos... it's taken f...

I bought the GIGABYTE GV-R575SL-1GI and it does fit the NSK 2480 case, but the top cover has air vents that are dented inward... on three spots you will have to bend them to be flush with the top cover and it will fit. I hope that helps anyone else that has the this case. I doubt the power cooler pa...

Hi, I bought the gigabyte card last night... it's going to be a tight fit. I may need to mod it later if the top cover doesn't fit...I have to evaluate the card first. I will post my results.

Thanks for the photos fwiffo...quite odd yours is angled and newegg's photo is straight.

Hopefully someone will chime in

Hi Fwiffo,
Yes that's the problem...it's too close to tell. It would help alot if I can get someone who has the antec case like the fusion / 2400 / 2480 and one of these new passive cards to see if it fits. I'm leaning more towards the gigabyte card... but there aren't any reviews of it yet.

Hi, I have the antec NSK 2480 case and like to get the 5750 or 5770 passive video cards...but worried that the card will be too high to fit. Does anyone have clearance issues with the heatsink hitting the top cover? I am concerned about buying something that doesn't fit. I like to buy the new gigaby...

I'm sure you are right, since you are the manufacturer. It would be very silly for me to argue the points how to apply your product. The biggest concern for me was if I did put 5mm bead instead of spreading it like the tradition old school method of use a razor applying an even coat was user install...

I believe you have a great product...AS5 may degrade the IC diamond product, but I really was just suggesting a way of making the dry paste a little more easy to spread and apply. I was trying to fill completely and evenly and it took 10 to 15 minutes to do it and even then it would take more time t...

I used coretemp64 and prime95 for test. I do have some suggestions on the IC diamond application. The material is very dry and doesn't spread very well at all. I used a razor to apply a layer of thin dry paste. I wonder if it's possible to mix AS5 and IC diamond together? I imagine they are both ine...

I tried the Xigmatek one from newegg. There description is wrong, it's doesn't fit in a NSK2480 case. I had to remove a top fin or two and then pinch the heatpipe down a bit. Then the heat pipe fin assembly is askew from center so it hits my CPU heatsink mini Ninja. I tried to bend the heat pipe a b...

I was going to buy it and read reviews about it here...so yes I would love to test out the ICD7 and I already bought heatsinks for the CPU, northbridge, and southbridge. I'll test the ICD7 and post results.

Will the MSI DIVA LIVE support the Phenom II X3 720 processor? I'm trying to make this into a HTPC part time and other time daily PC. So at times I like to overclock silently and other time...underclock and try to idle with less power. So question would be if the BIOS would support it...I looked at ...

Mike,
I clicked on the Our thanks to Noctua for the review sample link at the end of the review and it takes you to the scythe website. Just thought I let you.

Other question if this hasn't been asked... how well do you think it would perform in NSK2480/FUSION case? Thanks,

Thanks for the tip s_xero and hravn...I'll checkout the ninja. I may get the SI-120 from thermalright if I decide to go with microatx instead of ATX HTPC wooden/metal case. Ninja all around mount seems very promising though. Take care.

Hi....I'm going to design my own HTPC case and wanted to use the Sunbeam Tuniq cpu heatsink or similar type, but I want the fan of the cpu heatsink to blow to the side of the case and not to the back of the case. Can the Sunbeam Tuniq heatsink or similar type of tower heatpipe cpu heatsink be mounte...

Just a guess, but remember you mentioned about bent capacitors...how far did you bend the capacitors...enough to break them? I was nervous about the same thing...but my system have been stable and I am running my globes @5V with any problems...though granted I haven't recently ran any CPU benchmarki...

Frank, the ticking is not constant, it comes and goes; but I already solved my problem. Yes it would cost more money to send it back and Newegg is pretty good about not charging re-stocking fee if you are nice to them. As I mentioned before, if you create a power supply air channel lined with acoust...

I put back my Raptor as the boot drive and DMAX10 as secondary drive and it seems to be working with out any sputtering. I also ran HD TACH 3 times on the DMAX10 and didn't have this big drop in performance. I copied over a movie dvd to watch on my hard drive and didn't have a problem. Just FYI, fro...

Hi, before this thread gets hijacked to a different topic, can someone please try HD TACH on their DMAX10 drive see if you get the same results? I really appreciated to find out if this is just a problem with my particular hard drive or a firmware problem they have with the DMAX10. Thanks.

Sthayashi, it was a new drive and new OS installed, but it was fragmented for some reason. So I defragmented the drive and had 0% fragmented file and I ran HD TACH twice and still same results.

Can someone please try HD TACH on their DMAX10 drive see if you get the same results?

I notice this problem while watching a movie on my hard drive and it seemed to sputter and I didn't know why. So I downloaded HD TACH 3.010 and did some benchmarking beacuse it was such an annoying problem. I ran the test 5 times and 4 out of the 5 times, there was at least 30MB/s drop in performanc...

P935, it's been close to a year since the 7200.7 drive, it was a 200GB model. Spinpoints drives are great...my new favorite...if Samsung would have made a bigger drive...I would have bought that over the DMAX10. It's even difficult to hear the seek of the Samsung drive...especially with the case clo...

Having owned all three drives you listed...I definitely would not go with Seagate...though at one time...they were great with lack of noise. I think even with two Samsung, would be more quiet than one DMAX 10. But if you want save on power or space, than go with the DMAX 10, but recommend you try to...

No...it's not the owner that removed the seal...it's the factory. Tagan seems to have went belly up and EPOWER bought them...only a theory. And no I didn't wrap my power supply....I only covered one side and the bottom of the power supply. The top and the other side (on the motherboard side) I only ...

jameswh77, I already mentioned that the Tagan makes the ticking noise and how to solve the problem. I'm more bothered by Tagan's lack of support than the quality or the ticking. If you create a power supply air channel with acoustic foam wedged inside...it muffles the sound about 90 to 95%. Mike C a...

I have the 74GB Raptor suspended on rope in my case lined with acoustical foam. I drilled out the rivets and removed the drive cage of the SLK3700BQE case. The Raptor is the noisiest part in my system. At idle I don't hear it but when the Raptor seeks and writes...you definitely hear it and it gets ...

Ed Ng, I tried looking through this thread (8 pages) if you mentioned from your experience if the low speed yate loon 120mm fans are more quiet than the globe fans that you have tested? I already have 5 globe 120mm low speed fans, just wondering if it's worth buying 10 yate loon 120mm low speed fans...

I was able to efficiently dampen any power supply ticking in the Tagan TG-380 by creating a power supply channel lined with acoustic foam wedge. This reduced the occasional ticking noise that the Tagan power supply produced. I would say with the acoustic foam wedge dampened about 80 to 90% of the po...

Tephras thanks for the reply. I read that too, but what threw me was DCG in another thread said he opened up high Tagan power supply and discovered no PFC. I wanted confirmation that the auto switching of the AC voltage input was the only criteria to determine whether it's ACTIVE PFC or not. If I ca...

Well...I contacted Newegg.com and it seems that it's out of their hands. I ask the customer service person to open up one of the new Tagan power supplies, but he said they couldn't do that. The only thing the customer service would offer me is to have it replaced or get a refund. I kept on persistin...