I found an interesting HDD cooler here

only $10 each + shipping, an easy mod should make this a good muffler/cooler for Raptor, what do you guys think?

I need a solution more permanent, I may move this pc from place to place, damn any deals out there for HDD enclosures? the storagereview.com review did mention that although the dBA number looked good, the actual noise was ..... :roll: I just checked out silent drive and smart drive again, directron...

I have a very very noisy overclocked system, but I can't stand those high pitched whines from the Raptor dual. I tried to find stuff like smartdrive or quietdrive, but they cost way too much, $50 for a drive enclosure? :roll: Suspension sounds like a good idea to me, anybody has experience on that? ...

I opened my Antec 430W and voided the warranty, there are two Dynaeon fans inside, one 92mm, 3000rpm, 35dba and the other 80mm, 3000rpm, 33dba and 27.5CFM, I am wondering if I can swap in two panaflo L1A's, My system needs very little power, Celeron 1.48G@1.27V, GeForec2, 512Mb RAM, 1 hard drive, CD...

Any undervoltable microATX board?

I am extremely dissapointed with the buzzing noise coming out of my new antec true power 430W, the temerpature controlled fan works fine but overall this is one loud PSU.

mpja.com has them for $4 each, and $3.5 for 12+
http://www.mpja.com/productview.asp?product=14293+FN
This is the "H1A" that operates at 24V, if we 5V this baby, shouldn't it be a good 5V L1A alternative?

I won a heatsink, it came in today, it's an SK7, not entirely sure:lol:

hey anyone know about how much air that big fan would push at 5 or 7 volts? CFM and voltage are pretty much linear, at 6V it would push around 50cfm. The question is "can this fan start at 5V or 7V?", somebody reports 12V works fine and "very quiet". I think the ultimate goal is to have an overcloc...

http://www.mpja.com/product.asp?product=12854+FN

at 12V this fan still pushes 100 cfm

The beauty of Athlon is that it can be unlocked, some motherboards unlock T-breds at default. Let's say you buy a 2400+ T-bred B and make is run at 133X8~1GHz, it probably needs only 1.1V or less, so you have a processor that output 20W maximum, and beats any Via solutions any day.

The most powerful fanless video card is probably Radeon 8500/9000 series made by sapphire, newegg sells them, directX 8 support, not too shabby

I want something that turns on fans when a certain temperature is reached and gradually speeds up till full load at another temerature. Has this been done? The fanstorm kit seems to do this, but I am a bit short on cash and wife would never approve it.

Thermalright makes low cost all copper heatsinks, their current flagship SLK800 takes 80mm fan, the discontinued AX-7 (still the king of heatsinks) also accepts 80mm fan, their SK6+ is a lot cheaper, it's like $10 for 400 grams of pure copper, so if you can get a 60mm-80mm adapter cheap I believe it...

1)(Quietest)Toshiba SM1612 Unfourtunately the Toshiba has been replaced with the "1712" which has only 1/4th the cache of the 1612, and I don't think the Benq is still available either. You can still find Toshiba 1612's if you look around on Pricewatch. I just got one a few weeks ago. Thanks for th...

I know you can always slow it down or avoid using cds, but I still want the quietest, so what do you think? Any mod? I heard LG and Toshiba DVD-ROM are very quiet, all I have are lite-ons and they are loud.

A lot of 1.1G Cellies need around 1.7V to get 133FSB, to undervolt you'll have to run stock speed, the best undervolt mobo is Abit ST6 (1.1-2v), ... good luck finding one, other options are ASUS TUSL2, ABit VH6T, the rest are all crap, I have a MSI 694T Pro...and it sucks The Gigabyte board has 1/5 ...

alexcheng1979 wrote:So any idea about the quiteness of the LG combo drive?

I just read this from another forum:

Well i got the LG DVDrom. The drive near silent and i noticed a huge drop in loading GTA3 from my 36x CDrom.

Virtual drive does not work on most modern games, and it shoulden't, as far as cd emulators go, I think Daemon Tools (freeware) is the best, but again, most modern games do not and should not work, if you really hate to spin up your game cd every time you play, try to download a no cd patch for your...

I know a lot of water cooling junkies hanging out at overclockers.com forums, we might as well advertise there:)

It seems these are based on T-bred A core,
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.a ... on=&page=2

I think you should sell your system, the reason: old willy P4 sucks, rambus sucks (they are dying), Intel Mobo sucks (no tweaking options) 1G Ram Overkills (unless you do video editing or host a game server you don't need that amount of ram) Sell this pc on ebay or forums like hardocp, tomshardware ...

Okay I applied the akasa pax mate to my already quiet pc (4X21dba fans) and I couldn't tell the difference, I guess those sound dampening material is best used for really loud stuff