Well I RMA'd the drive today, will get a new one (or the same back) hopefully within a day...

My 7K250 is acting strange... It's kinda unstable and its seek noise is extremely loud. I've run a couple of driver diagnostic tools and none show any errors. I don't know what's wrong. My former drive, a Deskstar 120GXP was a lot more noisy when idle, but it's seek noise was way less loud than my 7...

The Plextor really seems lika a winner... =)

well I'm not that frequent a visitor of SPCR...

Tibors wrote:There are two or three threads in the "Silent Storage" forum about quiet optical drives. Check them out.

Ooops, I did a search and found nothing, guess I used some bad search words...

Ok thanks for your input, unfortunatly I live in Sweden so the shipping will kill the price anyway, but you can find one in Sweden for about $120... After looking it up I think I like the SATA version very much. That version probably won't mean any extra performance but I would like to get rid of th...

That sounds awesome, gonna add that one to my "to check out" list...

More suggestions appreciated...

My DVD-Rom sounds lika a jet engine. I'm looking for a new drive that is either a CD-Rw/DVD combo drive or a DVD-+Rw drive that is really quiet. ASUS has something called QuieTrack in some of their drives and after "hearing" one of their CD-Roms I was impressed, it wasn't quiet, but still a lot less...

Qwertyiopisme wrote:

Zeatrix wrote:

Qwertyiopisme wrote: Um... WHich retailer may that be?

*hopes-for-somewhere-near-gothenburg-or-mailorder*

www.gtek.net

Of course...

Go Gtek!

IMO they're the best for cooling stuff.

yes and they are located in Gothenburg and have mailorder... so I guess all your wishes have gone true...

Qwertyiopisme wrote:

Zeatrix wrote:A retailer here in Sweden does have the 7000B (both Cu and AlCu) in stock...

Um... WHich retailer may that be?

*hopes-for-somewhere-near-gothenburg-or-mailorder*

www.gtek.net

oooh =)

Didn't know that thx for the tips...

=(

According to Zalmans website the Neo2 is compatible with the 7000B, at least when you don't have a graphics card with their heatpipe no-fan cooler...

alleycat wrote:I've got 3 Arctic Cooling TC Pro's, and they all vary slightly in noise level and quality. None of them are anywhere near as quiet as a Panaflo 80L @ 7V.

Problem is, there is no retailer here in Sweden that carries those... :/

Ok fair enough, heck it's at half the price.

So if noone else gets in the discussion I think I've made up my mind...

Pondering which HS to replace the stock AMD cooler for my Athlon 64 3500+ with. It has come down to these two: Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu or Swiftech MCX6400-V I'm thinking about pairing the Swiftech heatsink with either an Arctic Cooler temperature controlled 80 mm fan or a temerature controlled 80 mm f...

A retailer here in Sweden does have the 7000B (both Cu and AlCu) in stock...