You can't will call at newegg, but you can get panaflos at pc club which has a store there too... AFAIK, newegg and pcclub are the only places that carry them around here.

yeah, traditionally, nvidia support is much better than most other manufacturers. Problem w/ dual monitors on one card (i'm assuming you wanna run a single card) is that nvidia didn't start having decent support for that until the heavier (hotter) cards came out. I suppose something like this http:/...

city of industry, off the 60 & nogales, close to mwave and newegg.

Don't know if this will help anyone, but i suppose we'll see. I was opting to replace my HD w/ a spinpoint since i've heard fantastic reviews of them here. Being in the computer parts mecca which is southern california, I found a site which does will call service as well, so I could just pick it up ...

are they still releasing the n chipset? I've been waiting forever....

Actually, my mobile xp is running at 2.5GHz right now, and it seems most people have been getting similar results. 1.575 is the lowest voltage my mobo will do unfortunately, but i believe if i could undervolt, it would still be just as stable.

I've tried various tensions but unfortunately they all yield the same results. Maybe i'll try a different material, like shoelaces...

Thanks for the tips. Picked up an offset ratchet from sears in the US; was quite surprised at their choices... they've got tons. I hear walmart's got some too but i'm not about to give my money to those bastards. I used stretch magic 1.8mm and it holds pretty well. My results have been poor though. ...

The problems I mention go way back starting from the BH6's (anybody remember those!!?) and up... I'm not sure if these problems apply still since Abit has had plenty of time to improve their QC with new designs and better production experience, so you gotta take my words with a grain of salt. Over t...

1. General consensus in the hardware community is that the xp2500 M is the best bang for the buck for Socket 462 at the moment. This all depends on which platform you wanna run on of course. 2. NF7 from Abit seems to be a popular board for undervolting. I've had bad experiences w/ Abit though so I'm...

thanks for the update. I'm definitely gonna have to try this myself; my seagate's driving me nuts.

Where did you get the offset screwdriver btw?

I've got both the BQE (picked up for $60 on a special from mwave!) and the V1000. I would assume the V1100 is more quiet than the V1000, but here's my experience so far. The assumption that steel is much more quiet than aluminum definitely holds true, and while the V1000 is indeed an awesome case, i...

I'm running the ti4200 w/ zalman passive cooling (the OP1 was too noisy) for some light gaming and regular 2D. It gets quite hot but I haven't experienced any artifacting thus far.

So I took the plunge and put down 160 for the Phantom which I'm hoping turns out to be sound investment. Here's my setup: Lian-Li V1000 Asus A7N8X Athlon 2500+ XP M clocked @ 2.5Ghz (12.5x200) 1.575 Vcore Zalman 7000AlCu 2 x Papst 4412FGL Passively cooled TI4200 As mentioned by Mike and several othe...

Actually, IIRC, you wanted to build a fanless machine right? I'd recommend going w/ one of the passively cooled mini itx's. Here's a link to a model: http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/23/products_id/150 I dunno if that particular store is any good, but they seem to have quite a bit o...

wow, that's awesome... interested in seeing what kind of results you can get!

What kind of HD is that anyways?

afraid I can't contribute much, but I joined up.

cool, thanks for everything! If i do get around to trying, i'll be sure to post results.

Mike, So does that mean you think a fanless PSU might work for a V1000? I remember thinking that it'd probably be a bad idea since there's no ventilation from other sources... This is all assuming you can get the case itself to take some heat? BTW, for anyone interested, the Phantom is only about $1...

Just a word to the wise, if you're planning on purchasing a Seasonic, try and buy from a retailer which has a lot of turnover on inventory. Yesterday, 10/04/04, I visited two Fry's in my area to pick one up. To my dismay, ALL of the units on hand for the super silencers were revision a2 or below; cu...

Yeah, sounds like you're absolutely right. I've only got one HD so my particular situation is clearly not as dire. Your idea sounds like it's got a lot of potential, and I'd be interested in hearing what kind of results you can get by de-railing the cage. Please post if you ever get around to taking...

Haven't tried removing the side rails...

As a side note though, couldn't you suspend the drives vertically from the top of the cage? I imagine the cooling capabilities would be rather diminished though...

Just a quick note, hitachi feature tool does not work on the 7200.7's.

Reads as "acoustic management not supported."

Well at least not for my 80G SATA.

Yeah, the PC club by my office, monrovia, stocks lots of them.

If you can't find them, just ask the salespeople. That's the only store i've found so far which stocks good fans.

So ever since I bought my first 7200.7, i've been a big fan of these drives. They're very quiet (sorta), cheap, and the 5 year warranty is unbeatable. My first one was purchased at a retail store (fry's) about 1 1/2 years ago and it was absolutely silent! Regular operation was fantastic; nearly no n...

Thx david, just hoping to contribute so other people can benefit

Anyways, I just took a dremel to my case. I was reading that post about tin snips though, and it sounds pretty interesting. It seems as if that might be a better idea? Admittedly, i've never tried them, so I can't really tell.

Thanks for the reference, next time I'll be sure to do more research before asking =p My old antec is actually not too big so I have the luxury of tucking the extra cables in front of or behind it. You're right about modular though, I would think that would definitely be the way to go. Sealing the c...

NM about the PS, I just saw your sig

haha, whatever floats your boat. As long as you like it :) I actually was kinda dreading not having any active exhaust but I tried it anyways. Since it didn't raise my case temp by too much, I figured it would be fine for now. Of course, my box runs absolutely stable, but longevity of my components ...

Randomly googled here and just found this awesome site! I too, have a v1000 and while I'm pretty happy with it, I concur with what david and teejay have had to say. I have done a couple of minor mods though which I believe have improved the case a little bit. First thing of course, was to cut out th...