The most efficient PSU for normal use, that I know of, is the Corsair VX450W.
I have one in my current system. I HIGHLY recommend it.

Samsung 226CW 22" Sleep: <=1W "Load" (100% brightness): 44W Odd. My Samsung 226CW 22" draws less power than yours. At my "Custom" Setting of 100% and 80 Contrast it uses 32W Using the "Game" , "Sport" and "Movie" presets - Also 32W "Internet" preset : 23W "Text" preset : 19W I don't use the Dynamic...

Interesting that two people have a system similar to mine and is upgrading to a E/Q6600 - I have a Barton 2500+ on a Abit NF7-S 2.0 with a Zalman 7000 AlCu (version 1 , so I had to mod it to mount it on the Barton) in a Antec SLK3700 case and I'm upgrading very soon to a Q6600 system. If you're goin...

Thank you guys, I think I am leaning towards the Corsair PSUs, so now ill need to look into them further :) Link to the Swedish pricerunner site , showing Corsair PSU's sorted by price (lowest first) : http://www.pricerunner.se/f/640/Naetaggregat?a_search=corsair&sort=3&noidx=1 577 SEK seems like a...

Not sure if anyone's suggested this before - Dead PCI card (well it's dead now). Hole's been cut with a Dremel. I would never have suggested it myself .. It's too much work and you destroy a PCI card. I have a much simpler solution : 1) Find a PCI slot cover 2) Bend it 3) Attach fan 4) Mount in PC ...

I'd recommend a Corsair VX450W , it should provide more than enough power and it's the cheapest , most power efficient and most silent of the Corsair series.
The extra power provided by the HX520 , VX550 and HX620 is only needed if you run a Quad-core , Multi-GPU and/or extreme RAID setup.

I've seen comparisons that rated the XP-90C above the XP-120 in cooling performance - Only the C version though.

On Feb 2nd 2003 I recieved this message from MikeC : "You're the lucky winner of a Seasonic 300 PSU!" And I'm still using that PSU .. thanks Mike! It's good and quiet. However the next time I'm building a PC I will be putting a Chill Innovation PSU in it. I have already built a PC for one of my frie...

SCORE! .. lots of "Cases With 120mm Exhaust Mounts"

http://nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58165

The Antec SLK3000B is not on the list.
It's steel and there is a review of it on this site.

Also I suggest you sort the list in alphabetical order (but keep the seperation of aluminium and steel cases)

Try using ATItools feature to detect 2D mode and set it to underclock in 2D. I have my 9700 set to run at 215 core / 250 mem (too low will make it unstable .. I don't suggest going under 210mhz core) For thoose with compatible boards 8rdavcore from hasw.net can be used to over/underclock the CPU bas...

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Yesterday I helped a friend of mine install his new Sharkoon HSP1. I had recommended it to him after seeing the review jmke wrote on Madshrimps.be. After having worked with it and seen it cool his overclocked Athlon XP 1700+ , I can also without a doubt recommend it to everybody .. It really is an e...

And another one :
http://overclockers.com/articles1094/

Another interesting cooler :
http://tw.giga-byte.com/Peripherals/Pro ... ooler).htm

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What motivated you the most to buy it ?

The HSF you hadn't seen before or the CPU itself ?

:lol: " including SPCR's pages. " yep.. too bright for me, although I do like the grey back-back ground as you see around the logo.. I'm using HQ TFT screens, white background is more taxing, it's like staring at a lightbulb for extended periods of time. I like darker colours better as they are eas...

You must have problems viewing most pages on the net then .. including SPCR's pages. Are you sure you're not running in a too high resolution with a low monitor-refreshrate ? I don't have trouble viewing pages on the net. I'm using a good 19" monitor at 1024 x 768 with a refreshrate of 100hz .. I al...

Sharkoon mostly have dealers in Europe (I believe Sharkoon is a german manufacturer) , but their website does list one dealer in the US : http://www.sharkoon.com/dealer/deal_usa.htm That dealers website is down for the time being though, and they might not carry the HSP1, since Sharkoon have so far ...

I couldn't read the article for long... The black background with white text was driving my eyes crazy and all the pictures were huge with no thumbnails. I just had to press the close button before the headache would start... I'll have to wait for the SPCR review. :) A SPCR review would be really n...

I wanted to point out this recent test by Madshrimps.be : http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=213 In it they mostly test various heatpipe-tower-coolers and find them to perform great .. also at low-airflow/low-noise settings. One of them .. the Sharkoon HSP1 , outperforms even the Th...

Isn't it still about double pane windows ? I'm not a crazy watercooling freak btw .. I aircool my pc and I don't do crazy modding stuff like cutting up my perfectly good case and putting in windows. nuttybing did such a nutty thing so he might have liked the idea or it could at least inspire him to ...

I have two such fans running at about 5v (fanmates lowest setting) in my system and I can't hear them at all. Ofcourse to get this low noiselevel i had to cut away the fangrills as they were making a lot of tubulence noise .. with something obstructing the air they were not very silent at all. When ...

Here's a crazy idea. If you use double windows you could put in some extra work and make the two windows a sealed unit with an intake and outtake for water. Filling it up with water should dramaticly increase the mass and thereby the sound insulation. If you do water cooling it would serve as a spif...

If you have 8rdavcore and a compatible motherboard you can do something similar , but the builtin support with theese CPU's is a really good thing

There are ways to get around the mounting problems. I've written a short teaser about my method for mounting the CNPS7000 here : http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40348 Seeing as many people in several forums seem to have problems like this maybe I should write a full guide with pictur...

It's funny how someone always seems to bring up issues here on SPCR that I independently have started working on. I have a Zalman CNPS7000 (not an A version) mounted on my Abit NF7-S 2.0 If you have some insight in the Zalman models you'd know that this is already out of the ordinary as the 7000 (no...

8rdavcore is capable of undervolting at least a Asus A7N8X , maybe It will work too on the MB you've choosen http://www.hasw.net/8rdavcore/index.html And undervolting does work , but even without your choice of component will ensure you a very cool and low-noise system. I myself am using a custom mo...

It became available to me , with a BIOS upgrade for my NF7-S 2.0 (a Nforce2 board). It works very well - better than Vcool. I think it was the update to version 1.6 that did it for me. I'm now running 1.7 because that includes other advantages like more stable and overclock friendly memory. Version ...