Folks around here have been saying for some time, with regard to case materials, that "aluminum cools better than steel" is a myth . Finally, someone did a side by side comparison (at Systemcooling.com) using two Chieftec Dragon cases - one aluminum and one steel. Here's the linkage: Aluminum vs. St...

For some reason my new 12Ls don't seem as quiet as an old L1a. Is sounds more like 28dB then 21dB. Not to mention that they have an audible click. :( And yes, they are 12Ls. -Por Did you get them from SVC? If so, I'm not sure where SVC is getting their marketing info to call them new 12L's. A week ...

Recommend making the date format international-friendly. Not everyone uses MM-DD-YY. Justin_R, would you be just as happy with only month and year? A 3-character month abbreviation? ie. Oct '04 or Mar 2004? Or does adding the day of the month help as well?

Zyzzyx wrote:Thanks for the info, apologies for the way I forced your hand to deliver it.

No hard feelings at all. Sorry again if my response seemed heavy handed.


btw, that group hug smiley from Steve@ARM cracks me up.

unregistered wrote:At least somebody noticed.

You're right, it is nice to be noticed. Though I guess zero output is a rather dubious way to get attention.

Yeah, but how do you really feel? Well, if you really want to know.... :lol: The goal, especially over the last month or three was to encourage participation, production and have a little fun at the same time. A variety of different approaches were tried and some were less well recieved than others...

I'm NOT folding for another team. Now, with that out of the way.... On the one hand, I'm sure you're just curious where I went and would like to see my points back in the team total so I'll give you a bit of detail below. On the other hand, to be brutally honest,IMO, it really isn't anybody's busine...

Wow, talk about resurrecting an old thread. Idle since Dec 8, 2002

I think Its quite wasteful to use any acoustic damping UNLESS you hear significant vibration, then your only EFFECTIVE choice is the AcoustiPack. This is not true. 1. There are other effective choices besides AcoustiPack. 2. There are 3 purposes for sound damping materials - vibration damping, soun...

I don't think I'll get one....makes your eyes bloodshot.

Is it a funny camera angle or is your contraption skewing to the right? Might want to level that out a bit.

Hmmm...let me rephrase that question. Would a case made of ten pounds of aluminum make more noise than a similar case made of ten pounds of steel? If so, why? That seems like a rather theoretical question unless you are building a DIY case. One of the reasons that aluminum cases are more resonant i...

Becuase there are occasional concerns voiced about what the 7V mod does to the PSU, you might want to consider running them at 5V, directly from your PSU connector, and see if that provides sufficient cooling. I know you said no controller, etc, but you could also invest in 2 Zalman fanmates , find ...

I'd say they had some issues with something--mounting? Oddball fan on the ALCU? Etc? No other review that I have seen has shown such a spread between the two products. Digit-life's thermal resistance ratings seem pretty far out from both the review here and the manufacturers specs. I'm not saying th...

IMO, don't hard mount the drives to the case or the cage--you will have all sorts of resonance/noise issues if you do. Your first idea sounds like a great idea. No matter what you do, 8 Hitachi drives are going to make some noise, but suspending will cut that. My recommendation is to make sure you h...

Check out: Review: Quiet HDDs by Samsung, Hitachi & Seagate - the review on the main site. IV is the quietest. V is pretty quiet, you'd have to have an otherwise very quiet system to notice any difference between a IV and V in normal use. Samsung Spinpoints P80 series are proving to be just about as...

How about just dividing the case into 2 compartments, right at the rail line? Put a plate of metal or foam across the tops of rails, and open up the top CD bay or two. You'd basically be using the whole top 1/3rd of the case as your "duct" I haven't had my hand inside a Dragon in a while, but I thi...

A couple of thoughts you will want to consider. 1) Pulling the power supply out of the box ala Mike C. may be useful as a proof of concept to simulate a perfectly insulated, low impedance duct. If the power supply runs significantly quieter or cooler out of the box, then completing the mod will lik...

In light of Lilla's sticky Building a PSU intake duct/vent , MikeC's sticky Does "Evacuate the heat" role for the PSU work? , & MikeC's system MikeC's external PSU PC , it seems with otherwise proper (or compensating) case airflow, that a PSU duct or PSU isolation (such as outside the case) is a goo...

BUMP:

Do you have any pics yet?

What processor are you cooling?

Have you been able to test to see the effect on the max temps using the Nexus fan?

Anyone else experimented yet with swapping fans on the Zalman 7000?

well, 1.6Ghz is not so much todays. It can be make to run fanless, i believe... Are you perhaps confusing the Pentium M with the speeds of the regular P4 or P4-M? The Centrino combination includes a new, 0.13-micron-process CPU called Pentium M; the new Intel 855 chipset, which supports DDR memory ...

I reducing the drive spin to 2x speed for noiseless operation during moviy playback - remember, 1x is enought, but 2x is safe :wink: And even 4x is virtually QUIET. Ummmm, I may be wrong here, but don't most DVD drives ramp down to 1x or 2x for playback of movie DVDs anyway? Anyone with more info o...

Microsoft don't charge for service pack updates, only for full scale O/S updates. M$, for all their sins, don't try and screw customers for basic updates to their O/S like Mac do. PATHETIC Do you think Apple charge for service packs?? Basic Updates my arse!! ignorance is not clever little boy And d...

Ummmm. Perhaps you missed the article on the main site.

MikeC reviewed this heatsink October 2003. Scythe Heatlane Zen fanless CPU cooler

and Bluefront is using it in the PC featured in this article - PC Cooling & Silencing... with a Cookie Jar!

I personally think you are just setting your goals too high. And the obsession has also gone perhaps a little too far. ...... I do know that the limits of the current case configuration and hardware mean I am reaching the point of diminishing returns. Sounds like you are already there. I don't thin...

Are you abandoning your DIY Acoustipak project? Actually it never really was a project, per se, just an idea to kick around....trying to come up with lower cost, but equally effective damping that people could use. I think if someone got pretty good at slicing 1" foam into 1/2" thick slices with a ...

OK, this is driving me insane. I've currently got one running with a Zalman 7000 CPU cooler, a rear 120mm Panaflo fan, and a SilenX PS. Both front and rear fan grills are completely cut out. The hard drives are caged and isolated. Both fans are at 5V. It's still not quiet enough! While it's very qu...

It's really tough to overclock, and try to move towards a silent PC. So even if I bought like 6 stealthy fans I wouldn´t have enough airflow to overclock? I am already getting really good temps with only 2 fans. But it is too motherfreaking loud for me. Depending on your case's ventilation, 2 good ...

A bottom vent would be absolutetly horrible if the case had small or no feet, and you put it on a shag carpet. Most of the cases I've seen had very little clearance under the computer, so you'd really be limiting your airflow if you're not careful. True, but if you're gonna cut the bottom of your c...

:lol: In general, this has gotten pretty entertaining. :lol: I voted no. Mostly due to bad experiences with previous Macs, and due to the fanaticism of the Mac users that I know. To pour fuel on the fire :twisted:, I think the last point has been well established in this thread. :wink: :lol: /dons f...