Ha! i'm happy with my cool-running 6800GT. i chuckle whenever i hear people buy the new expensive cards when i think about the crappy upcoming games. is it me or are games becoming lamer?

seems to be a software problem and reformatting and reinstalling all your software should fix the problem.

C/W versus dBA sounds good! but i think the same reference fans should be used on all heatsinks. the better fans have almost zero bearing noise so i don't see a problem with the fan selection. this might even make results more accurate as a computer can do a plot to fit the data that may be closer t...

i think it would be a great idea! of course it would have to be a well-selected fan and the same fan would be used for everything.

VERY NICE!!! yes I think it can beat the Zalman case and be smaller than the Zalman too. Of course it will be heavy but we are strong! what is that thing under the case for? I don't understand what that pyramid-like thing on top is? hmmm... would i help to also have heatsink ridges on the inside to ...

My liquid metal TIM actually arrived about a week ago. The directions that came with it were in German, and I didn't realize there were English instructions online, so I just winged it. So far temps are no better than with AS5, but as I mentioned, I didn't follow their installation instructions, so...

fast 64GB memory drives for less than $400 would be really sweet!

I think the best way to passive cooling and cases will ultimately be a variant of the Zalman TN-500/TN-300. There doesn't need to be direct ventilation if you can somehow get the heat to exhaust through the aluminum metal. Of course selecting low-heat components would always be a must. All-passive c...

that's a really nice PSU!

Just a thought about modding this, but why not yank the stock 92mm fan, block the central hole with a plug of some sort and mount a 120mm fan in front of the heatsink? I'd imagine that this would dramatically improve airflow across the fins and/or decrease noise level since it would allow for use o...

Just cool the sides of the HD drive, where most of the heat goes. Otherwise you will just be cooling the temp sensor and mistakenly think that you lowered temps when all you really did is cool the sensor. Don't worry about the top and bottom of the HD drive. Watercooling HDD is really cool because i...

0 dB is too loud, and clearly audible to human ears. You are looking for negative infinity dB or at the very least low dBA.

you need a monitor and good speakers or good headphones

Another zalman reserator ripoff?

Going back to the actual review. Without venturing into the desktop area that includes overclocking/undervolting/cooling/measuring how desktop memory and such affect performance but looking at the review purely from the mobile point I'd say this review isn't bad. On average Turion performs on par w...

i want to buy it

watercool it. 50C cooler temps than stock has very clear benefits in longevity and overclocking.

Guys, I'm new here and am in the process of building a custom PC case that uses water and natural convention cooling. It is my second attempt to build a quiet PC case but this one is a more ambitious project. THe first case was eventually a good success using a Zalman quiet power supply. I would li...

That's a nice computer but... is it really neccesary to get an expensive P180 when you are watercooling anyway? You don't even need those case fans if you're watercooling.

that looks delicious!

How about a 3600RPM 6GB CF-card drive? Those things are absolutely silent, far more silent than any 5400RPM notebook drive.

MikeC does have a good point in that even a slow-spinning fan can reduce temps drastically while being virtually inaudible. There have been many fanless PSUs that did fail, but the newer model of the Phantom seems to be fine. However, myself and a friend of mine have been running the Phantom 350 (ne...

phantom 350 is the best PSU i have ever owned! i will use it for the next 60 years until i die!

Sounds strange. I got lucky and got a quiet MAG, but I muffled it anyway to make it virtually silent. But I hear some people are not so lucky, and you are one of them. Definately get it replaced. I would also recommend 20% antifreeze/coolant and 80% water, because it makes it thicker and quieter.

well the answer is no. and no PSU is quieter than my fanless PSU.

This applies for all the fanless PSU's I've come across. My Antec Phantom 350 can easily supply 500W as well. All fanless PSUs seem to be very conservatively rated. Of course they need to be very high quality in the first place to be fanless, and not to mention the price.

A new fan is out. It is a contrarotary fan that directs a straight, focused blast of air rather than spread outward like standard fans. Think they might be useful?

http://www.ainex.jp/list/fan/cft-85.htm

I dunno about the noise level but that stuff could always be improved.

It may not have mercury but that no aluminum warning makes you wonder. When you expose aluminum to air its surface immediately oxidises and forms a hard shell that protects it. If you put mercury on it that strips off the oxidised coating and exposes new aluminum to oxidation which is in turn strip...

I wonder if they chip to USA...

Of course those after performance or passive cooling will be using copper or copper-hybrid coolers.

I think the material might be Gallium-Indium-Tin Eutectic.

Those metallic syringes look awesome! It gives me an urge to inject it into the next stranger that walks by...