I would also experiment with ducting, even simple cardboard cutout will have a nice effect on overall temperatures, guiding the hot air from the CPU towards the rear output will decrease CPU temp (and others) by a nice amount. I ducted. Some inventive person around here cut up the box that the Ninj...

If your power supply is noisy, and your cpu cooler is already below this noise level, there is not much to gain by changing it out for a bigger one. Actually , the XP-90 is a pretty decent cooler that is goog enough for all but the hotest CPU's If you can start and stop the CPU fan and not hear any ...

I just had to copy this. It does not look as good because my Ninja does not line up with the case fan so well, but the machine became quieter immediately. The main reason appears to be the 2nd fan on my Smartpower 2.0 stopped spinning. The ambient temperature is a rather warm 27C here. With the duct...

Don't you have anything real to worry about?

So they throw in a fan that is not on the SPCR recommended list and raise the price $5.

I have one, its not a bad fan.

$5m OK one less big Mac.

Ancient.

I used to have a telephone wihout a dial or buttons. When you picked it up the operator said "number please".

As far as the effect of the hot Intel CPU goes on blow down, that is a real possibility. Anyway, I have a Ninja Plus with the stock fan running 700 rpm. Exhaust is via an Antec fan rated for 1600 rpm @ 12v, but running @ 5v. The PSU is a Smart Power 2.0 350 with the push-pull 80 mm fans. No intake f...

I would not get too excited about the X-Bit Labs test. They run their 120mm fans @ 1600 rpm, at least double what is typical for a quiet PC. It seems that coolers with closely spaced fins provide more cooling at high airflows. The coolers with widely spaced fins work better at low airflows. As for D...

I bet its pink for some random reason. Someone liked the color or the equipment was set up to do pink.

Tzupy: It seems counter productive to me to buy an expensive passive cooler and add two fans to it. Once a fan is dedicated to a cooler, it is no longer passive. Someone around here is cooling a 7900GT with a ZM80D-HP, passive. A lot will depend on the airflow in your case. If I thought a fan was a ...

Why give the guy a hard time. OK, TT products are not popular around here, but some of them work in some applications, even quiet applications. It looks to me like a really nice budget system. Lots of bang for the buck. There are all sorts of off beat fans out there that run silent at low voltage ev...

I am not so sure about the blow across vs blow down issue. In a recent SPCR article about an overclocked dual core Intel system the author found lower PWM temperatures with a Ninja than a SP-120.

What is your room temperature? Is it something like 20C? I won't see anything like that until Thanksgiving.

Neil

Time to put that system in the Staff Rig sticky. No doubt everyone around here wants to see it. Some notes on how 64-bit computing is working for you would be appreciated as well.

It does not look like a P180 at all. There is no duct for the PSU, and the PSU is in the usual place at the top. Perhaps a replacement for the 3X00 series. Somewhere I saw a listing for a NSK6000. Its a 6500 with no PSU.

First off, thanks for all the work at Madshrimps. There is a temperature sensor that is marked System. I don't know if that is PWM, but it dropped about 4 degrees under heavy load. The CPU is a 3800 X2 running @ 2400 mhz/1.35v, or sometimes faster. Northbridge seems to track the CPU, so reductions o...

Ball bearing fans usually make more noise than fans with bushings.

The perfect case would be a P150 with no power supply and more durable elastic to suspend the drives. Color is in the eye of the beholder.

For that combination a Ninja/Nexus is a great choice. Probably not possible to beat it. Just make sure your motherboard fits it. Most socket 939 motherboards will work. Just check around and make sure someone has used a Ninja on the MB you like.

I prefer to weep. LOLROF

Care to tell us about the rest of the parts?

According to this:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... i=2688&p=2

The new socket is totally incompatible with all 3rd party coolers.

Read it and weep.

The Ninja is highly respected, as is the Nexus fan. However, you have not told us anything about your system, other than it will mix audio in a CPU intensive way. For all anyone knows, you might need a fan that moves more air than the Nexus, or no fan at all, or the Ninja will not fit in your system.

The Mine does not look like a general replacement for the Ninja in the context of silent computing as the Ninja is better at low air flows. Perhaps the mine will be better in applications involving the hotter Intel processors. However, it has been pointed out that the industry is transitioning to lo...

Every now ant then the question is asked, should I replace my Zalman cooler with a Ninja. Rather than ask in his forum, I just went out and bought one this morning, over the counter at Directron. Since I suspended my drives the Zalman cooler had become more noticeable. It has also warmed up here in ...

I have an Antec SLK2650 case. So far as I know it is the smallest case that will hold a full ATX motherboard and a 12 cm exhaust fan. It is 16.5x16.5x8.25 inches. The NSK4400 and SLK1650 are the same size, and similar to each other, but the 2650 is a nicer case. Evercase makes something that is only...

58 C on a passive card is not all that bad. Try turning off the front intake fan and let the exhaust and PSU fans create a slight negative pressure in the case to draw air in past the video card. Close off part of the front air intake, or any other intake that is not needed to raise the amount of ai...

Its not all that easy to test fans or coolers, for that matter. There are a lot of variables. The cooler they used has very tightly spaced fins and does not work that well at low air flows, according to Madshrimp's own tests. They tested with an open case. How about a closed case test, but that brin...

Nice build.

It never ceases to amaze me how much more difficult it is to cool an Intel processor than an AMD. However, ingenuity and a Ninja come to the rescue.

Somewhat of an afterthought, but if I were going to build a system that generated a lot of heat, I would use a VGA cooler that sends the heat out of the case. That's at least 50 watts you don't have to worry about anymore.

Some of the members have been unnecessarily harsh on the author of a very fine DIY piece. It may be easier to build an X2 than an Intel 2 core desktop system, but that is not a reason to not do one. There are lots of ways to make an X2 system into a complicated project: 1. High ambient temperatures ...