I use a ZM80D on my 6600GT, but I have a 120mm blowing on it. Honestly it should be fine with no fan. My temps are 39C Idle and 49C after hours of gaming in a warm room. Don't see why you couldn't run passive since these cards handle high 60's with ease and much more than that sometimes. Have seen p...

Very nice modding! Good to see the case modders joining in on the silent movement. And very cool concepts with the passive radiators as well!

did that case come rigged up for WC already with the 2 top 120mm's? If so can you pm me a link to where i can find it?

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just found the case as my lazy arse googled it. WOW. you did some nice cutting on those top 120mm's.

You should get along just fine by running an RPM sensing wire to the fan header and just running the fan's power directly from the PSU. If I read what you wrote correctly, you just shorted out the fan header. Assuming the RPM sensing pin still works correctly, it's all you need to let your Mobo know...

Same as above, Zalman is super nice about replacement mounting hardware. Emailed them once for 7000AlCu replacement mounts for an A64, even told them i cut the thing to fit on a non-recommended board and they shipped me a new one that arrived in less than 3 days. Excellent service.

If you don't need a 24-pin ATX plug (nforce4 chipset) then Coolmax makes some cheap PSU's that are pretty quiet. The one reviewed here didn't seem to be as quiet as the 400 watt one I owned. It was better than my Fortron from a noise point of view. They have selectable switches on the back for fan s...

The Evercool 120mm ball bearing fan is actually making more noise than I thought at first, noise which I may have wrongly attributed to the power supply. It sounded ok at first but is starting to bug me now, and I think I need to look for a new fan (sleeve bearing this time). I've owned 3 90/92mm E...

If you're interested at all, I will soon have my 6600GT up for sale. It's a PNY with a Zalman ZM80D-HP heatpipe attached. I would be willing to do sub-$200 for it :) It's dual-dvi, HDTV, S-Video out. PCI-E, but I figured that's what you were looking for with your system components you mentioned. I h...

Corsair Value Select is on Asus' Memory QVL so it should work just fine.

I use an XP-120 on my A8N-SLI Deluxe. I would highly recommend the XP-90 or XP-120 over the Zalman. The difference in noise for me was like night and day for the same end cooling result.

Case: Silverstone LC13 - awesome case for HTPC's Power supply: Seasonic S12-330 - good choice and plenty of power CPU: AMD Athlon 64 754 3000+ - Go 939. Lots cooler. Even a Winchester will suffice here. Venice is newer though and has a few good improvements over the Winchester. Motherboard: AOpen AK...

The stupid placement of the chipset on most nF4 boards almost made me go Intel.. Surely you are exaggerating . The only ones which truly aren't fit to the job are the Gigabyte, MSI and Foxconn. The rest are clear or with the chipset on the right side of the slot. How will that interfere? Most NF4 b...

Don't they sell the Zalmans in blue and red now anyways?

that card was beautiful

Nice work Ed.

Have you tried overclocking the AN8 to high FSB? I'm looking for a suitable candidate for replacing my A8N-SLI since I can't run above 240mhz 1T on my RAM.

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These are excellent fans. I use 5 of them total in my current rig

When undervolted to 5v I can't tell much of a difference between these and Nexus 120mm's.

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Funkyness.

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Nice but doesn't do the job very well, the seek and write noises are way too loud, I'm beginning to dislike the drive cage more and more, so the appointment with Mr. Dremel will be very soon. The biggest problem I ran into with the drive sleds is the grommets. Even if you pad the drive, the screw r...

You can take a look at my rig in my signature. I have Yate Loon medium speed fans running at 900 RPM for intake and exhaust as well as one on my XP-120. My temps are typically around 34-35C Idle on the CPU and around 35C for the case. I think this is plenty of cooling. My 3200+ runs at 2.3ghz which ...

Something to think about on your PSU choice... ATX12v 2.0 In my opinion is a bugged standard. If you've read about people's experiences with this standard on SLI rigs you'll know what I'm talking about. While the idea is good, the practical use and application of it is severely crippled. You have 2 ...

Any idea whether the ZM80D-HP will preclude you from an SLI setup in the future? I'm running the same board, and while I by no means need two GPUs right now, I was thinking it might give me a nice lower cost graphics upgrade in the future From what I can tell, you can add a second card in right now...

I'll try to get one of those too. Only problem I had with those is that my camera does not like the LED lights. It makes the autofocus mess up pretty bad so all I wind up getting is a blue ball in the middle of a black background. I'll give it another whirl though

In Why your LOCATION is really useful! MikeC wrote: 2) Some information is very localized & if others know where you are (at least roughly), they can be much more helpful. For example, ssking about the availability of a product without reference to where you are is... silly. But this happens often....

funny how i went to lengths to silence my PC and then listen to this...

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Nice! How did you attach the fan to the zalman btw? Does it come with mounting equipment or did you knock something up? I should probably have included this in the original post. I went to my local hardware store and bought some 4-40 1 1/4" sheet metal screws that came with included nuts. I also fo...

Post updated with working pics

Nice work with the dremel!

and LMAO at the pic of you in the masks

My first completely SPCR inspired build. System: Antec SLK3700BQE w/ cutout grills, 120mm Yate Loon fans Seasonic Super Silencer 460w PCI-E ready version A8N-SLI Deluxe (Bios 1004 final) w/ NB47J Athlon 64 "Winchester" 3200+ @ 2.3ghz (230x10) Thermalright XP-120 w/ Yate Loon 120mm 2x512 OCZ Platinum...

Are those front fan mounts 120s?