Well, you answered yourself! 65W vs. 110W...

Sorry, I have no idea. The ac97 codec is very noisy, and you'll find lots of info about this if you google. Electrical interference from the rest of the mobo. I use a Chaintech av710 ($25 PCI card) and get clean sound. It happens with most of the onboard audio outputs. Good enough for games, bad for...

I have the same mobo. The onboard audio is noisy. All you can do is disable it and install a PCI sound card.

I am planning a new build very similar to yours. The only difference is the mobo, the abit ip35 pro, a bit more expensive, but wit 8-12 volts control over 6 fans. Looks good!.

That and the fact that the new one is installed by pushpins, something a lot of people complain about. You have to get bolts (with isolating spacers for the undermotherboard) to install it properly. http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2313/img0025qf3.jpg http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread...

Remove all you can from it (leave just what you need to boot) and clear the cmos. Try again. If you have other power supply, try it.

Good to know!. Now I only have to get some bolts to avoid the pins that the ninja comes with.

Is it a S-flex?. Is it noisier?. At which voltage becomes inaudible?.

Hepa filters trap dust, but as the filter gets more and more filled with it, the air path gets blocked. After a few months of use (or weeks, depends on the dirt they accumulate) they have to be replaced for new ones. They work well with good filters, but you have to keep buying new ones. The electro...

Electrostatic air cleaners work very well, and the metallic grid that traps the charged dust can be removed and washed with water. Easy, economical and clean. I purchased the European version of this one: http://www.friedrich.com/aircleaner/ Works very well, although I had to undervolt the fan to us...

I guess this mobo could work with some s-flex and/or nexus fans well enough to be (almost) silent. I might give it a try!. I haven't been able to confirm if it works with ubuntu, though.

Not my t-balancer, AFAIK. I've been looking for the voltage range in the faneq bios settings, but I have found nothing. If it is only 8-12V, then the whole thing lacks interest...

Speedfan has no linux version. And I prefer a bios control system than a software one. Programs hung up and stop working sometimes. I have a t-balancer, but it makes pwm noise with many fans and the cable mess you have to go through with it is terrible. It all comes to personal preference. If you li...

The abit can control 6 fans, linking them to any of the 3 temps monitored in the board, selecting the high-low temp and the high-low voltage you want on them. If you want a silentPC, the abit seems better.

Yup, the samsung suspended is (almost) inaudible.

http://anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/sh ... spx?i=3046

Interesting concept, but at 800W it must be a hot noisy thing!

And everyone who says that it's bullshit, who hasn't tried it (and I'm not talking about the Longhorn beta almost a year ago) is a self-righteous jerk. I think that if your passionate defense of Vista needs that kind of argument, then I will no longer post here. I am not paid to be nobody's advocat...

Abit IP35 Pro: can control 6 fans (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainbo ... pro_7.html)

This one can be the silencers' dream: it monitors 6 fans, even shutting down the system when overheating, and can control their speed too!:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainbo ... pro_7.html

Anyone knows if it works in linux?.

I think that the main point is not whether or not vista is better (after five years of work!) than XP. The point is that we finally had a version of windows working well (2 service packs and coutless updates later), after 5-6 years of work by the crappy company that makes it. And all of a sudden, we...

I use ubuntu...Did you know that Canonical sends you as many CDs as you want with the current version FOR FREE?.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.... ;=))

Many gigabyte 4-pin mobo sockets can power a 3-pin fan. Read the manual of the 35-dq6. You may get lucky.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/cooling/444/

Seems interesting, but noisy.

Another vote for the samsung HD501LJ. This thing is dead quiet when suspended, compared to my previous seagates. VERY nice HDD.

I got one of those 120 mm scythe fans and when I tried to connect it to my t-balancer I got a TERRIBLE noise. The Papst fans do this too. The only fans that I know are immune to PWM noise are nexus-yate loons. My scythe is now connected to the mobo case fan connector and works fine, noiseless at 800...

For a 500 GB, I just got a Samsung HD501LJ. I suspended it, and it is really hard to believe that 1 meter away I cannot hear it spinning; the seeks are almost inaudible. From a close distance it only makes a soft whoooossssssssss that is not unpleasant. Highly recommended.

I just got one of those, I suspended it, and I have to say I am impressed. This thing is dead silent!. I cannot hear it. Sometimes I think I can hear the seeks, but otherwise it is a great HDD. After suffering two 160GB seagates for a couple of years, this is a relief!.

With an Athlon64 3200 (socket 754)?..Maybe a thermalright XP-90? Will it ft?. I dont find much info on this mobo. Anyone installed a ninja on it?. The Thermalright HR05 for the chipset appears to be compatible.

I have the xp90 with a 90 papst fan (t-balanced) on an athlon64 3500 and most of the time it runs fanless. Only under heavy load spins. It is a great cooler. I do not like those other with nonstandard fans. When it dies (or becomes noisy), you cannot replace it.

Regards.

That happened to me when a fan in my msi 6600gt did not start at 7v with the computer. Dead card!. If your brother did not install properly the sink (it did not sit flat on the chip with the termal paste) or the fan did not spin for a while, this hot bastard dies. That's the danger of tinkering! Reg...