its one of those DOS programs?? anyway, the link doesnt work, but i found another one featuretool_v195.exe... i suppose its the same thing right? and sorry to be newb at this... how do i use this program? and will it work for my other 2 hdd? if so .. ur my savior!! heheheh jazn Yeah, thats the same...

I have a WD800JB too and its definetly the loudest piece of hardware on my PC now. You can quiet down the platter arm to inaudible levels by using this little program, but you can't do much with the spinning whine that you get. User Guide: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/ftool_userguide.pdf Do...

Do you guys find you Phantom running more cool after 1-2 days of usage ? I find mine stabilizes to run more cool after 1 day of use.

Everything you've stated is pretty much right. As for your question, "why don't we see more high efficiency PSUs?" That's a pretty good question, isn't it? What if I told you that they're working as best they can and that if you sort the most efficient PSUs available, you'll get a list of the most ...

Well, at first I thought is was my PSU and case fans that were causing all the noise, then I switched to a fanless PSU and lowered all my fan speeds and to my biggest surprise the HDD was causing that awful whining and high pitched "Dell" quiet sound. 1. First get a fanless PSU or a Seasonic Tornado...

Of course they work....why do you suppose all the new designs employ heatpipes? Getting one to run passive is another story. And strictly depends on your own setup. :lol: Marketing hype, 99.9% of people jump at the newest and fastest labelled performance specs. I know heatpipes work in high end mis...

The hitatchi feature tool does work on WD drives. At least it did on mine. Thanks, this little program did wonders on the seek noise, I enabled it for AAM from the 255 to 128 setting(want kind of units are these ?) and now the seek noise is almost inaudible, but what can I use to reduce spindle spe...

A bit of Googling leads me to believe that it's nothing more than the typical AAM sort of application. These work by changing the seeking action of the heads and probably do give a slight bit of a performance hit. It seems like the company that developed this software has disappeared and the last u...

Does this proggie really work in quieting HDD, or does performance suffers ?

1 60mm CPU fan Delta @3000rpm I have one of those in a box that was used before I started quieting my PC, it is awfull! extremely noisy! EDIT: However I do sometimes use it if I need gobs of airflow and something goes wrong, it si really tiny and blows a ton (sounds like a lite-on at 52x though...,...

Hi, Recently purchased a Sapphire 9550 128MB card which has come with a fan on it. I do notice, however, that many of these cards from other vendors come passively cooled, so I'm presuming I'd have no problem swapping the fan for a passive sink? If so, what would anyone recommend I replace it with?...

Alright its New Year's Eve and my local PC store phones me and wakes me saying my Phantom has arrived, so I go get it and install it and here are the results: First Glance The PSU is nicely packaged in a slick glossy pictured box and inside a high density foam box protects the PSU from damage if dro...

Good luck passing FCC. :P There are ways to avoid that. Its like renovating an old building without having to apply for a permit lets say for building a new one and build everything new inside ! Does modifying some performance components on your car require it to pass DOT again ? ...NO !!! Modifyin...

I have 18+ years background in metal working and eletronics manufacturing and thee stuff i see makes me laugh ...hahaha ! Well it might be quite hard to beat for example seasonic's revision A3 psus, or nexus nx4090. If you build it around some other manufacturers psu, i wonder what new you can real...

Has anyone here use them without a fan ? and if so which ones ? I wanna use it and get rid of my Globalwin fan/sink

Anyone want to form a company ?

We can use someone's PSU as stock to work from ! Fortron, SPI etc...

I have 18+ years background in metal working and eletronics manufacturing and thee stuff i see makes me laugh ...hahaha !

So none of them are acceptable Ahanix or SlienX ?

I think I can design a better and quieter PSU than anything on the market for a much cheaper cost, but for now I have purchased a fanless Antec Phantom. Passive PSU is where the action is !

i also had pretty weird behaviour when the floppy (data) cable was plugged the wrong way : seeking for a long time at the boot and loading very slowly sometimes, or not POSTing otherwise. it was quite hard to detect, and confusing especially with a new mobo Yeah, I have exprieneced that a few times...

...for under $1.00cdn($.82us) Picked up some BGA and ram chip heatsinks for less than a buck ! BGA sinks $.20ea x 1 and ram sinks $.10ea x 8 ! First I had to remove the old intergrated fan/sink that was epoxied onto the Radeon chipset. I used a heat gun on the sink for less than 10 seconds and then ...

What is the purpose of get a fanless PS if you are going to put a fan there ? I would just use a 92mm or 120mm like you have there near you cpu and angle it so it hits both the cpu sink and the PS

AMD XP 2000+ with GlobalWin CPM25603-32(Super Socket 7 fan/sink) with Thermagon aluminium oxide thermal paste control the 40mm Delta fan from 4500rpm to 2500rpm with Sunbeam Reobus. Ambient: 23.4C- CPU: 40.2C.

Guess what ?, I'am a InWin freak too, had a G500 for my old AT and just recently changed from my A500 with hard foam dampening all around that I had for ages to a Kingwin KT-424-S because InWin doesn't make any aluminium cases. My A500 was perfect with the exception of the side mounted PS which limi...

I'am trying to build a silent PC and I took off the noisy intergrated fan/sink on my 9100 and what to replace it with a snap on clip heatsink from http://www.radianstore.com/bga-ine-straight.html, does anyone know where the BGA chip size are or wheree they are listed ?

I just removed the intergrated fan/sink that was expoxied onto the BGA chipset. I used a heat gun on the heatsink for like 10 seconds and then using a plier to pry it off, work in less than 20 seconds

I just removed the intergrated fan/sink on my ATI 9100 Radeon that was causing more ruckus than all my 5 fans combined. Had to heat up the sink with a heat gun to soften the epoxy and pulled the sink off with a pair of pliers what are my options in going fanless on this BGA chipset ?, would ideally ...

Ok, guess I'am now also stuck between these 2 companies SilenX and Ahanix. Are theese two companies still producing thee same quality PSU ? or has one changed for the worse ? SilenX is selling their 400w 14dBA PSU at over $50 more, so there is a difference, a diffrence of cost !