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- Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:43 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Life with watercooling is like prison. Go Air.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 25267
First of all, don't use waterwetter. Like the post above said...yeah... While I do admit changing parts in a watercooled rig is more difficult than with aircooling parts, if Quick Disconnects and the right parts are used, it is only a very slight disadvantage over air. It does indeed take some time ...
- Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:54 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hitachi or Seagate 160 GB or... ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3074
- Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:50 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Will the Aerocool VM-101 be sufficient to cool the XFX 6800?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3122
- Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:13 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: P120; 200 vs 250, potetial and present owners, please read
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4013
- Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:28 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: P120; 200 vs 250, potetial and present owners, please read
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4013
- Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:02 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Enabling AAM on Seagate 7200.7 SATA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4414
Enabling AAM on Seagate 7200.7 SATA
As mentioned in tons of previous posts, the Seagate 7200.7 SATA sure has some loud seeks. It's like there's a helicopter inside my computer. I have two of these drives, one is firmware 3.01 with SeaShell, and the other is 3.05 w/o SeaShell. Both are 120GB SATA, so there are TWO helicopters inside my...
- Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:51 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Replacing S12-430 with...?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5212
- Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:36 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Transplant
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2234
- Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:33 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Transplant
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2234
Looks good, but why Phantom 500? Phantom 350 is the same thing and better too! Phantom 500 spins up at 200W, although in your system it will probably never spin up even under Doom3. If watercooling, the Phantom gets warm but never hot, so you have nothing to worry about. Why do you need an artic sil...
- Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:14 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: P180 with Antec Phantom 500 w/o lower fan
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6972
If watercooling, definately go for a fanless PSU. I never realized how loud and annoying my Seasonic was until I installed a passive watercooling system and silenced my hard drives. I thought the Seasonic was dead silent at first, but it is actually very loud if you have a quiet system. Also, the fa...
- Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:39 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: which psu do i need for my requirements (i need the quietest
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4846
- Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:37 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Seasonic S12-430 vs Enermax EG495P...buying tomorrow....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3471
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:07 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Passive watercooling Project *Updated*
- Replies: 29
- Views: 16953
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:36 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Help to choose a basic graphics card
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8714
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:02 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: My quiet budget gaming PC
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4323
He has a Ninja as his CPU cooler, but he needs a video card cooler. The stock cooler is both ineffective and loud. You will need a Creative Audigy 2 if money isn't a problem. Its sound quality is much, much better than motherboard audio, and it has very good 3D audio positioning, so you can tell whe...
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:35 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: How much will a 300w power supply run?
- Replies: 284
- Views: 1266601
My Seasonic Super Tornado 300 can do this with rock stable voltages: All passively watercooled: Prescott 4.0GHz (3.2GHz) w/ ASUS Motherboard nVidia Geforce 6800GT OC'ed 4 x 512 Crucial Ballistix PC4000 Memory OC'ed CSP-MAG pump Six 2.5" 80GB Notebook Drives Two external SATA drives MAudio Sound Card...
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:20 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Will an Antec Phantom 350w be OK for me ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2403
The Phantom 350 and the Phantom 500 is the same thing, I've seen them opened up. 500 just has an annoying fan and costs more. Yes, Phantom 350 is more than enough. It can deliver a lot more than its rated 350W in a nice case like the P180. The PSU itself doesn't overheat, but in cheaper cases will m...
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:12 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Seasonic S12: King o'the 500-600W SLi "quiet" PSU?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5333
You sure you want to use a 5" LCD as your display? Hmmm... Phantom > Seasonic because on idle it is dead silent. Also I hear that the Seasonic 500 model is louder than the 430 model. I'm pretty sure that even a Phantom 350 can power up your computer, since it powers up my Prescott-based SLI rig (w/ ...
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:04 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Apple's Mighty Mouse
- Replies: 26
- Views: 17431
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:25 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 7800 Stock Cooler dead quiet
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24062
Are you sure it's silent? I mean, I don't own one (I have 6800GT), but judging from the stock cooler's design I have doubts about its silence. But maybe I am wrong. Oh, and the stock cooler doesn't cool very well. My temps get into the low 90's also, and I often see bizzare artifacts. Later I decide...
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:20 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Radeon x800 Pro Question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2413
Yes, in that review at systemcooling.com, they tested the Thermalright GPU cooler both fanless and with a fan. In fanless mode, it did pretty well as far as fanless goes, but not as well as stock cooling. In my personal experience, fanless temperatures surpass 100C and I get artifacts and crashes du...
- Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:30 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Radeon x800 Pro Question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2413
It is pretty darn loud by SPCR standards, and doesn't cool all that well either. Sometimes I even hear of artifacts due to weak cooling. Artice Silencer is both more quiet and cools much better. But watercooling is even better, in fact 20-25C cooler in idle and 40C cooler in load! The thermalright c...
- Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:52 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Upgrade to Phantom? Is SS Tornado 3a louder than xp120+nexus
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1641
Yes yes go for the Antec Phantom 350. I had the Seasonic Super Tornado 300 and my cousin has the S12, and if you listen carefully there is some ticking noise from the fans. Definately not near-silent, quiet yes, but silent not even close. The Antec Phantom is dead silent, no fans and no coil buzz. H...
- Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: silent PC.. as a musician..
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10717
Suspending still won't kill the seek noise. You also need a quiet hard drive. For hard drive get WD Scorpio, they are far more silent than any 3.5" drive by a large margin. I mean, they are really really quiet! Blows away Spinpoint and Barracuda, beleive me I've went through very many hard drives to...
- Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:14 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Life with watercooling is like prison. Go Air.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 25267
I see where you're coming from, and I had the same problems with my first watercooling setup, which wasn't quiet at all. However, a well-built all-internal watercooling system should solve the problems you're experiencing. It can actually be just as easy to change hardware/configure/etc. a watercool...
- Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:50 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Why my Phantom is unstable (split from Phantom poll)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3614
After some research, I've found that it's only a heat problem due to faulty construction. If you were lucky enough to have gotten one of the "good" Phantoms, then heat really isn't an issue at all. I run my Phantom with no fans in my computer at all (a passively cooled A64 Venice machine) and little...
- Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:41 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Quieter isn't always better
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7429
I agree. I think an even better strategy to combat annoying noise at home is to do the exact opposite of what people at SPCR is trying to do, which is to use very loud fans. Yeah, 120mm 200CFM fans would do the job quite nicely. If you want quiet, you can turn down the fans, but once those annoying ...
- Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:27 pm
- Forum: Consumer Advocacy
- Topic: Antec Phantom Users Poll
- Replies: 211
- Views: 351538
I praise the Antec Phantom! It has very stable voltages and is dead silent, the upgrade from my Seasonic is definately worth it. No coil buzz or any other noise here. Also, I've been running it in virtually zero ventilation for three months with no case fans and it runs just fine. The Phantom blows ...
- Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:00 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: How many fans do I need?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3397
- Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:06 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Moderately Quiet Audio Workstation - comments & criticis
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5480
Don't get the Seasonic S12 430, get the S12 380 instead. 430 is overkill. My old Seasonic 300 can run overclocked Prescott CPU@4.2GHz and Geforce 6800GT no problem at all. But once you silence everything else, you do realize that even the Seasonic PSU is not quiet. That's why if you know what you wa...