Ok. Warm days were coming and I saw the 8800 Ultra KO getting up to 85C . This is not not good,something is wrong, or this mod doesn'thold upand overclocked Ultra I then made my research and ordered a Thermalright HR-03 Plus. That meant to go back to my old sound card (Bluegears B-Enspirer PCI) whic...

One question,how did they manage to fit that 120mm fan in font of the video card. I've tried that alrady inmy p182 which looks älmost exactly like this one"and IT"S IMPOSSIBLE. The fan willoverlap that 8800 no matter what,did they modified the holes in orderto put that cage a little bit tothe right...

I see that Wibla. Thanks! But what about the fan? I don't see it fitting in there. I really don't think that the exhaust and push fan of the CPU can take care of that. My 8800 is an Ultra... Maybe I'm wrong. One thing I've always wanted to know, is how you really keep the ramsinks that come with the...

Yes you guys are right. It looks so similar though. Like if they were watching my progress while making this build. But no, I'm not planning on selling anything ;-) Otherwise I wouldn't have posted anything here. And what I want is to share and get knowledge with you guys. I love this site. :lol: Th...

Is this my idea, or the system that you showed on the front page of SPCR,
looks almost exactly like mine.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article827-page1.html

Intereasting, they are following what I did, and they get the front page...

That's awesome!!! Thanks for sharing these pictures. My only question about having two fans is noise.Wouldn't be better to have only one instead of two? Also I'm kind ofwondering,I know many people have said that sleeved fans are not good for horizontal mounting, which applies for the nexus fans as ...

Thanks guys for your kind words! I'm trying to report all my work in here, in case some others want to use the VF 1000. I'm not sure that the HR-03 works well in the inverse way. This case is ATX and the inverse way works better in BTX configurations. falcon26, glad to hear from you.... I did tried ...

It's been a while, guys: Howdy: I've put this into another new thread, but I wanted to update here too: Hi all again: This is an update coming from this old post of my rig. http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44219&highlight=oscars Case: P182B with pre-applied Acoustipak Deluxe V2 -...

HI All: When you' go through all the detailed mods and the entire thread, you will find the VGA mods I've made here led to nothing but 3 big lessons: 1) The P182 is a good case but overrated and not good for gaming. 2) Nothing beats the stock cooler on the 8800 Ultra in this configuration . Not even...

I hope this is not considered spam: I know that some of you hae been looking for a really silent X1900XTX video card. And here is your answer, I'm selling my HIS Radeon 1900XTX Ice-Q 3. Some people might want the card itself, and some others are interested to have the amazingly quiet cooler it has, ...

Hey flacon26:

Long time don't here from your great looking rig.

Just a question, what are you getting instead of the HR-03?

I'm looking into the Accelero Xtreme, but just for curiosity, are you getting a new card or a new cooler?

As far as I understand the 9800GTX has more decibels than the 8800GT and the 8800 Ultra. Be warned, but I hope I'm wrong.

I have a good plan for it.

I'm going to order it, and instead of adding the 3 fans that come with it, I'll ziptie two 120mm Scythe fans.

This guy just made a mod. And I plan to improve it....

Let see if other people do the same.

http://custompc.co.uk/blogs/oneeyeuk/20 ... ler-mod-2/

Update: 1.1VCORE is not good for stock :-( After playing Gears of War and Crysis last night and running Prime stable... Today morning turned the comp on, played with it and decided to tweak a picture in Photoshop. I was doing a couple of here and ther and then the computer turned off... then Mobo sa...

Hey Flacon!!

Did you finally try those slipstream fans from Scythe?


If so what are your results? What do you recommend?

Rules: When overclocking always : -Disable SpeedStep -Disable C1E Support - And if your mobo has a setting to damp the vdroop that the motherboard generates, ENABLE IT. In my case (Asus) I enabled Load Line Calibration. This way you'll make sure that the vdroop is as minimal as possible. If you want...

Motherboard is idling at 38C.

I did the measurements with ASUS probe.

The 2 cores running behind 5-10C is normal. I've check other guys with similar or exact builds, totally normal behavior in these Penryn chips.

So I've ried pushing the voltage lower with no success at @4Ghz. This is particluarly warmer day 72F. Tried first 10x400 @ 1.325 . It boots fine into Windows, but Prime 95 crashed in one of the thread. http://www.3doracle.com/mal.jpg Then tried 11x364 @ 1.325 . Same deal, boots fine, but no go in Pr...

Update: WOW! Lowered my temps at 4Ghz. Just a 0.05v in VCORE makes all the difference in the world. Just set the VCORE @ 1.35 in the BIOS. I'm so happy I could die. This chips is worth the bucks, despite of being freking expensive. LOL! It does the job... http://www.3doracle.com/bakan.jpg So the new...

Awesome, post here as soon as you get it to show your findings.

Hey Mojo: Just learn that the TDP on this processor means Sh...t Other crazy guys out there are making 4.7Ghz ON AIR!! Yes, ON AIR!! But they do it with the mobo outside the case and with 119CFM fan on top of the cooler. I'm planning to run this at stock later, or just a tad bit OC. But I consider 4...

Just an update: I've just intealled a QX9650 Yorfield on this rig. Do you want to know what you can do with that chip in a silent rig like this? http://www.3doracle.com/results3.jpg This is with Prime 95. I'm running it @ 4.00Ghz (10x400) and VCORE 1.4V PRIME stable. Outstanding. Considering that th...

No, they didn't let air go through as they should. This was one of the flaws on the P182's design as pointed by Mike Chin.

Now if you see the pictures above, there is one with two doors. The door on the right is the orginal, and the one on the left how they look after modding them.

In case you want to purchase the stuff for the disks: AKASA SATA EX-BLUV http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/akpcfrpawisa.html (it's out of stock there) but you can order it from UK... http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=2937&cat=0&page= SMART DRIVE 2002 http://www.endp...

Nope

I'm not talking about the Thermalright HR, I can't fit that thing on an Asus X38, no at least with a 120mm fan.

I'm talking about the Zalman VF1000 GPU cooler.

Do you guys know of any modded Zalman VF1000? I swear I saw some pictures of a guy who installed it on his 8800, removed the zalman fan and ziptied a 120mm Scythe on it. If that's the case I might be able to take the sound card and put it on the top PCI and have space to have my 8800 modded. Only co...

Thanks falcon and Konnetikut fo you kind words. It definetly makes me feel proud. I know it still needs more tweaking but I'll get into there later. But thanks to your guidance I'malmost there. One one bad thing tough. My front side panel (case) USB doesn't work. I guess cutting that audio cable of ...

How long did you take to complete the door mod? When I first attempted this mod on my doors I thoguht I could do it with just an X-acto knife but it seemed it would take forever. It took me about an hour total. It's hard with the knife I am showing, you need a firm hand. You start cutting all the p...

Thanks! As for the temps on the 8800 Ultra I'm not very happy to know that the P5E3 Deluxe or Maximus, won't let you install a Thermalright HR-90 cooler on it, at least with a 120mm fan. So buyers BEWARE! :-( I might be able to fit a modded VF-1000 with 120mm fan in there. That will require taking o...

Konnetikut, my good mentor! I just wanted to say THANKS very much! As I promised I've finished my Intel X38 P182 rig, and all your pictures and advice helped me a lot. Here is the new post. http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=375086#375086 Yeah...sorry took me a while, to finish it,...