Get the Antec Solo with two front 120mm fans and one back 120mm fans. Get the Seasonic X 650 PSU. Most of the time the fan will be stopped, but it will kick in when and if you need it. Replace all your fans with undervolted Nexus 120mm running at about 700 rpm. Then experiment by leaving just a sing...

The only thing a mid-range gaming card gets you is the ability to run games, not an improvement in 2D display. Any modern card that has DisplayPort, Dual DVI, or even VGA can run your monitors. So for just running Aero I'd highly recommend using IGP instead of getting such crappy cards. Note though...

In my case, the FSP300-60GHS-R sits at the bottom and I remove its top cover and fan completely so heat rises up into the enclosure. Similarly I remove the fan from the RCX-Z90-CP (it rubs a lot so it's not quiet even at slow RPMs). Then I mount an Artic cooling 120mm case fan (Arctic F12) running ...

FSP Group FSP300-60GHS-R 300W SFX12V 80 PLUS Certified Power Supply This is a very under appreciated power supply. It is an SFX powersupply that comes with a plate that permits it to mount as an ATX power supply. It is perfect for small ITX cases such as the Lian Li Q07. It leaves extra room in the...

There is a ventilation grid along the back of the case lid . The CPU is more or less below this grid . The holes aren't too big, but I was hoping that I could get quite close to this grid with a top-down heatsink and that it would draw air from outside the The only way to find out is to try. But th...

If you are assembling it yourself, try the stock fan first. If not, just get the Scythe Zozuti. It will better than either of the other two... and are you certain the other two will even fit?

I looked through the cases that ces recommended. The Lian li-cases in particular seem to be of high quality. However, most of the cases are a bit on the big side, or rather, they provide a lot of space that I don't really need; I'm not likely to ever mount additional hard drives, a graphics card or...

Don't forget, unless you use a heatsink with an under hung fan, you are going to need about 25mm of breathing room on top of any downdraft heatsink. That sort of limits you to Noctua NH-L12 Prolimatech Samuel 17 Scythe Big Shurekin The Noctua NH-L12 with a Nexus 120mm fan stuffed underneath as an un...

xi What was your final solution? I am about to try do the same with a DC7800 SFF and your experience would save me time and money. Than you. Either way just run some stress tests with and without the 70 and check your CPU and GPU temps. If they are too high without the 70 then put it back. While th...

You have to be careful about information from the internets, especially information about something that does not yet exist and is itself a moving target. The information can be accurate, but subsequent changes in product trajectory can make information that once was true, no longer so. Using source...

A case isn't going to solve the problem. Take a look at what components are making the noise and fix them.

What is your current setup?

The Prolimatech Armageddon was designed specifically for this problem.

http://www.prolimatech.com/en/products/ ... 156&page=1
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1039-page1.html

the forthcoming Haswell chipset may change this landscape:
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We'll probably never know for sure, but I'm betting we'd all laugh if we found out that the OP has well under a terabyte of files spread across those 14 disks that he was looking to keep running. I think he has indirectly indicated something to that effect. But so what. It is a real problem to him....

If you set them for a tight defrag, many of the more thorough ones seem to move a lot more files around than you would expect.

there is no risk . No more than there is in accessing ... and thus is riskier than raw copying. 1. Sounds like you may have some data loss incident in the past that has lead you to mistrust copying data. 2. Actually adding a write adds a bit more risk. But leaving data on a disk, and doing nothing ...

Spell them out and we'll see... All I've to go on is the word "mechanically" and the fact that some filesystems can be configured to update metadata on access. That's not an argument and I don't fancy guessing what may or may not be thinking. Huh? Please explain. I don't agree or disagree... I just...

Dropping the big PSU for a PicoPSU will also mean you can use a smaller case. Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think that is so with a Micro-ATX board. Pretty much any case that takes a Micro-ATX board is going to have room for either a traditional ATX or SFX PSU. I can think of only one expen...

1. I like it alot. 2. I would top it off with either a Noctua NH-L12 dowdraft cpu cooler, with one or both of its stock PWM fans, or Prolimatech Samuel 17 cpu cooler with an undervolted Nexus fan 3. In a small case such as: LIAN LI V351 W 10.98; H 10.31; D 14.69; APEVIA X-QPACK II W 11.25; H 9.00; D...

How about getting a fanned card and then adding an after market cooler... without the fans?

You know all these issues about size, heat and vibration disappear if you use 2.5 inch drives. They come in capacities of up to 1T now. There are ones specifically designed for streaming: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236221 Low power http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product....

I don't know if this has been proven, but if a drive already makes a lot of noise or vibrates much while suspended, it does seem logical to me that suspending a drive could exacerbate reliability problems. There a quite a few threads on this subject from years ago on this forum. Quoted from my thre...

bozar wrote:Suspension takes a lot of space to put it simple.

Take a look at the Noise Magic No Vibes III:
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I have one and it is a much more solid suspension system than the one on the Antec Solo. A bit pricey though.

Are modern vibration elimination techniques sufficient for low speed 5400 RPM drives? I've been clinging firmly to elastic suspension desperately for 6 years now but since it makes mounting difficult and may decrease HDD reliability I'm thinking about using stock solutions in my next computer if it...

Frostytech has benchmark results for this cooler, but for some reason has not done a written review: http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2662&page=5 Do a search on nofan, and you will see the results on the bottom of the page. This is for the smaller version of the heatsink. It looks...

bozar wrote:may decrease HDD reliability

What makes you say that?

One odd thing I notice in the xbit article: They measure a Slip Stream 12M @1170 RPM at 14.2 CFM, while the Slip Stream PWM @1050 RPM pushes 19.1 CFM of air. If they're the same size and have the same blade design, how can that be? http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/coolers/120mm-fan-roundup-2/187_d36-...

A medley of Fan Tests SPCR 80x25mm Fan Round-Up #1 http://www.silentpcreview.com/article689-page1.html SPCR's Fan Round-Up #2: 120mm Fans http://www.silentpcreview.com/article695-page1.html SPCR's Fan Round-Up #3: 92mm Fans http://www.silentpcreview.com/article720-page1.html SPCR's Fan Roundup #4: ...

Depends on how many watts they pull. I suspect your are probably safe as long as you keep the total wattage under 5 watts. Here is some test data that shows you how much it can vary from fan to fan: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/120mm-fan-roundup-2_15.html#sect0 http://www.xbitlab...

The chips themselves are, the SSD's and such like built from them are likely a year or more off. Companies that use the chips for storage and memory will have to build test devices first to evaluate performance, etc, before selling things to the public. Eve if it is a year out, more competition is ...