I may have had a bad sample but the idle noise on my 250g was obnoxious enough for me to send it back to Newegg.

Nvidia 7300gs handles aero just fine and is a low power chipset.

Very nice but it seems a bit much for such a lite system! 500w psu? WHS is notorious for allowing very minimal hardware requirements, I mean sub 50w systems at the wall. the solo would be a great case for a WHS with 3 drives as would the p182, which is available for $60ar right now. But like I said,...

mcoleg wrote: there's an interesting seagate drive out there, btw - st3250410as. while it's listed as 7200.10, it's actually from 7200.11 family - it has single 250gb platter. the drive is half-height and not too loud.

I bought one and returned it. Seek noise was really loud! I now have two WD.

Due to integration, it is Inevitable that the matx form factor is going to be the dominant form factor within a couple of years. that's my opinion. I see this new mini 182 as a forward looking product that has this eventuality in mind.

yamahaSHO wrote:I swapped in the Scythe fan that came with my Ninja Mini... I can't hear it.

me too.

yeah I do have a fanmate and I should try that. But my other Scythe DFS 12cm fan seemed to undervolt a bit better using the m/b headers.

I have the 1200 slipstream and it doesn't seem to under volt that well. in my very cool system it is running at ~ 850 rpm connected to my motherboard header. I was hoping the RPM would be lower. I presume this fan will come in handy this summer.

paranoia about W/D seems irrational. Letting it go will suddenly reveal a worthy 1tb drive.

udi if you can hear that you are obsessed! you know it can become an never ending quest. sometimes you just have to focus on other things! you've already gone overboard with the psu. perhaps it's the HD?

udi why do you need both fasteners? overkill?

udi it looks like you are still using the black nexus silicon plugs also? How is the fit of these hard drive screws? I have some I can use.

antec reps are probably not keenly aware of the nuances of particular fans in quite the way we all are. :D the difference in the fan is one of fan speed and bearings. HE's get the slower, bb fan, EA's get the faster, sleeve bearing one. who knows what goes on in those marketing meetings but it seems...

I would say that only two 120mm hard drive bays are plenty for a case this small. the major problem for silencers though, is that it's built from aluminum and that 3.5" disk drive mounts are "hard". the case could be improved if silicon grommets were implemented in a mounting mechanism something lik...

lower price

yeah the minja is a great deal at $30.

udi, I have a solo with 1 100mm scythe intake @5v and one 120mm exhaust running at 800rpm. I have 1 3.5 drive and 1 notebook. Your case fans are quite close to minja. my temps are stabilizing at 38c for my CPU and if I open my window, it will go a bit lower.

yes. I have the second generation Brisbane 5000+ and it seems to run cooler and react better to cool and quiet management. Actually things are starting to heat up a bit I will have to watch the CPU temps. It may be that I will have to slap my 92mm nexus on it.

udi, it's a 65w Brisbane ssytem very similar to yours, that never gets pushed hard. btw, I am running my minja passively and my cpu temp is 36c. Granted its winter in NYC but this is ~ 2c lower than my Katana 2 with a 92mm Nexus on it. Great cooler!

did my fan swap with the scythe dfs that came with my minja. I was going to try to plug the three pin fan connector into the two pin but I broke one of the pins off on the antec board. So I ended up taking the three pin cable through the back and plugging it into the 5v connector of a Zalman multi c...

Check your 80mm fan. Can you get a 120mm instead? Do you realize you have chosen a noisy video card? There may be fan-less options. It also seems weird to match such a powerful video card with a slow processor. You are on this site presumably because you desire a quiet system. I would hold off for a...

I am going to use the scythe dfs fan that came with the mini ninja. it's fairly low speed and is known to start at low voltages!

it would be great to see this psu or one like it in the atx form factor.

how would the ultra kaze be in a solo as the exhaust fan? I think it would normally spin at 750rpm under-volted by my motherboard.

udi I have the earthwatts 380w! It seems a bit different.

Both for $15 shipped in CONUS.

bp can you talk more about the two pin connector and how you worked that and how it connects to the 3 pin connector of the fan? what did you do with the screwdriver? thanks! I am going to do this swap with a medium speed scythe 80mm minebea.

udi13, what is the black housing on the wire from the nexus? Did you rig that up or is that the nexus wire? Did you have to extend the nexus wire? Did you connect fan controller to 3 pin mobo connector?
thanks!

I am surprised the original invoice or packing list does not list the part # as the 35w model. It seems to just take the description off of the item ordered.

hmm nexus usually was not used for fan swap because it wouldn't start at low voltage? I hope yours starts! most use the L1a or m1a or the Scythe equivalents.