Matt, I should have mentioned this in t he PM, but look at Overclocking sites in NZ for good Heatsinks

http://www.overclockers.co.nz/

We all need them for the same reason, just with different end objectives

ok, I have added a few generic shops recently because a lot of silent gear is becoming mainstream. Re: MSY. I buy all my base parts from here, and they are one of the few companies to stock HIS. When my HIS 9800 Pro (iceq) died (2 weeks out of warranty) they sent it back, and got me a brand new one....

PCCaseGear - http://www.pccasegear.com are now stocking Seasonic S12 PSU's 430W and 500W.

Ladies and Gents, PC Case Gear now stock the Seasonic S12 series PSU's !

I have purchased heaps from James at PC Case Gear, and he has really responded to silent enthusiast demand (Panaflo, Antec, Silenx, Seasonic).

PCCasegear.com have a heap of Quiet PSU's, including the silenx and TT fanless
Scorptec.com.au sell a lot of Antec gear.
auspcmarket.com.au also sell a decent range, but not too many quiet ones.

Mar. It is pretty cheap to ship from Aus -> US but very expensive US -> AUS

Thanks wim. Updated.

I have done about 30 orders from Auspcmarket now, and I am a huge fan of their shipping methods. It is always fast, VERY well wrapped, and usually included in the price.

Always good to hear CKolivas ! Good service is so important.

Gitto, Scorptec, PCCaseGear, and AusPCMarket are my usual haunts for most "regular" gear for exactly that reason. They really appreciate the enthusiast

ckolivas - Altech are a distributor. They are the Antec Distributor for Aus, pretty much every Antec item comes in through them. I don't think you can buy retail from them, but most of the other sites I have listed purchase some of their range from Altech. Chancellor Martok - I have added ARC to the...

DISCLAIMER: I have not tried this myself ok.. now that is out of the way. The Asus A8N-SLI is Standard ATX size, so it will fit in the Overture. People over on the Anandtech forums have got the XP-120 working on the A8N-SLI with no probs. Confirmed here: http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_suppo...

*Bump* Steerpike, how did you go ?

That is seriously nasty ! I have been runnning my "during scandal" purchased Silenx 400w 14dba pretty muich 24x7 since purchase. And in some pretty demanding temps, >30C ambient during summer (damn having no aircon) Still going strong. (Crosses fingers). If you open it up, can you see any evidence o...

I couldn't unzip that file either !

Duck, that's a pretty broad statement.

I have 3 seagates in my system. The two old ones are virtually silent. The new one is noisy as all hell.

I have experienced similar problems with *ALL* brands. There is a broad range of product.

There is a lot of anger over here too (Whirlpool = local Australian forum): http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=240942&p=8#r156 http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=7 A lot of that would be my fault. I started people there looking over here to get some background on sil...

Steerpike, sorry for the delay. I am in the middle of moving house (first move in 10 years)....

I just power it down, no device manager stuff. Maybe I have just been lucky ?

http://www.coolerexpress.com/snmoraforsea.html

Here is a place in Industry, CA that stocks them !

US $16 . Take a risk ?

Steerpike, the Manufacturer was SNT. I emailed them before I purchased and they specifically told me it supported hot-swap, and my experience has been that it works! I can't find the email they sent back (I will have a better search of the inbox tonight), but you can email them on the address found ...

Actually, if you ask Peter Kim, he will tell you that ADDA maufacture to a custom spec for him... but then again... the past behaviuor makes you question what he says. anyways.... I have a silenx 400w PSU (from silenx.com) and it has run 24x7 since I bought it (July 2003). Hasn't skipped a beat. I b...

steerpike. Without the hotswap drivebay... I have similar problems (data cache write failures).

the hotswap bay must be signalling the Si Driver and emptying the cache before power down.

jason - Nforce doesn't natively support SATA... most likely it is silicon image.

My 2c - NVidia nForce3 250 series of chipsets do support hot-plug. Intel ICH6 series of south bridges is supposed to support it as well, but I don't have personal experience with them to confirm it. The ICH5 spec says it is supported... but Intel don't provide drivers that support it. There is no p...

steerpike... talk about full circle...

going back to my first post......

1 - get drive bays that support hot swap...
2 - use si311x chipsets ...

Steerpike.. assuming your SATA Cards have external SATA Data and Power, you could just buy 2 Drive Bays, and use them externally ?

or something like this ?

http://www.provantage.com/buy-22085737- ... opping.htm

The Drive bay certainly has some electronics. They are Simple, but "appear" to be more than just straight power pass through, so I would suggest that the electronics handles the powerdown notification to the O/S prior to dropping thr power. I could always ask the amnufacturer if you want confirmatio...

MikeC, I updated the SATA BIOS as part of a "regular mobo BIOS update"... (on the ABit NF7-s v2.0) the update was Bios v 23 ... details of the SATA update as part of the regular bios update can be seen on this page: http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE=Bios&pMAIN_TY...

Steerpike, With the drive bay, I just turn off the drive bay power, and remove the dirve. When I hit the Drive Bay Power, You here a Plug and Play device removal beep in windows. I didn't have to do anything to ensure that all data had written. I think that the "Power Button" on the Drive Bay sends ...

MikeC

Did you ever get this working ?

Regards,

Star.

Steerspike, I have done a *HEAP* of work with Hot Swappable SATA drives, on both AMD and p4 systems... below is a summary of my findings. First you should, if possible, use a SATA drive bay that supports hot swap. I bought 3 of these for some testing on different systems. http://www.auspcmarket.com....

P is the PCI Slot HDD silencer

check out on their web site