Thanks Mike.

I will make that the next on my list to get..

Unfortunately the shipping kills the cost when we are in Australia, so I have to do heaps of research to find the right stuff at the right price.

Andrew, my thoughts exactly! I have seen someone short a chip becasue the copper shim was touching one of the (transistors?) on the top. Took the shim off and voila.

Step by Step.... I have ordered the Antec Sonata and a Zalman NorthBridge Heatsink ZM-NB32, and I am picking them up tomorrow afternoon. This is my first step toward silent computing !!! I will leave the CPU fan for now and see how it goes... but should I turn it upside down and have the air blowing...

It seems like here in Aus we are wayyy behind the 8 ball. For example: Try and find a place where I can buy HDD grommets! Choose anything from overseas and the shipping kills you. I have been thinking that it may be easier to try and quieten my existing full tower Aopen case with a good P/S and repl...

http://www.scorptec.com.au/index.php?prdid=00005563

AU $110= US$70

The more I read, the more I keep thinking I will avoid the Sonata....

Is the Sonata really that well designed for silencing?

Would I be better off with an SLK3700 and a Zalman ZM400A-APF than the Sonata ?

EDIT: note I have found a supplier that stocks the SLK3700 without PSU

counter... What was the rpm and cfm of the fan (if you know).

I just want to make sure Iget a panaflo that at stock voltages will have sufficient air flow. EDIT: I will start from lowest DBA and work my way up.... hence why cfm is important to me

Thanks For the notes.. So the fan on the original Athlon is stock 60mm? This is not an XP I am interested in keeping this baby cool aswell as quiet so I might go for the 60 to 80 adapter and a panaflo. The Athlon 1.4 was a VERY hot processor, most of the XP's were cooler. In Aussie $ this should onl...

I have an original Athlon 1.4ghz, and I am just starting down the silencing path. I am just about to order me an Antec Sonata.... just waiting on pccasegear.com to get them in stock.... But, back to the topic... Given I am highly likely to upgrade to Athlon64 at the end of the year, I am looking for...

OK,
from reading all of this I am convinced that the AGP is all we need to worry about. So who do we lobby to change Mobo design and the AGP standards to get t his changed. It surely can't hurt to try and change it. At least it is a logical argument.

I just wanted to ask the question... in the hope that I am the only one analy retentive enough to ask the question... Why are PCI and AGP cards designed with the chips facing down when in a tower case. Surely this means the heat on heat sinks is going back up into the chip? Does this mean we have to...

Remember that LCD's are rated totally differently to CRT's. If you play games you want to ensure you get one with a low pixel response time (<25ms). Pixel response is the speed issue with LCD's because they only refresh a pixel when the colour changes, where as a CRT refresehs every pixel every cycl...

I have an ASUS a7v-266 (not the E variant) and I was thinking about relacing the chipset fan also. Are these things easy to get off? Are they glued to the chip also?