Maybe he wouldn't need 12 fans if he didn't have the bird's nest in there....I'd be afraid of unraveling that for fear of finding a colony of insects.

There's only one thing I have to say about that.... ....huh. It's a shame that no one's figured out a workaround for the inconvenient placement of the HTT chipset. How hard is it to make a waterblock with inputs at an angle? I also wish they would have gone into more detail about the passive pump co...

Glad you're happy with it :) To me, Apple probably makes the best laptops on the market (it's really a shame the G5 chips are too hot for the powerbooks)....but this makes perfect sense. Apple's main weakness to people like us is that you can't really re-arrange anything, swap out parts, or change m...

I'd played around with my brothers eMac for a year, and it wasn't until I saw the OS X demo on the apple site that I saw what expose was. Putting it politely... when I first experienced expose... I think I made a mess in my pants... that feature is soooo cooool! :shock: One thing Apple has really h...

I like those choices too, but it seems that exhausting the air from the VGA card directly out of the case is a good option, since the high-end ones run at upwards of 70C nowadays. I know the video card can take that kind of heat, but that's a lot of stress to put on a (hopefully) quiet PSU, and a lo...

I've just got the bone-stock 256meg for now. I haven't had any crashing issues, but I do see how stretched the memory is. A lot of page-file usage slowing things down a bit. fairly slow opening programs for the first time, will additional ram help speed this up? DC It should. OSX really shouldn't b...

The whine is high pitched, more like the CRT type whine and higher than any singing range. Which parts on a motherboard are the MOSFETs? And if they are making a noise can anything be done about it? I would think twice about running my components on my carpet, but maybe if I can spread out the comp...

Anyone had any experience with these? They look interesting, with a modified artic silencer built onto them already. The <20dB claim seems iffy, but they're getting good reviews.

On a side note, how silly is it for HIS to put "HIS certified" on their stuff?

I had a problem with my iBook G4 crashing for no apparent reason with the originaly 256MB only. I added 1gb from outpost and that solved ALL my stability issues. I agree the ibook G4 is the quietest notebook/computer I have ever owned. The only real problem with OSX (as msm_zgok's problem was, most...

Nice job, Mike, looks like a lot of work went into that! :D The amount and quality of noise the PSU makes with a typical load in a noise-optimized PC. Ranked from 1-10, 10 being completely noiseless, 9 being effectively inaudible, 5 being very quiet (~25 dBA/1m with a benign acoustic signature), and...

And as usual, there's always another hard drive technology just around the corner....

(yes, I know it's a THG link. but it's just a re-post of a press release.)

Great write-up, Shadowknight! I vote sticky

I think point # 3 should be put in 24-type font and moved to the top of the post, though

Also might want to mention something about filters if recommending component # 13.

Wow, I don't think I'd trust myself enough to use one of those...even if the water is contained.

kudos on the new noise ranking, Mike! I look forward to seeing those implemented (understandably it'll take a bit of time).

At last, a website that doesn't give everything a 4 out of 5

Standing waves are a problem when trying to obtain flat frequency repsonse (such as in audio listening room), but I don't believe they actually increase to the total power output of a signal. If I am wrong about this, please correct me. Nah, you're right, they just tend to dissipate a little less q...

I don't see much of a benefit. The difference between a recording studio or listening room is that the reflected sound must be attenuated (reduced) the first time it hits a wall surface because the microphone or listener is in the same enclosed area that the sound originates from. I think you mean ...

A couple posts recently got me to thinking of my experiences in some recording studios around town.... ....has anyone ever tried building a case with no parallel sides? Any recording studio worth its salt doesn't have a single wall/ceiling/floor parallel to any other surface. When sound exists in an...

Man, I had no idea that making a PC quiet was so expensive. From these posts, it seems most of you can only afford to go dumpster diving for parts. Fruit cups, pringles cans, ceiling tiles (no doubt pilfered from vacant buildings) .... :D :lol: rotfl Only for those who went for the XP-120 and sever...

The audigy thing has me a little miffed. AFAIK, the connectors on the front of any case are some bizarre standard that only ever works with onboard Mobo sound, which is usually pretty heinous. If you're already stuck with the Audigy you might just try and get a longer shielded male/female 1/8" cabl...

since noone else has replied yet... i'd guess that any sort of online UPS or UPS with AVR (same thing i think?) will tend to dissipate as much heat as a (pretty efficient) power supply, since that's more or less what they are. an interactive UPS shouldn't normally get any warmer than a good power b...

I agree that most PCs on this forum won't use that much power, but he brings up an interesting point. Is there any mechanism in place to cope with evolving standards? Hopefully things will improve so that our idea of an eight-point PSU five years from now will be much stricter than our idea of an ei...

I wonder if you're getting coil whine from the MOSFETs on your Mobo. When you say high-pitched whine, do you mean 10kHz, like the whine an old CRT monitor can make? Or more like around 1kHz, a high women's singing range? I don't have any personal experience with the A7N, so I can't say for sure that...

see Tibors post, 7th in this thread. it helps to read the entire topic

I would take a wild guess that the bent screw holes have a lot to do with the increase in noise. It's possible that the case is now rattling against itself, which doesn't sound like an average rattle when it's happening at 1500-2000Hz. Or perhaps the seal against the screws is no longer airtight, an...

Hey, is it just me, or is the sound of "canned" white noise really annoying? I am talking about tapes of waves rolling, birds singing, rain falling, that type thing. To me, it just sounds totally artificial. For starters, we don't yet have equipment that can really record, say, the full spectrum of...

Insightful observations. But not all readers are so. :lol: Many people come demanding, Tell me what to buy! What's the best?! They are the ones who clamor for a star or points system. Of course the only viable answer is, Well, that kinda depends... :mrgreen: They're probably also the ones that'll l...

Ah, I was wondering when you would chime in on this, Mike. You're definitely more qualified to respond to that rant than probably anyone else here. :D Perhaps SPCR's growing hit count and ever greater exposure will be a lesson to those sites mocking up the press releases, with their stagnant viewer ...

If cost is truly no object....then buy a villa way up in the mountains and duct air directly from outside.

Oh, and Welcome to SPCR!!

yeah, I saw that earlier today. Perhaps dual-cores are a step in the right direction immediately for large business clients buying hundreds of PCs at a time. If we're going to multi-task anywhere it's going to be at the office. But it seems like most online hardware sites focus on the gamer/enthusia...

It is a little surprising to see such a big gap between the two, but I wonder if it's just a pre-stabilization premium; I haven't seen venice on newegg, smalldog, or monarch computer. I think just two weeks ago the new OCZ VX memory was selling for 15-20% more than it is today b/c it had just been p...