.weir wrote:Have you tried any shops that sell/install car audio? I bought some Wurth sound dampening sheets, enough to do my entire PC for $12 from a local retailer. They use it for inside car doors and such, plus it has it's own adhesive backing

that is what i was going to suggest, it's called dynamat.

id stay away from a nforce4 chipset as they use active cooling on the chipset that can be loud. the new ULi board (or Via) uses passive cooling on the north/south bridges. You have to realize that you're going to get some noise with a system that powerful. Those games you mentioned do not need a sys...

thats a really nice case.. how are temps? and what hardware are you running?

The lack of an intake fan (or so it seems) concerns me. especially w/ HDTV becoming more mainstream more powerful components are required in a HTPC.

I am surprised (maybe even shocked) that HTPC cases are not a bigger subject here considering their intended use. Although I am fairly new to the forums sections (I've been reading articles for a good year now). Maybe this has been covered before? I have a couple questions.. 1. I would love to see m...

The iRam is powered throught the pci slot even when the computer is off (as long as it is plugged in). The battery is only used when the computer is unplugged. Anandtech Review I think he meant with all power (power outage) off ;) also, another space saving idea. Change the size of the recycle bin ...

nail polish remover works for me

i just got my antec p150 and the sticker is also broken. To boot, i think they broke the front bezel, the front right corner is snapped off on the trim piece but there is NO (ZERO) indication of damage on the exterior box. This can only tell me that it was broken OUTSIDE the box, and I definately DI...

perpendicular writing has increase capacity for seagate in notebook drives.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/16/seaga ... tus_54003/

memory heat sinks are not even required!

mine are still sitting in the box, idle 43c, load 52c 6600gt @ 550/1100

now i realize the gpu temps do not indicate mem temps, but there's no artifacts in any game i play and the stock cooler wasn't even close to making physical contact w/ them.

gbeichho wrote:4) Don't use WD40 to take off old thermal grease -- I lost 2 hours researching how to get the WD40 residue off

I have used nail polish remover with great results

Thank you so much everyone! Mike_P: The Zalman solutions seem quite respectable, however I really can't ignore the benefits of evacuating the video card's heat directly out of the case - I think my wholemachine will be happier with that. very true, but dont forget the NV silencer's are smaller fans...

Under non-gaming duty, the rear/top fans never even fire up, which is a nice feature of the AN8-Ultra motherboard. The Zalman 7700 seams to do a sufficient job of cooling all motherboard components under light duty. Now the only audible component in the system is the VF700 cooling my video card. Ne...

Mats wrote:So this story is more about a bad manufactured XFX graphics card. You can probably connect the GPU fan to a mobo fan header and control it with SpeedFan.

yes it is a regular 3-pin fan header

jhhoffma wrote:Also since my card is the 6600GT AGP I have to grind down the ramsinks to use them, but that's an easy fix.

This is actually not needed. passive w/ no heat sink works fine on my 6600gt. I've actually seen roundups where no HS at all on the mem chips yielded the best o/c, lol!

Get a 6600gt (EVGA) and a Zalman VF700cu. powerful card for $150 ish CDN, $40 for VF700. Quiet too boot! dispite what some people say, the vf700 does work on the agp 6600gt, the secret is to make sure the card has a seperate Heatsink for the HSI chip (which is why i said to get a eVGA). The ram sink...