It should be possible to reverse the airflow direction with a custom adapter to flip the fan around. I have created the duct I mentioned in my first post of this thread, so my CPU fan pulls air directly from the outside. Because the CPU fan no longer just recycles air, my temperatures are lower than...

Using valve stems is an interesting idea. I think it will work very well...

I have a Cooler Master Wave Master. I recently applied black electical tape along the inside edge of each side panel. This way, the panels make no metal-to-metal contact with the rest of the case. It does sound better. Also, if I knock on the side, it does not rattle anywhere near as much as before ...

http://members.cox.net/clemente39/images/cpu/panaflozalman.jpg Here is my Zalman with the Panaflo installed. You can see the wires as they connect to the fan and where I cut that part with a fine jewelers' saw. It is a simple mod - just drill the two small mounting holes into the bottom of the fan ...

sthayashi wrote: I wonder how well it would work in the SN41G2?

I ran my PSU externally from my Shuttle SS51G - temperatures were about the same (slightly higher with external PSU).

I think these drives simply report the temperature too low. The drive reports higher temperatures as I reduce my cooling. I don't think it has anything to do with controller issues. We probably just need to set the temperature compensation value in Motherboard Monitor. My motherboard is an Intel D87...

The separate air paths look like they would work for very hot running systems with many hard drives. It just looks louder for a person like me. I have one hard drive (I don't like having multiple hard drives, except for an external backup-only drive). My PSU is perfectly happy exhausting case air fr...

My Samsung's temperature definitely goes up if I turn of case fans (such as the one directly in front of the drive.) If it reports 30, it "feels like" 40. I wonder how many people are happy with their drive operating at 40C when it is really much higher... Wow, right now my drive is showing 10C. Amb...

My fans sounded pretty bad when using the BIOS fan speed adjustment. They don't sound right at all. When controlled with Speedfan (on a Speedfan compatible motherboard), they make very little noise as expected.

I have an Intel D875PBZ motherboard and I can't get SpeedFan to function either. I can see voltages and the controls to change fan speeds, but SpeedFan won't slow down my fans at all.

SpeedFan works great with my Shuttle SS51G. I'd love to have SpeedFan working on my main system...

I use a Zalman heat pipe cooler on my 9600 Pro. These cards run very cool - I ran mine with just half the Zalman for quite a while as well.

This looks like a very good idea. I was thinking about moving the PSU fan lower just to reduce the noise of the fan blades passing over the nearby heatsinks...

UPDATE: Right now I'm running a 92mm Panaflo (medium speed but slowed down with Fan Mate) on my Zalman. I'm not really sure if it is an improvement over the 80mm Nexus Real Silent fan.

My Seasonic Super Tornado 300 PSU is the loudest component right now.

The faster speeds of today's computers just isn't enough for a lot of people. I know a lot of people who are perfectly happy with their old computers. These computers ran Office when they bought them, and they run Office just as well today. Same thing for email and web browsing. They'd rather buy a ...

They should be about the same... My Zalman fan seems to be about 85-86mm diameter. My 92mm panaflo is about the same...

Just for fun, I thought I'd try a different fan on my Zalman 7000A-AlCu. I had a spare Nexus Real Silent 80mm fan, which I removed from the fan frame. I drilled two small holes on the bottom so I could mount it just like the stock Zalman fan. While I was at it, I also used two Silica Gel washers fro...

I turned off my front case fan an my Samsung's temperature definitely went up, but the drive is hotter than it was reporting (as expected since it reports temperatures too low). Those of you who have this drive reporting 30's and higher should touch their drives to make sure they aren't getting frie...

I've modded my Seasonic to use externally here:
http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.c ... adid=45392

I modded a Seasonic Super Tornado 300 to work with my Shuttle XPC externally here:

http://forums.sudhian.com/messageview.c ... adid=45392

My Samsung Spinpoint 160GB SATA drive is showing 12C with DTemp right now...

I defragmented the hard drive and it is still showing 16C even after being on for two hours. Woah, wait a second - I left the computer and came back to see it is now showing 14C (same 22.5C room temp). So the temperature reading does change... I wonder what the temperature really is... The drive is ...

I am running DTemp which is telling me my new SATA Samsung Spinpoint is operating at 16C/60F.

This can't be right. Ambient temperature (outside of the case) is about 22.5C.

Also, the HD temperature never changes. It is always 16C.

Does this drive even have a temperature sensor?

Aluminum isn't too difficult to work with, but the thought of vibrations and sound reflections in an aluminum duct might not be good (in comparison to other materials) from a noise perspective...

Are these Samsung Spinpoints known to run incredibly hot? Not so long ago I replaced a one-year-old Maxtor 7200RPM 80GB PATA drive with a Maxtor 7200RPM 80GB SATA drive. The SATA drive ran 10C hotter, and I could verify it was much hotter to the touch. The short warranty time for the new drive bothe...

Actually, it is closer to 100 holes. Still, they are small... Another problem I've found is that the area between these ventilation holes and the fans is not sealed. There are plenty of openings that allow the fans to merely circulate air rather than pull fresh air through the front holes! I'm sure ...

Braiding wires does produce some very neat-looking wiring. I've done the same for some of my 3-pin fan tails.

If there are drawbacks to the technique, that would suck because I like it.

My 3 Nexus Real Silent fans just arrived! They are now running. Definitely the best fans I have ever bought.

As a teenager, I ran a BBS with four Seagate 20 meg ST220 MFM hard drives connected to my Commodore 64. It required two XT cases. It was LOUD and the drives sounded terrible. I'm not sure if they were dying or not but they never stopped working. I was able to sleep without any problem and tuned the ...

I am surprised by the results. Most of you can't hear the faintest noise from your machine less than 2 meters away? I can hear a single 7v Panaflo L1A from across the room. I can hear a pin drop from across the room. I can hear some power bricks in the right environment. I know if a television is on...

When I plug either of my Seasonic SS-300FB (Super Tornado) PSU's into my Belkin UPS, and hold down power button on the UPS (to turn the UPS on for the first time after plugging into wall), these PSU's make a buzzing noise for about four seconds. It isn't loud or ear piercing, but definitely doesn't ...