It's amazing that some modern drives don't support temperature monitoring, but if they do:

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Pretty happy with my ATC-110. Lots of room and easy to work with. Unfortunately, there is no room to put anything with knobs behind the door. Hopefully, the new Coolermaster Aerogates will fit. Those wider areas of the case prevent it from being pushed back more than a couple millimeters.... I had ...

Yes, that noismaker didn't last long on my GA-8PE800 Pro. I put on the older Zalman, and it fit perfectly. Like rpc180 said, the newer model is adjustable, so will fit also. I had one, but I just like black better than gold. Further to rpc180's post, the Intel heatsink is bigger than the Zalman, or ...

GMC is the OEM, and their products are sold under several differnt names - for example Nikao / Tradex in Canada, and Ahanix in the US: http://www.tradexinfo.com/case/computercases.htm http://www.ahanix.com/ I am not sure if it was a GMC, but I did put a system in a Nikao "Millennium" case. It was qu...

Intel 440BX and a PIII 700. Boy, those were the days. My old, and since dismembered, Micron came with a passive heat sink on it's 733. It wasn't that big, but seemed to perform okay. Of course I replaced it with a Tennmax P3STF, which was quite good for the time. 2x50mm extremely noisy fans, and I a...

Boy I wish Panaflo did an 80mm L1BX If you can't use the L1A's because you need speed sensing, Vantec Stealths are an option. Also - if you are getting the Panaflo M's you may as well get the M1BX, as it has speed sensing. I have just never managed to get a real nice sound out of them. They are nice...

Looking at the internal arrangement of components, I would say it is indeed very close to the Hush PC reviewed by Hexus.net:

http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=540

Post a picture.

Maybe we can figure something out.

far superior ? Here is one reason :) http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=3650&start=0 The main thing for me is the rock solid 12V and 5V lines. Never vary. Sparkle/FSP make good PSU's - like the FSP400-60PFN - so maybe I should just have said superior ? Of course, there is nothing more...

Pretty happy with my ATC-110. Lots of room and easy to work with. Unfortunately, there is no room to put anything with knobs behind the door. Hopefully, the new Coolermaster Aerogates will fit. Riffer: in case you are interested, I have the ATC-111 (very similar to the ATC-110) and I managed to fit...

FishaOfMen, AFAIK, the PCP&C PSU is simply another rebranded ... surprise! ... Fortron! With their Silencer fan. Yup. I have a year-old version of the 275W model -- not that quiet. Maybe PCP&C or Fortron folks will come & correct me if I am wrong. If you are going to mod it further anyway, why not ...

...My power supply is a Silencer 275 ATX made by PC Power & Cooling, Inc... And the OEM of the Silencer 275 is... ...ready for it... Fortron! how can you find out who makes which PC P&C products? I know the Turbo Cool 400's are (or used to be) made by Zippy/Emacs Actually, that's it, as I understan...

I nominate scalar for the "post of the week".

I still haven't got around to listening to the .wav's and he is doing graphs.

Riffer: I know my temps are ok, just expected better, because the temps before, with the Intel heatsink, were more or less the same. The curve is pretty flat for the P4, probably because of the heat spreader. I went down about two to three degrees C at low load when I went from the Intel to the 894...

elamb wrote: ...My power supply is a Silencer 275 ATX made by PC Power & Cooling, Inc...

And the OEM of the Silencer 275 is...

...ready for it...

Fortron!

Pretty happy with my ATC-110.

Lots of room and easy to work with.

Unfortunately, there is no room to put anything with knobs behind the door. Hopefully, the new Coolermaster Aerogates will fit.

Temps are normal.

What were your temps before you put on the Alpha?

tragus wrote:From the front page of coolcases.com:

The SPI350-60PN PS is in stock. This is the conservatively-rated PS with a temperature-controlled 120 side fan, wildly received by ultra-quiet case geeks.

Hmmm, is that us?!?

Sure is

If they are labeled, the labels will all point in the same direction (usually down when your mobo is mounted in an ATX case).

So if you get one right, the rest should follow.

http://www.siliconacoustics.com/verfanis1.html

Interesting - Silicon Acoustics says they are only for Verax fans

Old issue. They are designed that way for a very stupid and arcane reason. Look at an old motherboard with "shared" slots, were there is an ISA slot below and a PCI slot above, but regardless of which one you use, the card will still poke out the same hole in the backpanel. Example: http://www.tyan....

5.5V The Panaflo will run at lower voltage, but won't start at below about 5.3-5.5 Volts. But you can still use the fanmate (I have three with L1A's), just don't set it to it's loweest setting. Zalman just has the warning to prevent people from setting it so low that when they boot up the fans don't...

Depends on your PSU.

My PC Power & Cooling Silencer 400 is rock solid with an L1a @ 6Volts, but I don't know if I would risk a lesser power supply.

By a used Promise Ultra100 - ebay, or off the forums.

I just sold one for about $40 Canadian.

LOL, no offense intented. I just wish there are more manafacturer that take aethestics into account when they make a case. Performance is fast enough! It's time to think about other things like 'SILENCE' and 'AETHESTICS'. That would be nice! prettyANDsilentpcreview.com ??? goodlookin'ANDsilentpcrev...

1.8A is an almost sure overclock to 2.4 with stock cooling and no voltage increase. I am running mine as such with an Alpha PAL 8942 with an L1A at 6 Volts. Some of the lucky ones who have managed to get a 2.4c are getting 3.0 with air cooling. I don't think I would bother with any of the ones in be...

Yes and No

I have a few, including Panaflo, Sunon, Evercool, T&T.

Airflow noise is low, but I find there is always some sort of whine or ball bearing sound when they are undervolted.

If I was to try another, it would be the quiet Delta they have at Directron.

The Intel reference board has a passive heatsink, but it is larger than normal. Maybe the gold coloured Zalman one would be okay.

My PC Power & Cooling PSU (originally a Silencer 400) has been running 24/7 for a couple of weeks with a L1A at about 6 volts. No problems or instability - rails still push out the same volts as they did before.

The better the PSU, and the less the load, the lower the CFM you need.

Riffer- I found a spot that will _ship_ to Canada. That's a lot better than I could do for the first month I heard about them. The US dollar is going down the tubes, so that makes US mailorder much more attractive than it used to be, too. That won't help you if you want to walk into a place and act...