looks like the fan is connected with a normal 3 pin header, was pretty handy when the spcr review was the first hit on google. http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/tornado/tornado5.jpg a 120mm fan that ive seen other people use ( spcr thread here ), is the Scythe S-Flex SFF21F which is 1600rpm...

lian li seems like a quality case manufacturer... just a poor case designer.

... in my opinion, the only reliable brands are Samsung and Hitachi. yeh yeh! 100% agreed based on my experiences. The only downside of the Samsung is that it vibrates a lot (at least mine). So some kind of soft suspension is a must with the Samsung. awww what? mines in the mail at the moment so i ...

what might work is having capped military switches; when they're in the up position have the drive be powered off though, that way the cap would somewhat prevent them from being turned off when they're in use. performance pcs has a nice selection of military switches(among other styles), and even of...

the PSU clamp should be installed perpendicular to the motherboard, not the way it's shown in the picture provided in the article... (http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/ima ... cb25z1.jpg)

sorry, assumed that you simply typo'd.

mini-dtx doesnt really get much love, i doubt there will be any new boards available for those sockets either.... can i ask why you need the two expansion slots? just curious.

I don't want to hear any claims that the Mini P180 was dropped from NewEgg due to low sales. nobody has made that claim. antec's official position is that the case is not discontinued. this could still mean that they aren't taking any new orders for the case and that it's closing in on the end of i...

if you went with a pc-q07 you could potentially mod into the top panel a silverstone 180mm fan grill, which should let most any hot air evacuate with ease.

of course a custom vent might look better in the end...

have you taken a look at the NZXT Whisper? its got nine 3.5" bays, six 5.25" bays, a 3.5" external bay... noise dampening foam... you might have to replace fans for silence, and the door might not be the best looking... but its got a lot working for it. can be had for cheap on amazon, and even on ne...

a quick search on newegg yielded a few, though theres only one socket p if it's that important to you.

v3 doesnt seem like anything to get excited over.

btw: mini-p180 still in stock in black at performance pcs, which by all accounts is a very reputable etailer.

Sandy Bridge dual cores will be locked and won't allow overclocking :( Which might be important for some people. if its that important, they can put out the cash for the k versions of the chips with unlocked multipliers. also: source on that info? i havent heard anything about the bus speeds being ...

aristide1 wrote:ISO disappointed.

hilarious. i must be tired.

try out InfraRecorder for the iso issue, also if your file is going to stay under 300mb then poweriso lets you use its software for free.

the card sholud be cooler in the ft02, so you should be able to run your fans slower... plus a big cooler like the mugen will probably like the airflow in the ft02 as well though it looks like you haven't picked a card yet... could i recommend the MSI N460GTX Twin Frozr II SOC? efficient and quiet c...

i guess not, i must have seen it when it was on sale, since they seem to average around ~25$ here in canada after checking again just now.

not really, as those can be had for around $10 if you look around... doesnt get much more budget friendly than that.

wow. im impressed that the 480 could be tamed just like that... did you take any pictures of the build yet or no?

Thanks for pointing it out with just enough exclamation marks. The sixth one really did it for me. i wouldnt have clicked on the thread if i didnt know it was that important though... on topic: why doesnt anybody make their passive cards in reverse... like pcb on the bottom, and it extends into the...

neither. that left panel on the p193 is hideous, and having a 30~mm fan mounted on the side panel really cuts into heatsink compatibility, even the p183 fits your needs better in that regard. since youre only using an atx motherboard, but still looking for plenty of space for your hardware... i'd ta...

its too bad seagate hasnt made a 3.5", 2TB drive with the same tech as a momentus xt, that'd be awesome for fast metadata retrieval and still providing mass storage for htpcs... anyways, with an amd 785G or 880G would work very well with an Athlon II X2 210e , or any Athlon II really... i might stic...

lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 (40813AU) Intel Atom D410(1.66GHz) 1GB DDR2 160GB Intel GMA 3150 Windows XP Home

$220 us shipped. for web browsing you dont need anything more than that.

hmmm. nothing seems quieter than suspension for hard drives. i wouldnt be too worried about the heat in that case, those fans should be able to move the hot air out of there with relative ease. for the vga, i think most people like the arctic cooling accelero series... the twin turbo looks good :3 w...

in the bios, check to see whether you're in ahci, or ide mode... pretty sure im in ahci you can also try HDTune. my drives wouldnt spin down all the way when i had the aam set to high performance, instead of low noise. hoping that you can get this worked out, i'm running an ssd for os, and 6 hdd's f...

almost as big as the 800/700 those 200mm fans are never quiet. firewire? really? loads of space for noise to escape. the side panels are pretty light, seem like they'll resonate nicely with any vibration. soooooooooooo much plastic hmmm... i bet it retails for $30-50 more than the lian li pc-a05nb ....

do you have the indexing service running?

The solo comes with a 3-speed fan that I understand is not the quietest. I hope you are suggesting I replace the existing fan rather than adding an additional one. yep, that was the idea :3 What I mean is that my budget is no longer restricted to $700, but I wish to spend my money wisely. I'll pay ...

before i read the above reply, i was looking at the H70 thinking it may be even quieter than my original D14 proposal :twisted: nope. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wudrjolzWJY if you want something smaller than the d14, i'd say get the noctua nh-u12p se2 its still way up there on the charts, and y...

hmmm.... grab a noctua cooler and toss a 120mm fan on the back of the case. nh-u12p se2 should be great. most cost efficient? maybe with a mugen or a hyper 212+ you could remove the rear fan grill from the case and run single fan on the heatsink on the pull side... I would also like something that s...

gah. i clicked case fans, because thats what it was in my old apartment, but now that i've got central air and speedfan, it's the hard drives.

gotta poke about in hdtune and switch up the acoustic settings on the drives i can....

mini p180 : too noisy for a desk, but if it is a meter away then you might be ok with it... it is massive though. i wouldnt really recommend it unless you wanted a mATX gaming setup. sugo 06 : i just dont think it fits your build, tbh. i think of it as more of a single card gaming case. also, the s...