Well, I can't really honestly say, since the only thing that I saved from the P160-build was a couple of hard drives. But they are at least a lot more quiet when suspended in the P150 (and cooler! go figure) than they were in the P160.

Hmm, that's weird. I've run a 9800pro passive with a Zalman something (can't remember the name) and a friend of mine is running his X800Pro with the same type of cooler without any problems.

Gentoo wrote:Not to be the gravedigger or anything, but has anyone had any recent exprience with this case, specfically the windowed version?

I sold mine 6 months ago

That seems a bit high I would say, my three suspended drives (Hitachi x2, Maxtor x1) hovers around 35C with 1-2 (doesn't make any difference) 120mm Nexus. As to why...

Did you use the Super Lanboy with just one nexus as well?

Probably memory errors. Run memtest86 and test if you get any errors. Not that uncommon, my CAS 2 Corsair XMS must be run on CAS 2.5 to work in the premium, otherwise I get a ton of errors. YMMV.

I guess I could return them, but I just don't have the energy

I think you mean the original Antec Lanboy, not the Super Lanboy. It had a 350W SmartBlue. To my shame, I have owned two of them ;) LOL bro, 2 Lanboys? The Super LANBOY product page shows 3 models: the Super LANBOY, the Super LANBOY TPII Blue and the Super LANBOY SL350. Ah, sorry about that ;) I gu...

Goldmember wrote:IIRC, the first SuperLanboy had a 350 watt power supply, but the current SuperLanboy doesn't.

I think you mean the original Antec Lanboy, not the Super Lanboy. It had a 350W SmartBlue. To my shame, I have owned two of them

Sorry, I'm a total Linux newbie.. installed a few distros way back but thats about it

The Tyan boards are currently running Windows Server 2003 with Opteron 165 processors and between 2-4GB RAM. Rock solid so far, with one at least undervolted (for cooler operation) if thats something you want.

I too would've loved the stealth bays, but the price certainly justifies their absence. What can stealth bays add to the total cost? Not many dollars.. I guess they want people to buy the Fusion instead then if it has them, but then you get the VFD which is a bit of an overkill IMHO. Maybe if they ...

moritz wrote:With regards to the higher power usage even in idle mode in Windows: Maybe Apple underclocks the graphics card in OS X? That's what they're doing on the new Powerbooks ("MacBook Pros").

Exactly what I thought...

Looks really nice, but without stealthed optical bays I won't be buying...

There must be a better board for a regular rig. We use this board in three servers, but it's pretty expensive, and does not have many options for overclocking and so on. But it's stable, I'll give it that, but so are many other boards as well when you're not stressing them.

Well, I have a pretty similar setup (see sig) with an overclocked X2 3800+. I'd say that there is absolutly no reason to have a front case fan if you only have one drive, I have three drives (not particulary cool running) that hovers around 35C which is quite acceptable. If you are going to put in a...

No, just that he should try with some other pins than the IDE/HD pins on the motherboard.

I'll be building another machine in a couple months and if I could purchase the P150 at a reasonable price (say $75) without a power supply, then the P150 would be my first choice for that build. SPCR's review of describes the case in detail, but I particularly like the air intake, the damped case,...

Try to connect it to something else, like the IDE pins on the motherboard.. if it's still flaky, then you know what the problem is...

Well, no, but the entire front swings up when you want to access fan filters / hard drives. But I don't have any problems with the USB ports not lining up.

The second system is very similar to my rig, so obviously the components are well selected ;) The only thing I would change is to get 2GB of RAM if you can afford it. I'd say that it's better with 2GB of value RAM than 1GB of expensive OCZ stuff. Are you going to overclock? Is there any special reas...

Or a bit of crumpled clear tape inserted into the plastic "socket" in front of the LED. Works great for me and easily reversible.

Maybe you should try running it outside the case, to see if it spins up even when it's not warm. Might be a defect. Seems weird that the case would get so hot after only a minute, but I guess it's possible.

Ohhh.. a S06 Haven't seen any of those before. Antec should have it fixed by now I think, the problems has mostly been with S0509 and slightly less with S0510 and S0511.

Question – can you overclock without heating up a passively-cooled chipset? I.e., can you overclock the CPU without it affecting the chipset? Or does CPU overclocking and heating up the chipset go hand-in-hand? The chipset temperature shouldn't be affected by the overclock (maybe slightly) as long ...

I have had three Neo HE 430Ws, and tried them with three different boards.

S0509 #1: Works with NF7-S v2.0, Asus Nforce3 board
S0509 #2: Works with Asus Nforce3 board
S0512: Works with NF7-S v2.0, Asus Nforce3 board and Asus A8N-SLI Premium

So, 2 out of 3, pretty good odds

With the boxed cooler you also have longer CPU warranty, I think the bulk version only has 3 months, versus 3 years for the boxed.

Well, the HDs are more quiet when suspended, but it's up to you. If you are worried about the rubber bands snapping you could use MikeC's advice: insert a HD bay/rails inverted under the HD(s), which would make the drop at most a centimeter or something. The "dampening material" is apparently not da...

Looks nice... I'd probably go for the Opteron 165 (or X2 3800+) and overclock instead of the 4200+. The P150 with Ninja plus 1-2 nexus 120mm fans works great. I have no problem with chipset or VRM temps, there is actually airflow across the board even with the Ninja. Since you are building a gaming ...

Now, I don't know much about it since I'm not using it, but isn't the NF4 firewall buggy? Try disabling it (BIOS?) and see if that helps. Also, if you have another harddrive, try installing Windows on it (without any extra drivers) and see if it's still instable. Then add drivers and programs and mo...

Thanks for the replies. I did notice the P180 supports another front fan. However, how much noisier would the system be with quad 120mm's versus one 120mm and two 92mm fans? I'd say that you shouldn't use the front fans in the P150, with just a Nexus 120mm as exhaust I get HD temps at around 35C (w...

I wouldn't bother with replacing the Neo HE (at least not if it works ), it's really quiet IMHO (and the Phantom is really expensive)... try the other things first (replace HSF, put in exhaust fan).

2) The PSU #2 - I've seen complaints that the NeoHE has trouble fueling Athlon64 x2s with enough power. While I won't be getting an x2 to start with, I'd like the upgrade path. Is this a real complaint, or could the people complaining about this be suffering from problem #1? I'd say that the people...