Well that plain stinks :( I was looking forward to getting my 3800+ even lower. Trouble is, there is no X2 mobile alternative, so why are AMD imposing these limits? The reason I thought it a BIOS problem is that I also can't overvolt any higher than 1.35volts, and I've read of plenty of people going...

Too hot is when you start to experience system instability.

Hi there guys, I have an almost totally silent system with an undervolted Athlon64 X2 3800+ processor. However, my Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard has a bug in the BIOS which prevents you from using a vcore of lower than 1.1volts. I've contacted Asus about it, and I hope they release a new BIOS soo...

I use a Silverstone with a 120mm Nexus at about 5v (bottom setting of a Fanmate) in a P180 with no drives in the tunnel. For all practical purposes it's silent, and it works without problems. My setup is the same as this, minus the fan in the lower chamber. The Silverstone does get quite hot, but i...

Got a good idea for you... When you get your 9800 back, take the Nexus fan you have at the back out and put it on top of your graphics card, with the air blowing up towards your CPU heatsink. Also, unblock the top hole so that the hot air can blow out. Then you can get rid of all the other case fans...

Get rid of that Zalman heatsink and replace it with a fanless heatsink such as the Scythe Ninja. Your army of case fans would easily keep this cool... in fact, get rid of all but one of your case fans and it'd still be cool enough.

What's the difference between athlon62 and athlon 64? anyway, nice rig dude.

There's no such thing as Athlon62... Athlon64 is the standard single core processor... Athlon64 X2 is the dualcore chip.

Well the latest upgrade cost me £850, but that was using components I already had such as the PSU, RAM, hard disks and CPU heatsink.

Yeah it is. The Nexus fan underneath blows over it though.

Thanks, and yes, that's the only fan in the system. My old Maxtor hard disk gets blazing hot (currently at 62º but it has run at this sort of temperature for over a year now without problems) but the Samsung is much much cooler (47º) and I'm hoping to replace the Maxtor with another Samsung soon. Bo...

It's just the NCU2000.

The PSU does get warm/hot, but it's never been a problem. CPU and GPU both idle at around the 45º mark. Full load the CPU just about hits 60 while the GPU gets up to high 80s. It's fully stable though.

Here is my very recently built almost silent system http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/mrochester/P8150022.jpg The specifications are: Athlon64 X2 3800+ Asus A8N-SLI Premium Radeon X800XL 1 GIG RAM. The nexus fan is run from the CPU motherboard header and runs at 5volts until the processor reach...

btw I know SPCR have links with EndPCNoise in the US and FrontierPC in Canada, I reckon we'd all benefit from an agreement between Skippy and MikeC... Like getting an SPCR edition Antec P180 in the UK! I think KustomPC tried to set it up but didn't think they could shift enough to make any money. W...

The QPC forum has been grinding to a bit of a halt recently, perhaps due to biased nature of admin? Let's face it they do sell all the parts they recommend! Or maybe i'm being too harsh.

Well they're bound too since they're trying to run a business!

mrochester... of QPC forum fame? I wonder if Skippy has noticed the mass exodus to SPCR!

The very same - are you stalking me?!

Well it'll be put into an Antec P180 case, with hopefully just a fan at the top with the rear 120mm mount blocked off.

Great thanks, I'll keep my NCU-2000 for my shiny new Athlon64 X2 3800 then

I currently have a Scythe NCU-2000 heatsink on my processor, and I'm trying to find out how much better or worse the Ninja is. I'm suprised SPCR didn't compare them within the review of the Ninja, so does anyone have any idea how they compare?

The picture you have posted there is of a northbridge heatsink with a fan. Does yours have a fan or not? If it's got a fan, it should be plugged into the header labelled NB_Fan. If not, you don't need to do anything.