Welcome to SPRC! Nope, can't say I have - I haven't seen them mentioned here before either. I'd be cautious about how accurate the rating is... do you have a website for them? Sorry to repeat what you've probably already read here, but for 120mm fans you can't beat a Nexus, or a Globe if you need a...

So he was, my bad.
Hopefully I'll have the bits for this system sometime this month so I can actually use that ST 400, hehe.

Mike: My decision has already been made as I have bought the ST 400. I was interested to see you mention PCIe compatibility though. The ST 400 certainly is PCIe compatible (ATX 2.0 compliance etc) and at one point I'm sure I saw something on these forums indicating Seasonic were going to extend that...

That's one smokin' PSU...

I've heard about this vinyl stuff, but what actually is it in terms of material? Is it a sort of flexible heavy plastic type stuff?

At this point I feel forced to say:

heh.

The Asus A8N-E (deluxe and non-deluxe) has passive chipset cooling and, like all decent S939 boards, supports Cool'n'Quiet. It's also the board I'm getting for my new build.

One hitch: Unfortunately it's not yet available!
It should hit the market sometime in feb...

Cheers fellas - don't worry, i will have fans connected.
I'm just trying to work out minimum noise levels before I put any components in, so that I know what to aim for.

Can anyone point me to a diagram of which wires need shorting to do this?
Also, what voltages are we talking here? If I use a paperclip am i gonna get a shock?

Thanks.

That's very nice, and your drive suspension looks good and sturdy.
Great wiring too.

I'm not sure, but logic would suggest a larger fan trying to cope with the same back-pressure should do it easier (larger surface area providing flow and all that). That's just guesswork.

One last thing (correct me if I'm wrong) but the SS line runs to a higher power rating I think. Isn't there a 460W model?

Sorry, more confusion hehe. I was refering to the internal model (the SL4), for which KustomPCs are charging £41 for the digital and the analog version. However, on closer inspection you are right, that comes with the sensor hub too hehe. I can't see why you'd bother to buy the digital one though, t...

Sorry, yes they both use PWM I didn't intend to confuse anyone there :) The difference is the sensors. However, from the description (and the price, which is identical) I don't think the analog one is a digital + hub, I would assume it is a slightly redesigned version that has the analog sensor equi...

I've already said in another thread where the same point was made, I don't know what I was thinking heh.
Ignore that post, it was a brain freeze day.

Along with a whole load of accessories at KustomPCs.

Just a heads up.

May I add to the questions by asking what you've sealed the edges of the fan blowholes with?
Looks good btw.

VIA chipsets don't have a good reputation on the USB front.
I would try getting the latest BIOS update from the Asus website and getting the latest version of whatever motherboard chipset drivers are required from the VIA website.

Aren't the Dell's just re-badged ViewSonic monitors, in the same way Dell printers are rebadged Lexmark (ew ew ew) printers? [edit] Yes, the Dell 2001FP is more or less a Viewsonic VP201b. Both use the Phillips panel and both have the same functionality (screen rotate, number and type of inputs...)....

Akasa FC03.

This controller is confirmed as using voltage regulation, NOT pwm. So no buzz from fans and no buzz from poor quality PWM components (like the vantec).

if you don't want to worry about the fan malfunctioning go intel, you can remove the entire heatsink from their chips and no burn them That's because Intel thermally throttle their CPUs. So yes you can run it without a heat, but nowhere near the speed it would run at with one. thermaltake make reas...

That case looks awesome in that room - very nice, and nice build overall.
Similar (in terms of number and types of fans) to what I'm doing as soon as I can get hold of an Asus A8N-E...

Yeah, there are some great suggestions here. Basicly, if you think of your first drive as reserved for the OS, games and applications then put everything else you might want to use at the same time as any of those three on the other drive (most already mentioned), eg: - ISO images for use with Daemo...

Errm, unless I'm much mistaken you mean RAID 0, not RAID 1. RAID 1 is data mirroring (drive 2 contains an exact copy of drive 1) and offers practically no performance gain, just redundency. RAID 0 is data striping (files are split across drives 1 and 2) and offers a theoretical performance gain, but...

Can anyone provide a reference to a supplier of this CPU here in the states? Also, can anyone recommend a reliable mobo for it? My fanless Via C3 is reliable and quiet, but severely underpowered! :( -- SBT Check the dates on the post above - this thread is olllllld :) I would imagine all 64's are n...

This is a load of crap. I have to agree. I think I had a brain freeze or something that day. I didn't actually mean real friction, I was trying to put transistor capacitance into simpler terms (poorly). The bit about electron leakage is broadly correct. However, I think an all round "doh!" is calle...

The trouble with dB measurements, as shown here, is you need to know what you're doing to take them or they make no sense when compared to any test done to the proper standards (such as at SPCR).

...and they're NOT pretty.
I'll be sticking to AMD, methinks.

Also on Tom's today they talk about the new record power requirements of Intel's upcoming dual core processors and mention the "switch from a 90 nm to a 65 nm processor manufacturing process brings an increase in leakage current". Why is this? I thought it would improve power consumption stats. The...

Short answer: heat. Long answer: It's radiated. What it's radiated as depends on the energy difference between the new plane and the old plane, and a few other factors that determine the wavelength of the radiation. Usually it'll be heat or low spectrum (ie. red) light. [edit] Just thought I'd point...