Well, it's not so much of a mod, more of a 'balance a fan there while I'm fixing other stuff'. Basically, I used a thin peice of wood through the fins of the heatsink to jam the stoc 40mm fan, and stuck a big crappy clear arcylic fan that came with my old case infront of it, running at 7V. It's abou...

If I understand what you're doing properly, the effect is somewhat similar to what happens with an airplane wing. The higher-velocity air coming out the case exhaust, directed over the PSU is of a lower pressure than the air inside the PSU. This causes the air inside the PSU to be sucked out, taking...

Getting closer

Partially completed like whoa.

It's because by the time the fuse could melt and break the connection, the damage would have already been done.

It takes a few milliseconds for a fuse to break, but only a few microseconds for an IC to die.

You cannot 'loose electrons' in that way, except under extremely high voltages where you get leakage through something called the corona effect. But unless you are dealing with hundreds or thousands of volts, this will not be a factor. IDE cables do not carry thousands of volts. The reason the coron...

I decided to mount the 120mm HD bay fan at a 45 degree angle. Most of the wood has been cut to size and I've gotten all the necessary hinges and such. I'm wiring up a set of controls on the front of the case to switch fans between 7 and 5 volts, and an automatic switch attached to the side panel tha...

I'm not the leading authority on silence here, but as far as power goes, I'd probably go with the Shuttle XPC SN85G4V2 High End Athlon 64 3200+ (2.2ghz version) GF 6800 Ultra w/ NV Silencer 3 1gb Corsair/Mushkin/Kingston ram Bang/Buck Athlon 64 2800+ ATI 9800 Pro 512mb Corsair/Mushkin/Kingston ram Y...

It's possible, but you're gonna be hard-done by to do it under any kind of budget.

Im sure most of you have seen my new case project ( http://silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14439 ) I'm thinking about lining the inside of the HD enclosure with eggcrate foam, or possibly some other thin foam lining. Seeing as this is my primary air intake, would this be too restrictive to...

Most passive forms of attack will also be fairly noisey, especially on impact.

I suggest placing it in a tin can and putting it on a ring on the oven.

It'll be silent, unless you use the (optional) exhaust hood

It matters.

I may be into silence, but I'm also into performance.

If one is significantly better than the other, I should be able to crank some extra speed out of this card

It must be a typo.

I found a few on ebay.

Chinese manufactured from Japanese parts, are they gonna be quiet?

I'm having a hard time tracking down reviews of the ZM80D, and none that do a direct comparison to the VGA Silencer R.3 I know this topic has come up a lot, but people just keep on going back to 'Well, the Silencer has an exhaust system'. I don't use my PCI slots, except for one small card in the ve...

eVGA

Made in china from japanese components.


I couldn't find any reference of this model number anywhere in the forums, and only a few on Google.

I take it this is then not a recommended silent fan?

Qwertyiopisme wrote:Untill it overheats and melts

(No air - No cooling)

Thank you Qwerty, that was the joke.

That would be great, if that cool pack liquid didn't have the viscosity of maple syrup.

Turns out I didn't need to, the fan suddenly quit all on its lonesome

An error message came up saying 'Your videocard is overheating. The core will now slow down to prevent damage'

I've never seen it, but I know one way to filter out dust from the air is to charge a thin steel mesh. The dust will be attracted to it.

How you could do this safely in a PC, I don't know.

I suspect it draws far more current than your fan controller can safely supply

Elastically suspend it inside a hard-vacuum chamber.

It'll spin at even HIGHER than normal RPM, and produce no noise

Cooling without a pump?

How exactly do you suppose that would work, just duct tape a freezer bag to your CPU?

Technically, you wouldn't want to gas fill it, you'd want as low-pressure between the two panes as feasible.

It'll affect performance significantly if it blows and takes out all your other components with it

Is that 120mm in the HD cage in the right place, or should it be on top?

Tweaked or not, what matters is the end product. I don't care if nVidia payed iD thousands of dollars to deliberately cripple ATi's performance, I'll buy whatever makes the game run best and screw corporate politics. Fact: The corporation does not care about you. It does not care about video games. ...

I suppose quiet here is a relative term.

I bet they'll be inaudible compared to my Maxtor DiamondMax HDs

Ironically enough, I believe the darker side panels used to be my dad's computer desk

The top and front are brand new tho.

First picture of what it's gonna look like:


Obviously I havent actually assembled it yet, its just balanced there

I need to cut out the front bezel as well, but I havent completely decided how I want to lay it out.