Nice to hear, welcome!

I would suggest H55 motherboard (microITX if there isn't room for bigger) and i3 processor with integrated graphics. I suppose you could run that with 120W and make cooling easy.

Try my method: Walk away until you can't hear it any more and measure the distance. To make sure you can't hear it in certain distance, cut the power / set to sleep mode from that distance and make sure you don't notify any difference in sound lvl when the power goes off. Take care that ambient nois...

"superquiet, almost silent" with a stock PSU? And DVD? I'm sorry but I'd like to ask if you've heard a quiet PC yet? To your question about the cases: Sonata Elite 19-37dB, Mini P180 22-44dB (measured in 19dB ambient noise with different stock fan setups.) Temperatures varies too. But read yourself:...

Does this card provide all modern sound formats as well?
(DTS HD, Dolby TrueHD, THX)

SpeedFan doesn't support ix38 quadGT... program FREEZES after reading the MB. Any other options? (with on/off switch)

I have quite a good experience about the dust situation in the 5 fan setup and no new holes are made in the case - so i'll try to keep you informed if it's worse now with this neutralized pressure (compared to previous positive pressure). It takes a while thou...

Is there any software for on/off by desired temperature sensor? Best program would: 1. read motherboard info to know all the pins and all the sensors 2. set any fan to on/off with any temperature in any sensor 3. give full voltage to start the fan, then reduce voltage to minimum spinning level 4. ha...

1- what should I use to replace the fans on the case ? and should I add more fans (going from 2 to 4 or even 5?) GROUND rule: Make sure that air have a clear highway from intake(s) to outflow(s), passing all the hottest components (GPU heatsink, CPU heatsink, Northbridge heatsink). Filters and gril...

Most of them loose 5% after formatting, i suppose that's quite close to it again. Not seen thou.

From the high end department:
512Gb ExpressCARD SSD Flash, sold here in Finland for 8837.90 €
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/s ... xpress_ssd

That 40Gb Intel is sold with 105 € here.

Very interesting topic, thanks for everybody who are posting wattage info for new components. I've heard about a tested Radeon 5000-series card with 8,1W idle, but i'm sorry I can't remember which one. I suppose it was one from Powercolor models anyway. PSU's energy efficiency is essential with both...

I don't have a need for more cooling or less noise any more in the upper chamber, it's inaudible. I also need to get rid of other noise sources in the surrounding before I open the PSU to make lower chamber inaudible too, since now here are several sources louder than my PC (aquarium pump, Sony 40" ...

In pictures (blue spots = fan locations) BEFORE: PSU+5 fan's, positive pressure (inaudible at 3m with min speeds, average temp at full load 52,3C) http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2580/originanfanplan.jpg TODAY: PSU+2 fan's, quite neutral pressure (inaudible at 1,8m with min speeds, average temp a...

Luckily reading posts is inaudible, it would really be noisy here otherwise. Most of the noise would, however, be great by sound (not annoying at all). I love active forums.

P182 and P183 should have room for 8 or even more drives - with 2 of them mounted on the floor of upper or lower chamber anyway. If you don't use all the 5"1/4 bays, there's a lot of room up there too but some modding for cooling them is necessary.

Scythe NINJA is covering my processor and it's stock fan runs very nice under the sink blowing upwards with 150-600 RPM's. (max is 1200, but it's wired down). Inaudible in my house until 500 rpm's (which is have never reached, even under stress testing) and starts with low voltage, that's a value. I...

In the article You wrote:Minimum Fan Duty Cycle: 00% to 100% in 10% increments

Do you mean this board is able to shut off fans totally in low temperatures and power them on again when the temperature rises? If so, how many fans does this feature support? Makes me think about changing my MB!

andymcca wrote:Does the internal DVD drive count? I just about cry when I put a disk in.

Copy your DVD's into disk images (DeepBurner) and run them with virtual DVD drive (DaemonTools). Noise source counter -1

You have written to a totally wrong topic, but here's some info anyway (i'm not a moderator): VGA is analog, DVI and HDMI are digital. No match with those. VGA->video in (yellow RCA) would offer somewhat good picture but with lousy resolutions. If there's no video in either, you won't get anything w...

I suppose there are a lot of us who have built themselves a nice silent or close to inaudible PC and who start to hear a lot of other noise sources after that. What other equipment is there around us and has anyone thought about the sound levels when choosing what to buy? My problem: After getting r...

update for P55 and H55 would be nice to see

My suggestions for main parts for general computer use (office work, internet, HDTV/BD watching). Estimated time before updates needed (no game usage) is 3-5 years with these: - CPU between i3 530 - i5 670 (20-50W with a reasonable motherboard, 70W-110W measured with a good whole working system. TDP...

You don't game, ok. What do you do then? At least you can forget two GPU's, that's only needed in gaming. Unless you use several screens. -Watching 1080p movies, 1GHz dual processor is enough for future needs -Using internet, usual bottleneck is bandwidth of the connection -Handling photos (dependin...

All the parts in a silent build should be able to handle all your personal requirements, but without any unnecessary power consumption. In your list it might be worth to give a second thought for that processor. That one (i7 860) will only use around 10% of it capability in most jobs but IDLE's with...

From 5 fans to 2 fans, this phase lasted for a month: Now that i got back here again (in the SPCR forum) i decided to test my setup more properly. During my tests I made even more fine tuning with fan positioning and decided to allow hotter components to get the setup closer to inaudible. After few...

EDIT 1.3.2010 (It's good to have current system specs in the beginning of the first post, right?) Sound level - inaudible from 0,8m when HDD's are in sleep - audible from +6m when HDD's are spinning Temperatures IDLE (ambient 22,5C) MB 37 °C (98 °F) CPU 39 °C (102 °F) Core1 44 °C (111 °F) Cor...

I think the idea is green. A lot of computers idle a lot, some close to 24/7 so all that can be done is good to do. Reducing voltage doesn't have much efficiency but even a bit is good when done in several computers. To reduce any computers power consumption (and heat & sound level at the same time,...

I was on a long vacation, very very nice... after my holidays i finally got my silent build ready. I took the photos like i promised while doing it, but I can't remember where are they... I'll add them when I find them. Overpressured build seems to work very nice: http://www.studioawatar.fi/temps.jp...

Noob info: You can check your memory voltages by entering your BIOS (pressing DEL at certain point of startup) and going to voltage-section. You can exit BIOS with ESC-key (depending the bios, there might also be a menu option "Exit without saving". One more "make sure": Have you tried 2*1Gb with al...