You could have a look at the
Thermalright XP-120 thats a bit older and so you might be able to find it a bit cheeper.

My next Hint is to go down this list untill you find a price you like

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article30-page1.html

miTchy wrote:yes

I concur

A CPU's temp will normally vary with workload and ambient temp anyhow. If you were frequently near the chip's temp limit-then maybe there's a concern-but what you describe is what was in the design plan,if anything the C + Q probably has a positive impact on chip health. ok cool, ill just leave it ...

Well im looking for a Quiet 2.5" (laptop) SATA hard drive i know all 2.5" hard drives are quiet but i want a realy quiet one thanx for the help.

Howard wrote:

jaganath wrote:

The X1900XT is a faster card than the 7900GT.

It also uses about 40W more than the 7900GT.

It's not like he said he wants minimal noise or that he's using a small-capacity PSU (Sonata II PSU is 450W).

If he doesnt want minimal noise then why would he be on the SPCR forums.

Hello im trying out using my CPU Semi passive and it seems to be ok, but I have a question Im using an Athlon64 3200+ on which I have enabled cool 'n' quiet on witch it takes the Vcore down to 1.088v. ok well my query is ive set the fan to come on when the CPU reaches 40C (according to AMD64 TCaseMa...

why do you need a 6600GT in a file server? just replace it with a really old, passively cooled video card.... like a RAGE 128, or GeForce 3/4... The 6600GT isnt in the file server. its in my main comptuer, but before i set up my file server the 3 lard HDs in my main comptuer were louder than the fa...

NVidia control panel says the core slowdown limit is at 145 degrees C, so you may have some legroom yet- just make sure it doesn't set fire to your cables, melt your case, etc. :shock: At that temperature the whole card will be radiating, and seriously affecting the temps inside the case, which wil...

Sorry to give you bad news, but I beleive that 80C is above the max temp for that core. It will probably fail ... sooner or later. SG Yeh your probebly right never mind just a feavered dream of a madman... 80c is perfectly FINE. my GTX is a burner and with an nv silencer at 5v constant, temps reach...

Hey there I’ve been running with the stock cooler on my 6600GT for a while now because I have a few to many Has and so could hear it but now I’ve set up a File server so its easily the loudest thing in my computer. I’m just doing a little experiment with turning off the fan using Riva Tuner to...

yes it is.

Now I feel like I just can’t read, yes when you said drive I read drivers. I think part of the reason I got confused is because my Non OS drive doesn’t spin down either, I already have a 3.5" HD in my Computer as well has a 2.5" for the OS and I set my drives to spin down after 3m closed all my ...

I guess by non OS drivers you mean download separate ones, but that doesn’t seem to be an option for my WD2000BB Drive. I don’t think any separate drivers exist.

If you go to the Power Management settings in Windows you can have unused hard drives power up and down automatically as needed after a certain time (anything from 3 mins+). This any use? Feel like I'm missing something... :? because through all my years of useing comptuers, that has never worked. ...

Tibors wrote:On top of that, your SATA controller (and your OS) needs to support hotplugging.

oh yeh, i cant beleave i didnt think of that, ok well i would have to turn off my comptuer to turn on the drive i guess.

well the whole point was that i wanted to have the extra Speed and other than useing eSATA wich would also involve buying an eSATA card wich are mostly in PCIe form then good idea but not what i want.

I was wondering weather it would be bad for a HD to be switched off I have made up a switch for one of my Fans because I only need it to be on when I am playing games. Now I am about to make a server to put my storage HDs in but I don’t want to play my Games on network storage and I only have a 40...

Hey i was wondering how you installed your VM-102, ive got one now and im getting quite high temps even with active cooling, did you use quite alot of thermal paist on the groves in the bottom bit and the GPU block?

thanx, now i can upgrade and hope for a verry small temp diffrence.

Does anyone know what the Diffrence in power consumption between the Geforce 6600GT and the 7900GT is?

Yeh that fan is tiny, i cant judge without useing it but i would say it doesnt look good.

Im running 1280x768 26" (HDTV) Which i sit about 3 1/2 feet from but it is a little annoying sometimes at such a low res.

Also a 17" LCD at 1280x1024 Mostly just used for iTunes, but also Photoshop tools when i do some Image work.

thats a nice job, i like the implementation of the VGA cooler, i happen to be useing the same Fan for both GPU and CPU too.

id say it depends on what Card and what CPU you have, but i would guess that it would be fine, but you know the best way is to try.

Yes between the bottom of the XP120 and the VM-102 there is enough room for a Fan and about 5mm clearance above and there could be more because you can bend the heatpipes a bit.

The Aerocool VM-102 is pretty large for a GPU Heatsink.

Well first off i not very happy with this particular one. The way this works is the heatpipes of the top bit are sandwiched between the bock on the GPU and the bottom Plate/heatsink but the channels on the bottom plate are slightly farther apart than those on the GPU Block so the heatpipes are pulle...

Thanx for all the sugestions i used RTHDRIBL and set it in such a way it was running at 13fps which i guess is good enough and i tested the stock cooler, well my Aerocool VM-102 Came today so time to install it and test that

cool thanx.

What is the best way to load my GPU (for testing purposes) Would it be 3D Mark or is there a program designed for it like CPU Burn for CPUs.