Euhm, did they just test CPU coolers in an open air setup? Kinda ruins the whole test, imo. Also a real short view on every single cooler. I understand the article would've been massive if they'd review every single cooler properly, but from the few that i read, i didn't get much needed info at all,...

LaaG wrote:At the end of the day, you're building a gaming rig, the 8800GT is better for games, Sorted, get the 8800gt.

What he said. For a gaming rig go 8800GT.

Depends on the VGA card. Some have coil whine, some don't.
From what i gathered so much is that the 8800GT and 38x0 series has some whine and the 8600 not so much.
To be sure you might want to ask around about future cards before buying.

Depends on how much you like he case, imo. CPU fan: AMD default sink and fan is a dead give away that you haven't put much thought into your cooling as of yet. Designing an airflow path which is optimal for your setup is your first step, then get a CPU cooler which fits into that design. Then a good...

My 8800GT, when i ran it fanless still made some sound yes. Coil whine. The noise wasn't much of a problem though, it had to be totally silent not only in my room, but also my house and the street in proximity to my room for it to be really noticeable. A ticking clock would drown out the noise compl...

By chance i just happened to have done the thing you're wondering last weekend. I bought an enclosure (USB + Esata) and put in an ATA disk (limiting me to USB usage) and then formatted it through disk management. Other disk management programs should work as well. Works fine and doesn't take a secon...

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Tried emailing Antec?

I have that a lot on my soon to be formatted laptop as well. Usually gets triggered by alt f4'ing an active program.

For me, they started shortly after installing newer Ati drivers, going back to ye olde ones didn't help.

TRUE doesn't have a fan though (non of the Thermalright HS seem to have one), the Ninja is being shipped with a Slipstream 800 these days. So unless you have a fan laying around, it is still the cheaper option.

Case in point - 25dB "ultra quiet" AcoustiFan 8dB Noctua My point is: investing in the best fans and putting thought into your case airflow, matter more than the actual material your case is made from. If you believe the numbers that companies give you to be accurate without a doubt, you'd be fooli...

From what i read about it on other sites, no it does not.

As if we use the stock cooler anyway

Would be great if intel actually uses the money they're saving this way to make their products a little cheaper.

Also I have a P182 case. Instead of attaching the fan to the heatsink, would it work to attach the fan to the upper drive cage and blow air across the heatsink? I don't know if it'll fit on the card, but if you just have any fan blowing air across the heatsink it'll work perfectly. Doesm't need to ...

Call the psych ward, let them know you have a certain Vice Principal who needs to be admitted.

Ridiculous.

You took a swing and hit too close to home i guess :P Anywho, too... spacious a case to me. I only have like 2 harddrives at max in any case i build and 1 DVD-rom. This case would leave me with giant holes of nothing on the inside. Not something i like. As for it being out of aluminium, if properly ...

SLI isn't worth the costs, the performance gain is negligible for normal systems. Tripple SLI would be the equivalent of throwing your money on a burning pile of shit. Crossfire however, is so much more efficient that it is worth the cost. I didn't have real issues with getting a 8800GT myself, and ...

walle wrote:Putting wheels on it would allow him to move it around freely on the desk by adjusting the fan speeds methinks.

Handy case for those warm summers

cienislaw wrote:photos are too big and blurred man, please replace them with better quality or remove, because in such form they show nothing.

Nonsense. If he just resizes them they'll be fine.

My turbulence noise went away (or at least no longer noticable) when i cut out the fan guard grid, cut up the doors and removed the filter. If you put the HDD bay in the middle and mount the fan at the end of it i believe you'll have the best of both worlds. Decreased temperatures and no turbulence ...

I ran my S1 passive on an 8800GT with not too much airflow (low RPM fans) going over it and playing the latest games for a while. It worked fine so I'd say that for office work it will do fine as well.

So basicly, the new Noctua's are ok, except when using filters?

I was considering using these, but they are rather pricy here, much more then the s-flex, nexus and slipstreams. If they are not noticably more silent, and on top of that won't handle filters better, then i see no reason to pick them.

Bluefront wrote:I hope all of this testing is of some interest here.

Oh there is, just don't have much to contribute. Love reading these posts.

While there is a difference between the 8800GT and the 3870, it is, imo, not noticable enough. It seems a lot of 8800GT's have coil whine, where as from the 3870 i've only heard this a few times.

I think that if AC take their design of the S1, cut it in half so it fits for HTPC use they would also have the dominant place in VGA cooling there.

It's a simple design, but as we've seen from both reviews, it works great.

I'd say: Install the bugger and see how it goes, if it functions poorly, RMA it.

Check out Ryan Norton's post in this thread:

viewtopic.php?t=45600

He has a finished Lian Li A05b, silent running.

Stock CPU cooling as well from what i can see.

You could make it quiet, but not silent, let alone uber silent

Wow, those look amazing. Do you actually use / sell them as well, or was it more of a nice work project and on to the next kind of thing?

If you take off the plastic thingies it looks to me it would fit in there.