Did you buy the foam offline or at a local hardware store? Also how did you manage to mount your HDs. They seem to be just sitting on the foam..

The stuff you mentioned, Ralf Hutter described as good for getting rid of high frequency noise i.e. hd seeks. My noise is low frequency. The sound of the airflow from my nexus 120mm @ 12v. The hum of air is what I'm trying to get rid of...

There's this acoustipack kit at endpcnoise but it is for about $80!!! This seems like an insanely expensive product and not worth the money. Where else can I get damping material from? Would my local hardware store have damping material that i can buy?

Cnq disabled. Fan voltages adjusted thru rheobus so mobo isn't changing fan voltages. Fan voltages were kept at the same voltage throughout testing. I have a scythe ninja so your hypothesis for the heatpipes is applicable to my setup. (Un)luckily I don't have a non-heatpipe cooling solution to test ...

He mentioned in the article that temps are something that shouldn't always be taken for their face value as long as the system is stable. My temps hit a maximum of 62C, measured from PCProbe; if this temp is adjusted according to my findings, it is just within my Tcasemax of 49C (the maximum temp my...

Sadly, after I've started to work ( ) I've not had time to play video games. Also considering I'm cheap, I only play(ed) the bf2 demo which I can run settings easily on full with all eye candy. System specs:

2gb ram
opty 165 dual core 2.6 ghz
7900 gt o/ced 535/1660

I have a 74gb raptor and my a8r32 has an esata plug. Is there any way that I could put my HD far away from my computer and achieve no performance loss. I was thinking of getting a cable that converts esata to sata and also a sata power cable extender that's at least 6 feet long to allow me to put my...

Pardon me for bringing up an old topic but I've recently noticed my overclocked opteron 165 temps on my a8r32 and they seem extremely high and unusual according to some of my friends that have an overclocked opteron 170. After performing the mentioned tests in the article, it seems my mobo is misrep...

Personally, I don't find the vf900 @ 5v that loud at all. My two nexus 120mm @ 9v hide the sound of the vf900. Numbers often times corrupt the actual sound of the fan. In fact, i find that my soft mounted nexus 120mm @ 12v are loud because the hum of airflow is more annoying to me than the motor noi...

I wonder if there is a considerable difference noisewise with the new door.

Nice! But looks expensive...

Basically a dual slot sli config of two 7900 gts. Great! More heat and more noise - just what we need. And I wonder if nvidia was thinking, how are aftermarket coolers going to fit!


http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/05/ ... _7950_gx2/

I'm sorry but I must disagree. I have a vf900 on my 7900gt in a p180 meaning bad vga cooling but the vf900 manages to keep my o/ced video card below 52C at all times - gaming or idle. This is with the vf900 on 5v. I have the graphics card o/ced to 565/1660; considering that case temps stay at around...

With CA temps getting hotter during the past few weeks as summer approaches, I took for granted the power of ducting a scythe ninja. I removed the home made duct I had made using the scythe packing material and it turned out temps rose 2-3C for load and idle.

Conclusion: ducting helps

'nuff said.

Keep in mind I'm a newb at w/c and I like things quiet if not silent.

Currently have a p180 with a 2 nexus 120mm/scythe ninja setup...

This is an older revision raptor, the FLCO. According to the Smart monitoring, running disk defragmenter my temps reach around 46C. My temp monitor from my vantec nexus an controller/temp monitor measures temps reaching as high as 49C. Are these temps within range for a seeking raptor?

I have an opty 165 overclocked to 2.61 ghz at 1.4 vcore and the temp hits 57C under two instances of prime95. during normal usage, there is possibly no way of fully loading both cores so under normal "load" my temps hover around 49-53C. Idle temps are 44c in my "silent" config. With the top fan on a...

It turns out, at least for my setup, that there is no difference between using the stock screws and the scythe ninja screws. Temps stay about the same...

No I used the Asus backplate Asus screws Ninja BLACK Heatsink holder thingy What kind of fans do you have because I have a ducted ninja running with 2 nexus 120mm on it. I guess i might not have the problem you have with the cpu not making contact but I'll try removing the scythe one day and using t...

Firetech wrote:Have you read this thread

Concerning the thread, I seemed to have used the stock screws/stock backplate iwth the a8r32 mvp. Is that the wrong way to do it because my temps do seem a bit high? 40C idle and 55C load.

Scythe Ninja w/2 nexus 120 @ 9v ducted....
Antec p180

Opty 165
A8r32 MVP

I have exactly the same setup as you: a scythe ninja, opty 165, and a a8r32. I used the stock backplate and the screws that came with the mobo. Are you saying that there isn't sufficient contact when u did this and I should also use the stock backplate but use the scythe screws? I dont have a proble...

Okay this is a little better but it's also a little noisier with the top vent open. With the ninja ducted and with a top fan blowing air into the case rather than out. My idle temps are around 35C and my load temps go to about 54C with two instances of prime95. Top antec tricool is ~7v. Middle Antec...

Recently I pulled my case a little out and started the front tricool and put it on low. It seems that I have a slight airflow problem because there isn't enough fresh air. As a result I opened the top vent and made the fan push in fresh air which lowered temps about 2-3C I also ducted the heatsink w...

I haven't used any damping. I have to advise you however that if you live in CA temps will stay pretty high. The black and white nexus fans I have in my case go for approximately 2 dollars more at jabtech or any other silent pc store for that matter. X2 processor are generally cooler so heat won't b...

With the stock vcore I think it could go maybe 2.4-2.5ghz. I could have gone further than my current o/c actually. I had my system prime stable at 2.7ghz but I think because of the heat produced by my processor my memory was overheating and failing disallowing me to run a 3dmark05 session even thoug...

My room temps are about 24-26C - I live in CA where my parents keep the heater on - always! Another thing that I think is making the temps higher is that my pc is surrounded on all three sides. Cool and quiet is disabled and considering both nexus' are on 9v with the zalman on 5v, my p.c. is very qu...

It turns out that my vf900 was running about 500rpm above the 5v specification because I hadn't used the fan controller that came with the heatsink. Instead, I had directly plugged in the vf900 to my fan controller. Now I have the vf900 plugged into the zalman fan controller tucked in the spot where...

This is my first ever build and using my knowledge from SPCR, HardOCP, Anandtech, Tomshardware, and Xtremesystems I have successfully built my first computer. CPU temps are above. VGA Temps are around 55C during gaming and around 47-50C during idle. I have the fan on 5v and my graphics card is overc...

I fixed it - I got a Vf900. Initial impressions of the vf900 are that it is no doubt quiet at 5v but about as quiet if not just a tad less quiet than a nexus at 12v. The vf900 produces a loud whooshing sound of air turbulence which is further aggravated by my x-fi which is in the second to last pci ...

Bringing up an old topic but my drivespeed settings never stay. Everytime I reboot the settings are changed back to default. Is there any way to fix this?