The new Nexus 5000 psu is also a good choice for a review.

Considering the number of problems and incompatibilities with antec neohe psus they should just get rid of the neohe lineup and introduce the same "fixed/revised" psu with another name making it easier for the consumer to distinguish between the revised units and the older problematic ones. Somethin...

Well I saw a review (look somewhere on CDRinfo.com for VF700 led) which compared the Vf700 to the Arctic cooling alternative and it turned out that the Arctic cooling is supposed to be quieter and more efficient in cooling the graphics card when using Riva Tuner to throttle the fan. It turned out th...

If I can make sure somehow (before I buy a product) that it is guaranteed to work, especially considering that the neohe is one hell of a product (when it works) I would buy it in an instance. The tricky part however is for antec to regain my trust and the trust of many other consumers who have been...

How much performance benefit in real world applications is there going to be from the 16mb. I'm pretty pissed off since I recently bought a 74gb raptor.

Are you planning to put 2 fans ON the heatsink or have 1 fan mounted on the heatsink and 1 fan as an exhaust which is mounted on the back panel of the case? I have a p180 which i'll be using for a push pull config with air going out the back exhaust tricool and most likely have the top vent closed. ...

The only problem is that I don't want to open up my system and keep having to change from 12v to 5v. I'd hook up the vf700 to my fan controller but it only has 4 channels which will most likely be used for the 4 fans in my case besides the psu and vf700 fan. How loud is the vf700 fan at 12v btw? Als...

Planning on getting a 7800 gt and vf700-cu, should it be okay during high loads?

System info

Opteron 170 most likely o/ced
Scythe Ninja w/ ninja
2 Antec (thin) tricools
1 "extra" Nexus 120mm at the front probably off unless gaming
Antec p180 pci slot holders replaced so air can pass thru

hey matva did you have the smartpower 2.0 500w? I just can't seem to find a really quiet psu for my p180 but I was told that a sp2 500w would be pretty quiet considering the p180 thermal separation.

EDIT: *noticed Yesico was passive- NVM*

I don't know but there were a couple of revisions of the raptor. On storage review the newest firmware revision of the raptor was the quietest while they didn't test the version that was included in the SPCR review. As I recently bought my drive (it's the newer version in the SR review), I hope its ...

I have a fan controller so I put the tricools on the medium setting and plug the fans into the fan controller and only give like 9v. It seems pretty quiet to me. You might want to try just getting some better fans like the nexus. I can't afford $60 for 3 nexuses so I'm stuck with just using this met...

There's a new Asus 7800gt that is going to be released which I believe is totally passive. If you're into gaming, you might want to look into that.

Is it possible to run a smartpower 2.0 antec sp-500 in sli/crossfire using 2 power hungry video cards (eg 7800 gtx 512mb). Obviously, I can't afford an sli setup right now nor need one as a 7800 gt is sufficient for my gaming needs, but this is looking towards the future.

Now if Asus can get a 7800 gt upside down that would be awesome. Think about it. One could mod the asus 7800 gt w/ a vf700-cu pushing air up and in a p180 fitted w/a scythe that would be insanely cool having a nexus in the middle and channeling the hot air produced by the video card straight thru th...

The A8n32 is pretty nice. I'd also look into the A8R-mVP crossfire mobo. Asus has to just get a damn bios that works and the a8r will be flying.

Since there are incompatibilities with certain mobos and the neohe, I would personally go for the p180 and spend the extra $25 on some nexus 120mm fans.

The G.Skill ram - what kind of heatspreader does it have because I was thinking of buying a 2GB G.SKill kit myself.

I'm not much of an airflow wizard or anythign and I may be talking nonsense but why don't you try making the rear exhaust fan push air into the scythe ninja through the heatsink cooling your ram and put the nexus on the bottom pushing air into the heatsink and out the top. Instead of running the rea...

Personally, I was planning on getting the 2gb black G.Skill modules that were DDR500 rated. Why? I was planning on getting an opteron 175 w/ a multiplier of 11. If I run at 1:1 settings I would be able to overclock my processor (250x11) 2750mhz w/ my ram at DDR500. However, this would be the best ca...

There's no problem with running your ram at 500 mhz (500mhz DDR, 250 single) except that there's no performance benefit from running it at 250* as opposed to 200 (400mhz ddr). You have to have a really powerful processor to allow the processor to take up the bandwidth of 250 memory. Example: DDR400 ...

I got my P180 from newegg about 3 weeks ago and it has this door with the center magnet and metal power button. I didn't realize it was a "new" door until I saw this post. I've been having the warped door problem on-and-off since the first day, and the magnet isn't always strong enough to counterac...

crucial is quite expensive unless you go for the entry-level stuff.

If you aren't going to overclock there's some similar G.SKill ram for the same price that has 2-3-3-5 low timings. This will give a benefit as lower timings are more important than memory speed.

If you're planning to overclock your memory, this memory has proved among the best for overclocking in terms of giving more options when o/cing the processor and ram : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231021 This ram is also pretty affordable right now as you can get it shippe...

I was planning on the opteron 170 since it was relatively cheap on monarch (oem version). My luck however is quite sour as they sold out of the oems. Now I'm stuck with the retail versions which are as expensive as the 175 oems which are ETA January 20. Thus, I'll probably wait for an opteron 170 oe...

Wow! Your build is farther down the road than mine. I've just got some parts: the p180, scythe, x-fi, and raptor hd. What processor are you planning to buy?

After seeing the pics by Jermaink(thanks once again man!) and comparing the SPCR review of the SP-450 and Seasonic, I've decided to go with the SP-500. It's not only modular but is nicer to my budget :lol: . The only way I'll probably go over or reach 200w is when doing some heavy multitasking or ga...

Look on DFI Street ( search on google). They have an in-depth thread regarding Athlon 64 overclocking which is really helpful and includes a list of programs that you'll need to overclock as well.

No problem. With regard to the DFi it's an awesome o/cing board. Now that you've bought it anyway, I suggest getting one of the zalman heatsinks for the northbridge and bending them up. (Do a search on this on these forums to find a thread illustrating this.) You'll also probably need some good airf...