I'm looking for something similar. The Silverstone LC17 and LC20 both seem to get good reviews on the cooling front. Does anyone have any opinions on either?

Hey, thanks for this! I've been trying to work out how to get my machine to wake on lan, because there was no setting in the BIOS for it. After reading your post I looked in the driver settings and there it was - I can now tell my machine to go to standby and wake it up with a magic packet when need...

I've got a similar system - 3 x 250gb HDDs suspended (plus an older 80gb for my system drive), mainly for transcoding (although only SD so far). I recently upgraded from a sempron 3000+ to an e6400, with a gigabyte 965p-S3 motherboard. I picked the board because it overclocks well - I'm running it a...

I've got a Silverstone LC02 which is only 30 cm deep and fits a full ATX board. But it has significant limitations - only one HD (I used a laptop drive), slim DVD, one PCI and one AGP card (both on risers) - and I've pulled out the PSU in preference for a picopsu & external brick power supply arrang...

I've got an HTPC built in an LC02 - and have also been having heat issues. I didn't want to add fans, so I've concentrated on swapping out hot components (or buying cool ones in the first place). Have you worked out what's making the most noise? Try stopping the fans one at a time to work it out - o...

Thanks guys, that's done the trick. Odd, though - as I pulled it apart it seemed fine - no obvious gaps, not too much thermal compound. But re-doing it has dropped the temps to the low-mid 60s - which means all my other components aren't cooking from the excess heat!

I've just built a HTPC, and my vanilla 6600 with Zalman VF700 cooler is running around the 75-80C mark at idle or when playing a DVD. CPU, HD etc are all running at or below 40C, but gradually heat up towards 50C as the GPU heats up the case. Taking the lid off the case helps (around 65-70C) - but i...

Hi Jaganath, thanks for your reply. So my initial thoughts about this being a relatively low-powered system weren't wrong after all. So why wouldn't it boot with the original PSU? I got a brief spin of the CPU fan but nothing else. I've had that with this mobo before (a faulty 4-pin CPU wire on the ...

Over the last 12 months or so I've gradually been gathering parts for my HTPC. Today was building day - and I discovered that the 250w flex PSU in my Silverstone LC02 case won't boot my sempron 3100/nvidia 6600/laptop HD/slim DVD drive system (no great surprise after I realised the 6600 needs at lea...

I'm wanting to do a "string and sealing wax" temporary repair on my son's laptop. Its fan has stopped working, which not surprisingly is causing the laptop to overheat and shut down. We don't have the time or money for a proper fix at present (as to get to the fan we have to strip down the entire la...

Hmmmm. OK, looks like I'll have to look elsewhere for why my burner is complaining about power. Might be time to swap some parts in and out with my son's machine and see what happens...

Thanks for the input!

I think I might have a problem with my voltages and I'd love some input. I've just got a new PSU (about a month ago) and two of my lines are reporting (via speedfan) a funny voltage. After reading here I realise that my -5v line reading as -8.78V is probably not a problem, but my -12V is reading as ...

Or look at the Enermax noisetakers maybe, and around AUD100? http://www.silentpcreview.com/article149-page1.html I've got a Zalman 400b, and it's by far and away the noisiest thing in my system, although to be fair, it's basically inaudible from 2m away, and it isn't a terribly intrusive sort of noi...

I've got a samsung ml1740 which I'm very happy with. It sits under my desk at home, and is dead silent unless it's printing or warming up to print (which only takes a few seconds). It's not network capable, though, but you might be able to find a bigger sibling which is.

I'll have a think about that temperature issue, thanks. The downside is, though, that the 2800+ is $30US cheaper than the 3100+, and the 3100+ needs a 754 mobo (which is another $40US). I'll have to weigh up the pros and cons. lish, any of the semprons should do the HDTV - my old 1700+ (1.5GHz) and ...

I’m planning to build my own computer for the first time ever – upgrading from an XP1700+ machine. I’ve only in the last year or so got up the courage to “pop the case” on my computer to tinker with its insides, so I’m a bit nervous about it. I don’t play games at all, but do record & process quite ...

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I bought the copper silent and it's a huge improvement - although it was touch and go whether it would fit - it actually pushes one of the capacitors aside a little. But I got a noticeable decrease in noise, although of course now I'm thinking about quietening my vid...

This is my first post here, although I've been reading the site avidly for the last few months. I'm wanting to take my first steps into silencing my PC - I've also got the Gigabyte GA-7VA board (rev 1) but with an XP 2100+. Would the solution you suggested work for it as well? My standard heat sink ...