If the fan runs twice as fast when it's in the closet, then the closet is obviously overheating your computer due to lack of fresh air. If your computer's so loud you have to put it in a closet to cut the noise, then your computer's obviously too loud. You need to quiet your computer so you can take...

Please let me know how did you manage mounting the cooler. Which one should be easier : Zalman, Katana or SI-97 ? Ok, got a chance to work on this last night. I attached both the Thermalright SI-97 and the Scythe Katana Cu to a Socket A system with no motherboard holes- I used the standard Socket A...

Both my Athlon XP systems were hole-less, which really limited my options. But it looks like your mobo has the 4 mounting holes around the CPU socket, so your options are relatively open for commercial aftermarket heatsinks, or attaching a homebrew item if you're up for it.

KrishSA wrote:Please let me know how did you manage mounting the cooler. Which one should be easier : Zalman, Katana or SI-97 ?

Grrrr

UPS says it's not arriving until tomorrow. Today was my day off, I probably won't get to work on this until next week now.

Odd: the cooling fins are not "squared up" on the heat-pipes, but slant. Supposed to direct airflow to the VRM area, for people who think tower-style heatsinks will cause their mobos to overheat. You could also orient it towards the Northbridge, RAM, or put the fan on the low side and let the fins ...

ronrem wrote:Felger's point,I think is it's odd they offer multiple pics of the fan and not even the rpm's at the 3 speeds. Like you'd wear the thing around your neck as blingbling and stuff like airflow-sound is not a factor?

Flava-Flav just ordered one, gold plated, yo!

Thanks to SPCR for a review I've been wanting to see, I've been curious about this HS for a while now. Would've liked to see it compared directly to the recently reviewed Big Typhoon. If the 128's primary advantage is it's form factor, then it makes sense to compare performance and dimensions agains...

92 mm fans would be closer to the "right" size on length, but wouldn't cover the whole width.

If the problem is the lack of mounting holes, the Thermalright SI-97 and the Scythe Katana (and the Katana Cu) can be mounted with just the standard clip- no mounting holes needed. I have a 97 here (not installed yet), and I can't imagine how any motherboard could have a problem with it- the base is...

Looking at the pictures with the fans installed......What a convoluted airflow setup. Just what will the rear case opening be doing? There doesn't look to be enough room for an internal case fan. If you mounted the rear fan outside the case, blowing outward or inward, you would upset the airflow of...

jeremy wrote:Old HDDs are going to be loud now matter what you do with them.

Not if you ebay them.

On another note, most of the recommended PSU are 300W+, which is more than I need. It seems that the efficiency of PSUs are at 20% max power, and most PSUs start becoming less efficient at low powers (and full load). So a 550W supply will be less efficient, not to mention more expensive to buy. In ...

Another thing you can do, that i forgot to tell you before. Is that after cutting out those grilles. The edges may not look very pretty. Tip: Get some "U" shaped rubber, window or door isolation and glue this to the edge of the fan hole. Just make sure you stretch the isolation strip enough. So it ...

PopCorn wrote:any guess on release date in the us

The Europe page says March, still no mention on the CM USA site.

More info in the .pdf:http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/prod ... 070130.pdf

Greetings, Back on topic: it will be interesting to compare the Big Typhoon with the SI-120 (6 heatpipes vs 5?) and similar layouts and size. It may come down to the qualities of the mounting brackets and the contact surface? I thought Termalright hand phased out the SI-120 in favor of the SI-128? ...

More pics on the Coolermaster Japan site:

http://www.coolermaster.co.jp/item/fujintakumi.htm

The Gemini? They should have called it the Compensator!

I'm confused about the heatpipe arrangement on that Syba drive cooler. What's the point running pipes from the right side of the drive to the left side of the drive? Am I missing something obvious, or just seeing the picture wrong?

I can vouch for the Dell in this article: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article21-page1.html I just worked on one for a family member, and I was struck by how incredibly quiet it was. The only real noise came from a crappy hard drive. If you can find one of these, or a current model Optiplex that us...

Pointless? The whole point is, you won't have to stuff it in a case. You could put it anywhere- inside your keyboard, maybe. Even it this particular size doesn't "catch on", it's one more step along the road to that "computer on a chip" you were talking about. Then they start chiping our brains, I g...

if you take a look at the image I included in my original message, I wonder how swapping out the heat pipes for a copper rod that is attached to the side mounted heatsinks would perform - that's the example I had in mind I'm pretty sure that if a plain old copper rod moved heat better than a much m...

Scythe Kama Bay.

I put a fan in front of the lower HD cage in my P180 as well, but I did it a bit differently. Pics are here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Kremmit/P18 ... hamberMods

That 400w model's pretty cheap at $58.99. And that's the least-restrictive looking grill I've ever seen.

andyb wrote:Good point "Kremmit", not heard of it myself (bad pune), "PenDragon" most mobos have a speaker built in now, read the manual and look at the diagram to find it.


Andy

It's usually a little round black thing about as big around as an "AA" battery, about 1/2" tall.

Shhh,Peaceful wrote: Or, go all the way with something like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1MDEX5S0a8






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I just got an SFF21F in the mail from Jab-Tech yesterday. Haven't even had a chance to take it out of the box yet, but I'm hoping to quiet a noisy PSU with it. According to the review @ http://www.silentpcreview.com/article695-page5.html#sflex , the high speed "F" version is still plenty quiet at 5-...

Just a stab in the dark, but the buzzing problem just sounds so familiar: I had a persistent buzzing problem that was tied to HD activity in an old system. I finally determined that my buzz was not coming from the drive, PSU, or mobo, but the PC speaker! Does your case or mobo have an integrated spe...

PPGMD wrote:At most they can put would be 3 slots in the upper chamber if they adopt the same format as the lower chamber. The cage needs to be smaller to hold the kit of screws.

Somehow, the little screw box doesn't seem as important to me.

I'd prefer a 4-slot HD cage in both the upper and lower chamber. Why on earth do they have a 2-slot cage in the upper chamber? They both take up the same space, but instead Antec's building and installing two separate units- one of which is clearly inferior to the other. I don't get it- it ought to ...