You got a great thing going. One of the very few PC-tech sites that I regularly visit - always a pleasure.

-sun.moon

Very nice reading.

I wonder if the XP-120 would have performed better had it ducted cool air through a side vent like the CAG on the SLK3000B. Would have been not a pretty mod to the case however.

PretzelB wrote:That's a helpful bit of information, and kind of what I was looking for.

There are several threads in the forum with good sound discriptions of drives. It's a bit tedious to find them, but it'll be worth your time.

Hallo, All performance aspects set aside, it may just be a matter of preference, but I find managing the cables of SATA drives a big plus as opposed to PATA drives. BTW, in my system I have a Seagate 7200.7 120GB SATA HDD. No noticable whine, but the seeks are just barely tolerable. I recently put t...

Generally, two fans, each running at low speed, produce less noise than one fan running at higher speeds.

Hello all, Not taking into account new issues which may arise from the rear fan (noise, internal airflow), at least one problem should be solved. There have been numerous complaints in the SPCR forums about heat escaping the rear of the S12 and thereby considerably heating up the area between the PS...

What a timely thread! Coincidentily, just today if figured that running my computer 24/7 costs me around 23 Euro per month. That's 276 Euro per year! I still find that hard to believe - I'll verify that again in the coming days...

Hi! Looks good, but just one question. Why did you snip out the fan grill in the front, but not in the back?

-sun.moon

Congratulations! But I ditto that with the cable. Take your time to rework the cable - it's a good feeling afterwords to look at the results. Careful though, cable work can get as addicting as quietness

dukla2000 wrote:It would indeed be fabulous if there was a review table somewhere on the site.

...which is why I am eagerly looking forward to the continuation of mk's saga - IMHO a great grassroots effort and I wish him the best of luck!

Thanks for the input. The system I'm going to build doesn't need to be really quiet, and I want to use as many spare parts as possible. So I'll use the Tricool instead of buying another fan. Thanks again.

Hello all,

I'm building a system with used parts for a friend. Going to put a XP-120 on a P4 2.66. Am thinking about using a spare Antec Tricool at low to cool it.

Anybody ever put the Tricool on the XP-120? Any thoughts?

Thanks
-sun.moon

The processor is a bit trickier; I'm pretty sure your MSI motherboard doesn't allow undervolting, so not as many ways to reduce its heat output. jaganath is right here. Precotts are one of the hotter CPUs around. But your stock intel cooler is also very loud. You may want to think about replacing i...

Hello T.J.

click here and you will find what you are looking for. Most people at this forum will agree that the Seasonics are preferably the best for low noise and performance ratio.

-sun.moon

Hello dfrost, In some respects, my system is quite similar to yours. I looked through your gallery, very nice pictures. I noticed that you are using the G3. I just picked up a G6 on Ebay and am getting acqainted with it. I also will then post some new pics of my system in the gallery... BTW, I will ...

Hello Steerpike, My short story: I also have a P4 2.4 and a P4PE. It is a really nice setup. Some time ago, I was also playing around with the same idea you are now - upgrading my P4. From the price/performance point of view, it turned out not to make sense for me, yet . So I overclocked my P4 from ...

Antec SLK3000B 45 Euro Seasonic S12 430W 68 Euro Seagate 7200.7 120GB SATA HDD 45 Euro Thermalright SI-120 45 Euro AeroCool VM-101 21 Euro 3x Papst 4412 F/2GLL 45 Euro 2x Potentiometers 7 Euro Y Cable fan adapter 2 Euro Antivibration rubber for fans & PSU 5 Euro Elastic for HDD suspension 1 Euro Tim...

GHz wrote:It's not a clicking sound (motor noise), it's more like squeaking (bearing noise).

...Just missed your post GHz...

...I don't hear that kind of noise either...

Hello, So, I'll chime in here as well. I have three 4412F/2GLLs with the blue striped label in my system, all at 7v. No clicking, no motor noise, just a really smooth and low constant hum, actually rather pleasant, and not a bit annoying (which is relative of course). I formerly had them at 5v, but ...

I'm impressed by the grommets of the SLK3000B's HDD cage. I can only hear HDD seeks if I stick my head right to the case - a huge improvement over the old 1080AMG. Have you thought about suspending your drives? At first I also had mine mounted in the case as yours are (also the SLK3000B), and the g...

could you show a picture of how the hdd is suspended?

I think that word "passive", is thrown around too much. About all it means on SPCR is "my CPU heatsink did not come with a fan." Obviously any/all of these so-called passive heatsinks, require air movement provided by a fan. So what if the fan is 3" from the heatsink......that heatsink still requir...

Which case do you have?

The SI-120 is 400g. A Nexus 120mm Fan weighs in around 125g. Together both items are outside of the spec, which I recall to be 450g for Sockets 775, 478, 754, 939 and 940. The weight of the fan is on the outside of the heatsink, so additional torque on the board. BUT, the fan on the SI-120 is relati...

Here is a great story about a wooden case. You might find some useful insights there.

That Alaska Amber fan looks strikingly similar to the Noiseblocker fans - only that the blades of the Noiseblockers are blue...

Hello oscar3d, 750 RPMs for a 120mm fan still pulls quite a bit of air. The lower the RPMs the lower the noise. The S12 has a very good fan controller that ramps up only when needed. At idle, my S12 430W is around 760 RPMs and at 100% load at around 800 RPMs. Next to the HDD, it's the loudest compon...

Once I bought 2 x 5 meter extension USB cables for my printer cable (1,5 meter). With one extension cable there was no problem. But when I extended the distance with the second extension cable, the printer did not funktion properly. At that time I did some researching in the USB spec. If I recall co...

Shadowknight wrote:Drive temps also go up a bit when decoupled, and users are in an already hot environment and need to keep the drives as cool as possible.

I don't quite understand why decoupled or suspended drives get warmer than drives that are hard mounted. Could you explain please?

I think The Netherlands and Germany are destined for the 2nd production batch maybe? Perhaps Antec intends to solve the PSU problem with the ASUS boards before the debut in the Netherlands and Germany? Or perhaps they intend to introduce a version without a PSU? Or perhaps they intend to introduce ...