During Windows installation I did notice some writing sounds from the disc Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I'm interested in this drive. But I've read newegg-reports saying the read/write noise is quite high. I wonder if suspension and dampening mats and AAM will remedy it. My current Sam...

I ended up going back to my old setup but with some extra bonus: Lined a bunch of dampening foam in the 5.25 bay area: The egg-crate foam touched the drive's narrow sides, which I didn't like, so I had to rip off some of the "peaks" to allow some 0.5 cm distance between the surfaces. http://img38.im...

During Windows installation I did notice some writing sounds from the disc Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I'm interested in this drive. But I've read newegg-reports saying the read/write noise is quite high. I wonder if suspension and dampening mats and AAM will remedy it. My current Sam...

Results of both top-downers for scythe are very impressive, there's just two things I don't raeally like about them: Push-pins for LGA 775 ( there's no much choice though ) and the fact both cooler's are lying down just on one sets of heat pipes making heatpipes bend. I like Original Zipang because...

Hi! I don't have an P18n Myself, so I can't give you any advice on a).. However, I've been soft mounting fans and using dampening materials for some time now. To answer the questions directly: b) If the fan is a quality fan and not off-balanced (two out of five Nexus fans I bought were!), they shou...

Hello all, I've been thinking a lot recently on how to improve the silencing in my rig and would appreciate some input. I could of course experiment before asking these questions, but right now I'm afraid of my wife who thinks I spend too much time with this "PC silencing thing". So I need to find o...

I don't know for sure with your graphics adapter. The cooler you have now clearly stinks. I'm sure you'd be fine with an Accelero S1 and a 600 RPM fan zip-tied to the overhang "to the right" of the wireless card. I.e. only covering half of the Accelero S1. Nice! Actually I remember seeing another V...

What do you guys think? Very clean and tidy cable management! Have you considered suspending the HDD? http://www.silentpcreview.com/article8-page2.html If an Accelero can't handle your graphic card passively, I'm sure there are other ways to tackle the problem, like mounting a fan as close to the c...

How close you are computer also affects your hearing but one of the thing we have to remember when it comes to silent PC's 1) Noise, sound and anything related noise are subjective to the individuals. Which leads to us in 2nd thing: 2) We're all individuals. Way we hear and especially experience so...

Of course 550 rpm fan that is audiable might due poor sample of fan. Some fan are noisy no matter what rpm's they are running. Even if they're reputable series. I had few poor sample iof Slipstream's and Nexus RealSilent basics in myself and they were pretty much audiable at any rpm, however bit re...

jessekopelman wrote:you have reached an inflection point where it is no longer about finding a fan that can meet your cooling needs but more about finding components/setup that can actually be cooled at the desired noise level[/i].

I fully agree with this.

If you can hear a 550RPM fan from more than a few inches away, there is something very unique to your situation that cannot be fixed by changing the fan. That may not be happy news, but it doesn't make it worthless. If this is your situation, there is no magic fan for you. You need to start looking...

how is this of any help to anyone?? if your computer is quiet enough then please by all means leave! ours however are obviously not or we would not be having this discussion so why waste our time?? I don't see why our posts were totally irrelevant. We were discussing fan speed, dB, perceived noise ...

glyphin wrote: This computer is my holy grail. Powerful, dead silent, and well packaged..

Very impressive. I like it.

@ new2spcr Rather sensing I mean it in good way.[snip] Thanks again for the detailed report and the tests you performed! It indeed sounds to me too the GT is a very weird fan.. A fan that's noisy close up but quickly becomes almost inaudible moving away from it... that sounds like a winner to me. N...

I seriously can't hear it unless I kneel down and put my head in level with the intake vent slits on the P182. Sure, but I would say the same thing about a 550RPM fan. I definitely can't hear that from more than a few inches away . . . At least not in a normal room. Do you live in an anechoic chamb...

jessekopelman wrote: What kind of HDD are you using that it's quieter than a 550RPM 120mm fan!?

A Samsung HD322HJ, 320 gb, 7200 rpm, suspended with rubber cords. I think it only has one platter.
I seriously can't hear it unless I kneel down and put my head in level with the intake vent slits on the P182.

Hi! There's been some speculations, questions and few impressions about Gentle Typhoon. I received today my 800 and 1150 rpm variants. First things I noticed when I compeared by hand Gentle typhoon Against Nexus Real Silent Basic 120mm and Scythe Slipstream 800 rpm: Gentle Typhoons weighted more. D...

I`m quite pleased with my kama pwm. I was specifically looking for typical pwm artifacts but found none. The motor is as smooth as the best of them. I`ve also got an artic cooling pwm (the one with the conventional frame). It`s not as smooth as the skythe but it`s still decent. The problem is that ...

Hi, I don't know what the temperatures are -- and I don't really care. The air slot at the top back of the case is warm to the touch, but not so much that I can touch it "forever" with my fingertips. The fan runs fast for about 1/2 second when you first turn it on -- but it never runs that fast dur...

Hi, My latest computer is a 24" iMac. It cost $1,800 -- and it draws ~116watts at full load (WHICH INCLUDES THE 24" MONITOR!), it is virtually silent, and it is very fast. And I won't have Registry corruptions, and it will probably never get a virus or have malware installed w/o my knowledge. The m...

speedfan takes some finesse.. as for your fan rpm fluctuations a quick glance on newegg will tell you that the rpm of the fan is 800 (or 1200 whatver one u got) +- 10%. That means, that if you bought a 1200 rpm fan, at any given rpm, the fan may spin 120 rpm above or below the "nominal" rpm for any...

Square Wave wrote:
I wonder why the speed still seems variable, despite having disabled the Q-Fan in BIOS and used this FanMate.

I have the same "problem" with the Fanmate. I have two fanmates connected to my system fan and cpu fan and I often experience variations in rpm for both fans, around 20-30 rpm Id guess.

Hopefully this is not a silly first question. :-) Thanks to SPCR, I've got parts on order for my first custom/quiet PC. Wife & baby should notice a difference from the old P4 Dell! Only kicker... P182 case sounds too tall/wide/heavy for most desk schemes. Current setup is a big corner desk with the...

I have a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard, and I'd like to replace the stock northbridge cooler with an aftermarket NB cooler. motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2758 I think I've narrowed my choices to either the Xigmatek PTR-CN881 Porter, or the Thermalright HR-05 IFX...

Great review. Thanks. Nice to see a better mounting option from Scythe.

So true. Not all manufacturers care much about ESD protection either. When I got my Samsung drive, it came all naked inside a single transparent clam-style plastic case. No ESD protection, no protecting sponge. When I asked the shop about this crappy way of packaging, they said that's the way the g...

However, as long as you spin them up regularly One has to spin them up regularly? I don't know. I recall reading somewhere that it's not particularly healthy to let drives sit unused for extended periods of time. I imagine fluid bearing drives have at least a potential for problems with the fluid p...

qviri wrote:However, as long as you spin them up regularly

One has to spin them up regularly?

It may be fine. Who knows how many times our unboxed OEM hard drives have fallen in the warehouse before they are shipped to us. And shipping can be a pretty wild time too. So true. Not all manufacturers care much about ESD protection either. When I got my Samsung drive, it came all naked inside a ...