Okay, this is strange, cuz people have been saying that the 92mm fan on the CMPS 7000 is good in terms of noise. Does that mean Zalman is sourcing different fans for their products?

Wow, great work everybody. Looks like I'm destined for top 15 at best with my only machine after y'all overtake me.

Keitaro, yes in general good airflow will minimize the temp rise from a dampening a case.

JEN, I agree with your POV. Intake fans are mostly for a) keeping the dust out when moving more air than the exhausts and b) targeting hotspots with cool air.

Cheers!

Cool, it looks like you'd get better leverage too with the automotive nibbler. Question is how much $$?

That's really puzzling how ~300g less of a HS can cool a CPU more. I wonder if it'd be the same with Folding and/or CPUBurn?

Howdy DougS, According to DirkVader.de ( review link in german ), the Aero fan at it's lowest setting is about the same as a 12V Papst N2GL at 27dBA (vs. ~25 for the NG2L). The numbers with their test methodology. The numbers seem decent, but the fan may still require further undervolting. And who k...

My 1st choice would be a G550 b/c of the 2D image quality (around $100 US), but a Radeon 9000 or GeforceFX5200 would also be good choices (and more modern too).

JEN wrote:I am now thinking about getting that acoustic foam from "quietpc", which should make it even more quiet!

Congrats on the successful mods. I'd recommend you try the melamine foam that has been mentioned on the forums and on the front page before you fork out $$ for the expensive stuff.

PIII and PIV are safe up to near 70°C. This is where they start to thermally throttle. I'm half talking out my ass about AMD CPUs 'cause I haven't used on since 1.4Tbird days but I seem to remember hearing that AMD says up to 90°C is OK. Anyone care to help me out here? Most of the newer or faster ...

You really took advantage of the pink styrofoam there!

Very nice DIY application of an L bracket for the hdd suspension. I wish the Antec cases had hdd access from the mobo side so I could do the same.

Thanks for the heads-up bsdgeek. I think that's worth a news posting on the front page.

wussboy wrote:Nice work powergyoza! I love cycling. For years I've ridden a $100 piece of crap I bought at a pawn shop. I can't wait to get a sweet road bike!

Devinci makes good bicycles, but I'd highly recommend Marinoni - another manufacturer from Quebec. http://www.marinoni.qc.ca/

hey beanboy, If conventional silencing-wisdom is right, WB's on the sides should offer enough cooling. Usually, the heat is given off the most at the sides. If you're interested and crazy as me, you can give acoustic lead foil a shot. SPCR's (@ Storageforums') Blakewry also successfully employed lea...

I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties. I guess the performance of the rubber box depends a lot on 1) the type of rubber, 2) how well the openings are closed off [back included], and 3) possibly how tight fittiing the rubber box is (probably not, but it certainly helps with conducting the heat aw...

I think a lot of Googles WU's come from the Google toolbar that people install on their IE6.

The Baracuda 7200.7 datasheet says 2.8A max. SCSI drives would be more than that, so that gives one per connector That 2.8A figure must be @ spin up because under seeking it's < 13 watts, which works out to about 1A+ on the 12V line. Seems like it consumes 0A on the 5V line or whatever "N/A" means....

Long live the bicycle!

PS: This is my new silent solution/toy to reducing power consumption, traffic congestion and air and noise pollution. And it reduces my risk of cancer too.

Hey serge, The CNPS-7000 is said to have a good fan, so I wouldn't worry about picking that one. My biggest concern is the poorly designed airflow for this case. No heatsink fanned or fanless will do well in that case. There's nothing on the mobo half to exhaust the heat. Solutions include: hacking ...

What is the power / current rating of the wiring / molex. 4 or more SCSI drives will need thickish wires. There should still be some headroom with 4 drives. IIRC, each contact can take 5A, but the wire itself is around 7A. I bet most SCSI drives are around 1A for each of the 5V & 12V lines. That's ...

I believe that was SPCR's bluehat that did the passive thunderbird. http://members.fortunecity.com/bluehat1/index.html

Thanks for catching that mike. SilentDrive has gotta go.

Dude, that is mighty sweet! I'm in the design industry, so I can totally relate to having a Distiller "renderbox" to free up your computer from distilling postscript all day long. That geode CPU is mighty slow though isn't it?

Cheers,
Leo

I have been thinking about the intake fans being at the rear of the pc, but the problem is that I have one of them flower heat sink fans, so if I added intake fans to the rear, they would be blowing air at the heatsink fan which would cause it to make more noice! A fan blowing at another fan is not...

Zhentar, I don't want to get into a debate about nuclear power, but I do know that many scientists and activists - David Suzuki being one - argue that there is not enough resources on this earth to power our future needs. Not enough uranium nor fossil fuels in the ground. On top of that, experiments...

1. modding the PSU with 2 silent 80mm fans + 1 silent 92mm side intake fan? or 2. modding the PSU with 1 silent 80mm fan + 1 silent 92mm side intake fan + 1 silent 92mm top-of-case exhaust fan? Hello Jen, Neither is ideal, but if those were your only choices, I'd go for #1. If you can, remove 1 fan...

And on top of that, the current WU needs to be completed before it switches to the gromacs core.

To be sure, just check the process tab in the task manager. If you find fahcore_65, you're still running the tinker core. If it's fahcore_78, then you know it's gromacs.

Neil, -advmethods will force the use of the gromacs core. herosformula, How you include those switches depends on which client you're using and how you start the client. If you're using the console client and you're starting as a scheduled task, you would add the switches to the end of the "run:" fi...

From what I can tell about your case setup, you may have a case airflow issue. If your rear case fans are intakes and your PSU fan is the only exhaust then you'll have a big dead-zone of air towards the front and bottom - I'm assume that's where your hdd is. If this seems like a reasonable assessmen...

digitalix, you stole the answer right outta my mouth!!!