About the hard drive suspension, you may wish to just consider hard drive enclosures. They are more expensive than DIY suspension (i.e. rubber bands or foam), but are quite effective (especially with modern HDDs) against both hard drive vibrational noise as well as normal hard drive sounds which the...

Good for you. I like Lian Li cases too, but don't expect them to be that quiet without some work. I also got rid of the stock fans - both the Antec and Lian Li stock fans are not as quiet as they can be. Check out the link in my sig for two ways of softmounting fans in a Lian Li case - one using the...

Can I suggest that nobody replies to Matja's last posting please ? Otherwise this silly discussion is gonna last until the end of my life. Thank you *unsubscribed* Browsers: non-issue. There's this thing called "write cache"....worked on a machine with an X25 yesterday, and haven't noticed ANYTHING...

I don't have these two cases, but I have had Lian Li and Antec cases. So to answer your question whether the Lian Li is as quiet as the P183: probably not if you're comparing an unmodifed Lian Li to an unmodified Antec. For a start, a nice heavy cheap steel case with some plastic is likely to be mor...

Quite a few negative views of SSD's here. From what I've seen, an SSD like this one is amongst the best upgrades someone can make nowdays in terms of performance and in terms of cost. Compared to many other upgrades, the performance gain in everyday computing makes this an absolute bargain in terms ...

Got one of these 5400rpm F2's and it sounds fairly quiet so far. Going to compare them to the F1's later but first impression is that it is at least as quiet if not more. As for Pixmania, never had any problems with them and I have ordered significant items like Pioneer plasma TV's, i7 CPU's etc. Bu...

That's a different acousti. It's this one: http://www.acoustiproducts.com/en/index.asp However I don't think they have a reseller in Israel. You could buy it elsewhere from them, but it'd be expensive and not sure if it's worth it. I'm sure someone could help with the DIY option though. Or just vist...

Well you could do the theoretical calculations as described, but the result would likely be wrong/meaningless. For a start, your case might just vibrate or echo those the sounds. In the wrong case with minimal sound absorbtion, those hard drives will whine and echo regardless of the mounting. And th...

I don't know about availability in Israel, but I use Acousti AcoustiPack dampening. I've heard some people use cheaper DIY materials, which will be available in Israel, but have no experience with this because I prefer the Acousti products.

I had a P180 and the top fan hole was extremely annoying. Not only did I get the hear the fan but all the internal case sounds came from that completely unbaffled hole. To me, that's a design mistake. So I not only didn't connect the top fan, I removed it and completely sealed that hole. Big improve...

Well load temps of 71 on an i7 aren't terrible. But they aren't great either especially at stock and the fan on max. I suppose that your temps remain the same even when you press down on the TRUE and apply pressure while checking your temps to ensure that it isn't a mounting problem? I think that wi...

As for your question on core temps verses CPU, you should look at your core temps and not the CPU temps. Your CPU temps should be lower than the temps of the cores, so perhaps it's the way you're reading the temps. But regardless, I recommend you use the CoreTemp application to look at the temps of ...

You may have put on too much TIM if you put it on "both" the CPU and the heatsink. This will affect your temps. Redo it, fully wiping off the TIM, and put a very thin layer only on the CPU. You can use the line method that the instructions describe, or another method, but make sure the end result is...

Not sure it's that simple. People who go for subdued, plain looking cases tend to go for Lian Li or Silverstone. Or Antec if you're on a budget. Antec has done well in the mid-range market (the excellent 900 and 1200 cases), but gradually lost the real "plain, boring" high-end market to it's competi...

What do you think will blow more air at the same rpm, 1x120mm or 2x92mm? Going to adjust your question a bit to give you a straight answer. At the same level of noise, the 1x120mm will give you more airflow than 2x92mm. This is why everyone prefers 120mm over 92mm's if they're trying to keep noise ...

What temps are you getting? With 4 cores being stressed by Prime 95, we're looking at 69-71c like this: http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t128/echn111/i920-1.jpg I admit it's undervolted, but if you look closely the CPU is running at 3.6Ghz overclocked. With 8 cores being stressed over several day...

Just get the HR-01 Plus with a duct. You don't even need to bother with a fan.

I've been running my overclocked i7 920 without a fan on the HR-01 Plus for months now (just a duct to the 800rpm rear case exhaust).

Try that with the S1283 or Scythe Ninja and see what happens.

...those temps are in a closed case after several hours of stress testing so they are proper temps after the system has achieved equilibrium. increasing the rear fan to 1000rpm decreases temps by around 5c or so, but fan speeds above 850rpm or so generate too much noise. p.s. in your case, with no O...

HR-01+ is a great choice. But make sure you get the air duct as it helps a lot. I've got my i7 920 running mildly overclocked (i.e. 3.4Ghz) with it. Didn't even bother having a fan on it, much less a noisy 1200rpm fan. Just using an air duct and case airflow from the rear exhaust fan (800rpm) to coo...

I was also talking about vibration noise. I have two 1200rpm S-FLEX hard-mounted in my build, and they are completely inaudible at any speed below 650 rpm. If there is vibration noise present, it only shows at higher speeds, where there is airflow noise already (so the source becomes irrelevant). I...

Some of the Lian-Li's have relatively thin aluminum walls and this does contribute to vibration sound. They're still good, but, without compensating for the walls, perhaps not at the level SPCR forum members expect from cheaper plastic/metal cases. You can say the same about any high quality aluminu...

I'm looking for fan mufflers (aka fan acoustic cover aka fan baffles etc.) for my exhaust fans. Some of my previous cases came with fairly good fan exhaust mufflers (e.g. Lian-Li PC-S80) but my current case doesn't. My PC is already very quiet due to low noise components, isolated fan/PSU and hard d...

Sure you can undervolt it and reduce vibrations but it's probably covering up a mounting issue. No. It is normal for 120mm fans to become audible at around 700rpm, and it's only due to the amount of air they are pushing at that speed. The S-FLEX is very quiet below that speed, and still pretty quie...

"Rubber screw replacements" are not sufficient to properly soft mount a fan. The silicone or rubber screw replacement is a "nice to have", but most of my noise reduction is by effectively isolating the fan from the metal case. You need a reasonably thick silicone or rubber gasket to isolate it from ...

Sure you can undervolt it and reduce vibrations but it's probably covering up a mounting issue. Vibration noise should be a non-issue with proper mounting, meaning that you should focus more on the actual noise the fan makes. You should soft mount your fan or anything with moving parts otherwise you...

Ok with the debate on how to mount these fans in different holes, maybe there should be a different thread on the Scythe forums... But I'm really more interested in getting my PC silent and a 140mm fan from a reputable distributor like Scythe that fits into a 120mm sized mounting sounds almost too g...

So are these fans any good in terms of their cooling power to noise ratio? Or more specifically, compared to a standard 120mm fan, at the same (low) noise level, does it push more air in (A) open air and (B) under restriction such as in front of a radiator or heatsink? Even informal feedback would b...

Well I didn't really get a chance to experiment too much with the i920 as I actually needed to use my PC (the only thing I did was to properly enable all 8 threads). But I can report that after almost two weeks of my system being run almost continously 24/7, with cooling being the aformentioned semi...

the real core i7 doesnt get released till next year, on a LGA 1156 socket, codenamed "Havendale". these current ones are just the high end over priced version for people with too much money. So unless your one of those people, wait till fall of next year. Not sure what you're talking about. Not onl...

Ok decided to disconnect my Thermalright HR-01 Plus fan and see what happens. So what we have is: the heatsink (with air duct) running passive, using only case airflow. Case is closed (no cheating). Case fans are at 800-850rpm. P920i is overclocked from 2.66Ghz to 3.6Ghz. Prime95 stressing all four ...