1) Instead of a exhaust at at spot2, you might want to move that to the HSF, it's far more effective in cooling the CPU there and moving the noise source deeper in the case. 2) I notice you have a P180. The intake (spot 4) is covered by a plastic door that severely blocks air flow. You would need to...

For your next PC, unless you are going for Crossfire 6970s or SLI 580s. There's no need to pick watercooling for noise or performance. You will find it hard to beat the performance of a thermalright archon + Shamon. Even warriorpoets PC doesn't NEED watercooling I don't think silentpcreview ever had...

Just want to post my experience (which has been positive). I actually had 4 U2410: An A01, 2 x A02, and a A04. One of the A02s had bad capacitors and died on me, but none had the buzzing issue (at 50% brightness). For noise reference, I can hear my S-Flex 120mm (which I didn't find as good as they c...

Update: Sold.
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Selling a used Dell U2410 A02 (Made in Mexico). No dead pixels.

Had an Eyefinity setup with 3 of these, but decided to change to a 30" + 24" setup.

Steven

Update: Sold. --------------------------- Update: Sold the NeoHE 550W separtely. Replacing that with an older Antec Truepower 550W. Dropping price to $60 Update: Was going to keep the individual components, but decided to sell the whole thing. Selling quiet server system 1. Antec Solo with 2x scythe...

Thanks for all your help. Windows Software RAID it is.

Hello, I have a Hardware vs. Software RAID question. I am going to setup a RAID 1 array as I am getting more paranoid about data loss. I already have a scheduled weekly NAS backup but would like the added redundancy. My question is what type of setup would be the most portable / easiest to recover? ...

Anyone has experience with the samsung Spinpoint M7 series? I am in the market for a 500GB 2.5" drive.

Interested, half the tri-cools I got, dating back to my P180, won't start on low. I thought that was normal...

The Thermaltake's frameless design would not be good for an intake fan. The 16dBa rating is definitely inaccurate.

Can't comment on the CPU fan as i don't have much experience with the P4 nor 7000. Is your CPU fan mobo controlled? what's your load temp/fan speed? If it's running cool and the CPU fan isn't spinning much beyond 2000 at load. You shouldn't have any problems wiht a fan swap. For the GPU, there'd be ...

I doubt the AKIMBO would be really quiet. The fan looks rather small for quiet standards. My guess is it's prob. as quiet as a stock g92 8800gts.

If you want a cool looking card. Why not just go for a non-green pcb with a thermalright HR-03gt. It'd be more quiet and most likely cool better.

As title says. Anyone has any idea? I recently purchased a silverstone F-33B fan controller that claims 5V-12V. It caused clicking with a few of my fans, but after some swapping, I realized that a more prominent problem is it doesn't drop the voltage enough. It only drops the voltage to 7.8V -8.7V d...

Update: I made the jump and got this controller. It plays nice with my yate loons but makes my scythe 92mm kama-flex click very badly. I have alos noticed that this controller cannot bring the voltage down to 5V despite its claim. Good thing I ordered it with a bunch of other things and didn't have ...

Just want to put down a disclaimer that I just read about AutoCAD's vista support and DirectX optimization. I am thinking of upgrading to vista 64bit for the same reason, but haven't done so yet. I am not sure how AutoCAD runs in Vista. That whitepaper says it does and I am pointing to that because ...

XP preferred. I would revisit the OS preference. 1) Unless you are using xp 64 bit, you are limited to 2-3GB of memory per application and the 3GB switch in xp isn't the most reliable thing. 2) Assuming you use AutoCAD http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=10361428 . This can p...

If X is a chance that 1 drive will fail and you have n drives, 100%-[(100%-X)^n]. When X and n are low (and here they are), it's very close to nX he claimed. This is also assuming that the chance of drive A failing is independent of drive B failing. When 2 or more hard drives are in the same system...

FYI, the abit ip35 does not have uGuru. Only the Ip35-pro in the ip35 line does.

FSX is mostly CPU bound and doesn't appear to be shader intensive.

Jump for the 9600gt and try to get a 2nd monitor. FSX is one of those games where satisfaction scales almost linearly with # of monitors

from http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/sunbeamtheta_5 The one issue that occurred during normal operation involved turning the speed down to around 50% of full power. The resulting speed surges were undesirable, and something I hadn't experienced with a hardware (resistive) fan controller. Although...

wipeout,

I read that you are using one single exhaust fan. What material are you using to seal the top blowhole? I am wondering if it might be leaking.

Anyone has experience with these? I did a quick search on the forum but couldn't find anything

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/ ... ts_id=4026

Ghetto Mod. Love it. Great Job. It's prob. better just to get a new HSF though.

Or plug in a resistor in the circuit. I have never done this on a chasis, but did it successfully on a fan controller.

Edit: There are a good number of threads on the forum with similar questions and answers on how to do this.

hope

1. bolt through rentention system
2. The heatsink is large enough to take full advantage of surface area provided by a 120mm fan
3. Better contact of heatpipes/base (soldered)

Personally, I think you just got a bad batch of HDs. Those WD 500gigs don't need active cooling. I had a very similar case to the one you had (just a slightly different model) and I had 3 suspended HDs running with only an antec 380 and exhaust running at 500rpm. The HDs were running in the 50s and ...

Owned.

derekva wrote:How about this:

http://www.omaura.com/tf8.html

-D

Damn that's a looker. Now if only there's an easy way to get it...

mighte a bit over your budget. But how about 6 internal HD slots? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... &Tpk=lc16b . Do you have 2 more hard drives