Actually I agree with svil. HDD vibrations do carry surprisingly well along the cable, and if it's touching the case it will resonate. The only reasonable way of this happening is if unsecured HDD cables vibrate from excessive HDD vibrations and rattle against the case. This I suppose I could recog...

Decals look funny :lol: but then again who's going to see them once your case is closed? Looks interesting, proper mounting mechanism is a nice plus. with Ninja2 I've always used thermalright bolt through mechanism. I wonder how scythe system compares to it? Does it apply enough pressure? I'd defini...

Well, I installed the card late last week. I removed the fan and swapped whatever thermal compound they had (they plopped way too much of it on GPU) for AS5. It works, but that's all I can say. Sadly it appears that this card doesn't have hardware monitoring, or current RivaTuner 2.24C can't read it...

(even cables may carry the bzzzz) I used to think I'm really anal retentive about noise, but you sir, you top it all, you belong to a mental institution with white soft padded walls for added noise insulation... :lol: To the OP, I've used to put my drives on foam for years, it works. My main rig no...

1. Idle noise wise - if you're fine with 3.5" drive in quiet drive you'll be more than fine with single enclosed 2.5" drive too. 2. 2.5" drives do vibrate, but since their mass is so low even hard mounting them to a steel case shouldn't be a problem, they just aren't heavy enough to transmit vibrati...

Yeah, I'm going to try it, I was just wondering if anyone else has had any experience with 40nm nvidia parts, how hard it is to cool them, etc. I didn't even know nvidia had 40nm parts, it came as a complete surprise to me. All passive GTS 210's at newegg are dual slot designs with much bigger heats...

I snagged EVGA GTS 210 from FRY's for $10 after rebate. I figured it was cheap enough to have as a spare card just in case. That's the card below. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130536 I didn't know when I bought it that it was actually a 40nm part, in fact I didn't know th...

Good news, hopefully other manufacturers will follow as well with 5400rpm versions and hopefull by the time my RAID5 runs out of disc space these will be priced low enough to buy cheaply (relatively speaking).

DVD + 4 HDDs in the top 4 HDDs + SSD in the middle 4 HDDs in the bottom This only adds up to 13 drives (if you do not include DVD, which is not a hard drive really). So is it 13 or 14 drives? Also, can you explain in a little bit more detail how you got 4 drives in the middle and 4 drives up top? I...

First you say

a1m80t wrote:[after] disabling vdroop, the coil whine went away.

Then you say

a1m80t wrote:Vdroop must be on or you will have some buzzing when browsing stuff like MSN Wonder Wall

Which one is it?

Quite a big difference acoustically, almost enough for me to swap my Himuro for a Quiet Drive. Guess I should mount them all in enclosures first and then suspend them.... Assuming the test results are actually accurate, I'd go the opposite way. All I care about is idle noise, seeks do not really bo...

Wonderful news on TLER control. If my RAID5 array runs out of space, these are the drives I'm going to buy, that is unless 3TB drives do not come out first

I used to be a lot more active but I've only visited SPCR a few times in the last 6 months. In my case that's due to several factors. 1. It's stupid easy to silence computer these days. In the P3/Athlon/P4 days there were very few silencing options available so you had to actively go out and seek ne...

Woohoo, nice. I held on to my V1 Ninja's because I could use Thermalright mounting brackets with them whereas I couldn't with V2 because they had closed corners. V3 looks like a winner, one more heatpipe on each side and they are spread out for better heat dissipation. The only thing that might spoi...

If you have several computers and regularly transfer files between them, then yes Gigabit helps a lot. Transferring gigabytes of data on 100Mbps is just too painful.

I've been using No Script, Ad Blocker Plus and Ghostery for a while. Yes, there is a learning curve where you have to decide whether or not to allow a site. I find that my browsing is about 95% repeat sites and 5% new sites. So, after a couple of days of training, only 5% or so new site training is...

Sadly it's normal. My mobo (IP35Pro) intermittently squeals when I overclock my q9550 to 3.4GHz. Drove me nuts when I first discovered because I never noticed it before and I thought it was my videocard. I downclocked it to stock frequency and all is good now. As much as I'd like a faster CPU, I wou...

OK, so I needed 5400 rpm storage drive some time ago. I was looking at WD Green, Seagate LP and Samsung EcoGreen. In the end I decided to go with Samsung. All is well for now, but lately I noticed that every once in a while out of the blue, the Samsung drive will start seeking for no apparent reason...

Some time ago I decided to make a switch from sunbeam controller to Kaze Master Ace. I just wanted to have RPM read outs because that would let me control the fan speeds better as opposed to arbitrary 7V red/blue led change in sunbeam. Well yesterday I noticed a whole lot of weirdness coming from my...

I wonder if Enermax will also operate fanless below 150W. The specs indicate that the minimum fan speed is 330 RPM, even at "0" output. A 330 RPM fan is so close to completely silent that I doubt the difference with the X-series is material. Depends. My PSU also has one really slow moving fan on ve...

Looks interesting and they do go as low as 500W as opposed to 650W for Seasonic. Would be hard to beat Seasonic's fanless operation at lower wattages though. I wonder if Enermax will also operate fanless below 150W.

Good to hear you got your replacement quick. I've owned S12-600 (currently powering my sister's PC), S12+ 550 (now in storage) and two Neo HE 380, both in use right now with one powering quadcore fileserver with eight 5400rpm hard drives and other misc stuff. All four work flawlessly. My guess is yo...

How thin does it have to be? I don't have any personal experience with thin 80mm fans, but I recently researched them a little out of curiousity. 80x10mm are hard to come by, I think the only manufacturer that makes them is evercool, but my impression of evercool was that they are generally high spe...

Actually my review was mainly a positive one (I wouldn't get the second keyboard just in case if I didn't like the first one, would I?). I guess it came off a little bit too negative because I empathized the negative points. This is still one of the better wireless keyboards I've tried, and it goes ...

Scythe S-Flex SFF21D (800rpm version) works well in horizontal setting, so I assume SFF21E will work too. Don't have experience with Silverstone fans so can't advise you here (afaik they do not make their own fans anyway, just rebadge someone else's). Another 120mm fan you might try that works well ...

It's easy to spot the "Windows generation" with their awkward X-C-V ;) I wouldn't say it's awkward. I know of ctrl-ins/shift-ins from dos days, but X-C-V is more convenient. For one you can do it with one hand only, and shifting your pinky down to CTRL is less taxing than moving your entire right h...

HP sells two versions of this keyboard, one with bundled mouse and one without. I initially didn't know about mouseless version so I bought bundled one for $40, had to throw the mouse in the garbage bin right away. A couple of months later Fry's has sale on keyboard alone at $15, d-oh! Oh well, boug...

Noise is subjective, go with what you like. I've tried Gentle Typhoons, and while they have zero motor and zero wind noise, the bearing noise is just too annoying for me to use them. I've tried slipstreams, and while they are certainly nice fans and a good choice, I don't think they are anything spe...

Pity I didn't see this thread sooner. I was dissatisfied with Scythe Gentle Typhoons, so I thought I'd replace both of my P180 exhaust fans with new black and white open corner version of Nexus. Well, the back exhaust fan that's mounted vertically is fine, the top horizontal starts doing the slippin...

Got two 1150 versions. Very very low airflow noise, almost none actually, I think very aggressive fan blade shape is what's responsible here. Unfortunately both fans exhibit a very nasty bearing noise. It is quiet, but the noise character is very annoying in a quiet room, like a quiet screech. Real ...