(Roofer's Tape as found in most hardware stores), that use a heavy layer of bitumen or butyl rubber and attach it to some sort of backing (like aluminum) to hold a shape. That's the stuff. http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/2/7/16/robbie133/t_P7140007m_0c81517.jpg http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img...

great job!

JamieG wrote:In theory, it *may* work but no guarantees. Btw, instead of cutting wires from your fan controller, I would buy some cable adapters to try and connect the molex adapter to the fan header adapter that way.

Why shouldn't it work?

IMO Accelero is the way to go. Plus additional heatsinks, and a silent fan to blow through the accelero at the "power plant" of the card, at the back where the power connectors are.

I can run my sistem ( signature ) with just the CPU fan and the 140mm running.The VGA is not exactly cool, but it performs about the same as the original cooling ( leadtek ).

total mess

Phenom II X3 720BE?

edit: hm, that's way above 100$, oops

This is awesome.

Zotac Geforce 9300 :drool:

e5200, 4GB ram, 1TB samsung ecogreen, a silent psu, a passive cpu cooler, and drill a hole for another 120mm in the Lian

A silent and powerfull little box

How mouch louder can I expect the dual platter to be? SPCR says 12dB idle for the single platter. Samsung says 2.2 bel single, 2.5 bell dual idle, thats not even 15%, thats still under 14dB which is alot quieter than the Caviar Green. The single platter is somewhat slower than Caviar Green, is the d...

Get a nice quiet DESKTOP drive, and think about suspending it so it doesn't resonate your case's pannels. Pick out the right drive Well that's not really easy, is it? :lol: How about 1TB Samsung F2 Ecogreen, and retiring both your noisy WD and your old Seagate? first of all, wow! what a reply ! :D ...

Is the notebook HDD worth the double price? I've read the SPCR review of the Samsung, it seems like a good budget silent drive. I've got a WD 5000AAKS, annoyingly loud idle, and an old seagate ST3250410AS, a single platter, much quieter that the WD. I want to replace the WD with a silent drive, and ...