Just to add my 2 cents.

Having case fans in the front can also cause turbulence and leave more pockets of dead air inside. Or force air where it's not needed - like the bottom back of the case.

You might have already checked, but I posted a bunch of Canadian retailers for Panaflo's in the Classifieds...

I took a closer look at Anandtech's article and found the difference bigger than I originally thought -- 10C. It's a bit hard to believe though. A rigidly mounted hdd should only be around 40-45C max during heavy seeking in a steel case. Even lower if there's a fan in front. I dunno where they got 5...

Other than fancontrol's super-duper device , or maybe a Digidoc?, I think you may need to go DIY like I did here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2842 A device like Silicon Acoustic's NoiseMagic NMT-2 has the thermister on short leads and has no adjustable settings. Does anyone ...

Your bracket idea may be similar to what was tested in this SPCR article. Neoprene may not be as good at isolating the vibration as a suspension using elastic-type materials as was done here . There are also commercially available elastomer hdd isolation mounts that may work better than straight-up ...

*checks* My A7V333 doesn't have an ATX12V connector. Does any AMD board have them? That probably means it uses up the 3.3V really fast... oops, the fuzzy picture on the asus website is playing tricks with my eyes. There aren't very many AMD 1P boards with a 12V connector. I only found 1 so far: the...

Hey Mirar, I see you've looked at my posting. From what I can tell from ASUS's website, your A7V333 seems to have an ATX12V connector. That might mean the CPU is drawing some/all its power from the 12 volt line on the PSU. That might mean your 5 volt lines is not as heavily taxed as you may think. B...

....Can somebody help me to understand a situation that might be considered maximum load? It would seem obvious that using every single device attached to the motherboard at a single time would create a maximum load, but this is also an unrealistic situation for me because I (like most) do not do t...

I posted this in another thread, but I thought it might be useful here:

Power consumption chart for vga cards @ tecchannel

there's also http://www.onlinemetals.com

Welcome,

According to this PDF on Digikey no such thing likely exists, except for the H version. You want to look for the model number that ends in BX as the legend says. A 103.8cfm/41.8dB, there's no doubt it will be a monster for noise!

Happy shopping!

You can either get o-ring gaskets from your local building supply store, or elastic string from your local sewing supply store.

Happy modding!

A hearty congrats to all fellow folders! It wasn't too long ago that we cracked sub-1000 in the rankings , but now we're already nearing 500. From the looks of if, we'll hit sub-500 in very short time. Good work team, any many thanks to the defections from other folding efforts. I myself came over f...

I once had a Panasonic CW-7502 SCSI 4x burner/8x reader. It had a teeny fan too. I didn't notice the noise at the time, but then again nothing was quiet in that day and age. At the time people actually thought the fan was an advantage.... who woulda thunk it? I never unplugged the fan though. Might ...

i'm no expert at WC, but I imagine that it would be pretty close either way. The air would be warmer at the back, but it should be less so for wc than ac, since most of the heat is being carried directly to the radiator rather than to the exhaust air. I'd say go with the back treatment. That way the...

Crg,

FYI, The Sonex classic foam is also a 2lb foam. There's nothing fishy about foambymail's spec. If you also looked closer, you'll see that the 4" thick wedge foam by fbm has a NRC of 1.07 - comparable to Sonex's specs for same thickness.

Try www.foambymail.com. They have prices. Dunno how the soundproofing compares to Sones though. Does anyone know?

Welcome BFG, What kind of hdd('s) do you have? Since you already are using a form of decoupling, I would suggest you could try the followng ways to block noise. This will end up looking like a general summary of effective hdd silencing measures (in no particular order): Smart Drive - expensive, ok w...

I think this is the 1st review I've seen of this product that criticises it for low retension mechanism pressure. Zalman, haven't you learned from your previous mistakes yet?

http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/zalman_cnps7000/

Anyone seen anything else about this, or have any experience with it? Thermaltake Duct it's over at ocworkbench. If it does what they claim (eliminate the spot in the middle of a fan where no air blows onto a heatsink) this may be extremely useful with a panaflo. Of course it's designed to hook up ...

I like this case: http://www.lmp-pc.co.uk/

I like the cube format, but I wish the fan placement was a little better. Correct me if I'm wrong, but on the mobo half it looks like the only major exhaust vent is covered in magicfleece. Even if that vent was opened, it's in a weird location and would only work sorta as an intake. I wish they lear...

I have bought some "mass loaded vinyl" from a different source which was litterally $100 of dollars less and the exact same stuff. I can post the link for that store here in anyone asks. Oops, sorry for replying to your msg a month later. Love to hear about the other place. You mean a place differe...

Luving the foam fan mounts!

Glad to see people trying out my ideas!

But I must say I have no idea what would cause your CPU to get that hot under load. I have the 2.4 GHz as well and with a Alpha 8942 HS and a 19db pabst fan I never go over 45 degrees under load. Your difference in temp might be due to different fan speeds. Are you running your papst @ 12 volts or ...

Gekkani wrote:
I put my pc 2 meters away from the monitor (to see if EMI affects or something)... nothing changes.

Did you try moving the monitor away from the pc and the wall? Maybe something else nearby is interfering

Hey JerryK,

There was a lengthy discussion on this topic in the General Forums: http://forums.silentpcreview.com//viewtopic.php?t=3541

That case is the one that is used in the ARM Stealth system reviewed here in the Systems section.

Good design. I'd cover the side vent though to reduce noise leakage. The lack of 2 rear vents is also a minor point against it.

Rusty, I've only got the 1 dualie as per my sig. It's prolly making a difference that I'm running 2 command-line clients 24/7. No need to wait for the screensaver thing to kick in - they're always folding. I really think the command-line client is the way to go. As Neil said, it's more efficient at ...

Wahoo! Good work team! Our folding team has grown to double digits and we'll be breaking sub-1000 in the rankings very soon!