I use the same Ninja mini fan on my NSK3480 Earthwatts power supply but I didn't use an adapter.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article83-page1.html

...also, I was too cheap to get an adapter.

I use Foxit Reader and at default settings, it seems to open at the page I left off at.

Is that a Soundgraph OEM? Looks very similar except maybe an aluminum front.

Microfusion at Newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811129046

Very nice. I have the 690G Gigabyte board. Your cabling is much nicer than mine. It got to be too much of a hassle to put the cables in the back so I moved my hard drive to the lower chamber and it is sitting on foam while the cables are sitting in the 5.25 bay. I swapped the side panels so the CPU ...

What did you use to cut the motherboard tray?

Heh. Okay, I guess I'm being too vague.

I'm looking at that gray tubing that says "Threshold" and is leaning on the desk.

Sorry, I meant that thing on the left of your desk.

Is that the foam they mentioned in that MaximumPC article with cable management?

At 55 MPH, the best I've ever gotten is 39.2 MPG. Although, I'd say my average is around 36. It's a big improvement over the 28-ish I've been usually getting prior to hypermiling. I drive an automatic Toyota Camry rated for 24/33 or 21/30 depending on whichever EPA year rating you'd want to look at....

My Earthwatts has a 2 pin connector but I still used the fan from my Mini Ninja which is 3 pin. The details on how I did it are found here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article83-page1.html I think you just have to worry about the voltage for the fan and what starting voltage your fan can run at. I...

If you live near a Fry's, they might have these silicon fan mounts.

http://www.antec.com/Detail.bok?no=328

Last time I checked, they were 4.99 for eight. I managed to snag a few when they were sold for 2.99. I didn't feel buying similar products online even though it might be cheaper.

Oh whoops.

I thought you were referring to this one.

Except I think it has 1 extra heatpipe!

I was thinking of getting one myself except it's the 1000 RPM version but did you read something bad about them?

I think the speakers were mounted on the back of the monitors.

I find that the San Jose Mercury ads are almost exactly the same ones as the ones in Sacramento/Roseville.

The Sacramento Bee doesn't update fast enough and the website doesn't play nice with AdBlock.

With gas prices on the rise, I find I can't go to Fry's for fun anymore.

Oh, I'm using the Earthwatts with the Mini Ninja fan swapped in.

I think the power supply gets enough air since I don't have an optical drive at the moment.

Why is that? I assume the air coming from the front bezel would be enough. I don't have an optical drive but I do have a suspended hard drive so I want as much air coming from the front and not the top.

I took it off as well but it was still somewhat audible. I placed a book on top of the top vent and that helped as well.

For those numbers posted on the Antec fans...something doesn't seem right. On the back of the retail one I bought, it's:

Low = 1200
Medium = 1600
High = 2000

...and plugging them into the motherboard yields similar numbers.

Or are the stock Tricools that much different than the retail?

I decided to do a fan swap despite my fears. I used the fan from the Ninja Mini that someone else suggested. It is much quieter now.

Sadly, when trying to remove the white plastic holder-thingie, it launched into the air and is now lost; not a big deal but I hate loose ends like that...

Keep us posted.

After swapping my old Seagate for a notebook hard drive, the power supply has become the main source of noise. I also have the Corsair that I got on sale and it also makes a lot of fan noise; that and it's bigger than I'd like.

If I recall correctly, the Corsair HX520 doesn't have any vents except the fan grill and the exhaust, so you can't block the top vent.

Same here in Sacramento.

If only I could justify buying it; especially since I have nothing to put in it...

I bought a Tricool LED since it was on sale locally; can't remember if it was sleeve or ball bearing and I have it on my CPU fan header on low. If the temperature was low enough it wouldn't start but when it did start up, it would spin at ~300 RPM and increase to...I think 900.

nice review and very timely. Just a shame I can't buy one here in Australia :( One thing to bear in mind though - Techreport tested both a 256Mb and 512mb version of the 3850 and the 512mb version had very similar power draw at idle and load as the 3870. The two models are after all pretty much the...

If you could get your computer to turn on at said time, have your media player open, and now you have an alarm clock. I've always wanted to wake up to my music...

It also looks pretty ugly; saw one at Fry's for 50 bucks.