Any decent Socket A heatsink should work for you. There have been various ones recommended in the past, including the ones that Jabba listed. I'm a little cautious at recommending the Zalman 6000, which I have and it worked alright, though I was unimpressed with it. There are used to be a lot of Soc...

My experience with 120mm Panaflo high speeds is that they're obscene in terms of noise, even when undervolted. I don't know if that impression can be extended to 92mm fans, but I'd certainly lean towards the Low speed one. BTW, I know that the 80mm Panaflos didn't take too well to on-board fan regul...

If you're using an nForce2 board, I've found that I prefer 8rdavcore (I prefer v 0.8.7, but you might prefer the current version)

What information are you trying to get at?

As in MCE will lighten up on the requirement to encode into dvr-ms or that Sonic will force a re-encode on already Mpeg'ed files? If it's the former, where'd ya hear that? That's GREAT news. If it's the latter, are you sure that Sonic isn't re-encoding the files due to DVB-T not necessarily being t...

Regarding the brick style PSU - I already own one of these for my mini-itx based PVR - I was just not aware that it was so efficient. I've heard mixed things about brick style PSUs. On one hand, I've heard they're supposed to be amazingly efficient. On the other hand, I've looked through a number o...

Ok, no one has mentiont his so I'm going to: If you're PSU can't handle the load and shorts itself, it may take your Motherboard with it. And YES I have had it happen to me. The PSU blew 3 MBs before I figured out what was going on. So, given that, I'd say go with a good quality 400-500 Watt PSU Ye...

I say don't worry too much about it, or even better, look into S3 or S4 suspension (Suspend-to-Ram or Hibernate). They will save far more power than a highly efficient PSU. Here's the reason. Total power of computers seem to bottom out at around 40W. Sometimes, you can get it below there, but it bec...

Sorry for bringing this off-topic, but you've piqued my interest. Unfortunately all DVB-t cards do not do hardware encoding, only software. This doesn't really tax the system anyway. ??? I thought DVB-T was broadcast in Mpeg-2 and that all it did was capture the stream. ...it insists on re-encoding ...

Wow, a 2 year 4-month thread resurrection, a new SPCR record!

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The Top SPCR Quiet 120mm Axial Fans Compared + 120mmAC Fans. It's stickied at the top of this very forum. And in the very first post: Quiet 120mm x Thicker than 25mm Fans The Panaflo L1A 120mm, unlike the Japanaflo L1A 80mm fans, is not really considered in the most quiet fan category. It still can...

I don't think all of those options are mutually exclusive.

cotdt wrote:Heck, if you're sensitive to noise as I am, even the quietest 2.5" notebooks drives are pretty loud, and those are way more silent than the SPCR recommended 3.5" drives.

Jeez, do you cringe everytime a butterfly floats by?

conductivity is the measure of electrical charge through a substance. static is the nature of similar charged particles to repel eachother. to avoid static, thus conductivity, an anti-static sheet acts as a buffer to prevent to the collision of like ions on to the HDD. The plastic bag does not prev...

a) Tough one to call, mostly because it's not clear to me how many drives out there are SATA II. Personally, I think it's mostly marketing BS. Use Storage Review to determine an answer to your liking. b) Quietest? Either Western Digital's 250GB hard drive, Maxtor's MaxLine, or possibly Samsung's 250...

liquid_celica wrote:Unscrew the motherboard and take an antistatic sheet(like the ones that come with the mobo) and place it underneathe the motherboard. Screw the motherboard back in, that includes screwing THROUGH the antistatic sheet.

Aren't anti-static sheets CONDUCTIVE?

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Split from a different post I'd say that draws MAYBE around 160W, depending on your usage. However, I'd also be willing to wager that on boot, you draw close to 300W, if not more. A less powerful PSU will not necessarily use less power, but may end up doing so anyways since a less powerful one typi...

In your case, yes. The Super Silencer 400 was designed for an older computer (ATX 1.3) that focused its power at 5v. The S12 focuses on 12V power, like all good ATX 2.xx compliant PSUs.

Here's a blind shot-in-the-dark suggestion: Unplug your DVD drive.

I think it's difficult to come up with specs that the S12-430 WON'T work with.

It's tough to say whether you'll notice a noise change with the S12. I know that the older SmartPower PSUs were on the loud side. But what you've described sounds more like either dying fan bearings or coil whine.

You could probably get by just fine with a Seasonic S12-380, but the 430 will work alright for you.

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Your system will draw at max around 200W, if even that much.

Hedonism. Though Family/Companionship would be up there too if I didn't already have plenty of that.

For me, everything else is simply a means for it.

Just to add on, your machine doesn't draw as much power as you think it does.

Since RAID capability is built into the motherboard, I'd like to take a stab at it. Being the engineering type, of course I can't leave well-enough alone. ;) Please, please, DO NOT warn me about RAID 0 not being redundant, doubling your chances of losing all of your data, etc. I realize you are wel...

Anything wrong with a conductive pen?

Lots of talk, very few answers. 1) I'd definitely go with the HE processors, but only depending on how long you have this machine around for. Seeing as this essentially comes out of your pay, you have to evaluate the cost of ease-of-silencing vs. the value. With the HEs, your heat output is on the l...

Have you checked your memory for errors? Faulty or bad memory can lead LOTS of crashes as I can personally testify to.

Memtest86 if you haven't tested it.