Don't get one of the basic 500mhz ones if you intend to playback divx/xvid videos, they can't decode the video fast enough, anything around the 1Ghz mark will be fine though. There are various models with different features and expansion options, without knowing exactly what you will be using this s...

I use a Ninja, passive motherboard, and passive VGA cooler, all cooled by a 140mm fan blowing across the motherboard, running for ~8 months now with zero problems. I believe there is enough turbulence caused by various bits and mobo components to mix the airflow up and cool all the heat sensitive co...

One WD Raptor in the main rig, suspended.
Four assorted 3.5" in the server, soft-mounted.
One 2.5" in the HTPC, soft-mounted & encased in foam.

ronrem wrote: ....A 140 at 600-800 rpm, and a low speed fan in the PSU should provide ample airflow for most rigs.

It should, and does, in my experience anyway. My 140mm "SL" yate loon pushes enough air at 900rpm to cool my entire system (see sig), excluding the PSU which has a fresh air duct.

Yeah, I've been using one as my only system fan for ~6 months now. At 12v it provides enough airflow to cool my CPU, graphics, hard drive, and mobo/NB. I haven't tried running it at a slower speed yet as it's already quieter than my raptor.

Grrrr, just wrote out a nice cohesive post that told you all you needed to know, but I keep getting an sql error when I try to post it. So now you get this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yate-Loon-D12SL-1 ... dZViewItem

Silencio is your man; voila! 120mm Yate loons for just over a fiver, and he also does a few other makes like scythe, pabst, aerocool.
There should be a thread somewhere on here with feedback from SPCRers who've bought from him before, try searching for "Silencio 777". Enjoy.

Silencio is your man; voila! 120mm Yate loons for just over a fiver, and he also does a few other makes like scythe, pabst, aerocool.
There should be a thread somewhere on here with feedback from SPCRers who've bought from him before, try searching fro "Silencio" or "Silencio 777". Enjoy.

Silencio is your man; voila! 120mm Yate loons for just over a fiver, and he also does a few other makes like scythe, pabst, aerocool.
There should be a thread somewhere on here with feedback from SPCRers who've bought from him before, try searching fro "Silencio" or "Silencio 777". Enjoy.

nici wrote:Life is risky and unpredictable, so it must be EVIL!

Don't let Bush hear you say that or he'll start "the war on Life".

Personally I would just whack the fsb up to 250, giving the CPU a bit more than stock voltage to start with then working down, also make sure the RAM is getting the voltage it requires. There is little benefit in increasing the speed of your RAM and keeping the CPU at stock speed. With the fsb at 25...

I got a Yate Loon D14SL from Silencio which I'm using at the moment, though not in a P180. At 12v it provides enough airflow to cool my CPU, graphics, hard drive, and mobo/NB. I haven't tried undervolting it as it's already quieter than my raptor.

I can heartily recommend removing the heatsink, as I killed a CPU transporting a system with a much lighter heatsink over a much shorter distance. For the amount of effort it takes to whip the Ninja off, it's just not worth risking it, IMO.

I moved from a 2.2Ghz AthlonXP to an X2-3800 and feel it was worth every penny of the full retail price , if you can get one cheaper than that, and have the money to spare, then I don't see your dilemma. Even if you're not going to make full use of both cores, just having an extra core in windows is...

Pilot : The A7N8X does in fact allow undervolting, the BIOS seems to only allow overvolting, but if you use 8rdavcore or other software, you can undervolt by quite a large amount compared to a desktop chip. From what I remember, my A7N8X deluxe didn't recognise my mobile chip and set it to 6x100Mhz...

I'm in a similar situation to you, slightly different components but a fanless VIA-based HTPC streaming media from a server. I keep meaning to swap the hard drive for a CF card, but it's so quiet that I never seem to get round to it. I have a different EPIA board to the one you're proposing, though ...

I personally don't think the increase in performance is worth the increase in price, but thats down to the individual. Especially considering you can easily overclock the +4400 to way past +4800 speeds. Why not spend the money you save on a WD Raptor?
Also a 580w power supply is waaaay overkill.

Another recommendation for the Dell 2005FPW, I've got nothing but praise for it.

Actually the max case temp and TDP for each revision E chip is different. Use AMD64 TCaseMax to find out these values, available here.

Short answer; Yes. People, inlcuding myself, use Ninja's fanless on hotter CPUs than yours. Unless your airflow is very bad in your case, you should have no problems. If it is too warm for your liking, put a slow fan on the ninja. Your temperature will depend on too many variables, so I cannot predi...

My system probably has about the same power draw as yours and gets by fine with a cheap generic 350W supply. One 12v rail, 16A, never had a problem.

Yeah, my system (inc. xfx 7900GT stock speeds) is running completely stable with a generic 350W power supply, with an alleged 16A on the lone 12v rail.

I have a similar setup to what you're proposing (x2 3800, Ninja, passive graphics card, A8N SLI premium) with fairly low airflow. I've never tried running it entirely passsive, the graphics temps are a bit too borderline for that, but the chipset heatsink is always pretty hot to the touch, more so t...

Second.

In a word, yes.

As requested, another photo, from further back. The ninja and vm-102 are pretty close, but not so that there's any danger of them interfering with each other. The vm-102 is a lot thinnner than the vm-101, which I don't think would fit unless you put the card in the lower pci-e slot. I don't think th...

Thanks, I will give Powerstrip a try. As requested, here is a picture of the VM-102 installed. I apologise in advance for the crappy picture-phone quality. You can't really see in the photo, but the left (in the picture) side of the top heatsink actually protrudes just past the end of the graphics c...

Bravo sir! You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly. A little Futurama humour there... Anyway, thanks, I assume rivatuner will support the 7900GT eventually, given that it's only two weeks old i'll let them off. Any ideas for a stop-gap solution? There must be someone out there with an und...

Hi, recently got a 7900GT (quite a step up from a 5200fx), the stock cooler made my ears bleed, so have put a VM-102 on it. Temps are better than the stock cooler by a few degrees, but I want to able to run the case fan at lower speeds, without anything catching fire. Also I would like to overclock ...

With eight 3.5" hard drives in a case, it will not be close to quiet. The hard drive noise will drown out all of your fans combined, so don't invest in any passive coolers or quiet fans. With regards to the case design; it looks like there's about an inch or so of space between the hard drives and t...