Wish I could say the same for the fan on my heat sink! I think you have a 70mm fan on a Socket A CPU. You could consider upgrading the fan only with a 70mm->80mm adapter. Combine it with a quiet(ish) 80mm fan such as the Nexus Real Silent 80mm Case Fan or one of the Panaflo Hydro Wave Bearing model...

Various web reviews report the system power consumption under load for the 4870 1GB as in the range of 325 - 345 watts. In my opinion putting that sort of load on a PSU of less than 600 watts capacity is not going to lead to either silence or efficiency. So looking at the SPCR recommended list, some...

For an explanation of what you are experiencing, I suggest you look at http://techreport.com/articles.x/14967/10 If this review is correct, the 4850 has a much larger power draw when gaming that you might have expected. But in addition, it is by any standards a hot running card and it is the combina...

You have an AMD socket A/462 motherboard and CPU. The existing cooler is using a 70mm fan which runs at quite high revs, and produces a fair amount of noise. So you would be better off looking for a complete socket A compatible cooler as a replacement. There should still be some around, eBay may wel...

Personally I would take a serious look at the MSI nVidia GeForce 9500GT Silent 512MB. This has the advantage of somewhat lower power consumption than the 9600gt and it does have an HDMI socket, so there is no need to reply on dongles. See http://media.msi.eu/main.php?g2_itemId=23438&g2_imageViewsInd...

When changing from one graphics card to another I would always recommend removing the old drivers first, second using something like Driver Cleaner Professional to make sure that no trace of the old drivers remains, and finally installing the latest drivers for the new card from fresh. Anti-virus pr...

Contrary to what I posted earlier, the AGP slot actually draws power from the 5V and 12V rails in addition to the 3.3V rail. The maximum power is listed by various sources as 3.3v 6A, 5v 2A and 12v 1A. Combined this gives around a 42 watt maximum. This is why the later more powerful cards resorted t...

3.3V rail. The early AGP cards pulled 3.3 volts, later versions only 1.5 volts drawn from the same 3.3V rail. Bear in mind that more powerful AGP cards have a molex socket or sockets to connect them to the 12V rail. This is to get round the limitation on the amount of current that can be drawn throu...

Moon GT wrote:My own PC idles at just under 40W, but oh the difficulty of finding a decent 200W PSU...

As you are in the UK there is always LinITX.com, see

http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10916

for example.

The second review includes this comment "... In this case, bigger is not better, as the Propeller chassis seems to do a rather lackluster job of keeping the CPU and motherboard components cool. I'm a bit puzzled by these results, and ran the tests a couple of times to make sure the outcome was the s...

There is at least one case that comes with a 360mm/36cm fan. This is the XClio Propeller Midi Tower Case. From one of my local hardware dealers this is actually a fairly cheap case costing just £35 here in the UK. There are reviews at http://www.futurelooks.com/xclio-propeller-atx-case-review/ and ...

The solution might be the CoolerMaster Wind Rider PWM Fan Hub, which sells here in the UK for £11, so not too expensive. You plug both the CPU and PSU PWM fans into the Wind Rider, which takes its power from a conventional 4 pin molex. The Wind Rider also connects to the CPU fan PWM header. Both th...

The Nexus 400 watt is a modern high quality PSU, it should work fine, and I do not think it is worth contemplating replacement. Modern graphics cards do put a significant load on the 12v rail, but according to Nexus' specs your PSU should be able to cope. It will all come down to the maximum loading...

Well I have now managed to get sight of a Clodius case fan complete with label. This is how it compares with the two other Nexus fans. Nexus 120mm 1000 rpm retail fan Branded: D12SL-12 Upper part of Label: White Nexus 120mm PWM retail fan Branded: D12SL-12 Upper part of Label: Purple Nexus 120mm 170...

OK, I think we are getting there slowly. So you accept that the two Nexus retail 120mm fans have the model codes D12SL-12 and D12SL-12 PWM. The PWM fan, despite the D12SL-12 branding is completely different to the fixed speed fan. Then you have the Clodius case, which according to the Nexus website ...

To go back to what you said in the first place, your saw the Nexus Clodius case on special offer, and there was nothing on the box it came in that said exactly what the fan spec was. So you decided that as the fan label said D12SL then it could only be one fan, the well-known Nexus 1000 rpm model. B...

The lowest capacity PSU I can find from my local hardware dealer is the 330 watt Seasonic S12 II. I would guess at your system loading it would be more or less silent, and since it is a high efficiency 80+ model might be just as efficient as a smaller power supply. It is also pretty cheap, only £40...

For what it's worth, I think your claim that your fans had exactly the same label as the normal 1000 rpm fans is not correct. I had forgotten about it but Nexus normally mark a power consumption number on their fan labels. I have a couple of Nexus fans here and they are so marked, but it is written ...

With apologies to jaganath it might be worth quoting a review by one of the purchasers of this case from my local hardware dealer Got this case as it had loadsa of 3.5" hard drive bays and the promise of the 2 large and quiet fans to set up a home server. However the fans aren't quiet especially at ...

Based on web reviews, your system under load should be consuming around 450 watts. This is due to the fact that the 4870 is one of the most power hungry graphics cards on the market. To see what the impact of this loading is on your PSU see this graph on the manufacturer's web site http://www.corsai...

The point the OP made was there were Nexus labels on his fans with D12SL-12 on them, and naturally he assumed this was the same as the Yate Loon D12SL-12. But as Nexus pointed out in their email, it isn't. To them D12SL-12 is simply a brand name like 'real silent'. As they said, what the label says ...

I have an Enermax MODU82+ 625 watt, bought from my local hardware dealer. This dealer is actually one of the major UK web hardware retailers, but they are a short drive away from me, and I can order on the web and then go and collect. We do pay more for hardware anyway here in the UK, and there is 1...

Given that particular graphics card and a system load of maybe 450 - 500 watts I personally would be looking for at least a 700 watt PSU, and probably a bit more given a budget that would pay for the Enermax 625 watt (which costs £100 from my usual hardware store here in the UK). The spec obviously...

Well, according to that Anandtech article Naturally, this is one of the benefits of choosing a power supply rated much higher than what you actually need: it will always stay virtually silent. The power supply in question was a Coolermaster 900 watt unit, which here in the UK costs about £190. Ouch...

Once a side fan is present, particularly one which is much larger than the rear exhaust fan and there is no front fan then I suspect you have positive pressure. There is only one study that I have seen of a large side fan case in a variety of configurations. Having the side fan as an inlet i.e. blow...

I have owned 3 different makes of top down CPU coolers, including Thermalright. In every case there were designed to have the fan blowing downwards towards the CPU so this seems to be the normal configuration. The Thermalright SI 128 SE is also designed this way, so that is how you should install it...

All this is irrelevant though, as it does not solve the fundamental problem buyers of the case are facing. Buyers of the Nexus Clodius case are not facing any problem, even though you may be. The major feature of the case is the illuminated fan controller, which changes color according to the inter...

I can testify to the efficiency of using Arcticlean and then the Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive. Used it to fit a north bridge heatsink on a motherboard. This was a wire-clip fitted heatsink where the clip had failed. Once allowed to set it is absolutely solid... no chance of removing it whatever. B...

Apart from the angle, only the added socket 1366 (Core i7) compatability I guess, and that has been achieved in a fairly simple fashion, see

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15443

The trouble is, you see, you post a comment about Nexus claiming fraud on their part, but in reality all that happened was that you made assumptions about what you were buying and you did not check first to find out what you were actually buying. Having opened the box and used the hardware, you then...