True, true and true. For reference (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article272-page1.html): "I've experimented lots with 120mm intake fans and have come to the conclusion that they are almost always overkill. The front intake fan rarely aids much in actual cooling, and is mostly useful for cooling the...

Hoy. Long time no post. :) Its system building time and it seems like the flavour of case is Antec SOLO these days. Seems fine although I initially had the idea of only 120mm fans in the case this time. Then I do remember ole MikeC, years ago, musing about the ideal case should have 92 mm fans for m...

Ah. Good answers! Almost forgot how good this forum is. :) What kind of speaker system do you have for you computer? Right now I use almost only headphones. I forgot to mention that the speaker system is also under planning. I suppose its a joint decision with the sound of the system. I'll be lookin...

Oh wello. Long time no posto. Guess its system building time again. As far as I've seen the current flavours of systems now roughly: AMD socket 939 processor Crossfire chipset on undervoltable mobo DDR 400 Scythe cooler Antec P150 or P180 or some other with 120mm in/out-take. Samsung HD Some passive...

Well.. the discussion in that thread on StorageReview brings up a point that could make 7200.9 interesting. There will be 1 platter variants (160 and 80 Gb). All 7200.8 models had at least 2 platters. Would make up for the disappointment I had when the 100Gb/platter HDs started showing up but all we...

Well.. arent there cube cases with PSU on top? So I guess its valid info if you're looking for a cube case. So thank you for the input.

As for desktops I dont really know the difference in air circulation in those boxes.

Some people here seems to put the PSU outside the case. I'm not sure where they go and how they reach everything with cables.. but I guess it could be one idea. I also got another weird idea sometime ago. Esthetical minded and overtly rich ppl please look away now for what I'm about to write. :) I w...

Hey.

Just wonderng if there is any general interest in cases with the PSU located in the bottom. I would call it BTX style layout with usage of an ATX motherboard. Recently I've seen:

Arctic Cooling Silentium T2
Antec P180

Are there more that are out there or about to come out?

Do you have any problem with the atypical noise sources, such as breathing and heartbeat? It sounds like a joke, but I've read that internal body noises tend to be amplified by canal earphones. Hehe. Yes.. if one use earplugs in a quiet room one can hear that. Blood rushing/pumping or something. Th...

Thanks for the input guys! When it comes to those earplug-lik canal-pieces I did them before but it seems like there are alot more of them now. But I intend to use these headphones stationary and for long hours... so I dont think its a good idea. I'm a big user of earplugs and there is no type of ea...

Didnt post anything for a loong while. So I hope I'm not totally wrong now with this new forum-categorization. :) I'm looking for info about headphones in regard to computer noise. Anybody had any experience with this? I've seen that there are products from Sennheiser and Philips that have active no...

trodas : 'demos/intros'? You a scener too? :) Most sceners grew up with machines that made no sound at all.. so it woudent be strange to find a couple here, I guess. I'm still surprised tho. Btw. I'll route for Koller,Nedved et all and you route for our boys then we'll meet in the final, ok? As for...

We might be ahead. But the development is still going on even if the increments are smaller. :) I agree with the pointlessness of some extra Ghz for general use. Although I'd like to point out that a new system with new technology is usually 'alot better' in various aspects. The combination of incre...

"Dr Pinfold says one solution his team is exploring is to use multiple cores, switching from one to another not to increase speed, but rather to minimise the total heat generated. When one core gets too hot, it is switched off for a while to cool down, while another core takes over."

Some climbs mountains. Some walk in dark alleys. SPCR readers open PSUs, which is similar to open a CRT I guess

LCD might be an option. But they are not perfectly quiet either. In the process of investigating which and why they make noise.

luminous: Yes. Same here. Its the manufacturing of the monitor. Some says monitors can start to make more noise with age. But the one I have is fairly new I think and it still makes alot of noise. trodas: Funny. :) I just started up another thread asking for the experience you've had. Perhaps you ca...

Been spending some hours in the archives looking for info about monitor buzzing noise. And as usual there is some points that remains unclear so I thought it would be time to ask. Is it possible to remedy the coil whine? A few posts talks about a type of laquer you can paint on the coils to diminish...

Guess this is kind of late post. But there might be someone interested. I have been messing for a couple of years now with 'professional' Philips monitors. To me it seems like most companies have given up on producing good CRT monitors. Eizo (which I considered to be the best manufacturer) has disco...

Thanks for feedback! Why the post? Firstly I tend to ponder over issues of this type. This is just one of many things I brought up this time. And I also own a machine where HDs of the same brand and model number seems to make more noise. Of course I have not been able to test things properly. Could ...

Long time, no post. But now I'm back. I've tried to discuss this before.. but without much feedback so I thought I try it again since I recently got a new HD: "Is it possible that PSU variance cause HD noise variance?" Before you yell 'NO!'. Think about it. A bad PSU cause voltage (or is it labeled ...

It all depends how much you use your brain. Noise generally tires the brain because it has to filter out the noise around you. If you dont use your brain well then you wont feel the effect of tiredness in a noisy environment.

And that concludes todays whiff of elitism.

Floating? Dunno about that. I used to attach it to an old discarded drive for weight with some vibration dampening in between. Then I kept the drive at the same spot as the image shows. But its kind of hazardous to keep the drive down there. I already broke one soundcard. :P Silicone: Not many use t...

I posted some info on the SpinPoint here . Seems that it doesn't interest anyone... :shock: Well, maybe it was too long. Jan If your posts are good enough there is not much to comment about. One just read and enjoy. :) As for stores. They are generally quite confused and clueless when it comes to d...

I run mine at 1.3v. It would run for about 20 minutes at 1.2v before resetting while running the SANDRA burn-in wizard, so it would probably be stable at 1.25v if I really wanted to push it. I hate unstable computers so didn't risk it! :D Wowee. 1.3V is quite nice! You can cool that with handpower....

Yomat: Yeah the Northbridge is close to theCPU Socket. I have written a review of my experiences with the Abit NF7-S v2.0 here: http://www.bluecouch.com.au/reviews/nf7s/nf7s.asp good photo showing how close an njb32 is to an SLK-800U i have had no problems with the board however. Has been rock soli...

Ok! Series are safe then. Good. Thanks! :) About parallel: I wanted some means to adjust the relationship between the fans. So you can get 5V and 7V for example. I did some quick calulations and came up with a formula for how to calculate the one parallel resistor from wanted voltage. Havent done el...

Its quite possible to put two fans in serie and if they have the same rating they will halve the voltage between them. If you use 12V you'll get 6V on each fan, that is. I have tried it experimentally and it seems to work. Now I wonder if it could cause some problems to keep this as a setup in the m...

I think this thread should be limited to stock passively cooled cards. The reason being that any card can be modded to run passive. The Zalman hp-80 will work on virtually any newer card, and an older card is easily cooled by attaching any big passive heatsikn to it. What do you mean "stock"? Sapph...

and then you yomat should collect them every week or so and update your post so people don't have to crawl through the entire thread to find the info :) Oookay. Thank you for the confidence (And the extra work!). :) We could also have "graphics cards" under the recommended section when we can verif...

Guess we want first or second hand experiences ( One can never trust vendor online images. :) ) on graphics cards that have passive cooling. Might also be interesting to spot bad cards with active cooling on cards such as 9200 and 9600 without Pro which doesent really need active cooling. I suppose ...