For a DirectX 9 card: http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/

Not too sure for anything below. 3DMark01 I suppose...

The two SATA ports between the AGP slot and the CPU are a "feature" of all the nF3 boards. >.<

Here are a couple of 939 roundups :) http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2128&p=1 http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=574&cid=3 Not sure how many motherboards have game ports now though.. that might be the deciding factor. BTW, the fans on Gigabyte motherboards (I had a 754 K8NNX...

3/8" can stretch over 1/2" barbs right?

I'm stuck between wanting a DDC and an Eheim 1048 heh. It looks like Cathar still recommends the 1048 over DDC for quiet setups

Has anyone ever successfully silenced a whining coil with electricians goop or silicone? I've seen posts about people wanting to do it, but to my knowledge no one has reported back :\

Hey, 1. I've been using a Chinaflo L1A@7V modded SL350S (from BQE) for roughly half a year now. It's still working great (but warm). My system (see specs in my rig) is usually folding 24/7. Others also have had great success with the same mod. 2. As for where to plug in the 7V, it seems intuitively ...

Haha I think I saw this in a previous post but but just how well will it keep dust out? I mean the more fine dust? Fine dust is a problem when the dryer sheets are clean. After a small layer of dust builds up on the sheet, the fine dust usually gets captured by the dust layer. Of course, it depends...

Got mine from a local store in Markham, Ontario (Canada)

Take some heavily used dryer sheets, cut them to the correct dimensions and tape them over the intakes... easy, disposable, and leaves your computer fresh smelling with a patented time release formula

Heya,

I was wondering if you had any pictures showing the new pump in action...

Do you know how warm those hard drives get in there? Looks like they don't get any airflow at all..

No CNQ for me. Manually undervolt any Newcastle systems I build (for friends/family), and stick on Speedfan to keep the system cool. Usually Folding or UD is running on the systems. 1.30V on a NC 3000+/Gigabyte K8NNXP 1.40V on a NC 3000+/DFI Lanparty UT My own CH (C0) 3200+/MSI K8N Neo I leave at st...

Very impressive setup! A question about your 7200.7's.. do they have AAM enabled or disabled? I have the same drives, only the seek noises drive me insane (no pun intended.. for real). I currently have mine in a cage (that came with my Antec SX1030 case), and they're resting on foam.. but the cage a...

From my personal experience, you just need to have the driver disk in the floppy drive before it begins setup. It'll seek and automatically install it.

This was really weird.. I took this fan out, and it had been sitting in a box for about a month or two.. After recently acquiring various W/C parts, I pulled the fan out to test ohw much air would flow through the rad. Plugging it in (default 12V), it would spin maybe 1 or 2 times per second... Then...

I've noticed that some of the pizzabox style Dell computers have these cooling the CPU heatsink.

If you could get one that would fit the dimensions of an 80mm fan and mount it blowing through a heatpipe tower heatsink, I imagine that'd be one awesome setup.

I just picked up a 160 GB JB with the new black top for a computer I'm building. The whine is significantly less than the original 120 GB JB's.

HammerSandwich has it right about the noise being similar to, and slightly louder than the Samsung's with JVC motors.

As for zoob's initial post, I couldn't decide whether you're talking about the 7000 vs 7000A or the 7000A vs the 7000B. I've got both A and B versions (all cu versions) and the fans on them are identical. The fanmates are different but the end results are also the same. If your CPUs run cool enough...

MSI K8N Neo Platinum, works for CPU and NB fans.

Gigabyte K8NNXP you can turn the fans off, and I *think* setting from 1-3% would change the fan speed.

Nice work! Maybe you could add some hooks to the front side of the unit so that the hard drives can sit a little more level. Did you enable AAM on the drives?

Careful with the lack of airflow over your mosfets and NB..

I always figured 'standard' settings were the default the program is installed with? That's how I compare 3DM01/03 between my rigs

Update,

New rig consists of: 3200+ Clawhammer, MSI K8N Neo Platinum, 9800XT -- Coil whine still.


I wonder if X800's will make the PSU whine. :O

Now using an Antec SL350S w/7V Chinaflo L1A with ZERO whine.

Hi I just purchased two new Zalman 7000A-AlCu's, and the mechanical noise is unbearable unless I dial the fanmate down to minimum. In terms of mechanical noise, the new @ 5V is the same as the old @ ~7V (working from memory, as the old one is in my brother's PC over in Ottawa). On top of this, it se...

Hey

A could old threads below

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 0+evercool
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... ool+zalman

I had the exact same problem. It worked well for a week, then when I swapped it into another computer, it would not boot. I think the VGA silencer may be shorting something, as there is one particular section of my AIW9600P that heats up really quickly if the computer won't boot. Ended up switching ...

The 9600 Pro my brother has, uses the same connector. The VGA silencer is just two pins, so I disconnected the wires. I ended up switching it over to the Zalman heatpipe since the 9600 didn't generate much heat at all.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

You don't have to cut ANY cables.

Just grab your set of Jeweller's screw drivers. Take a mini flat head, and pop out the connectors from the 2 and 3 pin heads. Swap, and done.

No snips, no soldering, very simple mod.

Keep in mind, not everyone wants to run at stock speeds. I see this posted all the time that 'the GPU temperature doesn't matter', but when it comes to performance (which usually does not mix well with silence), it DOES matter. Even so, some stock cards, unmodified the day they came out with the box...

Yeah, it seems like 9500/9600/9800 Cards (tested by myself, and a friend of mine) make the PSU squeal. For some reason, the combination of an Asus A7N8X-X w/9800XT and the Noisetaker, it does not. I've tried putting ferrite rings on the molex cable feeding the card, but that does not change a thing....