Sure you can suspend a 2.5" HDD in the 2.5" bay! Should be no problem, really. I'm not really an expert on PSUs, I personally swear by fanless units like PicoPSU and such. But rest assured, that no matter what case you get, you can make it extremely quiet. I use an old hacked up ThermalTake case, wh...

Hi, and welcome to the forum! The parts you have laid out there are low-power, thus easy to make a quiet PC out of. So that's a very good start! :) However, I do agree with mkk on the chassis/PSU. I'd consider another PSU - in fact, I recommend that you get a PicoPSU! IMO nothing beat those for quie...

It's amazing how spacious this case is with the ODD and PSU removed! Great build, now get a larger CPU cooler, just because you can!

As long as it's below 40° C you're totally fine, but in reality anything below 45-50° C should suffice. (for the HDD)

As for the C7? I guess as hot as regular CPUs?

Do you have any temperature measurements? Also which OS are you running?

IIRC my 'ye olde' Philips 190S from 2004 runs at 27 W.

Well, I went from a Raptor150 HDD to MTRON 32 GB SDD, and I really notice the speed. Even the workstation I use at work with two RAID 0+1 HDD@15K RPM is noticeable slower when opening programs like openoffice and such. I usually don't reboot linux, so I can't say anything much boot times, but when I...

Eunos wrote:In particular, my favourite hard drives are the WD Scorpio 5400 rpm, and Intel X25 SSD. Depends what capacity you need of course.

Those are my favs too!

An SSD will be completely silent. But WD GP HDDs are pretty good. Also do consider a 2.5" laptop HDD, they're generally more quiet. Remember to soft mount the harddrives, though!

About any case is good enough for your build, as long as it has 120mm fans! So go for one you like.

I'd recommend at least one fan. And the HDD will be a major source of noise and will overshadow any decent 600rpm 120mm fan. So I suggest you look more into silencing the HDD before looking into fanless case designa. IMO the entire fanless concept is a moot point, as long as you use good fans. You'r...

You seem to answer your own question. If a drive seeks, it is more audible for that time. Is there a specific scenario or HDD setup you are considering?

If I get some real evidence about evolution being random, I will gladly change my views, especially since it would not force me to change my belief about the nature of the universe and being.

LOL!

Hey guys, thank you for the opinions! I really appreciate it. I was wondering if anyone actually had experience in doing so.

On the fitting issues, at least my 3.5" Quiet Drive fits an optical drive bay perfectly, but I haven't tried the 2.5" HDD Quiet drive, though.

Possibly 2.5" 1TB Western Digital Scorpio Blue in a 3.5" Scythe Quiet Drive with one gel-pad removed. Just throwing in a contender here - I haven't tried this personally.

If your CPU gets to 40° C during load, you have nothing to worry about! At all. At least not CPU wise.

Are you sure you can replace the Reserator pump with just any pump? It's built into the "colossus", right?

You could even use extension cables, should the stock cables not be long enough!

As title says! Has anyone tried putting a 2.5" harddrive into two Scythe Quiet Drives? If yes, how would this fare hard mounted? I'm pretty satisfied with my soft mounted 3.5" HDD in a quiet drive, but I want to move to a mini-ITX case, so I probably will need to hard mount the HDD unit in the 5.25"...

My Quiet Drive'd WD Green Power 1TB harddrive rests on four patches of harder foam, they're about 1.5x1x5 cm and approx 2 cm tall, one glued onto each corner of the Quiet Drive. That's what I found was best - suspension was not a option given my case layout and the size of a 5.25" Quiet Drive.

the slight buzzing from the amplifier on the shelves above my desk. My PC is inaudible. However, the noisiest part is the hard drive - i can faintly hear it, if I take off the sides of the case.

Thanks you for the advice. I will try that! I measured some other stuff, however, which measured 0.1W shut-down. Also the green diode on the Dell DA-2 power brick keeps lighting, when it's turned off. I'll post the results here!

So I borrowed my friends Wattmeter and tested everything I basically had in the house. The only shock I got, was that my PC uses 20 watts when turned off. :shock: I'm glad I know now, so I know that I have to turn off on the socket also, but what could be the cause of this? I'm using a 200W Pico PSU...

Hey, just curious here.

Has anyone seen a 2.5" form factor drive, larger than 1TB. I've seen 1TB from Western Digital available, but nothing larger. Also, these drives are a bit taller. But my question is has anyone released, say, 1.5TB 2.5"?

I don't think that a such exist, but you can always get a USB-dongle with Gigabit ethernet, if adding a separate card isn't a option.

What is the use of this special setup?

Hey, thank you for the opinions! I don't really do anything that requires 3D, I even have Compiz disabled. I do use a molecular 3D viewer from time to time, but that works smooth even on my old laptop which has integrated graphics. So my GS8400 is way more than I'll ever need in that sense. So I'm w...

Hey, just wondering if anyone here uses an i5 or i3, only using the on-chip graphics? What are your experiences? Is video playback smooth? Also, I'm a linux-only guy, so have anyone here had Debian or Ubuntu on a Intel H55 platform? Reason that I'm asking, is that I'm considering an upgrade to my ri...

How loud is the Zalman reserator? Is it completely inaudible or can you faintly hear the pump?

Looks great though!

Here is the installed metal mesh. It finishes off the back quite nicely. (For details on where I got the material, see the above post^). How much headroom do you have in there if you want to put in a bigger top down cooler or a mini-tower cooler? I wanted to ask the same question! Would if fit some...

The short answer is yes, it will be audible. It's a difficult case you have, in terms of silencing options. Have you considered an after market cooling solution? The 5750 has a 86 watts TDP, so it is not the most power hungry GPU out there. EDIT: And get a larger desk, lol, or at least remove all th...

pete6032 wrote:Is there any way to measure the power draw of my system without a meter?

No, that would defy all logic. On a more serious note, they're pretty cheap. I think they're €10 around here.

Ah nice, they work pretty well, considering the power envelope. Does it run all passive or what?

By the way, I think you mistyped + 001h 72m 24.2453s [ 32M].