I arise from my long lurk to say:

Typo in Tonality : Pink Noise s/neature/nature

Also, thank you for the update.

do you have any concerns about running a sleeve bearing fan in a vertical position? i was under the impression that that could harm rpms and/or durability.

in any case, i've always liked the anything-can-be-a-case mods.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103528

a64 4k+, if you're using ddr/939 atm and don't want to swap out everything under the damn sun, it's a good bet. but betchyerass it'll choke up a superhighend vidcard. von neumownd!

irony is... a typo in an editor's note: variiance for the wiin.
:)

Maybe things will fal into place in a few months.

precisely what i was going to say. on such a new tech, i'd wait out the growing pains, *especially* if it's going to be used under linux.

i see a number of people recommending northwoods (a decision i made about a year ago) but typically they're talking 3.0c's. after scanning the cpu power consumption page http://www.cpuheat.wz.cz/html/IntelPowerConsumption.htm, i found that there's a ~12W jump (and V jump) when going from 2.8c to 3.0...

having worked on a couple of Dell machines recently i can say that they are NOT all made to be quiet. the constrained formfactor in some of thier machines creates heat exit problems for P4 based systems. Celerons have a lower TDP though, and that makes a huge difference.

got myself a neoHE380 to go with the new case. system works great as long as i don't plug in a 3rd hdd, but then it takes quite some time for the system drive to power up. (a 5400rpm WD) i know my power consumption is nontrivial, but i expected more headroom than i found. i've read recently that mod...

Helmet - Like I Care

Paradigm - George Clinton featuring (!Prince)

for cleaning thermal paste, i just use some glasses cleaning wipes. the generic opti-foo ones i get from teh Wal seem to work for me.

pricewise: look into onboard (gfx, sound, nic/modem) instead of addon cards. a bottom-of-market addon card won't really get you much more performance than an suitable onboard solution for a "daily driver" system. another way to drop costs is a barebones setup, but it can require a bit of digging to ...

HammerSandwich wrote:

Devonavar wrote:Grrr... I expect better of Anandtech.

You've obviously not been reading their case reviews. They've been an embarrassment to the Anandtech name from the beginning.

oh snap

Please, Hammer, don't hurt 'em!

Dzihan & Kamien - after

well, since personal experience with motherboards varies so wildly, (really, one home consumers dataset is miniscule, hardly representative of the market. aggregating inferred brand opinions doesn't seem like it's worth much. that said, i'll contribute. :) favorite: Tyan - if i was a rich man, i'd h...

i've got a pair of half-height scsi drives that i'd like to suspend in hope of quieting them, but given the weight of each, i'm wondering if the typical solutions are robust enough to be reliable? the system will be immoble, if that makes a difference. anyone have experience suspending heavier drives?

cosmic monsters -- white zombie

http://www.xoxide.com/nmbsil60fan.html
just wondering about the fan detailed here.

sorry if everything comes out as stream-of-conciousness-through-a-cuisinart.
it's an idiosyncracy of mine. :/

ok, thier website pimps it up, and given the cheapness factor, i'm willing to give them a try if anyone else hasn't. anyone have any experience with xox, or with the NMBs? (my difficulty is in finding 60mms that can be reasonably called "quiet", i understand that fan size isn't really condusive to s...

MikeC wrote: My point is that incrementally higher efficiency by itself is not really a compelling case for purchase or replacement for most users.

but it's a dealmaker if already shopping for a new PSU, especially for a machine that's going to be left on. well, at least for me.

caps unlock, please.
and i call shenanigans!
*broom*broom*

But formatting issues aside, do you get vibration / resonance issues from the outer shell? And what processor are you cooling with that setup? Does the PSU fan ramp up when the processor is under heavy load?

Ralf Hutter wrote:"Ralph Hunter"? Who's that?

oi oi, i was just quoting the OP!
but it *does* sound like a Fashion Name, now that you mention it.

da fox, 2-4. typical recipe is to browse the mainpage, middleclick up a tab on anything remotely interesting, lurk forums, tab up the new posts.

i hear rumors that ie7 will have tabs, too. that may spike things when it comes.

heh. as soon as i saw "the Ralph Hunter fan" i knew which one you meant.

well, just ordered one of these, here's hoping it's quieter @5v than my Antec stock is. sourced it off the ebay, then saw the followup post here. :?

and not to be bling, but the blades look cool, too. :)

mc hawking - what we need more of is science

heh.
after this animation was posted, my friends who work for uncle Max were saying "hey, howcome we don't get flash animations?!" apparently, they're all working on this kind of thing to some degree.

but they're not all working on flash animations. :)