i wouldn't be surprised if it made your temps hotter.. it would be pulling hot air directly off of your GPU.

i really think getting an HR-01 is your best bet. unless you are willing to underclock/undervolt your CPU.

then there's always water...

Is that panaflo hard mounted onto the case??

I'll draw you an ASCII picture of the softmount method I'm talking about (it's easier than digging up the thread) X = the large end of a plastic wire tie | = case || = fan housing --- = wire tie I = rubber washer/half of a grommet/other appropriate dampening material step 1: ---||X Thread a wire tie...

Also, you can employ the rubber-washer-2x-cable-tie method of fan decoupling. It's extremely cheap and surprisingly effective. (and doesn't look nearly as ghetto as it sounds). I second Shadowknight's suggestion of having a fan controller. The sunbeam rheobus is extremely effective (and cheap - $13 ...

That's interesting about eVGA shafting Europe with that warranty stuff. Wonder what the issue is. If I remember correctly, all of the 79900gt cards come factory overclocked now. The premium you pay is based on the amount of overclock that particular board has. The problems people were experiencing w...

I'd recommend heading over to the head-fi.org forums (specifically the Computer-as-Source subforum) and chatting those guys up regarding your sound card needs. (while the AV-710 and the EMU404 are both highly recommended source cards, they may or may not meet your recording needs) A larger case will...

Just make sure to keep your fans from rotating when you blast them with the compressed air. Begin urban PC myth: Typical PC user with a typical desktop system buys some compressed air to clean his case. He opens it up and sprays air at everything that looks dusty, especially the fans. The user finis...

If you're looking for a 7900GT, try to get one of the revised boards - the first runs of these GPUs had some fairly notorious failure rates. nVidia has recognized that there was a problem and have taken steps to neutralize it. Honestly, I wouldn't buy any video card other than an EVGA. They simply k...

At this point, I completely agree that AM2 is not worth it. It will be interesting to see if AM2 is inherently crap or just needs time to mature. I'm currently testing my processor at 2.4GHz, I should be able to get it stable at that speed fairly easily. I assume that will be relatively close to the...

I tend to upgrade every other year as well, making this upgrade-itis I'm experiencing all the worse (it's only been a year since the last upgrade) Yes, the 3000 Venice is a 1.8GHz chip. I *think* I can get the processor running 2.2 - 2.4 without much problem, I just need to figure out what my RAM se...

I should probably just wait anyway.

I've got a decent dx9 card in the 6800gt and I can't say that I have gotten my money's worth out of it yet.

With Vista/dx10 coming out within the year (maybe), I'm even less sure about making the jump off the sinking ship of AGP at this point.

I assume you put the NB47J on; how tight was the fit?

I'm not convinced at the OC potential of my RAM, (I actually have the same RAM as you, ultrachrome, just half as much ) so I may not try to OC the system.

Looks like all the people whining about AGP on that board need to read a few FAQs. I wouldn't call it completely painless, but the board certainly does provide an interesting upgrade option. Passively cooled northbridge is also nice. Unfortunately, I'm an ASUS fanboy, so I'm obviously looking at the...

Looking to make the jump to PCI-E as painless as possible. I'm currently running a Venice 3000+ on an ASUS A8V, with a 6800GT video card in an SLK-3000B Looking to upgrade the card to a 7900GT, will likely put a VF900 on it. I have absolutely no plans to do SLI and I obviously want to stay in socket...

The question is reliability, really. I'm trying to steer my colleagues away from the cheapest solution, but other than "They're $5, of course they suck!", I don't have any real numbers/experiences/etc to back up what I'm sure is true. I'm not sure who came up with the idea, but it's going to be a co...

Yes, we sell a lot of NEC 60" plasmas and they're coming with three 120mm fans (Sanyo Denki, iirc) mounted on the back. I'm glad the issue of heat has been validified. So now, does anyone have any experience with those el' cheapo fans I mentioned in the original post? (I'm assuming not, but I can al...

Sorry, the term "monitor" has a different meaning here than I'm used to in a work environment. We're talking about a ~40" plasma TV, basically. The area it will be occupying will be a good bit larger than a PC case, I'm sure we will need multiple fans to create enough negative pressure to get an ade...

Ultra 120mm Sleeve Bearing, product ULT31880? Link Here's my application: My company is doing a job where we'll need to mount a plasma/LCD monitor horizontally in a table. We're thinking about having 4-6 exhaust fans mounted just under the surface of the table so that we can get airflow coming up th...

UPDATE: Recently, I began noticing that during increasingly shorter periods of gaming (UT2k4 specifically), I was developing corruption on particle effects, even at ~12v with my NVsilencer. Unfortunately, the nVidia control panel still reported what I would consider acceptable temperatures, between ...

finally got to the point where my nvsilencer was the loudest component in my system, so a few splices later, I have it connected into my sunbeam rheobus. Noise is much better at ~7v, but I am unsure as to what temperatures I should shoot for. ambient temperature is about 33C at 7v, I'm idling at aro...

I couldn't agree more. For better or worse, however, PC building seems to be inching its way further and further into the mainstream. I think the biggest plus is that we have far more hardware choices for quiet/silent operation than we did, say, 5 years ago. I actually wanted to do something about m...

Maybe I'm part of a dying breed of computer people, but the more use I can get out of a piece of gear, the better the investment was. I really don't see the purpose of buying my wife a "modern" POS card when I have something that'll work just as well for her needs that I can silence for half the pri...

I want to give my wife my old Powercolor GeForce 3, but need to do someting about the stock cooler. I briefly considered leaving the heatsink on the card, removing the fan, and mounting an undervolted L1A to blow directly on the card, but haven't found any sort of apparatus with which to mount the f...

The kits are a very nice, inexpensive (when compared to buying sleeving yourself) way to go. While I'm sure it's possible to sleeve your power supply in the case, I don't recommend it. Sleeving is tedious enough in the best conditions. Save yourself a massive headache and pull the PSU out. Also, sav...

This project has been "in progress" for about 4 months now. I've had my case for at least 2 months; my wife is beginning to wonder if she'll ever see it working. I bought these fans back in April and didn't want to post any real information due to the fact that I didn't have a Nexus to test against....

System looks great!

Did you switch out the LED's on your rheobus? I'm wanting to change mine out, but haven't found anything that seems like it will work.

OK, I finally found the huge discussion that was waged about EAR grommets and all the pains everyone was having with them. If they really are better than the regular rubber grommets that come with the 3000B, I'd like to try them. I decided that I'd like to get the G-410's in high-damp PVC. From the ...

I'm working on my SLK3000B that I recently received. I put 2 coats of black PlastiDip on the inside, but I'm not very confident that it will be a good vibration damper. I have a few questions about specific regions of the case/specific damping products that I haven't seen any real explicit answers f...

Or could it be that a 3rd party company is taking Globe's rejected fans and slapping their own, similar logo on it? (similar to Yate Loon/Nexus, only in reverse :) ) There is a proper Globe logo stamped into the plastic on the side opposite the sticker. (second picture in my original post, it's the ...

I haven't really gotten the chance to see how they sound. :plugs one into 12v: My computer room is really too loud to do much real testing. But if I get within about 6" of the fan, I can hear a noticeable hum. I'm assuming it's motor noise. If I get closer, I can start hearing air moving. Unfortunat...