Just got my brand new Silentium T2 case. Overall, not worth the time to mod, but great if you only need the sustainable 350w of power. For my setup, it would be like dropping a 450c^3 engine into a Honda Civic. I beg to differ! I found the mod simple, and handled it entirely by myself. It just take...

Devonavar is right from what I can see! I'm sure that the only thing keeping my PC cool is the heat evacuation being done by my Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer, and hence no heat wafts upwards to my CPU's HSF.

However, the VGA Silencer does make a feint "buzzy" noise, which might be irritating to some.

Firstly: Welcome to the SPCR fora! (plural of forum, for those who don't get it). Secondly: The Arctic Cooling Silentium T1 is identical to the T2, but for the bezel and panels. See this link to read about my mod to the PSU fans and the case fans. It was highly successful! Finally: Good luck, and ha...

Welcome to the SPCR fora, jurgenaut! Firstly: You need a good HS'n'F - I'd recommend the zalman 7700 series (I think that's the right one), or something more exotic, like a Thermaltake XP-120, with a panaflo fan. Secondly: Read my last few posts about the psu fans / case fans mod which I carried out...

Ok... I recieved my fan controller this morning, expecting it to be a major job, removing the psu cover and all. However, it was NOT! It was dead simple, contrary to what your review suggests. The HDD cooler is screwed on, and the psu is screwed via two screws underneath the case and another two beh...

I'm going to try my mod now!

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That's precisely the article which gave me the idea of getting something similar! Thanks for the reply - I shall order one now-now.

I was about to purchase one of those molex to 5v/12v connectors, when I suddenly thought that perhaps it would be more prudent to buy a (relatively) cheap three channel fan controller, and run the psu fan, along with the case fans, off that. Hence: Would it? The controller in question is: http://www...

Thanks for the speedy response, I'll try to get my hands on one of those connectors A.S.A.P., and will report back my results (if the pc boots and I can hence access these forums! )

I got one of these recently - so far, so good! The PSU is rather impressive, though the noise is irritating. I've noticed that one can see (when looking from above) the connector for the fans on a PCB within the psu. I have been considering getting one of http://www.quietpc.com/uk/casefansacc.php#rc...

using the electrostatic crap... wouldnt that interfere with computer components some?? just cant see how that would be safe (im no scientist or anything!!) but it just seems some problems would come from blowing eletricity type through electrical components Even if it would interfere, which it won'...

Hehe, mine was too, trust me!

However, seeing that they've apparently been contracted by the U.S. Navy to produce their device for use on ships, I'm inclined to believe it works!

I've just been surfing, and found this article ! I think many here would find it most interesting: A fan/blower which (apparently) moves 1600cfm with no moving parts, producing only 3db of noise! Edit: not to mention it removes almost all (99.97% of) particles larger than 0.1 microns! Hey, no more d...

Ahem, it is, from what I know, impossible for a GPU to stay hot during hibernation. Hibernation totally switches off one's pc, saving ram data to a file called hiberfil.sys. The entire pc switches off, and nothing at all is left running. Likewise, when using STR (s3) mode, one is running only one co...

Or the other way of achieving it is if you build a computer with lower overall thermals and not top-of-the-line processing power. That way you don't have as much concentrated heat in the first place. Precisely! One must tackle the issue of heat at the source, rather than trying to compensate for it...

Ralf Hutter wrote:Anything that Tom's says about an Intel product should be taken with a giant grain of salt, IMHO.

Can't we make that a half-grain? Lets not give them too much credit! (yes, I know that salt is a giant ionic structure and is hard to break up - but, in a special case like this, we could try )

while i agree with most of the things you mention, i don't think you should speak for other people's interests. if someone wants the aesthetic value of no-fans, even if there is no audible improvement, then sure it's unscientific of them..but if it's what they want, then it's in their interests. if...

in my view, having a forced air circulation through the case doesn't imply or require having a CPU cooled by a dedicated fan. I'd agree! Perhaps I misread you, but I thought that by "passive", you meant an entirely passive system - i.e., one that has no forced airflow. However, I'd still stick by t...

to me it seemed like a minor improvement. i am comparing this new aopen HS to something like scythe ninja or zalman 7x00, which can possibly run passively, and it doesn't seem to be in the same league. I personally feel that running anything passively is in nobody's interests. One really needs some...

Funny how no one seems tro have noticed the replacement HSF AOpen is sending out that I mentioned yesterday . :?: It looks at least twice as big as the original, which is hopeful. RH should have it today. My guess is that it may be or is already the new "standard issue" HS for this board. IE, AOpen...

Hmm, that seems to put aopen in a bit (an understatement if ever there was one) of a tight spot! For, most people here are interested in a CPU which dissipates the the least heat (well, not the least, rather which does so most efficiently), and as such, this board would hence fail entirely. I do, ho...

I'd agree with you on the point of many engineers perhaps not speaking English and hence not being as informed as we here might be. However, that neither alters the fundamental fact that they are, after all, engineers , and one would expect them to produce a feasible solution. Nor does it on the poi...

Nice review, thanks!

I was rather surprised to see that the HSF does such a poor job: one would think Aopen could at least have spend a bit of R&D time checking whether they were going to have CPUs baking? Surely aluminium and/or copper can't have crept to so high a price?

Hehe! I'm only sixteen, but I appreciate classical music, as I was brought up in a house where classical music was the only music. I can understand your dillema with the lyrics. However, it is all down to which version you listen to - the one conducted by John Gardiner with the Montiverdi choir and ...

I'm considering getting one of these soon... hope it turns out all well!

43. Händel - [Messiah CD2 of 2 #19] Part 3: I know that my Redeemer liveth - Aria [6:26]

That's what I'm listening to right now!

I'm also still running a socket A/462 - so no-go here until I bother getting a new machine - at which time I most probably will get this cooler! (if asetek's vapochill micro isn't too good).

Nice review, thanks! The more I read here, the more impressed I am! I just got myself an arctic cooling silentium t2, and I must say the review was spot on. (that concludes the off-topic part of this post). To the point: sure does look like one awesome cooler, but I'm holding out till I can see how ...