I have a Scythe Mini Ninja cooling my Wolfdale core. It has a 120mm fan hooked up to it. I didn't want all the weight/stress (or cost) of a large heatsink. So I just installed the mini ninja, and bent the wire brackets a little to accommodate a low RPM 120mm fan. Inexpensive, cool and quiet. It's ov...

For anyone's future reference, the 24-pin cable fits fine but if your 4-pin connector is at the top of the motherboard, it just BARELY reaches if you route it over the top of the motherboard. It will not reach routed around the back.

I did a few searches and couldn't find a specific answer except for some people who have used this combination in their systems... which only sort of answers it, since they may have used extenders... I have a new M12II 500W modular Seasonic and want to know if the cables are long enough for the P182...

Thanks for the suggestions. So far I've determined it's not any of the fans, since the noise does not occur in the BIOS and the fans are all running when I'm booted into the BIOS. I also killed my overclock and disabled my sound card in search of it, neither of those helped. The search continues... ...

Incidentally, it also may have coincided with my recent install of Vista. I have only seen one other mention of this in my searching.

I've got a not-silent-but-pretty-good PC that I've been running for a few years now. Very recently, it has developed an extremely high pitched whine that had all the markings of "coil whine" from the power supply. It was an aging, budget Thermaltake so I wasn't too upset and simply decided to buy a ...

Quietest mousepad ever:





http://www.crazypc.com/other/misc/hovermouse.htm

For a mere $10 (USD) you could get an Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 that would be far, far quieter than your stock cooler. I replaced the stock cooler on both of my computers with these cheap little guys. http://www.directron.com/alpine64.html I know you said you were maxed out on money but I just though...

I did a lot of poking around because my girlfriend's brother wanted a 2.1 set, so I picked him up a set of these for Christmas: http://www.buy.com/prod/Logitech_X230_PC_Multimedia_Speaker_System_White_Box_OEM/q/loc/101/10389804.html Logitech X230. I got him the white boxed OEM set but you can get th...

I'm cooling my overclocked Leadtek 6600GT with a big aluminum heatsink off an old classic Pentium. Drilled some holes, slathered on some Arctic Silver 5, mounted it, and rigged a low speed 120mm fan I had in a box to blow air at it. I had my overclock pushed pretty hard and ended up having to turn i...

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How about this? http://www.linutop.com/ Hey, that's pretty cool. Really, really a shame that it doesn't have a 2nd Ethernet, I'd use it as an IPCop firewall. Any idea what pricing will be? edit: I'm seeing prices around $330. I'll pass on that. For $200 it'd be a neat little device. For $330 it's r...

I think if you really want it to be low power and tiny, you're going to end up paying for it. Linux will run well on older hardware, have you considered scouting eBay for something like one of the small form factor Dell Optiplex machines? Or even the Dell Outlet, you could score a pretty compact, qu...

Appreciate the information, actually, since I have an NSK-2400 with a dead PSU.

Anyone know if they'll just allow me to warranty the PSU or do I have to pull everything out of the case and ship the whole darn thing back?

mantralord wrote:creative writing on the internet: waste

Ah, yes, God forbid someone wish to express themselves in a coherent and humorous manner, instead of clipped and unpleasant "internet speak" (such as your post, which was both grammatically incorrect and curt).

I have my Alpine cooling an already extremely cool-running Athlon 64 Winchester, so I wasn't all that worried about heat, just something cheap that will work at least as well as the stock HSF. How would your Winchester compare to the two I'm considering, Athlon 64 3800+ and Athlon 64 X2 3800+ ? I w...

I've got one. It's great, very quiet. You can't go wrong for ten bucks - and that opens up another $40 to spend on other parts. (referring to arctic cooling alpine 64) - I missed that post somehow. I guess I really have no excuse to blow money on a spiffy fancy sexy heat sink I don't really need wh...

In that thread SebRad suggests the very cheap ARCTIC COOLING ALPINE64 92mm CPU Cooler - only $9.99 ! Sounds great, too cheap to trust, I fear. Anyone have a chance to hear one? I've got one. It's great, very quiet. You can't go wrong for ten bucks - and that opens up another $40 to spend on other p...

...The minute you're using S/PDIF as a stereo output and not a Dolby Digital pass-through, the rule that your sound is untouched gets tossed. At that point, some cards process it and some cards don't... And am I right in thinking that's exactly what i'll be doing when I try to play music/ tv/ etc t...

In theory, and probably in practice, Dolby Digital sound should indeed remain untouched through from the source through the digital output. However, that's only good if the only thing you're using your sound card for is Dolby Digital sound. The minute you're using S/PDIF as a stereo output and not a...

AFAIK, digital outs or analogue outs, the sound card still makes a difference. Just because it outputs in digital doesn't mean it's not processed before the output, right? Especially by Windows' built-in sound mixer. Whether or it outputs in digital or analogue shouldn't matter. It's true that some ...

I just moved into a new house in a quiet neighborhood from my apartment complex. The apartment complex wasn't particularly noisy as they go, but there was street noise and neighbor noise and everything else. At the new house, everything is dead silent. It makes my office computer sound like a freaki...

I won't be upgrading to ANYTHING high-def until the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war is settled and a victor is picked. OR, until dual-format players are in widespread adoption. Once that is decided, I will re-examine the market. If 1080p sources are in widespread use at that point (that is, video cards handling ...

So, since you didn't state it explicitly, let me just verify: your problem is that other users on the network cannot access the drive, right?

Here's a question, can they access your computer at all? Can you share out a random folder on your computer and have them access that? Or a printer?

99-Dk, I've got an M-Audio Transit that I like a lot, it's small, external and relatively inexpensive. It will do bit-perfect output via an optical out.

Something like that would be great for this kind of case.

I think both of you guys are missing the point. A case itself is not particularly "quiet" or "loud" - there's a certain amount of acoustic damping in a case but without a lot of sound deadening material or a huge amount of weight, the case isn't going to contain noise very well. What a case can be i...

Yep, MC, this CPU is actually extremely overclockable without increasing stock voltage. I had it in my desktop before I upgraded and I had pulled nearly a 30% overclock out of it on stock voltage, completely stable. Thanks for the welcome, autoboy... I've posted a few times but this has been my firs...

My first quiet computer. I have never cared up until this point what my computer sounded like - heck, I had a P166 at one point that I had installed three, cheap 80mm fans in and it sounded like a jet engine starting up. And that was in my bedroom! However, I wanted to put together a home theater PC...

Hey James - I was going to take some pictures of my new quiet rig today or tomorrow and post 'em up. I learned some things. Primarily, I learned that everyone here is crazy :wink: - no, really. If you've never built a quiet system before, I think you might be utterly shocked at what most of the arti...

I've never been a big fan of windowed PCs, but that thing looks slick!