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by riddles
Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:23 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Corsair 600T review
Replies: 11
Views: 11976

I was looking at this one. I might get it since I need that much HD space. Plus the addition of a USB 3.0 port right up front is huge. This seems to be a future proof case (for the next 3 years.) One very cool part seems to be that you could potentially have up to 9 HDs in this case. If you add an e...
by riddles
Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:55 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: X-bit labs reviews the 9600GT
Replies: 31
Views: 15201

what i want to know is how silent the card is. unfortunately, the reviews noise graph seems to be out there in the wild with less than 1 dB difference, which makes me believe that it is simply picking up background noise. (and the 2900XT is THAT much louder) there is an 3870 HIS IceQ version. His co...
by riddles
Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:16 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: New silent fan
Replies: 1
Views: 1433

New silent fan

many of you probably saw this already,
but heres a link

http://www.thorrn.com/technology.html


edit: beat by the guy 2 posts down and daily tech (didnt see it at first)

and 2 more below him

guess we all wanted to mention it here
by riddles
Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:10 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Are WD drives reliable?
Replies: 21
Views: 11208

the data is always biased. but i can say that from my industry point of view (as in the industry I work in) there has been a large move from maxtro to WD due to WDs better reliability. WD perform much better in always on and hot environmnets, and consequently in many other environments. just do do a...
by riddles
Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:12 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Will the Ninja cool a 4600+ fanless in a P180?
Replies: 3
Views: 2802

does the Ninja sit firmly on the cpu?
or does it move around a bit?
by riddles
Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:32 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: P150, P180 or what for full size card?
Replies: 8
Views: 4830

p180 and simply remove the middle 3'5 bay.. problem solved..
by riddles
Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:01 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10's Acoustic Profiles
Replies: 13
Views: 18154

well, 39 dB does seem to be a bit high i guess. while anadtech did discuss this a bit, and we had posts here and at SR forums the question is, how come some people say that the drive is quiet vs ones who say it is loud. could it be the case? and the drive just makes that much of a vibration nose tha...
by riddles
Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:11 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB
Replies: 15
Views: 8378

i guess the general concensus is that thses are better than the 7200.10s for quite operations, but the 7200.10s are faster...?
by riddles
Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:33 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: HiS - Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ3 is is Silent/Quiet? DAMN YES!!!
Replies: 26
Views: 17269

oscar! kudos on the buy and thank you very much... i was thinking of betting the sapphire 1900XT and then buying the Accelero x2, but after reading your post i think i will just go for the ICEQ3 version. i am also getting the p180B case to use with this card so hopefully i will have a similar experi...
by riddles
Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:57 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: matrix orbital?
Replies: 3
Views: 1828

yes i did, on both counts. the SPCR article did not really go all in to review how the things performed. i have read a few others that already have dived much deaper in to the working of the matrix orb. but its one thing to read the review, and a completely other to see if anyone has one (like an MX...
by riddles
Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:33 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: matrix orbital?
Replies: 3
Views: 1828

matrix orbital?

does anyone have one?
if so, which model?
by riddles
Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:41 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Fan locations on the P180 - anyone tried this?
Replies: 11
Views: 5273

by riddles
Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:48 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Does/Why does the p180 have problems with VGA cooling?
Replies: 13
Views: 5837

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811998051 :D i have this blowing on my 6800 Vanilla and i have it OCed and getting an extra 10-15% on 3dmark03 ( 10k+, up from high 8k ) You can put this into the PCIe 1x slot and have it blow on both cards (yes, this bracket can do this) but i al...
by riddles
Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:21 pm
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: wishlist for controller (does such a thing exist?)
Replies: 0
Views: 1047

wishlist for controller (does such a thing exist?)

:brownie points: Hi all, been reading for only ahsort time, but i was blown away by the p180 articles (especially since you guys had a hand in that case) and after that just started to read up more and more. :brownie points earned: I was looking to buy the new p180 but i noticed something in it whic...