It's beautiful, but $300.

I'd ship you a Thermalright Ultra-90 for $20.

I was home over lunch and looked into it a bit more. My Nexus PSU have use a Nexus fan, but it's certainly audible and seems to run at full speed 24/7. It's probably louder than the gfx card atm. If I'm going to use Speedfan to control my fan speeds should I disable automatic fan control on the moth...

AMD X2 5600+ CPU ASUS 3850 Gfx GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H Mobo Silverstone LC17 My gfx card is still too loud and I can't seem to find a way to control the fan speed via software. It's rather quiet so far - noticeable wind noise but nothing else. I was able to suspend my HDD but I would like to hold mor...

I have a Super T-Amp and have thought many times about mounting mine inside my case also. The 12v rail is a good idea. I just need to figure out how to bypass the volume knob and hard-wire that now too.

I have to say that I love my Sonic Impact Super T-Amp and have many times considered mounting it inside the PC.

Please forgive this likely dumb question, but ... My understanding is that there are no issues or concerns with running a single ATI or NVIDIA card under any chipset. In other words, an NVIDIA card can run without issue under an NVIDIA 680/750/780 chipset and under a P35/X38 chipset just fine. And ...

I've often wondered why there isn't just a lattice work of metal behind the mobo. It'd cover all of your mounting locations and add a lot of space for wire management or heat dissipation.

I'm sure it'd cost more to produce... but whatever.

I have indexing off, so not that. I'll have to check on recovery.

I'm running Vista 64, though this happened on Vista 32 and XP as well: Every 20 minutes or so my HDDs spin up, even my external. Is there a reason for this? My drives aren't soft mounted (anymore) so I do hear this rather well, especially on my external drive. I'd like to let windows shut my drives ...

I love seeing griefers balking at 500w or even 600w PSU's. It's not like he threw a 1000w or even a low quality (high heat) 500w PSU in there. That Corsair is very efficient, low noise, and has huge upgrade potential. Not a bad decision at all.

I think at most they make a 1 or 2*C difference. I can't justify the cost for that.

Vista can use fast flash drives for the page file. Why not just insert a flash drive in XP and assign the page file to it? That'd help with all that extra seek noise at least.

The best of any media PC case. (You could say I'm biased as I came up with much of its thermal/airflow design but I've also examined dozens of other media PC cases.) That's an awful nice case, I agree, but I think the Ahanix still takes the cake from an appearance standpoint. http://www.ahanix.com/...

I think I'm going to use Dynamat Extreme on mine and maybe some Dynapad if I have any left over after my stereo build.

AMD AM2 --> GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... =GA-MA69GM

This is a killer mobo for $80. Hard|OCP did a review the other week and had some awesome luck with it. I have the ATX version out for delivery from FedEx right now.

Damn, I'd been waiting for SPCR to put out HSF recommendations for HTPC's. I just went and ordered a Ultra-90 two days ago This Mini Ninja might have been a better deal.

Fans are black and white. The fans are about a year old. I'm just changing cases and the 120's don't fit. They aren't showing any sign of wear.

Make an offer on these. This stuff won't fit in my new HTPC

I have a Lian Li PC-V1000 and I can't hear it from 2 feet away. I'm using Nexus case fans, Nexus PSU, quiet HDD and Nexus as a CPU fan. It's awful quiet. I took a piece of foam and separated off the front from anything that generates noise in the upper chamber. That seems to do the trick.

I'm currently building a HTPC. I don't see recommendations for optical drives on SPCR. Am I missing something? My current drive is quite noisy.

At Microsoft we ALL use laptops instead of desktops every day. That damn fan drives me nuts.

$20 Nexus Drive-A-Way http://www.nexustechnologyusa.com/c/ntusa/driveaway_black_1.html SOLD $30 Thermalright XP-120 http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_product_xp120.htm SOLD $8 ea. Nexus 120mm Fans - $14 for 2, $18 for 3. http://www.nexustechnologyusa.com/c/ntusa/nexus_120mm_bw_box_of_20.html S...

How do those quiet HDD enclosures deal with heat? I have a Nexus enclosure that I'm not even using right now. I'm currently building a HTPC and considering using it in there.

I looked into this some more today. I think I'm going to try the Silverstone NT01 in there.

I've been looking for a tower cooler to route past those 2 80mm fans in the back. What did you end up using?

The V1200 is quite a bit longer. Mostly likely it won't do you any extra good. I've had my PC-V1000 for a year now and it's a pleasure to work in. The dust isn't bad - no worse than any other case. There is a filter on the front fan. You have room for 6 fans in stock locations or 4 suspended. http:/...

The only time the case material is going to make a significant difference (> 1*C) is if you are sinking directly to the case. Airflow and quality heatsinks (the things actually touching your hot items) are your real concerns. I'm folding in a P180 and a Lian-Li PC-V1000. Temps are about the same in ...

Looks like I can finially mount a heat pipe cooler in my inverted Lian Li.