Those of us with a biostar t-force or any other boards that come with a plastic backplate. can the aftermarket Scythe Ninja be used with those plastic backplates?

Look here.
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=30072
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=32020

What about those with biostar t-force or any other boards that come with a plastic backplate. can the aftermarket Scythe be used with those or any other plastic backplate?

Heres one option. i'm sure there's other sli based am2 boards.
MSI K9N SLI Platinum

You may want to have a look over these.
Memory purchasing guide
THE Memory FAQ

If it was my build i would go with socket am2 x2-3800+. Or as Howard said wait for the conroe, however one must understand there will always be new technology on the board. so someone wait for conroe by it as soon as he/she gets that it's outdated that's how fast things seem to be moving. just my th...

Heres what i found. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2GB-MUSHKIN-PC3200-DDR-400MHz-Memory-RAM-2-x-1GB-991461_W0QQitemZ6888534942QQcategoryZ74942QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OCZ-Gold-DDR500-PC4000-1gb-2-x-512-MB_W0QQitemZ6889017956QQcategoryZ74942QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-2GB-...

The Quadro FX 1400 Is classed as a workstation cad rendering card as such is not built for gaming. quadro cards are good for 3dsmax autodesk pro-engineer things like this.

gharkins if that memory is singlesided Hi-Density it may be incompatible, and not work with your board.

tomfrew The Tyan Thunder K8WE needs a 24pin EPS12V power supply. you will not be able to use a standard psu. Here is a sample of some EPS12V psu's FSP Group SILVERSTONE SST-ST56F Also heres the link to your boards manual Thunder K8WE (S2895) Sidenote: If anyone else has more to add on this please po...

tomfrew yes the socket 940 boards will only work with ECC Registered Memory. you can't use standard ddr mem.

You will need to find DDR PC-3200 ECC Registered Memory

Nublet silenX stuff is overrated, and over priced. you would be better off sourcing a nexus/yatloon fan. samsung hard drives you picked out are fine. the s12-380 should power your system just fine.

Nublet the 805 would be a good choice, and SpinPoint drives are known to be very quiet. also note that most members here suspend their hard drives using stretch magic or some form of closure to isolate vibrations. also as for a PSU most here swear by the seasonic brand as being quiet. you may want t...

Nublet not trying to change your mind on your build but Prescott's are known to be very hot, and power hungry cpu's. if your going the intel route you may want to look into a pentium-D or Pentium M. just a thought.

tomfrew you may have saved some money on the cpu's however the board to use them in is going coast you alot of money, if you can't find it on ebay . The MSI K8N Master2-FAR is $249.99 this does not include the coast of dual channel registered/ecc ram. your in for a long road or work to get this going.

tomfrew you already brought the cpu's? are these socket940 opterons you brought?

Sidenote:Tyan Thunder K8WE is a workstation board it may have sli but it's not built for gaming.

tomfrew your over building the machine for what your trying to do. from looks of it you want a gaming machine that's also quiet. Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8WE Change to Nforce 4 939 or Nforce 5 AM2 Processors: 2 x 242 opteron 1.6 Ghz Change to X2 3800+ for 939 or AM2 and Opteron165 for 939. PSU: 60...

MSI K9N Neo-F ATX AMD is passively cooled. not sure how you feel about it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130050[/url]

fastturtle looks good doing an old school build thats quiet. enjoy it.

Sidenote: I think the M7VIG-400 you listed is made by biostar http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.as ... =m7vig+400

Ackelind i thought the link i posted would have help.

SeaSonic S12-500, and theZalman CNPS9500-AM2 . for a case you can look at the Antec P180. for case fans look at yate-loon.

Also http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getart ... rticID=451
Scythe Mine
Scythe Samurai Z
Thermalright HR-01
Thermalright Ultra-90

Tephras can one make their own version of this by soldering the correct resistor in line with the fan with out the use of an adapter?

FreeBaGeL spinpoints harddrives are known to be on the quiet side. as for the dvd drive as you said you should only here it when it spins up the disk in it.I would change out the board for one of these.1)BIOSTAR TForce6100 Socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 2)BIOSTAR GEFORCE 6100-M7 Socket 754 NVIDIA Ge...

papito heres what i found. hope it is of use.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/bran ... p0s0n0m240
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/Kus ... ns_72.html
http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/cus ... ring=nexus

TomMe i dont know if this help or not. i have seen that newegg has this psu, and it's shown with full sleeving , and it looks like a REV.A1 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.asp?Image=17%2D151%2D023%2D01%2Ejpg%2C17%2D151%2D023%2D08%2Ejpg%2C17%2D151%2D023%2D03%2Ejpg%2C17%2D151%2D023%2D10%2Ejpg%...

You can try mounting the HD using stretch magic this has been tried by many here,and seems to work good. as for the fan you can try to under volt them or use http://www.acoustiproducts.com/en/ultra_soft_fan_mounts.asp this may help. Sidenote: heres how one SPCR member did the stretch magic method ht...

Gentoo if i had the 480 or 500 i would use the 480 since both offer pretty much the same amp's, and efficiency. One thing i have learned from hanging around here less is more,and more is not always needed.

Gentoo do you truly need 480 - 500 watts? from everything i have read,and been told more watts=more noise. lower watts=less noise also the efficiency on both psu's are the same. some would say that if your going 480+ on the watts you would want higher efficiency ratings 80+. anyway thats just my tho...

S12 330 or 380 psu should fit the bill, and allow for upgrades if you see fit, and as for heatsinks have you looked in to the Scythe SCNJ-1000 Ninja heatsink. I have read some of the more extreme silent builders have figured ways to use this passively to cool their cpu's. in any case good luck with ...