If you place a 120 as the front fan intake, can you get away without having an exhaust fan? With that much positive pressure, PSU exhaust fan and something like a ninja w/ fan blowing towards the exhaust vent, you might not need an exhaust fan. I think I might just try to shut down my exhaust fan an...

RAFH, You are probably right, I was just trying to break the paridigm and assist with the concept of creating a dust free positive pressure system without creating a huge amount of modifications to existing cases. With my system, it might be acceptable because I am only running one hard drive... and...

No problem, I am thinking about trying out that concept myself. I don't think you really need a 120mm air filter, you can get one that is bigger... The key is that you get a filter that covers the whole intake. If I can find an air intake filter that has good mix between filtering and air resistance...

Aren't sharpies able to be removed by alcohol? If not, you can use alcohol markers like the military use. They come in various colors, you can get them at hobbie stores and no matter how long you have it on, you can wipe it off with some rubbing alcohol or whaterver type of alcohol you prefer. The a...

have you tried to dampen the LED? I have read about some different techniques, such as the sharpie method to make the LED less bright. Another technique I have read about is to take paper and cover the LED between the LED and the cover. This is supposedly a very good method to lessen the brightness....

Wolfy84, Adding the second 92mm fan and pwming them both to run at whatever volume you can stand :wink: is one method of creating a positive pressure system. The problem with creating a positive pressure is more than just the exhaust fan and the PSU fan. The case is designed to have air flowing in a...

Recommendation: You can run almost all of those wires on the reverse side of the Solo case. It is designed to have room over on that side so you can have them out of the way to make it neat and also not affect air flow. Take off the other cover and look at all of the cool extra room for cables...

Bursk, First off, I think your case may be damaged. I don/t have any gaps in my case and I cannot see into the interior workings from any angle. I can see the reflection of the LEDs through the Bezel, but that is it. Second. The way I worked the zip ties, I daisy chained them. I used the square end ...

Don't know how tall it is with the fan, I will have to open my case up and measure later for you. I am using the Asus backplate with my Ninja. It was easy to replace the front bracket while retaining the back bracket. I don't understand your question about the VF900... I took the stock fan and heat ...

The fan controller isn't your only avenue to control your fans. Depending on your mobo, you can control 1, 2 or maybe even three fans. My mobo controls two fans, so with your fan controller hooked up to my system, combined they could control 6 fans. Without knowing your mobo or processor, I would ru...

I have mine hard mounted currently. I only have one drive in right now and I hard-mounted it in place becuase I knew I would be taking the system apart as I modded stuff. I actually barely hear the hard drive seek right now, I will suspend it eventually. You are correct, the mounting system is desig...

I can use all four slots. The ninja and the fan are designed to ride above the slots. If you look at a ninja, the base is narrow and you get about an inch of small footprint until you get to the fins and then it spreads out. Without a fan there is definately no issue about blocking the sims. I have ...

I don't think you really need the stealth drives when you have a black area for the drives themselves. It is easy to match optical drives to the black face. Just make sure you pick up the black faceplate version of whatever drive you are planning on putting in the Solo. Unless you are moving stuff f...

No problems. Especially if the Scythe Ninja fits! Zalman also works great with the Asus MB becuase they have the two graphics slots spread out so much you can have SLI with two Zalmans running without space issues.

I am running one front fan at around 7v with zalman fanmate2. The rear 120 at around 5v with the zalman fanmate2 also. I have speed fan pwming the cpu fan and the second front fan around 450 rpm and 743 rpm respectivley. My vga fan (zalman vf900) is run by a zalman fanmate2 also. Sound is almost non...

I am having problems posting my pics for the grills cut out, I will get them in eventually... For anyone who wants to cut out the grills, check out the sticky in the beginning of this sectionhttp://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=2307. You can't go wrong.

Here is the scu off of my processor: ADV4400CDBOX. I went back and did a little research, I was wrong. My ADV4400CDBOX has a thermal power rating of 89W. The ADA4400CDBOX has a thermal power rating of 110W. That was the difference between the two, not 65W and 89W. Sorry for the miscommunication. Als...

For those out there wondering, AMD makes a 35W X2 4400+. I know, I own one. If you check out the X2 4400 and look at the scu, there are ADA which is a 89W and the ADV which is the 35W. Newegg is selling the 35W for only $7 more than the 89W one. My temps are awesome, I run a Ninja CPU HS and could g...

Well I did it! I cut out the rear fan grill and the front fan grills and I am amazed at the drop in sound coming from my Solo. The wooshing noise is gone and there is less of a sucking sound from the front bezel. On the down side, I have identified another noise and now I have to figure out where th...

Yea, I am very happy with the temps. I have a digital thermometer right next to the case that is telling me the outside case amient temperature. It shouldn't be picking up the exhaust temp and in the morning it is 76F and by nighttime it is 79-80F. I will start keeping track of the temps throught th...

Its not silver paint, it is a clearcoat type of paint that accentuates the Aluminum panel.

Those are CPU Temps. The AMD X2 4400 has two versions. ADA and ADV are the scu's for them. The ADA is an 89W processor and the ADV is a 35W processor. You will find some discussion about them in the CPU forum. Newegg has both, you have to look for it, and the ADV version is only $7 more. My CPU temp...

CPU HS is the Scythe Ninja plus with packaged scythe 120mm fan. Keep in mind that I am using the 35w X2 4400 instead of the higher wattage CPU (no difference in performance, just less resistance I think). On my Asus board I did not have to replace the back plate. I just changed out the mounting brac...

MasterWerk, Don't worry, I have made the decision to do the cutting. I have to go and get the tin snips and will knock this out over the weekend. I won't use the dremmel becuase I don't want to dissassembel the whole computer to get this done. I can use the snips and not worry about any metal pieces...

Did you listen to the fan with the grill in and then with the grill out? I am very interested to find out if this makes any noticable difference. I am getting ready to replace the tri-cool with a Nexus and might as well cut out the grill while I have the fan out (if it makes any difference...). Plea...

Well I did it! Modded the Evga 7900 GT KO with the Zalman V900. This was sooooo easy! Anyone out there that is concerned about modding a graphics card, Evga's 7900 GT KO does not use thermal tape. Four screws and the stock cooler comes right off. A little Alcohol to clean off the TIM and you are on ...

I think with the black panels, it is too easy to match the optical drives to this color. It looks good and now you don't have to worry if your optical driver doesn't line up or if the stealth panel breaks. I like it, but that is a personal preference. I also don't like cases with doors either... Ton...

My setup is very similar to yours, My Ninja plus fan is absolutley silent, you might want to RMA that fan... Listening to the sound of your tri-cool fan, do you hear the fan or the air wooshing through the grate on the back of the case? I only have two sources of noise right now. My stock 7900 GT KO...

I definatley would mod the exhaust grill and cut it out. I may do this to mine, but I am afraid that I will have to take everything out. Plug the tri-cool fan into your power supply and you will hear the airflow woosh sound even on the low setting. Other than my video card stock fan, this is the lou...

My setup is very similar to yours, My Ninja plus fan is absolutley silent, you might want to RMA that fan... Listening to the sound of your tri-cool fan, do you hear the fan or the air wooshing through the grate on the back of the case? I only have two sources of noise right now. My stock 7900 GT KO...