If anyone's interested, I have a ST3500320AS 500GB (now about 3 months old) and must say that Seagate has made massive improvements since the 7200.9 series. Subjectively, it is quieter at idle than my Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KS, which is still fairly high on the SCPR recommended 3.5" hard ...

Thanks...wow. That explains a lot. My heatsink is cool (almost cold) to the touch so I do think it is idling cooler than mid-50s.

It is a Rosewill RCX-Z5 (http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1232/r ... index.html)

Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme was out of stock at NewEgg and my local B&M (and still is). Will probably upgrade to that sometime in the next couple months.

Thanks, that explanation makes sense.

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Hi psionic, got some questions for you. How do you feel Intel's onboard audio compares with your previous board? Can you touch the ICH9R southbridge and see if it doesn't run too hot? (Some people reported very high SB temps with this board.) Is it possible to configure the BIOS to beep if one of t...

I bought a Intel DP35DP board with my Intel E8400. My previous board, an ASUS P5B Deluxe (P965) supports the 45nm chips with a BIOS update, but unfortunately the board died in the middle of the flash, so I had to buy this board at a B&M. Normally I don't buy Intel boards because they seem a little s...

Sorry for the late reply. The PSU is still running fine and I have since upgraded my system to a Core 2 Duo (guess I better fix the sig). I do recommend the fan swap since the Yate Loon D12 is such a versatile and high-quality fan. However, there a couple caveats-- 1) The fan does not always run, it...

All excellent points. Also, by the time games start coming out that actually make use of DX10 we will be looking at Q1 2007 at the earliest. And by that time, everyone will be speculating about the "2nd generation" of DX10 cards which will be using a more mature technology and sporting all sorts of ...

I believe that particular heatsink has a 120mm fan that rests "inside" the fin bank.

The Tuniq Tower is often sometimes referred to as the best air cooling when paired with a high-speed fan.

Looking at this mounting mechanism, it will *probably* work on AM2, since it only uses the center clips. However, if I were you, I would wait to see what stock HSF you get with your 4600+ first.

I'm sure the IceQ is way quieter than stock for a X1900XTX, but there sheer size of the GPU and amount of heat generated by that card tells me that it would have a hard time competing against the 7900GTX in the silence department. The 7900GTX GPU runs so cool that even when overclocked you can hard ...

I have a Sharkoon Golf-ball fan, 80mm, and it is by no means quiet. It undervolts pretty well, but if you want a quiet fan at 12V you will have consider what has already been recommended-- 1) Nexus D12 2) Yate Loon D12SL-12 (a little too loud at 12V, but maybe good for your purposes) 3) Scythe S-Fle...

So what does everyone think about the latest AMD price expectations for end of July? Now that a X2 2.6GHz is coming in slightly cheaper than the 2.4GHz Conroe, maybe AMD will have a shot at leering the masses already lining up to buy up Conroe's. Personally, I also got swept up in the Conroe benchma...

From what I remember, the stock Liberty fan spun a little faster, but not much. I want to say somewhere around 1000rpm. What are your system specs? Because unless your drawing a ton of power, I'm guessing your assumption is right and the PSU is sucking in a lot of heat from your CPU.

I have both a Liberty 620 and NeoHE 550. The Liberty was very quiet for me before I did a fan swap, and is slightly quieter after the swap. I put in a Yate Loon D12SL-12 which runs at ~750rpm. I've never seen it spin any faster than that. It was still fun to do, and I would do it again given the opp...

A 7900GTX is very quiet with it's 92mm axial cooling fan and since Nvidia uses a full-blown, 4-wire PWM fan on this card, you can use a tool like RivaTuner to set it at practically any speed you want since the GPU is very cool running. I have mine spinning at around 700rpm and it is inaudiable.

I recommend going for 2GB of RAM. Even some of today's games are making use of 2GB of RAM, let alone tomorrow's. Not to mention that a dual-core CPU will increase your level of productivity and overall OS demands if you make use of it, making that extra 1GB all the more vital. You can very good, low...

That link you show points to an older revision of the AMD heatpipe cooler. The current revision holds an 80mm fan--http://www.heatsinkoutlet.com/AMD-B.htm. You could keep the stock 80mm fan and undervolt it if it's too loud, or swap it out for something like the Nexus 80mm.

The 12v speed is 1350rpm.

If you want faster, buy the medium speed version of this fan or overvolt it at your own risk. Why is the 1350rpm not fast enough for you?

Do you already have the 4600+ or are planning on getting it after the July price drops? The reason I ask is that if you don't have it yet, then get the retail version, which normally ships with a heatpipe-based HSF. At 12V, this will outperform the Alpine 64, which relies on thermal transfer across ...

http://www.heatsinkoutlet.com/images/AMD-B/AMD-B_Top.jpg AMD includes the above HSF on X2 4400+ and up CPUs. Opterons and FX-series come bundled with a similar cooler. Note that this cooler has gone through several revisions, and existed in a 2 heatpipe version and a 4 heatpipe version with 60mm fa...

I'm kind of dissapointed with the lack of innovation in this design. In the low-profile, 4 heatpipe arena, the Zalman 8000 looks even more suitable to small form factor. Zalman 8000-- http://www.pro-clockers.com/article.php?id=155 And if they are planning on attacking the value segment, they will be...

I think you find the Yate Loon D12SL-12 a little too loud at 12V. This is not necessarily a fault of the fan design itself, but rather its 12V speed of 1350rpm. This fan, once slowed down to < 1000rpm, is one of the smoothest, quietest and vibration-free fans ever made. And Yes, I mean the Scythe S-...

Thanks--That's what I figured. I heard DFI is making a LanParty board sporting the nForce5 chipset for Conroe. Too bad they can't release a "Premium" edition or something that includes passive chipset cooling.

I know it's impossible to speculate on unreleased motherboards, but does anybody know if there is any reason to think that a Scythe Ninja (SCNJ-1000P) won't fit on a nForce5 Conroe MB?

Thanks.

I assume you mean the Yate Loon DL12SL-12? Both of these fans are amongst the best fans when undervolted because they have almost no bearing noise and are very well balanced to minimize vibration. However, in almost all cases, any 12cm fan over 900rpm is too loud for a very quiet PC. If I had to pic...

Just solder the resistor on the +12V line anywhere between the fan and the Molex connector. For a fan, the +12V line is almost always the red wire. This is different than a standard 4-pin Molex plug, where the +12V line is the yellow wire. Sorry, would love to post pics but lost my digital cam a cou...

In my weekend tinkering, I wanted to experiment with making the Antec Tri-Cool fans that you get with a P180 (and other cases I'm sure) into something a little quieter than the default speed on the "Low" setting. This way maybe I can put them to good use instead of just keeping them stored away in m...

I agree, PC power consumption is disgusting. However, you could still run Vista with a different Window manager other than Aero.

Sort of like how you can switch XP to classic Win2000 mode, you can make Vista look like a dark-gray version of XP. This, I believe, runs in 2D mode.

Some sort of Cool n' Quiet for video cards will most likely come in the future now that 2D mode can no longer work as a lower "P-state", but it does not exist now. If you check the GPU speeds in Vista, they are the full 3D clock speeds 100% of the time, even if the desktop is completely idle. I'm no...