I bought the original TT Big Typhoon a while back before the VX came out. The two things that drew me to it were the huge heatsink and standard 12cm fan that I could replace if the need ever arose. Well, the need arose as the fan was DOA. I replaced it with a TriCool rather than deal with a NewEgg R...

Not sure about the others, but my ABIT A8N SLI board has a total of six 3-pin fan headers all temperature regulated within the BIOS. It makes a utility like SpeedFan unnecessary unless you want to control the fans through software. The board also has a passively cooled northbridge with a heatpipe. Y...

I still find myself tweaking something every now and again on my six month old system. Spending time researching those causal relationships between each fan and different temperatures and experimenting with different configurations should be considered a Zen practice. :lol: I've found that around 15...

Falling asleep behind the wheel kills just as many people as drunk driving each year. Getting behind the wheel while tired is just as irresponsible as driving while intoxicated, yet we don't seem to vilify those people who fall asleep and drift into an oncoming church bus nearly as much.

After reading all the reviews on SPCR, I bought a SeaSonic S330 and couldn't be happier with the silence. Not sure as to the availability of SeaSonic PSUs in Sweden however.

I'd have to say a temp sensor would be better feedback than using CPU load. Not sure about your mobo, but my ABIT uses temperature and a high and low user-defineable voltage setting for each 3-pin fan header and each is set within the BIOS, so there's no software involved unless you're just monitori...

1. Yes. Choose a low-speed quiet 80mm fan that's been reviewed here like Nexus, Panflo, etc. 2. The fact that the fan kicks on after the receiver starts to heat up suggests that there's some sort of temp sensor built into the receiver controlling the power to the fan. 3. That's probably a resistor s...

That message is usually related to a flaky device driver. Download SpeedFan or another program that reads SMART data from the HD to check the temp if you're concerned.

My Asus AN8's uGuru fan control in the BIOS setup is something all MBs should have. Voltage range adjustments dependant on temperature delta, user definable with 6 independently controlled fan headers. I don't know of any motherboard BIOS that accesses SMART or GPU temps directly to control fan spee...

eSATA is the way I'll be going eventually for my main storage needs. I already have the cool and silent (although smallish) internal 2.5" SATA drive in the HTPC for the OS, a few programs, and temp storage for some media and P2P file sharing. For some real space, an eSATA enclosure that will fit two...

Maybe a thermal sensor attached to surface of the HD case that cycles a fan when heat is detected?

I have a passively cooled Gigabyte 7300GS. The 7300 really doesn't need a fan since an idle temp of 60-70C is OK for the GPU. They are stable past 100C.

My SeaSonic PSU makes a slight buzz when the fan is spinning at its slowest. It disappears somewhat when things heat up and the fan speed kicks up a notch or two. Sounds like ball-bearing fan noise to me. It's so quiet though, I have to practically hold my ear up to the PSU fan to clearly make it ou...

Yikes.

I have a Samsung 2.5" drive in a Nexus box but opted for the SATA version that taps off the Molex connector for power. I don't think I would have ever figured out the reversed polarity issue had I gone with a PATA drive. Who knows how many were made like that.