make sure you can mount the coolers on the motherboard you have

not all 939 boards have the reduced height capacitors

the thermalright coolers may have clearance issues as well as may have to be mounted with the fan pointing towards the psu for a 939

been a while since anyone posted in here, but wanted to say thanks as I have found this thread very useful, and have completed the following to my sonata 1 - cut the front bezel at the bottom and raised the case up on some wooden blocks to increase air intake (approx 2 degree cpu temp improvement an...

Can your card run with a clock speed lower than 100mhz? 275mhz on my BFG OC 8800 GTS - it is presently idling at 58 degrees, gone a bit cooler here in the UK presently this is in a sonata 1 with acoustipack lining, so I think that is pretty good, seeing as my x800 idled at 48 degrees thanks for the...

Whilst I had the case apart I took a better picture of the GF8800GTS fan duct. :) It's the "classic" GF8800 duct carefully made from cardboard and electrical tape. :wink: http://www.tinyland.org/PCStuff/SoloDuct.jpg regarding this ducting, I am assuming you have removed the pci slats so that the ho...

thanks to the WR304

shaved 10 degrees off my 8800 gts temps and 2 degrees off my cpu temp with the underclock feature of rivatuner.

the 8800 gts is heating the case more than my previous x800 so nice to be able to have the same previous noise levels with the underclock enabled

kater wrote:How about the small NB fan? How fast does it spin? You're not complaining on it so it most probably is not bothering you.

I like how the case blends with the rest of the AV stuff - looks damn good

zalman fanmate on that one

cheers

Borrowed some ideas from Number12's build http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28795&highlight=lc17 Scan had the silverstone lc17s on today only for £48 - so i thought it was too good to miss so picked one up to replace my old pc case - rig was quiet, but is quieter now 8) Specs MSI...

SilverStone LC17S (Silver) Aluminum Front & SECC Body Desktop case - £46.94 nice case and a good deal - £10 off normal price in the super savers section http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly/ only difference between this and the £70 one is that it does ont have the silverstone std 80mm case fans (you c...

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same for me but in a more significant way - i was not happy with the situation and gone back to my zalman

nope but you could try that additional cooler - it isn't to expensive

all sorted due the great advice

thanks for bearing with me

cheers chap

important thing to find a card that can be controlled / overclocked with atitool including fan control this will allow you to turn a loud card into a quiet card when browsing and doing normal desktop things but when gaming or rendering you will have a card that ramps up the fan and therefore is safe...

If you want passive look at the HR-03 . A cheaper option is a Zalman ZF-900 . About undervolting, Try Ati Tray Tools . Go to the overclocking section (first one) and hit the "fan" tab. You can manually set the fan speed or you can set thresholds for it thanks - atitool and tray tools do not have an...

A simpler method is to gently prise the plastic housing from around the 2-pin connector on the gfx card (it simply pulls straight off, but be careful). Then simply plug the 3-pin connector straight onto this making sure black goes to where the original black was and red to red. White (yellow in my ...

ok

can i undervolt the fan?

the connector is quite small 2 pin, can i add something like the zalman 7v resistors in line?

obtained a 2nd hand club3d x1600 pro 256mb the fan is bearable but not something for a htpc nor could i stand to have it in my main rig unfortunately it is a card I am wanting to put in my new htpc, benefit is this thing provides xvid encoding and hdtv support I have been thinking about removing or ...

a lot of the new ones use the stock mounts and clips now

I have successfully made my LC03 silent by using a silenx 80mm intake fan and using passive cooling on the cpu with a thermalright si128. I have one silenx 80mm exhaust and a 60mm silenx as well..cables have been routed neatly and the hard drive has been suspended and wrapped in foam..the system is...

First of all - Hello from a long-time lurker. Also, do you think I'll need an intake fan for the passive 7600gt? I won't be gaming much at all, but will be running vista on two 1680x1050 monitors. I would see how you get on first, you may find that the card will be fine... it is pretty simple to ad...

corsair 520w hx?

I have just moved to this and been very impressed so far

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article692-page1.html

does not fit on msi nf4 sli platinum or the ultra boards
capacitors are bent back

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sounds like the rev b version of the ninja this uses the stock backplate, you do also have to press pretty hard to get the second clip into place, I was not comfortable mounting whilst the board was in the case as it was flexing best to mount whilst out of the case so you can apply the force more ev...

cheers for all the input I have today returned the ninja to the store for a full refund, the bent caps was not something I was prepared to run with 24x7. S939 boards are hard enough to find atm and from the looks of many they may suffer similar issues... the dfi range looked potentially fine, and I ...

thanks for the replies / views I am in two minds... I have seen coolers like the xp120 that press against capacitors like this as well as comments from manufacturers who state that the cooler will do this... I am able to return this cooler as I have not taken the protective strip off the bottom of t...

hi, bought a scythe ninja which is supposedly compatible with my MSI NF4 Platinum SLI motherboard however the heatpipes on one side firmly touch the capacitors... is this acceptable / safe? The caps are bent back a touch, are firm against the small blocks shown, they are not touching anything else.....