i have 3 hard drives in the bottom of my p180 (1 in the middle bay) and even when defragging one down below i hit 44c max on that hard drive.

im sittin here with my heat on, a nice comfy room temp, a bit on the hot side, in shorts and short sleeves.

i can live with this

Thanks - I'll look for a faster fan. I have seen some in the 24dBA range. I'm unsure how noisy that actually is. My case is a "silent" case, with foam padding inside it, but the exhaust fan will be blowing straight out the back, so if anything will make a noise this fan will. you can try it. but if...

Do you think an 800rpm 120mm exhaust fan will move the heat sufficiently? I've found one which is 16dBA - the quietest I can find, here: http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=349586 800rpm is quite a bit slower than others, but being 120mm it should shift enough air. Do you agree...

i added a fourth fan to my p180 - a 120mm in front of the middle hard drive cage. i decided to turn it off after a few weeks to see if i noticed any difference in noise. what i did notice is absolutely no difference in temps. what made a difference in my temps is kicking up the rpm's of the exhaust ...

you can use the TT bolt thru kit wiht the ninja. feels solid as a rock now. i did it here: http://athos.smugmug.com/photos/131031277-L.jpg i would use washers to increase the pressure as i did between the springs and the mounting clip - or put some between the backplate and the back of the mobo (lik...

bonestonne, i just want to tell you taht you rock.

i kicked up my voltage to 1.38 and have temps close on idle to what i had at 1.31 on my cores - after 5 minutes of orthos i am at 63/60 cores

still not amazing but nice.

1.35 volts at 3.25ghz and with 5 minutes orthos so far - TAT cores are 60-58 instead of 65-63 (though i need to let this run another 20 minutes to really compare) also TCase temp is 52 from 59, again i have to give this more time. time to try higher oc'ing 2morra :) and that crazy thermal grease i l...

both on medium made a difference of 4c Idle on the Tcase temps on the cores they went down to 44/42 on idle - a gain of 4c. not bad. i will dremel these fan guards away as i would prefer to run at least one on low for the noise value. thanks for the advice. in the meantime, is there a better heatsin...

they are both antec tri cools on low.

i will kick them up to medium then high and see if that makes a significant difference.

this is the ninja mounted to my board with the TT bolt-thru kit. i put washers between the spring and the mounting clips to apply more pressure. http://athos.smugmug.com/photos/131031277-L.jpg i feel my temps are still a bit high in TAT/Speedfan beta at 1.35v at 3.25ghz under orthos small fft load i...

here is the image. notice i used washers between the spring and the mounting clips to apply more pressure.

it is rock solid. i still feel my temps are a bit high however.

i had a p5b-d for a week and it was a POS. but anyways, my ninja rev b touched the caps. a little dremel grinding and that was ok. if you want to do your own mounting you can do this: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=117054 i just ordered a TT bolt thru kit and that screws down t...

oh btw. it wasnt my ninja so much that was not flat enough, it was my core2 IHS that was terrible.

this mod worked lovely. i had a bit of a scare when one of the screws holding the backplate heatsink system from giga stripped. i had to run to home depot and get a chuck & drilling bit kit for my dremel, and drilled right thru that sucka. i can say you need one thing, which i have to get. a few sma...

late last year i ordered a new rig. its in my sig! however, the first mobo was an asus p5n-e sli. i ordered almost everything from zipzoom, over a grand. which is not much for them, but a decent order. my p5n gave me issues. i knew it said exchange for same item only, but i wanted to go to an intel ...

i just recently received the TT bolt-thru retention kit to mod my ninja plus rev. B with. ill be doing this in a few days and will post pics. fromt he measurements i have taken so far it should work just dandy. i have a dq6 mobo and my ninja was resting on the capacitors on one side every so slightl...

dont regret getting your e6400. it isnt about the 6600 or 6400 it is more about individual chips variance. i can get my 6400 to 3.2 at stock voltage orthos stable. i can get to 3.6 at 1.4 volts and run super.pi - just a bit more voltage and i am orthos stable. all i need is better cooling which is o...

i am using the gigabyte dQ6 because i had issues with first an asus p5n-e sli, but they didnt compare to the horror story i had with the asus p5b-deluxe POS mobo. so far so good on the giga. oc's nice, great features, stable as a rock. running an e6400 at 3.2ghz 24//7 with minimal voltage increase. ...

ive seen people just run that cable under the mobo but in front of the mobo tray without having to make holes..

however, i am glad the p182 was not available last month - cause i went and bought a dremel to do it myself. this little tool is fun stuff

that cable store was tip top.

they ship super fast, their prices are great and my 4 pin extension came in no time.

it is in there now, i am going to sleeve it even though u can barely see it.

definitely recommended/.

if u remember that guy who sells those cables, hit me up, id buy one in a heartbeat if the price was reasonable.

the best part of the 182 is the wiring adjustments - but im glad i got the 180 cause now i have a reason to get a dremel :twisted: what they should have done, and what would have pissed me off that i just got the 180b - is to make the thing 2 inches longer! with psu's getting longer as well as graph...

thanks, im switching over to an intel chipset board from this nVidia one so ill find out how hard it really is to get it out on friday

ill get an extension anyways just for neatness in the future.

ultrachrome wrote:The extension cable would allow you to avoid running it over the top of the video card.

That cable will be hard to unplug (due to Ninja) if you need to remove the video card.

where do i get an extension cable from

hx620 in my p180 - new build.

there are 4 HD in the lower cage, 1 optical in the top with an extra power connector sitting up there waiting for a second dvd rw

i also never heard of them until recently while researching my newest build - for a scythe ninja actually on jab-tech.

i also discovered xoxide as well during this build.

ive gotten stuff from both of these vendors and they are both excellent.

fed-ex tracking stinks compared to ups tracking. it takes forever to update and fed-ex holds packages. like i get the cheap shipping 5-7 days sometimes with fed-ex, and since they know they have seven days, they hold the package up even though it is sitting in my state after 3 days. i see it when th...

zipzoom has the hx620 for 149 shipped.

bout 5 bucks more than provantage would be with the cheapest shipping. if you live closer to cali zip would be best. east coast go provantage.

i recently ordered this case and the corsair hx 620.

a fella over on the ocforums had installed the same case with an hx 520 and reported no issues with cable length. here is the link to his thread, there is a pic in there.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=492332