Which fans have you kept in the end ?

I agree with kuzzia. It seems like the hot air is not being exhausted. It happened to me in an Solo II. The fans in the GPU spin like crazy but it looks that hot air recirculates again and again. Try raising your exhaust fan to cca 700 rpm and retest. You should look into the front fan. At that rpm ...

Moving my post from article discussion / recommended heatsinks here: I read that the genesis is the no1 HS for quiet/silent cpu cooling. I do not understand why it is not the NH-D14 because looking at the results from the Noctua test with 2 nexus fans: -12V/16dBA: 31 delta C - 9V/13dBA: 33 delta C ...

I read SPCR and forum every day. I read that the genesis is the no1 HS for quiet/silent cpu cooling. I do not understand why it is not the NH-D14 because looking at the results from the Noctua test with 2 nexus fans: - 12V/16dBA: 31 delta C - 9V/13dBA: 33 delta C - 7V/12dBA: 36 delta C These temps a...

Passive psu is not a good ideea in a p150 case but rather in the solo 2.
Mugen 3 is decent after lapping.

Yes, were is the review?

The scythe needs sanding because of it's evident concave base and bad contact with your 1155 socket.. But if do that temps will improve big time. I gained about 8 deg C idle and around 10 deg C on load after lapping and artic silver 5 "burnout"

The stock Mugen 3 fan is superb. On my intel board it stays < 400 rpm on idle/moderate load. Obviously I can't hear it. One advice though: IT NEEDS A SERIOUS AMOUNT OF LAPPING.

Quick question: What should a 120 exhaust fan speed be like to effectivelly exhaust the air out of a solo case (for example) if your cpu would be cooled by a prolima genesis with both 140 fans on??? It seems sensible to me that the 120 fan should spin significantly faster than the 140 ones to keep u...

This is how the mugen's base looks after some lapping. I had to work hard for it to even up. Temps are now about 3-4 deg cooler. I ran some 30 min of prime95 and max temp was 57. I have to admit this is 5 minutes after reinstalling the cooler, with fresh artic silver 5. At 25-26 ambient temperature,...

No matter what you do, a fair amount of its heat is going to end up being transmitted to the mother board. Therefore you should consider one of the gigabyte boards with the double thick copper on the mother board... coupled with a down draft cooler, to help cool the board. or a prolimatech genesis

Just for the fun of it (and the experience) I will eventualy lap the base. I hate to mount - dismount - mount -....the cooler endlessly. Don't think is good for the motherboard. I believe that the concave base is the only problem. It is not the first cooler I mount on a MB. I believe there is enough...

Ralf Hutter and MikeC, I admit thinking about lapping but did so very briefly. For the joy of silence and safety I will replace the mugen 3 with a new cooler worth whatever money I have left. I thought Scythe were serious about their coolers, but it seems that they are not. It explains their recent ...

Just to revive an older thread, and to bring more info about this ignored cooler. There are very few reviews and no spcr interest to wright about it. My experience with the mugen 3 (3100, rev b) is bad. Just bad: 1. It has a concave base: verfied with my own eyes both with a metalic ruler and from t...

SebRad:
All you said makes perfect sense.

I will lap though the mugen's base and run the system on 3 fans (1 intake+gpu, 1 cpu and 1 exhaust).

Still thinking of replacing the mugen with...(the better mounting systems for noctua, tr and prolima just keep me awake at night)...I'll see.
Thanks!

But if I rotate the cooler 90 deg. it will face the PSU

Thank you...never crossed my mind: I will look into that and rotate the cooler if needed!

I could try to lap it but I believe the problem will persist since there's the unsolvable problem of the mounting system: just simple wing that bolt on the sides of the base and then extensions that link with the backplate; they just do not assure enough pressure. Lapping the base will certainlly ma...

To clarify some things. for me, load temps mean gaming (plus some background applications running) I run 1 hour of prime 95: with cpu and exhaust fans full on (1500/1100 rpm) temps stabilised within 2 minutes and remained around 55-57C. Vga rose to 60. Everything else was ok (pch, ram, vrm, hdd) Abo...

OK, so I did a couple of changes: - reinstaled the mugen, reapplied as5 (I put to much the first time around) and removed the nexus sandwich "push-pull" fans - mugen is now cooled by the scythe pwm fan (cca 800-900 rpm, MB control) - moved one nexus to rear exhaust (again cca 800-850 rpm, MB control...

Thanks for the replys! t100: I will reapply the grease and reseat the mugen; the seasonic faces up the top vent of the solo2, as intended; I agree that maybe all the heat from the VGA is pushed directly into the cpu air flow; I will change the orientation of the fan. mkk: all power management for th...

I just finished my new system and I find the temperatures of the CPU a bit to high for idle. List of components: CASE: Antec Solo 2 PSU: Seasonic X460 MB: Intel DZ77SL-50K CPU: i3470 cooled by a Scythe Mugen 3 VGA: HD 6770 pasive (Gigabyte) RAM: 2 x 4G OCZ Agility 3 64 GB SSD system drive 2xStorage ...

Nice and clean !

But how did you squeeze that looong GTX 275 inside the solo ???

Clean work !

Really need 5 fans ? Experiment with removing at least one of the front fans and the cpu fan (if not ok-ing).

Nexus rules !!!

Minor upgrade: - added a mesh intake (infact the scythe kama bay - fan not plugged in) - moved the storage HDD at the base of the case - better cable management http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4300/img2614u.th.jpg http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1008/img2616s.th.jpg http://img10.imageshack.us/img1...

Couple more pictures: http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3138/img2567k.th.jpg http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8742/img2568.th.jpg http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/9262/img2569.th.jpg http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/1707/img2566g.th.jpg http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/5373/img2565.th.jpg

The answers: - the PSU fan never ramps up: the power consumption does not reach the 150 W limit (see the review) - I've got the xFi sound card for 5 years and I agree that it's not the best buy ever but is definitely better than any on board sound; can't tell if the heatsinks are really needed but w...

Hello everybody!!! I've been reading for the past two years now...found enormous help in the forum...THANKS!!! This is my third build from scratch: Antec Solo with 1 rear, soft mounted Nexus case fans spinnning around 740 rpm - using the Noctua ULNA adaptor (brutal removal of the rear grill :oops: )...

Hi, I'm going to upgrade my system and I'll be instaling a Ninja Plus rev. B on a C2D E8400 - intending on runing it fanless meaning very firmly secured - Wich is the best/firmest mounting method: - the Scythe UNIVERSAL RETENTION KIT "SCURK1" which I already own http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/acc...

Nice little setup ! I llike the foam thing...
How about those temps ??? and how fast are the fans spinning ???
Interested because I plan on upgrading to a E8400/ninja and a 260/4870 video card.
Thanks !