Welcome to SPCR! Very clean build. Did you try it without the foam? -I find foam's acoustic dampening qualities in PC builds are mostly a placebo. Thank you, though I'm not exactly new here, just not a regular poster;-) I did not do any A/B testing without the foam. I have no doubt that covering me...

Not much interest in this one I know, but the Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 turned out to be a really nice case. A few quirks like any case, but it was very easy to do neat cable routing and no major issues of any kind during assembly. The only minor issue I had were that some of the motherboard standoff s...

Thanks to reviews and forum threads here and elsewhere, I ended up with this: Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 case BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W i7-6700K @4.4GHz Thermalright Macho Rev. B Gigabyte Gaming G1 Z170 32GB DDR4 Corsair 2x16GB 3200 C16 Intel 750 400GB MSI GTX970 Gaming 100ME Extremely quiet syste...

To prevent going too much on a tangent, I'll just stop here and say that I'd still very much like to see a comparison of F51 vs R5 vs Define S - F51 as it is definitely improves on certain aspects of FD Define R5/S and I would personally be interested to see if these improvements justify the $120 p...

That's pretty good - anything around 25-27db under load is not bad at all The 570 should be more similar to the 580 than to the 560, so I think if in case 28-29dB should be more probable than a 25dB mark. Afterburner may help to game a bit more quietly, but take also note than currently most of 570...

The Asus card is very nice, but for those looking for a silentPC, I would still consider the Twin Frozr, given what sizza said regarding a BIOS fix that allows for an even quieter setting. The Asus card is not loud, but it is far louder than the other 4 fans in my otherwise relatively silent system....

So far, not a single crash in 4 days. I also increased my memory back to XMP speeds (1600C8) a few days ago and I'm running the fan set at manual minimum (1100 RPM) regardless of load. At that fan speed, it is somewhat louder than the minimum fan speed of the Frozr. It's certainly not silent, but th...

The DirectCU is in. Some quick comparisons- DirectCU is bigger, not only triple slot, but longer too. It barely fits in my Lian Li PC-B25S. DirectCU gives the impression of being better made, subjective, of course. DirectCU seems to run a bit cooler at the same load. DirectCU factory GPU overclock i...

boe- did you happen to note any errors when your frozr crashed? Mine worked fine for days, but recently I've been having crashes that are more and more frequent. I thought they were memory related based on the error I received from Warcraft, but the windows event viewer gives this warning each time ...

I just put an MSI GTX580 Twin Frozr OC in my new system. I previously had an EVGA 580 and an Asus 6970. I was having some freezing issues that I now believe are memory related, rather than graphics related, prompting me to swap the EVGA for the 6970. Anyway, the MSI card has worked fine for the week...

I've been using the Artic Fan 12 PWM for almost 4 months now without any issues. I replaced the Antec Tri-Cool exhaust fan in my Solo case with it and used the 4-pin SYS_FAN connector on my Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 . It throttles up and down nicely along with the CPU fan on the CPU connector. I can't co...

I've been using an Arctic Fan 12 PWM with my Gigabyte GA965-DQ6 Rev 2.0 for close to 2 months. It's plugged into the 4-pin "system" header on the motherboard with Intel QST mode. It spins up nicely with load. Around 600-700 RPM at idle.

I've been using a Arctic 12 PWM case fan for about 6 weeks. It's a bit quiter at idle than the "Low" setting on the Antec Tri-Cool fan that came with my case. Idle is usually between 600-700 RPM according to EasyTune5. Under a good load I've seen it speed up to over 1200RPM. At that load, it seems s...

I've had the 120mm version of the Arctic PWM fan for about 6 weeks or so. No problems so far.

viewtopic.php?t=37768 . Seems like a nice fan for the money, especially if your motherboard has a PWM case fan controller or you can piggyback on the CPU controller.

Since no one here had an answer, the only way was to try it. I replaced the Tri-cool with a Arctic Fan 12 PWM. Hooked up the 4-pin connector to the 4-pin SYS_FAN connector on the motherboard. Works perfectly with RPM control from the BIOS. It's much quieter at idle (spins around 600RPM) than the Tri...

Page 44 of the manual says you can control both 3-pin and 4-pin PWM fans, the BIOS should autodetect which fan type is used. You might want to ditch the Tricool and go for a 3-pin Nexus. That section of the manual is talking about CPU fans specifically. Have you tried a PWM fan on the 4-pin SYS_FAN...

I'd also like to know where to buy an Arctic Fan 12 PWM. Arctic themselves apparently don't know how to buy one or if they are even being sold anywhere. They ultimately referred me to their distributors, who either didn't know or didn't respond. Pretty sad...

It seems my motherboard has both a 3-pin (PWR_FAN) and a 4-pin (SYS_FAN) connector. From what I gather, the 4-pin one has a control signal for adjusting fan output, perhaps a PWM signal like the CPU fan has. I'm guessing that this is not compatible with a 3-pin to 4-pin adapter that goes from the Mo...

I'm not looking for anything elaborate, but it would be nice to have the speed of the Tri-cool case fan of my Antec Solo be controlled by the system rather than just by the 3-setting switch that is attached. Unfortunately, the Antec Tri-Cool fan has a standard peripheral 4-pin power connector, rathe...

The spec on the GTS is 9" so it does seem like it would fit. Hopefully there is just enough room for the pci-e power cable to fit, too. Thanks for the heads-up.

Thanks for the input- It's not a gaming system, but gaming will be the most intensive use as far as power, heat and noise go. I don't need Vista, but if I'm buying a new system now I'd rather go with the latest O/S. I am considering the BadAxe2 as well, just not sure it has anything I want to justif...

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