Gran.... Use whatever you like. But the Zalman is both quiet and more efficient at cooling capacitors whereas the Ninja is not. Zalman, for some reason, is the choice of professional DAW builders and since I have experience with this particular cooler I can vouch for it's silence. My ASUS board does...

Hey Baudesign and everyone else. Quiet Gaming PC Shopping List Newegg ...good place to start. Antec P180B case PC Power and Cooling Silencer 610 PS Asus P5B-E Deluxe Intel E6600 Conroe C2D Zalman 9500 CPU cooler Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer or Fatality 2 gigs of Kingston 667 DDR2 WD SATA HD (size you...

P180 Great case ASUS always .... :wink: The P5BE-Deluxe....great, stable board. Just make sure you check the ASUS approved memory vendor list for recommended compatibility. Zalman 9500 CPU cooler....quiet and cools the mobo too, unlike linear flow coolers like the Scythe Ninja. Oh and by the way.......

PC Power and Cooling's Silencer 610 is a great PS....all sleeved in black too :D . It will fit in the P180 with the bottom 120 case fan removed...move it up front as an intake...It's really quiet when set to low speed. Remove the fan by pulling the fan mount flange away from the case slightly and sl...

Mount the longer rails (short rails included are for a floppy drive) with the tab end angled away from the drive's front sides. Probably going to use the top frontmost set of holes on the drive so it will mount flush. Also you may want to mount the bottom 120mm fan in the front of the case as an int...