The instructions would have likely been useless when it comes to cabling. I use lots of zip ties (several dozen) although most will end up being removed by the time I'm done. I focus on keep in the cables orderly, out of the airflow path, and positioned so that components can be easily removed with...

No you do not need to remove your board to put this cooler on. The bracket screws onto the bottom of the heatsink then clips into whatever stock bracket you use.

It works awesome for my 3.0ghz northwood now overclocked to 3.5ghz.

unibomber51 wrote:NCIX is going to sell them soon for about 9 dollars

though they are a bit expensive

i also have one spare

As I work for ncix the only way to get them is special order I picked up a s-flex and was surprised at the amount of air movement to noise ratio.

marc2, you meant directcanada

Anywhere locally in vancouver,bc,canada that you can purchase yate loon fans? I know nexus and noctua is available.

urgh stay away from Intel boards. They maybe stable but thats about it, go for the p5b or gigabyte 965-ds3 if you don't plan to overclock.

I would have gone with a Seagate drive and a nvidia card, but you'll be happy either way.

Asus p5b is a wicked board thats been tried and true time and time again along with the gigabyte 965-ds3

stock HSF, psu and case fan are going to make a lot of extra noise for ya

Memtest 86+ v1.70 at boot
Orthos when running Windows.

Orthos will load your cpu and ram.

Coolermaster CAC-T05
Antec SLK1650B

both good cases with plenty of room.

penny wrote:how quiet will 60% be, though?

is there any way at all to have a powerful graphics card that's near-silent during regular tasks?

In a very quiet room open up your case and listen to your card and adjust the speed accordingly.

Mind you the 8xxx series are already pretty quiet cards tho.

I detest 2 cases... p180 and Antec 900. Both have power supplies on the bottom and both no matter how hard you try are difficult and a pain in the arse for people like me who build pcs for a living to WIRE neatly.. grrr Sorry to hear that... I'm just not sure what that has to do with this discussio...

In a case project I have going I'm debating to put either 1 250mm fan from a Antec 900 on the rear of a case or stick 4 92mm on the back.

Now my question is which would create more noise? I'm going to assume the 4x92, but would the 4x92 move more air than 1x250?

I detest 2 cases...

p180 and Antec 900.

Both have power supplies on the bottom and both no matter how hard you try are difficult and a pain in the arse for people like me who build pcs for a living to WIRE neatly.. grrr

nvidia cards by default generally run at 100% fan speed in all modes and are very noisy especially the BFGs. Best bet is to grab rivatuner and turn the fan speed in 2d mode down to about 60% and you'll notice a huge difference in noise reduction from the card.

Does anyone know the answer to this question in regards to Linux? How much Ram is recommended for, say, Ubuntu? And is there an advantage to having more? If there was an advantage, how much could you have? Ahhh good ole linux, the operating system that runs awesome on 128mb of ram or 4gb of ram. Wi...