Very nice! Have you tried undervolting, since the C2Ds undervolt quite well? I have a Samsung T166 500GB (for replacing a Seagate 7200.10 320GB) as they were said to be pretty quiet, but unfortunately I have yet to confirm it as it's still just sitting on my desk... I can recommend a Scythe Quiet Dr...

I'm facing a dilemma I need some help with. I have a G33M-DS2R microATX motherboard on order and will be switching to it once it arrives, but as it happens, it has just two fan headers (FAN_CPU and FAN_SYS), of which only the CPU header is controllable (by BIOS at least). However, I will be needing ...

I wish somebody made a heatsink somewhat like this, one that would fit even with a tall tower CPU heatsink installed. Downwards mounting of the VM-103 is a no-go as well in microATX cases, so why not place the heatsink at the level of the graphics card? The fin section would then be a little over th...

Before you overclock, could you report how the temps are with the S1 at stock clocks, with a 120mm fan at maybe 5-6 volts - or if you control it with a fan header, at maybe 600rpm? That would be the maximum I can bear with my Nexus fans, so I'd appreciate having that information before I decide if I...

Felger Carbon wrote:Psycho-acoustic?

Psychoacoustics is the study of the subjective human perception of sound.

Thus, the fan is perhaps just as noisy as before, but not as grating.

How about trying to eliminate the PSU as the cause if you have a spare you could use for a while?

So an Accelero S1 really is enough for the 8800GT? Of course the manufacturer would like everyone to believe otherwise to perhaps sell them a new version, but... apparently it does well with a Radeon X1900 XTX that supposedly has an even bigger power draw than the 8800GT. The only downsides for me a...

The way I see it, since I will be using the exact same hardware, the key issue is whether or not there is enough airflow. The big difference between these builds is the impedance for airflow. In the P180 I have several unrestricted paths for air straight through the system. Three of the 5.25" bay co...

I have now decided to try a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R. The -S2 would do (just the same but without RAID) but it isn't available here. The P5K-VM does not seem to have holes through the board for northbridge heatsink mounting, so mounting an HR-05 might be problematic. The Gigabyte board seemed to have s...

Perhaps you might be able to add a second connector, from another cable, into a short 1-drive cable such as the one behind that link? Or, you could of course shorten one you have already - while I've never moved connectors in IDE cables, I recall they seemed easy to remove. They should be straight-f...

How much is enough and how to judge that before ordering? I'm trying to find the best L775 motherboard for use with a Ninja and quite possibly an HR-03 would have to fit as well, so space is needed on both sides of the CPU socket (and the chipset heatsink can't be too tall either).

Just in case you're considering the P5K-VM, here's a pic of my rig's insides so you can have a look at the cooling solution/clearance issues (wiring still messy, I know :)) That looks like a board worth considering as well. It appears the Intel's integrated graphics solutions disable themselves as ...

Have you looked at Silverstone's TJ08? Very similar in size, layout and price (although it doesn't come with its own PSU) to the NSK-3480. You could easily run a passive PSU in this case (unlike the Antec), because there's no separate compartment for it. I've personally used a Fortron Zen (well, a ...

didi: While I don't know what kind of system you are considering, 380W seems to be plenty, for example for an E6600 + 8800 GTX. http://mcoleg.blogspot.com/2007/05/all-this-started-when-i-got-myself-that.html Mike, thanks for your input. I guess the Phantom just might physically fit, although barely....

Hello everyone. I've been reading SPCR for little over a year now and it has been an eye-opening experience, and educating to say the least. While my silent computing fever began over seven years ago with me building a heavy duty silencing cabinet, a real multi-story behemoth inspired by a thread at...

arca wrote:Hmm.. does anyone know what happened to their website?

I bet it has something to do with them discontinuing their flagship product. I guess they just let their website die quietly as well.

What a pity, it is only compatible with the HR-03+ with a type II installation, not when wrapped around the card. The HR-03+ heatsink is too close to the back panel - or the HR-11 isn't close enough - to make them fit together that way. It would have been a highly compact configuration of heat sinks...

Sorry to hear that. Lucky though that nothing else went with the PSU, I guess. My Phantom 500 has been in use for 10 months and developed a loud buzz a while ago. It is a very high-pitch ringing or chirping sound, audible even from a couple of meters away in the place I now live in. A few months bac...

Yes, I noticed the VM-103. Too bad there aren't any other coolers for the 8800 cards besides the HR-03+ at the moment. Did you remove and re-attach the heatpipes from the VM-101 GPU block? The VM-101 seems to make that possible, as it has screws on the backside. HR-03 (Plus) is meant to use either s...

So far, I've only found this: http://www.overclock.net/cooling-experiments/161777-bending-heatpipes-hr-03-a.html Very nice to know it can be done. The Plus has more heatpipes but I guess it shouldn't be much harder. Do you happen to remember any other examples, as the guy who did this didn't elabora...

I like keeping my options open and having expansion slots available. The Thermalright HR-03 Plus seems to be the king of 8800 coolers, but while it is the best in every other sense, it takes up so many slots there's not much left. Especially if I wanted to use a second PCI-E card for more displays, ...

My Antec Phantom 500 just started whining as well. It's only 6 months old! I wonder if warranty would cover this... but I would need a spare PSU in the mean time anyway. I've been planning on a 8800GTS and I just might buy a Corsair with it, as it's modular - but the cable lengths are a let-down. Th...

avi_dan wrote:Hey Jokoto,
did you switch over to the SMP client? (windows or otherwise)?

Uh, no, I haven't bothered setting up VMware+linux yet. Producing only 10 WU per week (5-6000 PPW) with normal clients on the E6600.

I just got mail from Aerocase sales after asking about the Condor - they will be discontinuing the Condor product line this week.

I guess it's Thermalright HR-03 or nothing now, unless they introduce something else. Nothing on the site as of yet about this.

Not absolute peak load, but maybe 75-80% of the maximum possible synthetic peak load. This covers any distributed computing projects like Folding@Home and SETI, to name a few. You can run FAH while doing other things as well, as it's run at the lowest priority and it gives up CPU time for anything e...

I hooked up a 120mm fan to my HR-03 (attached to an x1950xtx) by hanging it with thread so it was suspended below the heatsink without touching it (HR-03 was below the video card, not above it). Could you save a slot by ducting the fan from the front of the case, blowing to the back of the case thr...

I tried Ubuntu six months ago when I built this machine, and it (Edgy) didn't deliver. No support for the SATA controller on the P5B at that time, and while there were workarounds, they weren't tidy. Plus there were other bugs in that release at that time... Now that I'm once again stuck in Windows,...

Well, DX10 is irrelevant as I can't see myself ever bowing down to Vista and its limitations . Even if Bioshock becomes DX10 only, I'll just be playing it on a console then. Putting that aside, running current and some of the older games on my 1600x1200 panel (and, in the future, perhaps 1920x1200?)...

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Some people were pretty intimidating describing the amp draw of the 8800 family, so I misinterpreted the 30A figure for the whole system. Never did make much sense, but I repeated it anyway. Oops. There were other tests I saw with power measurements of GTX systems re...

After reading this xbitlabs test of 8800GTS power consumption I think I'll try going with the Phantom, even if I keep my 7600 GS as a secondary card - if the drivers support that kind of use, that is. If you decide to mod your Phantom, keep in mind even the SPCR reviewers didn't open it up to avoid ...