I am pleased to report that I was also able to successfully replace the (failing) stock fan on my CP850 with a Scythe Grand Flex. I did have to reverse the fan pinout as Vinz mentioned.

I'm looking to buy a new power supply, and would like to get a good 80+ rated quiet power supply in the 450-500W range. I'm currently looking at an Antec EarthWatts EA-500D Green 500W: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371035silent Does anyone have any experience with this one...

I recently built a quiet gaming PC with a P183 (with the CP-850 power supply). I didn't go the fanless GPU route, but I did install three Scythe Slipstream 1200s and a Zalman MFC1 fan controller. I had the top two set up much as in the link you gave, and the bottom one for the hard drive intake. It'...

Good point. I was going off of the temperature range given by lm_sensors in Linux (which is obviously not valid for this motherboard) and the assumption that the stock CPU cooler would do a better job of cooling it given the layout of the heatsinks (which it might). But your right, if its in the tol...

Got the new fans installed. The 120mm slipstreams are a noticeably improvement over the stock P183 fans I have them turned down all the one on the Zalman fan controller and they're keeping system at least as cool as the stock fans were on medium. Very happy with them. The 40mm fan I got for the chip...

hope this helped.

Yup. Ordered 3 1200 RPM slipstreams, the Zalman fan controller, and the 40mm fan today. We'll see how they do when they arrive. Thanks for the info.

Interesting. Any reason you picked the 800RPM ones over the 1200RPM slipstreams? The SPCR review of them seems to favor the 1200RPM model.

Alright, posting from the new computer. Very happy with it so far, however I'm having issues with the motherboard temperature. It's reading 45-50 C, often higher than the CPU at idle! I have 3 Tri-cool fans in the case right now, one in the bottom front doing intake for the hard drive (lowers the HD...

Yes, the Megahalems is huge, when I first got it in my P183 case I was afraid the case wouldn't close properly (it does, with maybe 1/2" clearance). The backplate assembly was straightforward to install and seems solid. It's cooling power is terrific even at quiet fan speeds--right now my CPU is coo...

I just put together a similar system, Core i7 920 with P183 + CP-850 case/pwr supply. I'm still tweaking the airflow but I can offer some insights. The PSU fan on the CP-850 is very quiet to my ears, however I did have to put one of the case fans in the bottom compartment to lower my 1TB Western Dig...

I went ahead and ordered pretty much what I'd spec'ed in the OP, except I went with the Antec CP-850. I've already got the P183 case, and I'm hoping the fan in the back will do better than the Nexus's bottom fan. Thanks for everyone's input, once I've got it together and tweaked I'll post the result...

It looks like most GTX 275s come with either a centrifugal fan or dual axial fans, which is probably not much of a win. Many 295s come with a single axial fan, but are around $200 more. So is the price worth the quiet (and extra power) of a GTX 295? Or is the difference not that noticeable? I've als...

I'm pretty sensitive to certain types of noise. I had planned to build the system without an aftermarket cooler, then fall back on that if there is a problem. But for right now, there doesn't seem to be a cooler to fall back on. That said, I'll probably stick with the GTX card. Thanks for the tip on...

Thanks for all the feedback so far!

audiojar is correct, I don't plan on overclocking or doing SLI.

I was hoping there were VGA coolers out that supported the GTX series that would help quiet them some. Maybe I should look at 9000 series cards with a VGA cooler rather than a GTX?

Hey all, I'm looking at putting together a new gaming/development PC. Here are my proposed specs: Motherboard: ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 Processor: Intel Core i7 920 Memory: Corsair XMS3 12GB (6 x 2GB) DDR3 Power Supply: Nexus VALUE 430 Graphics: EVGA GeForce GTX 275 Case: Antec P183 My first concern is wh...

Existing components: Brand new P180B case (whoohoo!) Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard Athlon64 4000+ CPU with stock fan PNY GeForce 6600GT with stock fan 1 GB RAM (very quiet :wink:) 2 Western Digital hard drives (one 120G, one 160G) ThermalTake 480W power supply with two fans and fan control I removed t...