The second system you listed is PCIe I believe

It sucks.. 3 pin fan will work on the 4 pin plug, but no auto-control of fan speeds!

maybe you can find a good bundle at tigerdirect.com..

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... -M860-2600

not the best, but good enough for the kids to play some games

Ok, got mine installed.. 320 Seagate, connected to JMICRON eSata port on my P5B-Deluxe.. Its noisy..not that loud, but louder than my actual machine.. drive seeks are fine, but the fan makes a very annoying noise.. I may return it.. haven't decided yet. I am moving in a couple weeks, and my PC will ...

$57.20 CAD at directcanada.com

Just received mine today, can't wait to play with it tonite

I've owned 2 Aria cases (older version of the 1300).. Very hard to keep cool, even when using only the onboard peripherals.. The PSU is actually not very loud at idle, but it ramps up fast. I modded one of the cases with a couple quiet 80mm fans (one on each side panel), this helped a bit, but I sti...

I just replaced my Zalman 9500 with the Ultra-120 Extreme..

With a 1200 rpm Scythe 'E', my e6600 hits 47c under full load, and is very quiet.. with fan at 800 rpm, its silent and cpu only hits 55 or so.

Thermalright is THE stuff..

(Scythe fans are kick-ass too!)

Konnetikut wrote:

elmopuddy wrote:you seem to know your stuff, you should have you own site or something

do you know who ur talking to?

LOL. of course I do, I've been lurking at this site for years, this is one of two site I visit every day.

EP

elmopuddy -- I see you posted elsewhere about moving to a P182... but I don't really think any potential reduction in noise is worth the cost & effort. As you already know, the Raptors in your cases are probably the biggest noise sources, and even tho the P182 panels provide better damping, there's...

Hi,

Which PSU's have a 4pin long enough to go behind MB? My P5B-D has the connector at the very top of the board, was hoping to run cable behing the MB

(pondering building uber quiet rig, my Solo is very cramped)

thanks

EP

I have the following in a Solo: e6600 Zalman 9500 P5B-D 4 x 1gig Shika X-Ram DDR2-800 Asus 7900GTX 2 x Raptor 36gb 1x Seagate 320gb Audigy 2 Liteon SATA DVD Panaflo 120mm and 2x SilenX 92mm, hooked up to 'fan-only' connectors on Antec TP-II 550w PSU Its *very* quiet.. well besides the Raptors, even ...