Here is my P182 with acoustipack. I have removed the lower hard drives and lower chamber fan since those pictures were posted. http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=43738 I overclock my Q6600 to 3.2GHz and my CPU temp is ~32c per core as measured by Core Temp. Ambient temp is ~20c. I ...

This is a really good guide to overclocking C2D and C2Q. I didn't know anything about overclocking a month ago and now I'm overclocking my G0 Q6600 to 3.2GHz on my Asus P5K Deluxe. HOWTO: Overclock C2Q (Quads) and C2D (Duals) - A Guide v1.1 http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1198647 Pictures ...

Here's a recent article on RAID performance. Tomshardware's reputation has steadily declined over the years due to bias and quality so take it for what it's worth. Cheers.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/17/ ... rocessing/

It took me a little while to figure how remove it. It seems to be firmly fixed in place, but the black plastic bracket in the lower chamber is designed to come out. I can't exactly remember how to remove it. I believe you can push in the two hooks closest to you and then slide the bracket out.

I think they used the RAID on the motherboard. The Intel D875PBZ motherboard has onboard RAID, and there's no mention of a separate RAID controller in the test bed description.

RAID 0 is not likely to provide noticeable performance increases.

"The real world performance increases are negligible at best"

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdo ... =2101&p=11

The TV is a Samsung lnt5281f and outputting 1080p. I originally had the 2 Seagate hard drives in my ReadyNAS NV+ but eventually replaced them with 4 Samsung HD501LJ hard drives. Since I wasn't using the Seagates for anything else, I thought I'll try out a RAID setup in the P182. I'm using the Raptor...

The cooler is a Silverstone NT06 I had left over from another project.

This is my old P4 2.4GHz that I rebuilt to be my bittorrent machine. I replaced the old Antec PSU with the Corsair 520HX, three 3.5 hard drives with one 2.5 hard drive in a Scythe SQD2.5-1000 2.5" Internal HDD Silencer mounted with Scythe Anti-Vibration HDD Stabilizer 2 for 3.5" HDD. I removed the v...

Unfortunately, I don't think the foam will help if the noise is primarily coming from your fan opening.

The foam helps with any high pitched noise from the hard drive, video card, psu, etc. I'm more susceptible to high pitched noises so that foam has been great at eliminating those frequencies. I have 7 fans in my P182 because I'm overclocking the q6600 to 3.2GHz. The only thing I can hear is a nice l...

It has a parallel and serial port header on the motherboard. It comes with a slotted I/O which you plug into the port headers. The disadvantage is that it takes up a back slot if you need to use it.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot ... uctID=2665

It's the first revision of Logitech's diNovo Media Desktop Laser so it's a little different from the version they sell now. The one I have has a single mouse charger that is also the bluetooth receiver instead of mouse charger plus bluetooth dongle. I don't use the detached numpad much so I put that...

Thanks for the compliment! I live in the bay area of California in United States. The components do put out quite a bit of heat. The cabinet was originally fully enclosed, but I removed the back panel due to the same concern you had. Luckily the components block the view to the back so it still look...

I've also been working on an Antec Fusion v2 HTPC.

This thing is a beast. It weighs over 60 lbs.

I'm going to have to consider a suspension mount, and I'm not familiar with the Alley Cat boxes you're using - have to check them out.

I believed the alleycat is homemade.
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I ordered about $300 worth of items over several purchases from jab-tech.com and they've been great.

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I have a 2.4GHz C2D. With two 120mm exhaust fans and one 80mm cpu fan, the cpu idles around 30C and system temp is around 36C. I don't think I need that many fans if my HTPC sits in an open space. However, my HTPC will go into a media cabinet and that's going to heat things up a bit.

I don't really need to have the 80mm fan. The 80mm fan does help lower the cpu and overall system temp 2-3C. I figure it couldn't hurt adding the 80mm since I can't hear it over the 120mm fans.

I am using a mini ninja and tried using both 120mm fans as intake. Using the fans as intake created a high pitched whine due to air turbulence. I have since reversed the 120mm fans to exhausts and added a 80mm nexus CPU fan. The 80mm fan blows toward the 120mm so all the fans are moving air in the s...

I'm waiting for the new X38 motherboards so the P182 is empty at the moment. I'll report back once I install my system.

I didn't want to cover up the top fan hole on the P182 in case I wanted to mount a fan there in the future, so I modified the fan hood to shield some of the noise coming out of that fan hole. This takes 10 minutes and is complete reversible: 1. Remove the metal mesh from the black plastic frame. 2. ...

I'm having the following issues with my fusion v2. If you have the same problems, you're not alone. 1. The PSU that came with the fusion v2 buzzed and whined terribly. I replaced it with a Seasonic S12II-380. Waiting for Antec to tell me how to connect the PSU to the 3-pin VFD power. The 3-pin VFD p...

Antec is not very good at providing detailed instructions so I thought I write this up. In order to use a remote to power on/off the Fusion v2 silver, you have to connect the black/white "power sw" wire to the VFD and the red/black "mobo/gnd" wire to the motherboard. The "power sw" comes out of the ...

You should only plug one or the other, not both.

I would use the 3-pin and plug that into the motherboard. Newer motherboards will measure the fan RPM and/or monitor your system temperature to increase or decrease your fan RPM accordingly.

My 520HX started buzzing or at least I just noticed it buzzing after 3 months of use. I may get the 620HX and RMA the 520HX. I'll have an extra PSU but can't have my computer down for weeks waiting for a replacement.