I have had 1 PCI slot blower and it was noisy, perhaps they are undervoltable though. Can't check since i gave mine away.

Is there some silicon or something under your PSU? If it give some vibration to the case it may be smart to put something in between it and the case. Messy cabling, but what can you do, i find it hard to do a good cabling job on those small room HTPC cases so i usually just stuff it out of the way s...

How do you like the Paxmate? Annoying to cut, install, does it have the desired effect?

And I'm going to steal that idea of putting the cables under the sound absorbing material for long lasting builds, why didn't i think of that?

There is no logical defense of morality outside of religion, only fuzzy sentiments. Fuzzy sentiments? Morality is what my parents taught me, mt school educated me about, coupled with personal experiences and own thought. I don't need a church to tell me how to act, i need people who care to show me...

It wouldn't be wrong to take that card. Exhausting out the back should lead to lower temperatures in the case, but the difference is negligible, at least from my experience.

Never hurts to have some airflow over them, in any case. But i wouldn't worry too much about them.

It depends on your willingness to tweak really. AS5 will probably bring your CPU temperature down a bit compared to the preapplied stuff. But as we read in an article from Anandtech it was i believe, how well you spread your thermal paste matters more then which you use. Pre applied thermal paste is...

Awesome desk.

Temperatures are a bit on the high side, but nothing to be concerned about. I would assume they are high because of low airflow in a silent build, which is quite normal for a HTPC. My housemates dad has a HTPC idling at 45ish and it seems to run fine.

You can unscrew the switch holder and then pull out the seperate switches, no need to destroy anything. I have my Tricools sitting somewhere in full working order, would be a shame to cut them out and 'ruin' the fan when it's totally unnessecary.

To silence and cool it i assume. I have Scuthe Quiet Drives in my p180, only then the notebook version.

If you're not to bothered about Nexus fans running at full i would assume the big boy at lowest wouldn't be much of an issue as well.

That's what i figured as well, but mounting it the other way around will put nearly it's entire weight on the fangril, because that's where the support thingy is. Going to try anyway, we'll see how it goes. I need to take it out to fit in the front Nexus fan anyway. If it doesn't work, i'll probably...

So, i got my Ninja early, which is great. It didn't fit however, which is a bummer. It came into contact with condensators/coils/whatever on my motherboard and would break them off if i put it on as tight as it should be. So i decided to just take the fan off the Andy and try to run it passive like ...

eusKAi wrote:To seraphyn: As i said in my post, no accelero available for me.

Ah sorry, read over it i guess.

Well then HR03 + Quiet fan is your best bet.

8800GT + Accelero S1 + Undervolted quiet fan. Works like a charm and is cheaper then the HR03.

All i know is that i've had weird issues with on board sound before. So on all serious builds i put in a soundcard.

I have yet to hear a 1u server rack being even remotely near quiet, let alone silent. The ones i have make the noise of a hurricane. Sure i could silence them a bit, but getting them really silent? don't think it can be done without them seriously overheating. A 2u / 3u server on the other hand shou...

Your PSU would handle Crossfire / SLI just fine. You could probably do with a 520 even. My HX520 also has a SLI certified mark on it, a mate of mine is running a q6600 and 2x 3870 without problems with the same PSU.

So, euhm, a semi update here. Apparently, the shop i ordered the Ninja + Slipstream fans at didn't bother ordering new fans so i decided to cancel them. I could wait longer, since this will just be an extra system on the side to mess around with, but I feel like building. So cancelled the fans, orde...

I think it wasn't so much their products, but one of their 'reps' which had a bad apple roaming here.

However, I disagree with seraphyn's step 4. That should be the first thing to go in the case, so you can determine cable layout and run any wires underneath the mobo if you need to. Also you don't want to slip and drop a PSU inside your case with a mobo in it... I never put cables under the motherb...

If you don't have the room for suspension, you might want to put the HDD on top of a layer of foam.

I assemble it this way: 1. Put CPU and it's heatsink on the motherboard. 2. Put Ram on the motherboard. 3. Put Motherboard in case. 4. PSU. 5. Harddisks, DVD drives. 6. PCI cards, Graphiccards. 7. Cables. 8. Fans / Fancontroller. Before all this though, comes the occasional modding / painting of the...

Ive just had an idea... i could cover the bottom with acoustic material... that would seal the holes and also provide some sound deadening! It's what i did. Didn't need cables going through there since everthing got routed through the back of the motherboard, so I sealed the whole thing up with som...

If I recall that is their 2 GPU unit based on the current GPU chipset. I thought they had a new GPU chip coming out soon. Soon is not that soon, probably May or later on even. For now it looks that the whole 9x00 series of Nvidia will just be dieshrinks. 9800X2 will be the new flagship, so expect p...

robertrpgadventure wrote:Mobo changed to: Asus P5K Premium (iP35 chipset)

I use this one and though it works great, it won't handle RAID, even though they claim it does. Lot's of people having RAID issues with this board. If you don't use RAID however, it's a fine board.

P965 mobo: Why go with an outdated chipset? Pick any P35 chipset board in my opinion.

zorrt wrote:How are you guys that have tower heatsinks cooling your passive northbrigde without having to go aftermarket?

I just have some airflow over it, got an intake fan + exhaust which puts airflow over the northbridge. Never had a problem with it.

Another factor which I saw reading around here that you guys run your CPUs at much higher temps - e.g. 45-50 at idle. If I run it at that temp idle, by the means of a FAN speed conntroller, I can lower the RPM a lot more. That's the trade-off for silence :) Though high temps are not always the case...