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by seraphyn
Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:39 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Gigabyte 8800GT GV-NX88T512HP
Replies: 13
Views: 15289

I have had 1 PCI slot blower and it was noisy, perhaps they are undervoltable though. Can't check since i gave mine away.
by seraphyn
Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:35 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Results from the 45nm HTPC upgrade
Replies: 9
Views: 6208

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...
by seraphyn
Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:31 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Enjoy the silence... (Updated May 2014)
Replies: 77
Views: 106828

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? :)
by seraphyn
Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:43 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Hackers declare war on Scientology.
Replies: 62
Views: 39092

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...
by seraphyn
Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:21 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Essential to get hot air out of case?
Replies: 6
Views: 3514

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.
by seraphyn
Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:19 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Dell airflow design: shroud blocks all airflow! (pictures)
Replies: 17
Views: 10061

Never hurts to have some airflow over them, in any case. But i wouldn't worry too much about them.
by seraphyn
Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:34 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: New heatsink - use supplied pad or Arctic Silver 5?
Replies: 5
Views: 3014

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...
by seraphyn
Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:54 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: My quiet Triton [UPDATED]
Replies: 8
Views: 4883

Awesome desk. :D
by seraphyn
Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:50 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Is my E4500 running too warm?
Replies: 6
Views: 3543

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.
by seraphyn
Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:45 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Antec P182 and TriCool Fans
Replies: 8
Views: 5905

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.
by seraphyn
Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:42 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: System for work and leisure - edited, maybe I get a reply
Replies: 16
Views: 11210

To silence and cool it i assume. I have Scuthe Quiet Drives in my p180, only then the notebook version.
by seraphyn
Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:49 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Question about Antec Big Boy fan
Replies: 4
Views: 2744

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.
by seraphyn
Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:33 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Lian Li A05b build
Replies: 14
Views: 7938

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...
by seraphyn
Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:06 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Lian Li A05b build
Replies: 14
Views: 7938

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 ...
by seraphyn
Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:38 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Advice on GPU
Replies: 8
Views: 3972

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.
by seraphyn
Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:26 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Advice on GPU
Replies: 8
Views: 3972

8800GT + Accelero S1 + Undervolted quiet fan. Works like a charm and is cheaper then the HR03.
by seraphyn
Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:22 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Hum in recorded/digitized audio - would a sound card help?
Replies: 3
Views: 2593

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.
by seraphyn
Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:28 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Any thoughts on "silent" rack pc ASUS RS100-X5/PI
Replies: 1
Views: 1535

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...
by seraphyn
Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:24 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Cooling and PSU advice for a gaming PC build
Replies: 7
Views: 4614

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.
by seraphyn
Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:17 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Lian Li A05b build
Replies: 14
Views: 7938

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...
by seraphyn
Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:02 pm
Forum: User Reviews
Topic: Four 92mm fans reviewed with equal airflows (CFM)
Replies: 19
Views: 22676

I think it wasn't so much their products, but one of their 'reps' which had a bad apple roaming here.
by seraphyn
Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:01 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: In what order do you asssemble it?
Replies: 17
Views: 7418

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...
by seraphyn
Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:43 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Dampening Materials?
Replies: 32
Views: 52164

If you don't have the room for suspension, you might want to put the HDD on top of a layer of foam.
by seraphyn
Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:41 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: In what order do you asssemble it?
Replies: 17
Views: 7418

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...
by seraphyn
Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:39 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Antec P180 Chamber divider
Replies: 4
Views: 2858

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...
by seraphyn
Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:34 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: VGA Cooler for the 3870X2?
Replies: 30
Views: 22419

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...
by seraphyn
Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:29 pm
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: What do you reckon?
Replies: 5
Views: 2442

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.
by seraphyn
Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:08 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: What do you reckon?
Replies: 5
Views: 2442

P965 mobo: Why go with an outdated chipset? Pick any P35 chipset board in my opinion.
by seraphyn
Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:18 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Top down heatsink or tower heatsink?
Replies: 5
Views: 3279

Re: Top down heatsink or tower heatsink?

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.
by seraphyn
Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:00 pm
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Should I try more lowering fan noise, or move to a new case?
Replies: 9
Views: 3535

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...