i found error :( the review link for Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 is missing a hyphen, so it says "article not found". bad url: ...com/article793page1.html good url: ...com/article793 - page1.html im actually reading the article now out of genuine interest. im sure others will want to read it too now ...

a little ducting added from the rear fan to the CPU heatsink might let you get away without a separate fan. ooooh ducting. hadn't thought of that. if you do decide to take this route, you'd be better off with a scythe ninja, as they're designed for low pressure airflow and the ultra extreme likes h...

lol put the computer outside and wire it through a window or a hole in the wall

1TB drives also drain less power per GB, so your psu could afford more storage, even if your wallet cant

yes you need a fan for that heatsink. despite being a low power version, that Q6600 still has 4 processor cores on one chip. makes lots of heat. even if you want total silence from your cpu i would recomment attaching a fan and having it off while idle but automatically turn on if your cpu heats up....

RAID 1 only protects you against hard drive failure. S.M.A.R.T monitoring should be enough for school work. its usually quite accurate in forecasting an impending failure, but in my experience i've never had a bad drive from a good manufacturer. maybe i'm just lucky. if she's not gonna back anything...

may i suggest Samsung Spinpoint F1 series hard drives. havent got one myself yet, but i read that a lot of people find them to be very quiet and almost as fast as a raptor while using less power and producing less heat. also has higher capacity. the 1 terabyte one is the largest and also the fastest...

wootwoot :D built the system last night, its a monster!! as you can see in my opening post i upgraded from an old amd/ati agp system to an intel/nvidia pci-express system. big change! Old system: athlonXP 3200+ with 2GB DDR400 and Radeon X1600 AGP New System: Core2 Q6600 with 2GB DDR2 1066mhz and Ge...

have you ever considered epoxy? its 100% PERMANENT, you literally cannot remove it without destroying something. but then again if you want good adhesion properties, thermal tape will be just as destructive if you attempt to remove it. a good epoxy will have better thermal conductance than a good th...

home-made molex to fan adapter :lol: i made it reversible so it can switch teh 5v and 12v rails. DO NOT connect any non-fan devices into one of these. if you accidentally send 12v to a 5v decive it will most likely explode :roll: http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4474/img0964js3.th.jpg http://img103....

Furthermore I might try to boot and run it off a 2-4gb USB flash drive - making this as close to silent as it gets + lowering the need for cooling. booting off a usb drive is SLOW you could gut your laptop so the motherboard and assorted chippery is removed. then mount it to a box with both ends re...

if i was in your position and i was actually considering (!!) a 8800 ultra, the short answer is wait . the ultra is overpriced when you look at price/performance, but it is more powerful than the rest. however, its getting quite old now, and i expect nvidia to release the geforce 9 series early next...

TRUE (ThermalRight Ultra Extreme) hands down. Ninja is good but TRUE is better out of box due betters attachment mechanism. Only cooler that could come near that effectiveness is TR SI-128 SE paired with high static pressure fan like Scythe Ultra Kaze 1000. is it loud? :( Using two "pull" fans on a...

im currently running an nForce 2 system (athlonXP and AGP graphics) in a p182. its kinda ok i guess for guild wars and counter-strike, but a lot of times my score in CS suffers at 20FPS and guild wars looks much better with post-processing on etc etc. i would also love to get into UT3 and TF2, but n...

i boil the water with an electric kettle, put sugar in my cup, put a teabag on my spoon, hold the spoon over my cup, and pour the boiled water very slowly onto the middle of the teabag. takes a while and my arm hurts, but i like it. the teabag filters the hard water so i get a smoother cuppa. sugar ...

so should i choose the ultra 120 extreme over the triton 75 on an asus striker extreme in a p182? i want to overclock a qx6600, which means tdp of (im guessing) about 120w or more. voltage regulators have a big heatpipe on the high end asus boards and the triton will help cool them, but is that enou...

Moogles wrote:Thanks for the pictures, Stefan!

It looks pretty good in this picture: http://photo15.yupoo.com/20071204/15584 ... vgztld.jpg

omg! a modder's dream!

look what i got

gonna put the bigger one in my psu soon

that hard drive rack looks really cool :lol: would be nice if the heatsink-like part was separated from the rack with some sound dampening material. i'm sure lian-li could make space for it in a future revision. oh and dump the stock heatsink lol. its ugly :P. i'd love to see a passive one with the ...

Chris Chan wrote:Oops! Got caught with egg on my face. It is replaceable with a 12cm though? (There's not that many 14cm fans that are awesome as, say, Nexus noisewise. )

Nexus Real Silent 120mm = Yate Loon D12SL-12
Yate Loon make a 14cm version: D14SL-12
found a UK merchant: Specialtech

very nice. waiting for my p182 to arrive so i dont have to be jealous any more.
just out of curiosity, how fast can you run that cpu fan before it becomes audible at 2ft with case closed?