Haha :lol: . As you can see, you're not saying nothing that I hadn't said, and even remarked, in both my own previous posts... I'm not bashing anyone that want/prefer/consider to buy a VelociRaptor. In fact I've reached this thread searching info about this drive myself (why do you think I was readi...

All this stuff you're talking about is hardly bottlenecked by hard drive speed. When you open the e-mail or the browser the data load from hard drive is minimal and when using it, if any, is done in the background, when you launch the music player, only a little piece of the data stream is needed to...

Hard drives are one of the few components that dont increase in speed at drastic rates, the size keeps going up but performance is only creeping slowly... The HD is the major bottleneck in almost every computer, especially those playing games etc, for video playback its not a major issue that's a B...

Farinorco.....realize that SPCR people judge things with an emphasis on noise. So my tests involved trying to find the fan that pushed the most air at the least RPM, when sucking through a filter resistance. Yeah, me too. And that's why I find your tests so interesting to me, because I'm trying to ...

Some facts: the energy of a moving column of air (as produced by a fan) is proportional to the cube of the air velocity. Mechanical energy is pressure times distance (check out the definition of "horsepower" sometime). Distance is directly proportional to air velocity, so that means (to make the ma...

So here you have, some much more logical results: Now the temperature is drastically decreasing with each speed increase of the Kaze at the lower speeds, and as the temperature is approaching to ambient, is needing more and more airflow to decrease even more. I think a temp of ~55º is perfectly saf...

Wow, I've seen this excellent test while looking for Scythe SlipStream tests here in the forum (thank you very much for your awesome work here, Bluefront!), and as I see it, the second test is perflectly coherent and confirms the first one results, even when it could seem otherwise at a first look. ...

Wow, that seems a weird result... but it could be completely logical. When I saw it, the first thing I thoght was more or less the same thing that jhhoffma has said: the Kaze is stealing the air to the CPU heatsink fan. Specially since the Intel stock cooler, AFAIK, makes use of a fan which airflow ...

Well, now its absolutely obvious that "aglomerado" = "particle board", and I know exactly what is "pressboard", but I don't know if there is there is a spanish term for it aside "plastificado" or "chapado" (more or less "laminated") :lol: Lots of thanks to everybody here, you are being of an incredi...

Well, damn, I'm starting to feel really ignorant. If only 4 pin fans can be PWM controlled, then Abit boards can use voltage regulation to control fans, since CPU fan header admits both 3 pin and 4 pin fans (you must select the correct one in the bios), and the other controlable fan, system fan, onl...

Wow! Is that really true? SlipStream are for sure superb fans AFAIK, but I'd thought that they're designed for more or less restriction-free situations... it's not that its design suggests a really good performance in a highly restrictive environment with its little motor (appearently designed to le...

I'm about to build a case with MDF with a custom design to house a custom watercooling system with a quad radiator. I'm going to use three fans with it, the reason why I want to use a quad rad then is to give a greater airflow surface to each fan and therefore reduce the radiator air resistance. My ...

Great, lots of thanks. So I understand that while the board has the possibility to control the fans speed, there's software (like that SpeedFan) that can give you the controlling options that the bios doesn't. I've never used such a software, so sorry if I've been a little ignorant here... And then ...

i overclock. the main power draw will come from the quad and from the vid. card. i've gtx. gt's are not as power-hungry as gtx but i could make an estimate. the cpu's draw will depend on overclock. "strongly overclocked" might mean many things but if you throw in "quiet", your clock will have certa...

If it helps any, I think the term you want is particle board. (At least that's what the picture looks like.) Yeah, thanks. Any help to improve my chances of communicate with others is welcome :wink: . Now I've 2 different names to these :lol: , and both seems logical to me: pressboard and particle ...

that's nowhere near 400-500W so far. what do you have your quad overclocked to and at what voltage? I don't really know how you can be able to guesstimate nothing with the (intentionally) incredibly vague specs I have given there :lol: Don't misunderstand me, I don't want to tease anybody here (you...

Highly overclocked quad Q6600, one (maybe two) overclocked 8800gt, at the moment only one hdd but possibly a RAID in the future, 2 optical units, and of course, the overclocked and overvolted motherboard. All of that watercooled, using a quad fan radiator, with only 3 fans (instead of 4) at 1000 rpm...

Start with the cheap stuff. It'll still be better than nothing. As far as the MDF vs. pressboard (which is what I think you're talking about), it's really a crapshoot. Again MDF is easy to get here, and it's pretty much the densest material you can get. Plus many speaker cabinets use it. So it's kn...

There's two ways to reduce sound here. By using a dense (heavy) building material you "mass-load" the case, and prevent resonance vibrations from the moving components inside. But making a heavy case with flat walls also allows the noise (not resonance vibrations) to reflect inside the case. The fo...

I'd separate the heat loads of PSU and components, personally. I believe this would be a better thermal management, because stacking the heat of CPUs, HDs and PSU could result in a excesive heat load for the PSU and cause damage or shorten its life, specially if it's a not so high quality one and yo...

Oh, please, some of you using a Gigabyte P35 could tell which fan controlling options it has? AFAIK, the Abit ones allow the user to specify a target temperature, a % of fan speed when temperature is under that, the rythm of increasing this speed when the temperature goes above that limit (I don't k...

Yes, I know that now is when people begins to blame to me because of the absurd overkill of using not one excesive PSU, TWO PSUs! :lol: Little explanation: I'm trying to build a quiet and strongly overclocked (with watercooling) computer. My design makes use of a giganormous radiator of 52x13,5x5,5c...

I've seen that the material of choice for many people who builds a case from scratch is MDF. I can undestand why looking at its physical properties, but I'm considering another posibility: I'd really like to use a board with a melamine finish, and I can't find a place where I can buy melamine treate...

As the previous poster has said, if you want to use only one fan to cool everything, it shouldn't be the PSU's one. There are two main reasons, I think: - The PSU fan normally is regulated depending on the PSU temp, so under low power loads it's gonna be probably too slow to handle the heat load of ...

What I'm thinking to do is building it from scratch, maybe with MDF or something similar (I've thought about PVC foam too). The good news about MDF are that I could get it cut in the point of sale, so most of the work would be drilling, screwing and painting, it's relatively dense so with thick enou...

I've been searching a new PC case since I've decided to watercool my next rig. I haven't found a single one that suits my needs, so I've decided to build my own case from scratch. I would like to show you my ideas, designs and plans and know about any thoughts or ideas you could have about it, since...

Hi, I'm designing my first watercooled pc, and I'm having serious troubles to know which pumps would be silent enough for me... the fact that I've never heard a running pump is not exactly helping :lol: I've read several posts here and there, but I still need some more info... pumps like Laing DDC1/...