I think the cooling is the same, but the 740mhz version probably has faster ram and I'd assume they also have a selection process for the gpu itself...i.e. the "best" ones go on 740mhz boards and the "worst" ones on 650mhz ones. I doubt anyone but eVGA themselves really knows though (well ram might ...

Thanks! Yeah I've got a BS-03 left-over from my A10 - that's what I meant with "fan-duct" ;-) For the side panels I'll just use some bitumex foil (used that on the A10 and the case before that already to great effect) - it's mostly used in speaker building to dampen cabinet resonance => http://lauts...

I bought an A05 a few weeks ago to house some of my old spare bits and part, unfortunately it's bit too noisy out of the box - so the plan is to replace the case fans with something a bit quieter. Now...as this is just a secondary or backup system it doesn't have to be "super" quiet, for the same re...

I think the A20 is very new (at least I never saw it before) so it probably isn't widely available just yet. I have the A10 and managed to mod it essentially inaudible, but I don't think it's EATX compatible... (for more info on the A10 look here => http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php...

I have a lian-li A10 and A05 which both have it too. It does help and it makes a lot of difference to seek noise (I put in the "securing" screws on one drive once and seek noise was a hell of a lot louder then). But ofc you can't expect it to be as effective as suspending a drive - if you have a dri...

A friend of mine has the saitek and she's quite happy with it - personally I'm using a apple alu keyboard though (works perfectly under windows or linux out of the box), for typing it's just the most comfortable and least straining keyboard I've ever used and for gaming it's great as well. As pretty...

Thanks :-) I'm running ubuntu though, just nicked the desktop background off of gnome-look.org ^^ well it's basically debian anyways ;-) As for how much it set me back...I did a tally on the weekend (wanted to know myself as I bought the bits and pieces over the course of about a year, some componen...

Yeah fan whine - it's reasonably quiet at idle (very probably even inaudible above your fans) but it becomes noticeable once the card is under load. Even under load it's not all that annoying though - it's more of a "hum" than a whine, the sound isn't all that high pitched from memory. Before I star...

1. Unless you got a real crappy PSU you shouldn't have any problems, my entire system (e8400, evga gf9600gt, 2gb ram, 1 HD) draws about 140W while playing a current game (measured at the wall). 2. In my system the 9600gt ran at 44c idle and 62c load with the standard cooling. Seeing as you have a pa...

Did some more testing - under typical load (i.e. playing current games) the gpu tops out at 48c and the cpu at 52c - very happy with those temps :-) With only 4 12cm noctuas all running at 4.7V the fans are essentially inaudible :-) On the downside I now hear vibration based noise from the HD...time...

I bought 4 S12-1200 over the last couple of months and they all came only with a white adapter - so I guess that's the ULNA.
I always thougth you only got the other adapters with the 80mm and 92mm fans...

As for watching dvds: under linux you can simply open a terminal and enter "sudo hdparm -E1 /dev/scd0" (replace /dev/scd0 with your actual dvd device) this limits the speed of the drive to 1x - you can also use -E2 (i.e. 2x speed) to be on the safe side, -E1 can rarely leed to stutters if the drive ...

Hya, first off - very nice setup, I might copy that HD setup when I have the time :-) To answer the question of one vs multiple fans: - Take a given system, with current upper midrange components - Choose a given target temperature (says 55c max under load) - you'll find that several fans (i.e 4) at...

heh speak of the devil...the a05 that I ordered a month ago finally shipped, so I'll let you know how that's doing as soon as I get it (probably monday)

Got the last noctua 1200 that i needed today and now the system is running with all 4 noctua fans at 4.7V (using the low noise adapters) - so far temps looks surprisingly good (wasn't able to push the cpu beyond 57c even with both cores loaded), which are damn good values considering that I'm only u...

Do you have any wireless receiver near your speakers or cables? I recently bought a logitech wireless gamepad and found that if I plugged the receiver into the frontpanel (where I also have my headphones plugged in) i'm getting tons of noise on the headphones. Only ever had any problems with that th...

I don't know, maybe the looks. I know the looks dont matter when you want performance but if I'm gonna spent some good hours with my PC I prefer something than I can "look-and-like". Hehe same here, when shopping for my last case one of my main concerns was looks as well (i.e. it's basically just a...

tbh getting a good case for <100$ might be difficult...antec seems to have one of the best price/performance ratio which makes it rather difficult to recommend similarly cheap alternatives. The only case I can think off of the top of my head is the Lian-Li A05 - the front fans are hidden behind the ...

This is a shot I took a few days ago: http://phoenixsun.helicon.ch/pc/gfx3.jpg At the back you can see a perforated area of the case - that whole area would be covered by the fanduct and reach into the case for ~18-20cm. As you see you'd have to bend the accelero almost double to make it fit...other...

For what it's worth: the fan material is listed as PC (Polycarbonate?) not sure if that tells you anything, but previous noiseblocker fans also had clear fanblades, yet they were still flexible (those fans were also reviewed on srpc) NB also claims the frame is made out of "high density" plastic. Th...

I'm very happy with the A10 - have a look at my thread in the gallery: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47247 PSU cables - there's an extension for the 4pin connector included with the case so at least that isn't a problem. As for the S1/2 - you'd have to bend it downward as ther...

I have one of those lying around (came with the A10 case), haven't used it so far though - to answer your question, yes it exhausts the air out the back - no idea how effective it is though as it's just a regular 12cm fan mounted in a duct...might give it a try once I can get my hands on a thermalri...

Noiseblocker seems to have a new series of fans (links are in german, they're not yet up on the english site): 12cm: http://www.noiseblocker.de/de/produkt_luefter_multiframe-mf12_s2.php http://www.noiseblocker.de/de/produkt_luefter_multiframe-mf12_s1.php 8cm: http://www.noiseblocker.de/de/produkt_lu...

as the cabling has been bugging me for a while I finally took a hacksaw to it (literally - had to cut out a piece out of the side of one of the front bay covers to route cables through :-P ). The lower chamber is still a bloody mess but no idea how to solve that as I can't really hide away those cab...

odd, i had a pata dvdrom to start with as well but didn't notice a delay - maybe check for bios updates => http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/dp35dp/dp35dp-overview.htm It's possible they've fixed it somewhere along the line... The odd thing is my other usb keyboard also has a hub an...

tbh my previous MB (an Asus P5LD2 SE) worked fine with the same keyboard, even tried contacting intel tech support about it, but just got the default "flash latest bios", "read the faq" reply and no followup... The board is using DDR2 memory - one warning though: the board can't be overclocked at al...

I can recommend the apple alu keyboard - a lot quieter than any "normal" keyboard and an real pleasure to type on, basically it's like typing on a very high quality laptop keyboard (think macbook pro or ibm thinkpad) but with nicely spaced out keys. Takes a few days to get used to, but now I definet...

yeah the board is rock solid - my only gripe is that it doesn't recognize my apple alu keyboard on bootup - which is a pain as I sometimes need to boot into windows (running linux 99% of the time), so whenever I want to boot into windows I'll have to hook up a spare usb keyboard so I can select some...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't really want to use any purely passive vga cooling - I'm not really worried about the gpu, but more about the ram on the graphicscard, so I always want to make sure I've got a nice airflow across that regardless of gpu temps - just playing it safe ;-) I might gi...

Most of the heat from graphics RAM is dissipated into the circuit board, most stock coolers use some horrible cloth things... Yeah that's what I thought, the passive gf9600gt designs I've seen all seem to do without any ram/pwm heatsinks so I figured I'd be fine. And yeah mine also had these cloth ...