Did your unit begin with coil whine? Yes, I suspect it did. But it was incredibly quiet, just as you describe - an extremely, extremely faint "zzzz" sound; it was so quiet that I could only hear it if I pressed my ear to the back of the PSU. I couldn't even hear it if I stood up. I convinced myself...

Thanks for the update. What you are describing sounds pretty much like what my AX750 was like out of the box. I hope that you have better luck than I did and that your unit does not become louder over time. It took mine months to get to a level where it became easily noticeable and then months more ...

I would be interested in hearing what you think about the replacement AX750 they sent you. I have had an AX750 for about a year, and the coil whine that it has developed has become quite aggravating. It was always there from the very beginning but was quite faint and easy to ignore, and I was hoping...

How is the PSU going to fit your case? If there is space by the PSU fan intake you could fit an 80x25mm fan on the outside instead. The case I'm using is a BitFenix Prodigy. The mounting area for the PSU is separated from the main chamber by a small metal "cage" and there really isn't very much wri...

I just ordered a Silverstone ST45SF-G for an ITX build that I am working on, and all anecdotal evidence suggests that the bitty little fan in this PSU is noisy and irritating. I'm thinking about swapping out the fan, but of course 80x15mm fans are rare, and reliable+quiet ones might as well not exis...

Title says it all. Would like a complete set including the VRM heatsinks, but just the cooler itself would be okay too. Send me a PM. I hope someone out there has one that they want to sell!

Those new Samsungs sound fantastic. 500GB is a bit much for this system, though. I suppose 500GB is the new bang-for-the-buck point? Is there anything smaller storage-wise and even cheaper, or would I start having to sacrifice acoustics and quality if I go with lowered capacity? I realize that I mig...

For the last several months, an extremely loud, high-pitched whirring noise has been coming out of the husband's gaming system; today I finally stuck my head inside the case and realized---much to my horror---that the noise was the HDD. The noise is unbelievable; it sounds like the drive heads are e...

As for SlipStreams there are many complaints about them in terms of life time. The cause is very simple, they have very poor lubricant inside and very small quantity at that, which totally evaporates within a few months. I would highly recommend to lubricate them just after purchase. Car motor oil ...

angelkiller, Based on Kaleid's post, have you tried clocking the card down to 160/200 on stock voltages? I think you said you tried 160/200 on reduced voltages, but not stock. Then again, I guess not reducing voltage doesn't really affect temps/power consumption? Then again, every little bit helps? ...

Yeah, the Audigy was almost covering the opening of the heatsink; it was that close to touching the graphics card. It must have been more or less cutting off all of the fresh air to the graphics card fan, as well as preventing it from exhausting properly. But I've tried the onboard, and I've tried t...

angelkiller, Hooray for a slightly sucessful BIOS experiment! I eagerly await your 2D conclusions... so that I may profit as well, ha ha. ;) I agree with your conclusion that 160/500 is too slow for the plain desktop environment. As for how the other 4830 models do it... maybe they have physically d...

All right, I will wait patiently for your 2D results---you are obviously more knowledgeable in that area than I am. :wink: I will pop on the Accelero and see if I get the same temps you did when you used the Accelero on yours. We'll see if our respective case airflow situation changes things much or...

I'd love to see your results with a S1 and that Kaze-Jyu Slim. Now that you mention it, I now remember that this card's idle specs arn't very "idleish", ie they're high. That might explain some of it. I have considered underclocking my card at idle. The only reason I haven't is because I also wante...

Lol, I signed in to start a new thread about my brand new roasting-potatoes-hot Powercolor 4830 that I've had for a week now. Then I find this thread. angelkiller, your stock idle and load temps are the exact same as mine; I also have an Accelero S1, as well as a single Kaze-Jyu Slim, so if you'd li...

...take a nightclub, posh bar/restaurant, or even some bouncer guarded pubs as a perfect example. If you dont turn up wearing the things that they expect you dont get in. But you ARE allowed into a country to stay when you barely know 10 words, if you were that badly dressed you would be wearing a ...

That was a really interesting article. Thank you for sharing. :) And good for Kimberly McClain DaCosta for learning how to live with the contradictions. Some people are not, I suppose, so lucky. Race is a stupid way of defining anybody---I think everybody who's posted in this thread is in agreement ...

First of all, I'm sorry to belabor the point here, especially since it seems that I'm offending people, which I don't mean to do. To be honest, I'm especially interested in hearing opinions from Europe because I think the attitudes about what exactly "white" means is very different in the U.S. than ...

But seriously what are "White" people called in the US, and do you find it offensive like I do when its used as a description of your "Race".? "White" people in the U.S. are called all manner of things by people who are not white... "honkey," "oppressor," "the man," and "whitey" amongst them. I'm b...

since white can in fact be an ethnicity in Europe (as it cannot in the U.S.), run that by me one more time? Lol. I just reread what I originally posted, and in fact it sounds completely nonsensical. Let me try to clarify myself a bit, can I? It's not that OT. Most Caucasian people in the U.S. are o...

Why is Obama "African-American" when McCain is not "European-American" Mm, I would argue that Obama isn't "African-American" in the first place; that's just some silly politically-correct term that lawmakers like to use to indicate that they're being sensitive or somesuch. Thus, McCain is not "Euro...

Thanks for the detailed follow-up, dukla2000. Le sigh---yet another reason to switch to Linux. ;) I fear that I'm just too lazy to do it; the learning curve seems quite steep. Does anyone have any ideas about how to tweak Windows registry settings to adjust RPM sensors? Hitting F1 every time I boot ...

Thanks very much for the reply, dukla2000. Any advice on how to go about finding which registry setting to tweak? I can't seem to find any info about this sort of thing, and I'm not about to go and mess in the registry and see what happens, lol. ...or... I assume you meant "registry" when you said "...

Hi all, My system is half a Sony-out-of-the-box retail system and half stuff that I've added/taken out/modified. Latest modification is the 92mm chassis fan---it was driving me nuts with its weird resonant whiny purring, so I swapped it out for a 100mm Scythe Kaze Jyu 1000 RPM slim fan (SY1012SL12L)...

First off, the PSU is an OEM, and it's kind of noisy, and I intend to fix that at some point, once I spend some more time on the forums. :) Mostly, I just want to hear from anyone who has ever encountered a PSU from NMB. Are they reliable? Who is the actual manufacturer? Are they reliable? What are ...