Alright I just built a HTPC for my dad. The PC still needed a final touch... a wireless keyboard/mouse. Not wanting to spend a lot and reading this review I picked up a MonCaso MK-701 from xoxide.com (sp?) Anway... I am using it now. To me the keys type better than a standard laptop. They require a ...

i ordered 3 of those metal plates. so my next step is to figure out what i need to remove from them to make them work. i ended up buying an external enclosure for it as a temporary way to play around with it. i wish these addonics metal plates would have worked... they seem so perfect even when I tr...

Much simpler that one of those. it will end up just being a piece of metal. this one i thought would work but i suppose for some reason since my hdd tray isn't an addonics brand saturn tray it doesn't work exactly right. http://addonics.com/products/Saturn/image/25satahdd-install.gif see that little...

I recently picked up a patriot 32gb SSD to test. I need to find some kind of adapter that will give it 3.5'' hdd mounting holes on the bottom. I thought I had finally found something on my own to handle this: http://addonics.com/products/io/aks218ide.asp Just got them in last night laptop size hdd m...

Just a simple 80mm 33cfm/26dba fan attached to the newly drilled holes and set to pull air out of the raid cage into the case has lowered temps from 37C to 30C. I'm pretty proud as I've made the computer run the perfect low hum and decreased operating temperatures by a pretty large amount. If anyone...

I wanted to ask about this fan in a response rather than above since it would get buried in all the other things talked about. I've got a Noctua NF-P12 and I'm reasonably happy with it. It didn't lower temperatures over the PWM controlled Enermax Cluster fan but it didn't increase them either. Is th...

I'm pretty horrible when it comes to anything with electronics... I was even a bit worried when I intentionally broke the little speaker. Cutting the PCB is a great idea I hadn't thought about though. I'm not sure my shaky hands would be up for the task! Yes, that link to the BPU-350 is the raid cag...

I've got an iStarUSA BPU-350 (the raid cage that holds 5 hdd's and takes up 3x5.25'' bays. The problem was the fan inside the unit was thinner than normal and wayyy too loud. 80x80x20mm fan >> http://en.yltc.cn/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/ProductCategoryList.html?CategoryID=c373e9047a29ab398ff...

About 4-5 months ago I bought the Antec 900 case. It contains about 4 120mm tricools. Set all on low there was a 'sound' that I didn't like. It's not that my computer is quieter now with the fans I've replaced them with but the noise is better to my ears. I've never tried to make a PC quieter but as...

Don't know if they are any good but there are slim yate loon 120s out there. http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=22997 http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=22998 not the super slim like you are looking for...

just grabbed a 9600 gt for nearly the exact same reason. Very happy with it. I have a few friends that are big ati fans and they claim ati cards run hotter in general... i equate hotness to using/wasting extra power? Anyway, I can only speak for the 9600gt but I am very happy with it and I think mos...

The aluminum trays rattle in my new raid cage since they are all empty but 1. I recently took apart a few hard drives for fun and stuck them in the empty trays to stop the rattling. The magnets make great ultra fridgerator magnets. The maxtor 250mb(not a typo!)'s magnets were suprisingly stronger th...

the fan with the black center piece is a 120mm orange blade yate loon and the other NF-xxx with the white center piece is a dynex medium speed 120mm. Yate loon has a sleeve bearing and the dynex has two ball bearings. The dynex is a bit loud for my taste but a simple lowering of the rpms makes it pu...

I swapped the stock xigmatek 120mm fan with the twister on my hdt-s1283 immediatly upon install. I liked the twister. seemed very quiet but i think its rpms stayed around 600... so it should be quiet around there. I'm just using what CPUID hardware monitor said. much better choice than the stock fan...

you can tell I'm a complete forum noob... I have never put images in a thread... ever!

*images taken care of!*

I'm pretty sure the PC fans made under the "Dynex" name brand are made by Yate Loon. I noticed the "yate loon ring" on the fan sticker and when I purchased some (employee price) I noticed the yate loon "smell". I don't know if the Yate Loon smell has been mentioned on here but all the Yate's I have ...

I too would be interested in which blu-ray drives are the quietest.

*checks box* looked on my palit 1gb 9600gt sonic that I picked up a few weeks ago. couldn't find any revision number on it. I think I read somewhere that nvidia didn't publicize the switch to the 65nm core on the 9600's? Maybe nvidia started producing the smaller chips and cards already made were ma...

I havn't tried the hdmi output on my card but I can tell you that it runs very cool and is a great card. A few weeks ago I got a Palit 9600gt 1gb sonic. It was about $120 on newegg. no dvi -> hdmi adapter needed... this card has hdmi, 2xdvi and DISPLAYPORT! right there on the pci slot back panel. Th...

I'm still new to trying to balance performance and silence(or quietness for me). I grabbed a few of those yate loon black/orange fans and I love them. So cheap and they have a good sound character in my opinion. I replaced my antec 900's tricools (horrible imo except on low setting) with 800rpm s-fl...

P182 is an excellent case. A buddy of mine has it and I have the P180 case used on my backup pc. The antec tricool 120mm's that come with them are not my favorite. They are quality fans but set to medium and high theres a particular 'color' of the noise I don't like. I first tried out S-Flex 800rpm ...

I've been looking at gpu coolers for a few weeks and I was pretty excited about that thermalright hr-03 gt (for 9600gt) but this thing looks sweet.

I tried to find a review for it and found this thread... better than nothing I suppose!

Welll it looks like that 9600gt I ordered this morning seems to do well on those charts. PS I ended up getting one of those Palit 1gb 9600gt Sonic cards... yea the 1gb might be overkill but with the onboard hdmi, displayport, 2xdvi, a touch of OC and a slight boost on mem speeds seems pretty good fo...

Well about %90 of project sub-zero has been ordered. Here is the current hardware list. Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037 Thermalright 775 Retention Bracket << let me know if this was a waste http://www.coolerguys.com/840556031215.html ARCTIC COOL...

Going to look up zero stepping now! These are the things I need to know. thanks. update*well there seems to be no disadvantage to gettting the E0 version. I don't know if I'll be messing with clock speed though. At least through newegg it doesn't seem to let me know which version it is. Is there a s...

I'd like to hear some of you guys' personal reviews of that 9600 when you get them. I've considering a 9600gt for my current computer project mainly since I don't play games on the computer and want a 'good' solid card that doesn't get too hot and can handle HD stuff. I forget where... but I read so...

Yea I originally got that card to support a $3 5.25in magneto optical drive I bought. The good news is it forced me to do some scsi research the bad news is when I got the $3 drive it was really worth $0 since they misinformed me of its connection type. It looks to be ESDI or something like that. I ...

ENERMAX MODU82+ EMD625AWT 625W - 179.99 CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX 520W - 114.99 CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W - 119.99 (and free 8gb flash drive!) Price so close on those two corsairs.... but after reading this comment made by some guy named macadami on neweggs site I really don't know anymore. Other Thoughts:...

hmm might have to check the slip streams out.

i've heard modular cables are primarily for marketing and add extra resistance or something. i would be interested in finding a decent quality psu with modular cabling.

That power supply info is good to know. I would be more than happy with a 500-600 watt and even happier paying less! I don't think I will ever go SLi to be honest... but I like to know that I could. I agree it would make more sense to just get a new card when the time comes. They say the xfx alpha d...