Well, I've got the new fans in there, and it's still rather noisy. I think my main problem is the chipset heatsink rattling around a little bit. I've wrapped a bit of duct tape around the retaining clip where it would contact the heatsink, and still it's rather noisy. I think I'm going to try to rep...

Right. I was going to use the fanmate for the chipset fan. The bios setting only controls one of the two fans, and I'm using it for the 80mm on top of the case. If the Kaze turns out to be quite enough, I may just let it run full-tilt at 100% and skip the fanmate all together, and throttle down the ...

Thanks for the tip. I order a 40x10mm kaze last week. Thanks for the heads up about it not starting up at 50%. I'll make sure I set it high enough with the zalman fan controller. Between that and the 80mm Nexus fan it should quite it down more than enough for my tastes. I'll probably keep the origin...

Just got my new mini-itx gentoo server building with a D945GCLF2 yesterday, and I'm surprised that it's so loud. I'm running this in an In Win BM639 case, which is part of the problem. The power supply fan seems to only kick on occasionally, and seems quiet enough. The top 80mm fan is rather loud, e...

Gotcha, thanks for the tip.

I've been wondering the same thing. I was looking at a 120w picopsu, and would love to reuse that PSU space. A dummy blank would be good, but a plate that allowed for a FAN, or maybe an extra 3.5" HDD slot or two would be perfect. I'm surprised I can't find any dummy plates, especially considering t...