my HX450 is loud. I read here that removing the plastic baffle inside removes most of the noise. Haven't got around to doing it yet. Honestly, I was disappointed with mine too, and its clearly the most noticeable sound in my system. I swapped the fan on my VX450 but left the plastic baffle. It's su...

Hi, Well, the 320GB Western Digital hard drive in my 24" iMac is dieing by degrees -- it started happening literally 15 minutes after I had ordered a 2TB Seagate 5900RPM hard drive and external enclosure from NewEgg; with a big crash... :( I reinstalled OSX and it seemed to be okay. When the drive ...

Thanks. The reason why I mounted the PSU upside down is the PSU platform in the P183. It may be hard to tell from the pictures, but the platform is raised <1" from the floor of the case. It is open only at the ends to allow airflow, and one of the openings is very close to the back of the case. Thu...

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

If I did decide to mod the case (which I am seriously thinking of doing now.) Which fan would you go for? I mean something like this is already pushing twice as much air for the same noise level rating. EDIT: or even this which seems to be even quieter. Also been looking at the Noctua S12-800; this...

Hello After ~8 months of researching, planning, building, thumb-twiddling and finally re-building, my quiet home/office PC build is effectively finished. (I say nearly complete because as we all know the desire to tinker is ever-present.) The computer is very quiet, definitely more quiet than any P...

Sorry, the photo host tries to protect original sized images by default. Fixed now. Good temps judging by the screenshot... I wonder though if the 49 degrees C shown reflects the northbridge temperature or some other chip. I'd be more comfortable to have a slow running fan cooling the NB, mosfets e...

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Excellent review. Love the way Antec thinks out-of-the-box!

Thanks for the review.
I'm not fond of the oversized fan... a fan swap seems almost impossible?

Samsung SyncMaster 2243FW - Front: silent Back: some buzzing (left side, top) and some high pitched (right side, bottom) noise but only detectable when my I put my ear very close to these areas. When the monitor displays thick horizontal lines the buzzing noise gets worse. Overall, I'm very happy wi...

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RoGuE wrote:What's up with the earthtones?!!

I don't know about earthtones..... more like flesh and dried blood I would say. Makes a change from dull black at least.

Or hearing aid colors... perhaps that's intentional. Noctua wants us to believe we need hearing aid to hear their fans.

Awesome and inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

Hi, This is the first time ive been involved in building a pc, so please excuse the stupid questions etc :oops: Having bought a AC freezer pro 7 from recommendations etc, when i bought the rest of my components i also bought thermal paste (thermalright Chill factor 2) unbeknow to me, i had no idea ...

Lawrence Lee wrote:I had a pair of the non-PWM versions of that fan. Wasn't impressed... vibration was unusually high and there was more bearing noise that I'm used to hearing (compared to Scythe's FDB fans).

Thanks. I'll keep my wallet shut and wait.

Fine review, thanks. It seems whatever Thermaltake does, they can't do it right.

I'm waiting for someone to try it out. :-P Why are you still waiting? There are plenty of posts about the 12025PWM by actual users. I have two. It is a decent fan, nothing great. You need to get it down to < 800 RPM before it could be considered inaudible. I've never tried it horizontally, but it s...

I found some Artic Cooling fans that look very good on paper at least. One is rated for 1000 RPM but there is a PWM model that looks better: AF 12025 PWM I'm waiting for someone to try it out. :-P although I find AC's products affordable, I've been spending too much on fans lately. This one, also f...

thejamppa wrote: Yw the info... And using creatively zipties getting 120mm instead 92mm is doable. Zipties and some stretchy cord ^^

Sorry for OT post (final one, promise ): 120 mm is way too big ... its corners touches the mobo's cables etc. I don't think I even can close the side panel.

thejamppa wrote:I see some slight wobble in GT blades. in lesser degree than in some Nexus fan's I've had...

Thanks for info.
OT: I might use the new Nexus 120 mm as a replacement for the cpu's 92 mm fan, but I have to figure out how to mount it properly... ^^

Hi all, I am looking for some sort of external hdd system. I have seen the Western Digital 1TB My Bookâ„¢ Essential Edition http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136186 and it looks good, but I don't know what hdd is used. I could get an iomega external enclosure and purchase a h...

I have an 1,150 RPM Gentle Typhoon in my power supply, and I love it! :D Even at full speed, it's completely inaudible over the rest of my system (except for a high-pitched bearing whine that disappears beyond 2 1/2ft.). There's also little to no vibration in mine. There are a couple speeds where i...

RoGuE wrote: Is this just a typo? or did you fail math class?

No need to be rude. It's easy to get the numbers jumbled up.

At 550 rpm's I hear no real sound from GT but I've never managed to get my Nexuses run so low. at 550-560 rpm's 1150 rpm GT is effectively silent without howls, motor noise or audiable bearing noise. Currently my GT in silent system is running arounf 1010-1016 rpm's while barely audiable at 3am at ...

[snip] Its sound is not overall smooth like Slipstream's or Nexuses thruought the rpm spectrum. But this is very intresting and formidable fan. Only one that I honestly can say I could keep run it full tilt without problems. This fan would be definately a champion if the motor would be smooth witho...

I am pretty happy with my almost silent rig, but I've been wondering about the numbers, the dB... I wonder how many dB my rig, in theory, would emit? Any ideas are welcome. Case: P182 with (mostly) be Quiet dampening material, pretty much everywhere, including the HDD "cage" in the 5.25 bay area. No...

What about mobo temps? Like Northbridge, southbridge etc?

Still undecided! The Samsung HD502HI is quiet, I'd say quieter than a 7200 rpm Samsung single platter drive (a Spinpoint F1 HD322HJ) but the difference isn't that big if you decouple the drive and have the case standing 1 meter away from you. Samsung 7200 rpm vibrates a lot, and the 5400 rpm versio...

A nice one theJamppa! Here's another one: bad guy and good guy are engaged in a life or death fight, where a heavy stone brick on the head isn't deadlier than a medium hard shove. They try to beat the crap out of each other for minutes, but they feel pain only for 1-2 seconds but they regain their s...

the p182 in it's stock configuration, with all fans on low, does not flow enough air in the upper compartment, even with the door open, at least with my overclocked hardware... when i took the side panel off, the cpu & gpu temps would drop. i put a mugen 2 cpu cooler on it, dumped the tricools, and...