I was using the case mount at the front of the P182. So the distance was pretty big... many inches or a foot. But i ducted the VGA area (to seperate it from the CPU area) so i thought there would be enough air flow which there wasn't. I am currently trying bringing the fan closer as well as using a ...

i hadn't thought of bringing the fan closer, thats a good idea.

did you have to glue/tape that foam down that holds the fan?

do you use your top fan? I currently have my CPU air ported out with a push-pull so i need the top exhaust but I was curious.

OK i picked up the TP650 and it is quite nice! Thanks so much everyone for the help. My rig is pretty nice right now! I put quite a lot of traffic through the SPCR website and for good reason :) I recommend it to all my friends. I admit i did miss that EA430/430D thing, whoops. the EA-380D has a 4-p...

@quest the EA-380D has a 4-pin, at least the 430W or whatever SPCR reviewed had a 4 pin. I imagine i wont OC it enough to be an issue but It's still worrysome. To diagnose parts, i just buy replacements and return them, its usually a 5% re-stocking fee, which is pretty cheap. Its a pain though, you ...

wow i hadn't seen the review for the TP-750. I just tossed that one into my list because i wasn't sure about it. Unexpected but welcome! My X3-440 TDP is 95W which is probably fine on the 4-pin, OCing it on the 4 pin is probably fine too, but makes me wary. I have a M5A97 (brand new yay) which is AM...

huh, so my earthwatts platinum showed up DOA im going to return it (and maybe not get the same) and I was wondering what else you guys thought would be good. I see all of the previously recommended PSUs but some are very expensive or not available nearby. I have now learned what you guys meant by "q...

i was hoping to gain 2 things from this: more space for pci etc cards (esp if i go crossfire) fewer fans I know you can put fans on the S1 but then it turns into a 3 slot card. Right now I have the same and a fan bringing air into that GPU space, if I go crossfire then that would be 3 fans in the GP...

Hi there I was wondering if anyone had any luck with using side case fans blowing over some of the large Accellero S1/S2? I had previously tried to use the front middle fan on my P182 ( by the GPU) to blow air over my passive accellero with my 5770 but it didn't work out. I attempted using baffles e...

also what would make the earthwatts green better than the earthwatts platinum... would the benefit be in the voltage regulation/ripple?

@Quest: nono i know cheap psus are bad. but is there any point in paying for <1% tolerances on the voltage rails? Also are you saying you think i would be better off with the antec earth watts vs the earthwatts platinum even though they are almost the same price? ie. a fan swapped earthwatts 80+ wou...

so i found this on sale down the road from me: Antec EA-450 EarthWatts Platinum 450W 80Plus Platinum Certified Continuous Power Supply http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=33_444&item_id=048561 for 70$ a 80+ Platinum sounds pretty good (its only +5$ for each 100W increase) But my qu...

I was wondering what people thought of the: Enermax (EPR625AWT II) PRO82+ II 625W Power Supply http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=33_826&item_id=032346 In comparison to the Seasonic M12II Bronze? mainly in terms of sound levels, i dont need 625W so thats not a benefit to me. With ...

I see you recommendation for nexus PSUs but they are hard to find! Any other recommended brands? Ideally I would use Newegg, but tiger direct and canada computer are ok too. I dont see any seasonic X series but this one is on sale http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151093 I see ...

PSUs often whine but pretty much every component (except ram i think) has the ability to start whining. I have fixed a lot of whining/broken PSUs and its usually a cap that has blown or degraded (if you open the case you can often see this!) letting noise into an inductor/transformer. The caps can b...

My PSU seems to have given up the ghost and I'm looking for a new one. I have a X3 440 with an ATI 5770 I ran my system into a PSU calculator (with a ATI5870 incase i upgrade) and it recommended a 520W PSU (assuming 30% degredation which is fair because I'de want to keep my PSU for a long time). htt...

My 5770 has a mode where you cut some fins and bend the heat pipe. Like this http://www.overclock.net/air-cooling/625281-radeon-5770-accelero-s2-rev1-how.html I was wondering if i should pair this with the turbo module or just with a 120 mm fan. The advantage of the turbo module is that it seems lik...

sorry i didnt come to the forum for a while because the thread hadn't had any activity. How about a picture of your setup? I cant post pictures as this is my setup at work. I'm allowed to use it for whatever but I doubt i can post pictures of the setup, work secrets i suppose. 1. Accuracy on absolut...

Ball bearings have small points of contact compared to sleeve bearings. As a result they don't tolerate shipping as well as to sleeve fans. Oh please! this could be the biggest load of crap you've ever posted here . Do you know anything about bearings? Ball bearings are made from precision ground, ...

Hello I just thought everyone should know that I have a calibrated wind tunnel that I can use to make fan curves (which are curves plotting fans airflow output across different system backpressures). I dont have any fans of note that are worth testing but at some point i plan to test some a slipstre...

but people on this board seem to have a collective assessment that s-flex has higher static pressure than the slipstream

when you say this do you think people are talking somewhat higher pressure than the slipstream 20% ish
or double the pressure?

running it off a solar panel, but I have found out when its overcast the voltage drops a surprising amount 2.2Volts ish

hmm interesting, is that with a 120mm nexus or 92 mm?

also wouldnt mounting those fans horizontally be a bad idea? the nexus have sleeves right?

i was wondering what fans people have put on their Accelero S1's and been satisfied with.
I know the fin spacing is quite wide so probably could get away with using a slipstream/nexus (maybe even a slipstream slim with very low pressure).
Or did people get better results with an SFlex/gentle typhoon?

wow looking around the forum its very confusing about the gentle typhoons lots of info and much of it contradicts, they sound enticing though. As a reference point i find the Tricool at 5V too noisy, i get the feeling the GT fits into that catagory. but im not sure so i have no idea what to do... ar...

Hi there im wondering if anyone knows of a very low voltage 120mm fan thats easy to find. I know one of the slipstreams (800rpm i think) starts at 2.5V.

Does anyone know of a fan with a lower starting voltage?
I dont really care much about airflow and noise for this.

are the typhoons quiet as well?
i just feel like my slipstreams pull no air through my dust filters (i know many people say to get rid of dust filters but I like them).

does anyone know the static pressure or fan curves for an s-flex compared to a slipstream?
I get the feeling that slipstreams have very low static pressure but i dont have an s-flex to compare.

Depending on how you power maybe not enough current available, battery, power supply or capacitor has enough current

This looks like a really good deal for anyone looking for rubber screws etc.

http://www.xoxide.com/noise-reduction-kit-uvred.html

If I soft mount a fan it stands off the case a bit, which it is supposed to do. But wont that cause a loss of airflow through my case?

do you plug that standoff?