It's unfortunate you guys felt like you had to waste your time reviewing this silly thing. But thanks for doing it anyway. I don't think its a waste of time! It's important to have a baseline. You can compare your awesome cooler to what you would have had if you didn't spend those x dollars. On thi...

Yay! Fans were well tested and it was a thorough review! When will more fans be tested!?

My cpu idle at 0.6 something as well. But we don't have a special processor, we're just talking about idle, while you are talking about load. From your link: "The lowest voltage my processor would run at while under full load was 0.900 volts". Oh I see. Hm well it is strange, I did note down AIDA64...

Hm all my reported voltages were AIDA64 voltages, not BIOS voltages. Maybe its something special with your motherboard? I had the same experience as here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5763/undervolting-and-overclocking-on-ivy-bridge Where I had instability below 0.9V. Unless you have a special proc...

Yes it is best to clarify but have a look at mine below, it probably is the stock. faugusztin I don't expect the lowest idle voltage has changed that much compared to sandy - don't get your hopes up. From what I've read on the Interwebs it seems ivy has trouble with anything <0.9V. Maybe an effect o...

nizer wrote:Were you able to control the fans or not? I understand you could read the temps.

No.
Don't worry though, fan Xpert is better than speedfan with respect to fan control (well the ability to define a fan response) - you will get your silence.

Websur - Is speedfan able to control the fans, or is it only the fan xpert software? And is it really true that it only can regulate according to the cpu temp? I mean, usually my northbridge (NB) chip is the hottest (but with ivy bridge that shouldn't be a problem as it is integrated in the cpu :))...

Why only Fan Xpert 2 for premium products? Why? (I know, a reason to buy their premium main boards). But I'd wish that Fan Xpert would be part of all their current-gen main boards! I got the bog standard ASUS P8Z77-V and it supports Fan Xpert. It perhaps just has less fan headers, but you can sorto...

Great! Thanks for this, was looking forward to some coverage on the new features. I can't help but think how precise the control can be outside the OS level though, say if I weren't running Windows? =P. Do you basically only lose the dynamic calibration of the specific fans? Or are you strictly lim...

Congrats Mike
Wishing you another 10 fantastic years!

Quick read, I'm a bit baffled
Heat rises up but the intake fan is on top and blows down?

Best to compare to the venerable Antec mini-P180 - quiet and huge airflow with that 200 mm fan when undervolted, which exhausts up!

I always thought that water cooling did not stack up against a good air cooled setup with the noise perspective thrown in.

Good to see confirmation.

This is the intake side of the 120mm fan plan, with the Noctuas soft mounted. http://sharonj81.customer.netspace.net.au/albums/content/images/large/P1060436.jpg You can see the 3x AOC-SASLP-MV8 here. Something to bear in mind, is they produce a lot of heat. I think this is generally true for both HB...

Some more pics: These were the original 80mm DELTA fans, including the original 80mm fan plane that came with the case. These are ferocious little fans. I just played with one, plugging it into the PSU while the system was going and it scared the crap of out me as the air pressure moved it across th...

Hehehe sorry guys. I probably won't need to have all bays filled for a few years... ;) On the power topic, one could go even lower than what I've got, provided you make something less expandable. I think my base mobo + CPU idle was around 55W. I got this motherboard because it supports 2x PCIex8 and...

Hi guys just posted this in the gallery if you're interested.

24 hard drive bays and quiet.

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Hi guys, thought I'd post a pic up now that I've finally shaved off another few decibels of noise. It really is pretty darn quiet for a 24 bay server build, I haven't seen many silence focused large bay builds yet. Made this back in November 2010 but only just added the fan controller. I thought I'd...

Ooh cool. Thanks for the review Mike. It's always nice to see a review of "cheap" computer speakers against their bigger brethren. I have this feeling that one day someone might make a killer of a product that costs a tenth of the price of the equivalent "hi-fi" product but with close to the same pe...

Thanks for the review.

I'm thinking of grabbing one of these for a file server build now.

Nomnomnom great article. Looking forward to more fan reviews :) Interesting bit on heatsink selection. Do less tightly spaced fins lead to the same cooling performance as tightly spaced fins, but with more "fan selection" leeway? I previously thought that maybe the tighter spaced fins would lead to ...

Talking about power - one annoying thing is when my PC goes into monitor powersave mode - the TV doesn't just blank the screen and save power. It shows a stupid box saying no signal that moves around the screen.. blah, a waste.

Hi Mike, good to see you took the plunge! I got one of these December 2008. In Australia, I'm not sure, but it might be the same as the series 9 LED TVs - same as mine though I think from your photos it looks thinner. Stunning display though. My tips: - go to avsforum and pick out video settings tha...

Hi all, Hoping someone can help me achieve this: 1. Have my HDs spin down while idle 2. Be able to monitor temps while spun down Running speedfan (or other temp monitoring proggy, HWMonitor etc) prevents the drives from spinning down. If I exit speedfan, let the drives spin down, then launch speedfa...

Hi Just put in a WD20EADS into my HTPC+server box (weird combination I know, it will be split out at some point in the future). Just quickly, in terms of: Quietness At idle it seems just as quiet as the WD10EADS, by which I mean I cannot hear them with my ear next to the open door of my MiniP180 ove...

Wow I just put my ear right next to the open front door of my HTPC/server case after initiating a copy from WD6400AAKS -> WD10EADS. I could hear seeks, but they were so quiet... and I didn't know which drive was seeking. IMO both are very quiet. I would expect the WD10EADS to be quieter still though...

To add my 2c: (maybe first post on SPCR but been lurking!!!) I've bolded the bits most relevant to spcr. I made a weird box recently that actually had 2 goals: - Simple file server - HTPC (as it sits next to the 55" sammy) - (and is silent from 1m where i am!) In the future I will split the goals an...