Dell UltraSharp U2311H : Completely silent at 100% brightness. Brain-grating razor-sharp whine at lower brightness.

This case looks amazing. Could you please share some full load temp readings and some info on noise characteristics with your setup?

I'll post answers when things quiet down a bit on this end. ...which took quite some time, but here I am! SG02 UPGRADES (pics below): -Crucial RealSSD C300 2,5" 128GB -Scythe Quiet Drive -WD 2TB Green 3.5 -Akasa USB 3.0 PCIe card HDD NOISE The spinpoint f1 and velociraptor drives were not only loud...

Hi guys, I appreciate the responses and all the advice. I'm posting to say I'll be away for still some time but will get right back to this hardware project when my schedule clears up some. At the moment I've been running both new setups successfully for quite a while. Worth noting is that when I re...

This is the scavenger build. The old system worked well enough that I saw no reason to ditch it. Wanted to try a low-cost experiment instead. I wanted this build to be low cost, low investment, so please excuse the low quality low number of pics. I purchased the SG05 mITX case and Zotac GF 9300 wifi...

Hi Joe, I missed your post. If the information is still useful I don't have any measurements but do have this pic which should indicate the height in comparison with the rear bracket. http://www.per128.com/pub/crap/hw0809/DSCF5200small.jpg You can also see the main thread for more pics http://www.si...

On setting up the final build it went from silent to horrendously noisy. The culprits turned out to be the HDDs. Watercooling or passive solutions; they would make no difference. The only real sound comes from the disk drives. The first step was to minimize case vibration. I plucked out some of thes...

Pgh: Wow, been a long time since I used a silicon graphics machine for anything. I've had these pics lying around for a good while, finally got around to posting. Tidying up the cables in the front panel, arranging them so they can be fed out of and into the case so slack can be adjusted. Worked ver...

Oh, not to forget: A pic showing the case sans the optical drive. As you can see there's plenty of space for the cables in the 2nd 5.25 bay. I don't know how you would significantly improve this case and mobo combo with regards to space efficiency. The PSU cables feed directly into the empty bay, th...

Haha Wipeout, yes, absolutely. I wrote in part frustration as the fan was the only thing that didn't work out smoothly in the case :) It does indeed come in contact with the cooling fins the other way around. I didn't check until turning on the pc. The noise was not pleasant! Thanks for the feedback...

red: I suggest you check out the ASUS Rampage II GENE. I've listed the lanparty board as having problems with firewire and a tall north bridge heat sink

Thread is up at viewtopic.php?p=477683#477683

PERFORMANCE I've set the fans to low speed. There's still room for optimization, as I have the top center fan running faster than the top rear fan, though more heat is generated at the rear. I'll make updates to this and re-run benchmarks, but as you'll understand from the below, there's no immedia...

This is not what I expected a SFF case to look like with the psu installed and all the cables hooked up. Except for the one temporarily misplaced fan cable this is cleaner than my p182 setup, which is a huge case with space for running cables behind the motherboard plate. Cables impeding airflow cer...

PICTURES AND ASSEMBLY Please excuse the dark photos. I've been building this thing in the basement. I don't want the neighbours to realize I'm secretly a computer geek. The SG02 in all its glory. Although I had run measurements, seeing it in person was a surprise. Compared to my previous cases it's...

Pics start in the next post GOAL Putting together a small form factor PC with high performance for the use of 3D modeling, texturing and limited rendering yet cool and quiet. I don't want bling, I don't want a gaming system or to get high scores on some fancy benchmark. The end result should be sta...

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Just making a note that I've completed the build and results are beyond expectations. I'll be posting details and pics as soon as possible!

That's a shame that you can't get another ultraX locally. I'm using it here, supply is plentiful and it's dirt cheap so replacing is no problem.
Should the supply run dry though I have this thread for future reference. Thanks!

After plenty of consideration I'm looking at: cpu: Undervolted core 2 quad Q9400[1] gpu: Passively cooled 9800 GT psu: ? with fan aimed at the CPU cooler Passive CPU cooler: ? nt06-e doesn't seem great[2], but options are limited. Fanless Cooler Master Gemini II may be an option. Also the Scythe big...

Yes, I forgot to mention: SG01-F and SG02-F work with 12-inch cards. my .txt with notes on various configuration possibilities is more than 7000 words so far. I don't want all that work to end with a bunch of compromises. But it's tough. The SG03 and 04 haven't seen great reviews. The Antec NSK3480 ...

Based on that gfx card I was getting enthusiastic about the SG02 again. This time though the problem is the i7 CPU. It seems to be beyond what the case is intended for, leaving little room for a cooler. The closest I've come to a solution so far is someone who sandpaper-ground down a heat sink that ...

A passive 9800GT! That was a surprise. I read some reviews then purchased it off of ebay. It ends up at the same price as a GTX 250 but I'll be happy about the investment when sat up at late hours NOT listening to the GPU fan. One thing I did not consider before hitting the buy button was that the c...

Thanks for the suggestions Jamie. It may well be possible that I won't need an aftermarket cooler at all. I'll be using 3d graphics apps, and there's never the kind of intense traffic you get in a game. More on that at the bottom of this post. I've researched the Antec NSK3480, the Silverstone SG03 ...

Alternative GPU cooler: The Thermalright HR-03 GTX Fits GTX 260. Reportedly good performance. edit: Won't fit inside the SG02. (http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=53828) The conclusion seems to be that you won't be able to effectively quiet down Nvidia cards GTX 260 and up in the S...

I'm currently leaning towards:

Silverstone SG02 mATX case with a GF GTX 260.

However I want to replace the GPU cooler but the Accelero Xtreme GTX280 is reported as too large to fit in that case. Any advice?

Hi guys Long time lurker here. I've gotten a great deal of valuable info off of these boards; let's see if I can contribute, while helping set up my next PC. I've been putting together specs for a new PC now for a while and am going about it in an orderly fashion that may provide some convenient sum...