The MSI motherboard has better chipset cooling than the gigabyte..frenchie wrote:Nice !
Any reason for the motherboard change between the pictures ?
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- Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:41 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Fanless Phenom II X3 720BE Radeon 5670 Silent Blu-ray HTPC
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- Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:39 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Fanless Phenom II X3 720BE Radeon 5670 Silent Blu-ray HTPC
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I bought the case around $350 when the case was available through a canadian distributor.NeelyCam wrote:Purty. The case looks awesome. How much was the CPU heatpipe cooler?
- Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:36 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Finally a 100% fanless and total noiseless HTPC!
- Replies: 16
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Is there any reason to use a dedicated vga card? I mean, if it's already idling at 80°C you won't be able to game on it. And your mainboard has integrated graphics. Why not use it? A Phenom II X3 - which seems unnecessarily high-powered - has no problems displaying HD content without GPU accelerat...
- Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Finally a 100% fanless and total noiseless HTPC!
- Replies: 16
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Looks awesome man! That case is beautiful. Makes me want to build my own and will do one day! Love the idea of total silent media center, but didn't actually think it would be possible. For future referrence, who makes that fanless heatpipe cpu cooler, price and where can it be purchase? You can bu...
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:59 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Fanless Phenom II X3 720BE Radeon 5670 Silent Blu-ray HTPC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7106
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:18 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Finally a 100% fanless and total noiseless HTPC!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14031
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:03 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Fanless Phenom II X3 720BE Radeon 5670 Silent Blu-ray HTPC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7106
The case is a Mcubed HFX Classic: The reason why the motherboard is swapped is because the MSI has better cooling and chipset. VFD in Place: http://www.wasserware.ca/ebay/htpc/_MG_1148.jpg Final Build in the living Room: http://www.wasserware.ca/ebay/htpc/_MG_1156.jpg http://www.wasserware.ca/ebay/h...
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:57 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Finally a 100% fanless and total noiseless HTPC!
- Replies: 16
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Very well done build, great looking case too. Looking at the hot gpu and the unused heatsinks on the left side of the case is making me wish there was another heatpipe kit connecting the two. they actually have a GPU kit that connects to the heatsink on the other side but it is too expensive and I ...
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:03 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Fanless Phenom II X3 720BE Radeon 5670 Silent Blu-ray HTPC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7106
Fanless Phenom II X3 720BE Radeon 5670 Silent Blu-ray HTPC
This might look like a bunch of scattered pieces of metal but it is actuall the fanless heatpipe cooler for the CPU: http://www.wasserware.ca/ebay/htpc/_MG_1128.jpg Silverstone Nightjar 300W fanless PSU: http://www.wasserware.ca/ebay/htpc/_MG_1132.jpg Taming the Cables One by One: http://www.wasser...
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:02 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Still no decent aftermarket cooler for the Radeon 5870?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4714
Still no decent aftermarket cooler for the Radeon 5870?
It seems there are still no decent aftermarket cooler for the Radeon 5870 that can cool both the core and VRM properly? Of all the reviews I read, all of the third party coolers have trouble keeping the VRM cool enough
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:00 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Max safe temp for hard drives?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 938549
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:59 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Finally a 100% fanless and total noiseless HTPC!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14031
Finally a 100% fanless and total noiseless HTPC!
First of all, I would like to thank all the pros and regular contributors here for putting up tons and tons of useful info to make my HTPC assembly smooth and trouble free. My German friend/customer came over last week for a visist and brought me some gifts that finally allowed me to build blu-ray H...