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by decapitor
Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:27 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Is there a case that gives me everything? Quiet, cool, USB3
Replies: 14
Views: 7332

Re: Is there a case that gives me everything? Quiet, cool,

I owned a Raven RV02 and was able to passively cool an HD5850 with an arctic cooling aftermarket heatsink and an E8400 with a large heatsink. The rotated mobo design of the Raven is simply excellent for cooling graphics cards. If I had a bit more money before I would definitely have bought an FT02 i...
by decapitor
Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:52 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Build: Lian Li PC-X2000F, Silverstone FT02, or Antec P280
Replies: 11
Views: 7812

Re: Build: Lian Li PC-X2000F, Silverstone FT02, or Antec P28

I've owned a Raven RV02 (same internals as FT02 but with tacky plastic exterior) and a P182. After adding a fan controller I found both to be reasonably quiet machines. The AP181 fans that silverstone uses aren't particularly quiet even on low mode, but since they are buried in the RV02/FT02 they ar...
by decapitor
Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:09 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Jetway Mini-top passive cooling conversion advice
Replies: 5
Views: 5746

Re: Jetway Mini-top passive cooling conversion advice

I've had this project on hold for a while because my initial attempts didn't go well. I'll have more details hopefully by next week as I am currently waiting for a buddy of mine to help me with some welding. So far I've tried the following: 1. removed the fan and aluminum heatsink at the end of the ...
by decapitor
Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:01 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Jetway Mini-top passive cooling conversion advice
Replies: 5
Views: 5746

Jetway Mini-top passive cooling conversion advice

Hi all, I bought a Jetway Mini-top barebones nettop with an intel atom D525 ion2 combo inside. Please see here: http://www.guru3d.com/article/jetway-minitop-review/5 for some internal pictures for reference. The fan is too loud for me, so I want to go completely passive cooling. I have a cool-runnin...