Sandia hopes the cooler's design will scale up and take off in a number of industries, including (obviously) PC uses...

Sandia National Lab Starts Licensing Out Super Quiet, Hyper-Efficient CPU Cooler

The video in the article is also more recent.

Noctua shows off noise-cancelling PC fan prototype There are plenty of PC hardware components on display here at Computex Taipei, but Noctua is demonstrating a fan with integrated active noise-cancellation, a curio too novel to pass up. The technology was developed by Rotosub, and consists of a mic...

Found a review of the Sapphire Ultimate Radeon HD 6670.

Saw this article mentioning the Fractal Design Arc series shown at CES 2011.

Fractal Design Expands Chassis Lineup at CES 2011

A review of the Hybrid:

Dell Studio Hybrid Desktop PC Unboxing and First Impressions

Dell Studio Hybrid Desktop Deep Dive Video Series

You may have what is called a ground loop, read more here or you can Google it.

Make sure you check out their forum at Tweaktown for any conflicts with the board you are interested in.

Sorry if this has been mentioned. I came across the Antec Stanza on this site. Looks like an updated version of the NSK2480.

perplex wrote:this looks excellent, however i think the case is a bit too big for me :/ i think i'll wait for the sonata 2 instead maybe

I agree, a bit too big for me. Too many external bays. Will there be a smaller version?

Forgot to mention, nice case.

GamingGod wrote:I like it, at least they are bullshitting you. If they know the cases will be expensive then they shouldnt say they will be cheap

They never said they will be cheap:

"Currently, we don’t have any cases for sale, but when we have cases for sale, it will be announced here, and it will not be cheap."

Yeah, try this site: http://www.geocities.jp/numano3/

Going through some Japanese computer sites this morning and came across this:

http://akiba.ascii24.com/akiba/news/200 ... 2-000.html
(Scroll down, near the bottom)

At any rate, MikeC already ran both HS through their paces and the CU kicked the AlCu to the curb. His methodology is the best I've seen, since he tests each HS with the same fan at 3 voltages. The results are much more reliable. Mike reviewed the 6500's not the 7000's that T ter Berg is refering to.

I don't mind the ads, as long as they don't distract you from reading- i.e. flashing read banners come to mind.

I just made a donation BTW.

MikeC wrote: The video clip online seems to go the whole show.

I stand corrected.

I may be able to shed some light on the subject or confuse it. I saw the episode with Yoshi's silent PC, the online article does not mention everything. He said he tested it in Dolby Labs sound chamber, three engineers were in the room with him and they found it hard to hear anything. The interestin...