https://www.silverstonetek.com/images/goods_dimension/ap183-dimension.jpg https://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=847&area=en#undefined3 I recently replaced my Silverstone FT02B's original set of 3 9 year old AP181 180mm bottom case fans with the AP183 These are PWM, unlike the 3 speed switc...

Received the 14TB WD Elements drive yesterday This drive is way quieter than the 10TB model I returned back to Amazon. Based the on the Red Plus drives they are made from, I can see why - same noise specs - 20db vs 34db idle! https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/...

Received the 14TB WD Elements drive yesterday This drive is way quieter than the 10TB model I returned back to Amazon. Based the on the Red Plus drives they are made from, I can see why - same noise specs - 20db vs 34db idle! https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/...

Silverstone Fortress - suspending the drives to get rid of the vibration hum and resonance 8) What I used - cut to 12-13 inches http://i.imgur.com/mRifz.jpg Rigged up - bottom fan removed to allow easy access http://i.imgur.com/lOAM2.jpg Standard shoe lace style double knot, but the second one is q...

Pic of my suspended hard drive setup in my SIlverstone FT02, using cut velcro strips from a roll. Works surpisngly well None of these drives are audible in idle or seek at 3am, 1m away, with an open case! Left to right - Western Digital Blue 4Tb WD40EZRZ, red 3Tb WD30EFRX and Samsung 2TB 204UI far l...

Noctua said the cooler targets 120W in a fanless case or 180W with a quiet case fan nearby. Buyers also get some NT-H2 thermal compound bundled in the box. https://www.anandtech.com/show/14486/noctua-shows-off-concept-fanless-cpu-cooler-up-to-120w-of-cooling-performance My Silverstone FT02 would be...

So the the WD 10TB Elements external hard drive I have above is according to CrystalDiskinfo it's a WD101EDAZ which from research is a white label air version of the WD101EFAX. This drive is pretty noisey at idle in it's rubber mounted plastic case, quite audible from 1 m away. Like a faint drill so...

I recently got the the WD 10tb Elements external hard drive and according to CrystalDiskinfo it's a WD101EDAZ which from research is a white label air version of the WD101EFAX. This drive is pretty noisey at idle in it's rubber mounted plastic cash, quite audible from 1 m away. Like a faint drill so...

I have the above WD Blue drive suspended vertically now in my Silvertsone FT02, using strips of 1 inch velcro strapping cut to length from a roll, along with my old Samsung 2TB HD 204UI and Western Digital 3TB Red WD30EFRX. Retired the two Samsung 1TB drives, F1 and F3. Together with my 2 NVMe and 1...

I just got a Western Digital 4TB Blue - WD40EZRZ 5400rpm drive Sitting outside of the case powered up, it is just as quiet as my odd collection of old WD Red 3TB, Samsung 1TB and 2TB F3, and 1TB F1 These drives are all 9-10+ years old now and still going strong :) My Corsair HX1200 fan never turns o...

Well as far as external HD I have used recently, bought new The Western Digital elements 4TB portable SE is really quiet, you can only hear it if you put your ear against it in a normal environment 120MB read/write so 5400rpm. Really small and USB 3 powered While the 10TB desktop non helium version ...

With the EVGA GTX 1070 FTW being passive at idle, even with 15-17 degree Celsius temps, it will eventually hit >50 idle temps. So I set the fan to come in at 40 and ramp up to 40% speed by 60. Now it idles at 45 degrees at 10% fan speed, about 250 rpm I can't hear it, can't even hear it working at 4...

Price has dropped for the EVGA GTX 1070 FTW on Newegg and Amazon Anyway I got my card today. It's been a dream so far. Monitoring it on MSI Afterbuner beta, and running benchmarks the core clock will hit 2000 on it's own and settle back to 1960+, weird..... That's well above the factory clock, and I...

My system would be fine with a quality 300W PSU, with an overclocked i5 and the 1070. I'm running an i7 3930k at 4ghz, which I think draws close to 300w at full tilt at that speed. Although I have under volted the CPU a bit. When I put the system together with the GTX 570 a few years back, the aim ...

I'm coming from a GTX 570 which drew over 300w under load, that died a month ago and I picked up a GTX 750TI, which runs at the same performance, but is a bit quieter, and draws hardly any power :) So it's going to be a big jump in performance both in games and in GPU 3D and video rendering :shock: ...

Thanks, think I will take the plunge, as it's quite cheap from NewEgg to me in Sydney, cheaper than buying locally....

Thought about the Gainward Phoenix, which is really quiet, but it's a bit too thick 2.5 slots

quest_for_silence wrote:

CoolColJ wrote:Anyone have coil whine with these EVGA GTX 1070 cards?
Reading a lot of reports on this

"A lot of" where?

Various Newegg reviews, a Youtube video/coments and other banter on other forums and EVGA's forum

Anyone have coil whine with these EVGA GTX 1070 cards?
Reading a lot of reports on this

This HD died on me a few months after I bought it, my first HD failure after having all Samsungs over the years!

I replaced it with a one of the newer and quieter Western Digitals - much happier

Actually I'm very happy with the FT-02 since I suspended my drives in it I got my system running damn near silent, regardless of the load, since I got the 1000w Kingwin LZP-1000. The fan never comes on in silent mode! The case is a perfect match for it - I can't think of another case that vents it v...

The same thing is happening with my Seasonic X-660. I've read that this is happening with most Seasonic and Corsair power supplies, and here in Spain no one sells Kingwin. Is there any other silent power supply of 660W-850W? Maybe the Antec HCP-750? PS: I've made a recording of my old and new PSUs:...

To the OP, is the iHBS212 blu ray drive you quiet?

Well it took over a week for the order to process at overstock.com, but once done, only one day to ship, well, fly here! Got the power supply hooked up and I'm pleased! Total absolute silence under load!!!! 8) :shock: :D At 15 degrees ambient, been Prime loading for 15 mins now and not a peep from t...

you would think a 6 core 970 would be much hotter having more cores than the 930. And a larger die size than the 3930k, at a not much lower core speed. The 970 is a 32 nm Gulftown core, and the 930 is a 45 nm Bloomfield, that's why the latter runs hotter. The 3930K on the other hand is a hot runnin...

AckeDman wrote:I was hoping this thread would have a pic of hdd suspension on the fractal design mini

Use your imagination

Thanks guys, it makes sense. And they are more expensive to boot But they are a lot neater around the CPU. Maybe in the future a heatpipe style cooler with a flexible tube instead, that can sit a massive heatsink/radiator outside that PC that runs passively would be ideal 8) One qualification: If y...

Thanks guys, it makes sense. And they are more expensive to boot

But they are a lot neater around the CPU.
Maybe in the future a heatpipe style cooler with a flexible tube instead, that can sit a massive heatsink/radiator outside that PC that runs passively would be ideal

I bet you won't have to wait long to see cheap SSDs on the used market. Only they will be low-capacity SSDs. But if you know what you're doing, you don't need more than that. SSDs are great but some RAM and some skill at configuration will go a long way. You can live without SSDs just fine. As an i...

Yes if you wait long enough, things will be cheaper, bigger and faster, but how long will you wait and when will you "get on the train"? You could die next week and never experience all of that :wink: And by the time you get what is cheap, it's probably too slow and small compared to everything else...

I spend 8 hours a day on my PC at least, so I can tell you SSD for the OS drive has been the single best improvement in user experience out of all the upgrades I've done over the years! :shock: I have more drives that are only turned on for backing/cloning too - 240GB Intel 520 SSD for OS, 512GB Cru...