Thanks, I'll check out those suggestions.

Any recommendations for fans in this size? I have a server in an Intel case that has a freakishly loud fan (pretty sure it's a Delta). This thing sounds like a leaf blower when it goes on high, and is annoyingly loud when it's running at normal speed. Due to how the fan mounts to both the case and a...

I put an AC Twin Turbo Pro on my Sapphire 5850, and used the original stock cooler metal backplate as my heatsink. It's the ONLY heatsink I'm using for the non-gpu-itself chips. GPU-Z is reporting (after running a few days, and idle in Win7): GPU Temp: 45C GPU Temp1: 45.5C GPU Temp2: 47C GPU Temp3: ...

I wanted a new cooler for my Sapphire Radeon 5850 card, and after some research decided on the Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo Pro. I read that it doesn't quite support the 5850, as 11 of the fins would need to be trimmed to clear a DVI port. In fact, some internet pictures showed that the Twin Turbo Pro ...

How are you getting the temp of that VRM?

Last night my Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo Pro arrived, so I dissected my Radeon 5850 card. I had done some research and expected that I'd need to remove a section of 11 of the fines for it to fit on the 5850. Those fins would need to be removed to clear one of the two DVI connectors. To my surprise, t...

@ OP, shouldn't this be in the General Gallery forum? @ FJC & frost , I think you should remove the internal exhaust fan grills for less air restriction. I am the OP. :) This doesn't fall under Cases and Dampening, being a semi-review of a case? I was eyeing those internal grills myself, especially...

Thanks! Yeah, that PSU's description says it has 4 PCI-e connectors (of which my video card uses two) - but I swear it has more than that. I took the extra cables, coiled them up and zip-tied them together at the bottom of the case to keep them out of the way. My AC Twin Turbo Pro is scheduled to ar...

Great photos - thanks for pointing me to this thread from my B25SB thread in the Case forum.

I wasn't able to snake my CPU power cable through that small hole - I'm amazed you did. I might have to try a little harder now.

I recently built up a new gaming/general use computer, then decided to move it to one of the new Lian Li B25SB cases. I took a few pictures of some parts of the case for a friend of mine, and thought I'd drop them here as well to help out anyone that's considering this case. Overall, I'm very happy ...

Quick followup - on Friday I hooked two computers to the UPS, as well as my cable modem and router. These are high powered pc's, running high-end video cards (7800GTX in one, ATI AIW9800 in the other). Running both computers with video cards doing heavy graphics, the Powerchute software tells me I'm...

Well, I gave in and bought on today, from a local store (so can return it if needed). I'll hook it up in a day or two and post a quicky review, and watch for the coil noise and such.

So far, just plugging it in and hearing it's self-test, the fan is quite quiet...

Updated to include the right APC model number...had the letters wrong...

I'm considering a big APC UPS (the RS 1500 unit) to provide battery backup and conditioning for a bunch of my equipment. I noticed it has a fan on the rear, and the APC site says max noise is 45dba/1meter. Does anyone have one of these? Does the fan run all the time, intermittently, or just when the...

Has anyone heard whether Arctic Cooling will put out a compatible Silencer for the 7800's? (I read that a new Asus 7800 has one right out of the box). Same here, my MSI 7800GTX is pretty quiet, but does have a higher-pitched noise than my other fans, so it is noticable. Also, I'm sure it'd help my ...

Asus P5WD2 motherboard here in my P180, with a Seasonic S12-500W power supply. I mounted the power supply fan-down. The 12v cable barely reaches the connector on the P5WD2 (located at the top-left of the motherboard, near the keyboard connector). I have it basically going across the motherboard, jus...

I just installed a Scythe Ninja on a new P5WD2 motherboard by Asus. I built this system just before the weekend, but unfortunately the Ninja didn't arrive until yesterday. I didn't want to waste a whole weekend looking at all the unassembled parts, so I built the system anyway, using the heatsink/fa...

I just bought one and received it yesterday from www.directron.com.

Disregard - I've opted to get a Scythe Ninja, as that seems to be just about perfect with the P180 case.

I'm building up a new system in an Antec P180 case, with a P4 3.6 processor on an Asus P5WD2 motherboard. Anyone out there with this combo (or something close) that can recommend a CPU heatsink/fan? I'm considering the Thermalright XP-120 with a Nexus fan, but wanted to make sure that would fit, or ...

LOL didn't think I'd be missed THAT much! I did consider posting that I was going to shut down for a bit, but as you can imagine I don't really like to post that my home will be unattended for long periods of time. :) I did have someone checking in on my house every day or two, but didn't want to le...

Well i just installed neverwinter nights, and i dont know if the card is overheating, but the screen is tearing. Even at 12v, the heatink on the videocard gets (amazingly hott), i played nvn for 30 minutes and my case was pooring out heat so I opened it up and the heatsink felt like it was gonna me...

I just got an email from SVC stating that they have the VGA Silencer on sale right now for $21.99. I'm not sure how long that price is good, though.

The 4.0 client is out of beta now, and available for general download:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegrou ... nload.html

-The only thing that annoys me now is that my Iiyama Visionmaster Pro seems to have nasty intermittant coil whine coming from it. It was pretty bad a few days ago, but seems to have shut up for now. My wife had a 17" Iiyama that used to be my main monitor. After many years of use it developed that ...

LOL those anti-motivational pictures are hilarious.

My apologies if I came down a bit too hard there, I certainly don't think anyone was intentionally being disrespectful.

I don't qualify as a long-term user, having only had mine for about a week, but I must say that this is by far the quietest hard drive I've ever worked with.

I've never worked with any of the Shuttle boxes, so I can't speak from experience as to how to best quiet it down. What is causing the noise? PSU?

The whole idea here is that spare CPU cycles don't go to waste, when they can be put to use to potentially help solve cancer and other diseases. If a PC is going to be on anyway, we should run F@H on it. If a person *chooses* to run a PC more than they normally would, or buy systems specifically for...

Thanks! I'm using the SageTV software (version 1.4.10, and anxiously awaiting the beta of 2.0). It does not offer PiP functionality, at least not at this time. My TV does offer that, though, so I *could* watch 'regular' tv, with the HTPC picture in picture-in-picture. That would be quite slick! I ca...