Since Oblivion has been mentioned quite a bit in this thread, this is a nice comprehensive benchmark: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2746 I have a 7600GT atm and it's running nice and cool, and has decent performance in Oblivion (1024x768, mediumish settings, HDR enabled). Anything hi...

Here's a gem that may be of interest: attaching a tube from the water inlet (inside the reserator) to bring the warm water to the top does work a 3 ceclius miracle when nothing else has changed, and is not any more noisy Hehe, that's pretty funny ;) That was actually the first thing I thought about...

These are available in Sweden.

http://www.gtek.net/index.php?mode=item ... 1f7dd954c4

Should be quite similar to the blue ones mentioned above.

I now own one of these drives, a 120G 8meg cache model.
Haven't yet had the possibility to thoroughly check the noise level of the drive yet, but the first subjective impression i that it is fairly quiet. No whining idle noise.

I am also very interested in the noise level of these drives. Thinking about buying one of them, matrox claims a 2.5bel idle noise and that sounds quite good. But i have actually seen some conflicting measurements. An Extremetech review placed it ~2dB higher than the IBM 180GXP and about equal with ...

How well does it work?
Could you post some temp measurements perhaps?

Looks like a heavy beast

I have just built one of these: http://www.cpemma.co.uk/ef.html

Works very well and is cheap. Since i'm only going to use it with panaflo fans (2-3), i think a heatsink on the PNP-transistor would be overkill.

1) Does "articles" tell you enough about what that section is about? yep, but maybe a some small explanation of what the section is about on the "article page" would be appropriate. 2) Would brief summaries in the listing pages for Articles or Reviews or Mods & Projects help you? that would be nice...

It's not rocket science, pretty simple stuff (as most of all this is, really). Actually if we should believe John Carmack, even actual rocket science "isn't rocket science" :D Pretty intresting stuff: http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home (Totally unrelated but I immediately associat...

Ok, that´s why it´s ok now.
I remember noticing that It was a bit off the first time I read the article.

BladeRunner's system is so cool, must be the holy grail of silent yet high performace computing.

Too bad it requires an excavator and a water tank of a few hundred kilos

Hehe, you would have a hard time beating me in that contest

I going to build a new system shortly and since I have easy accesss to a digicam (my girlfriend has one ) it would be easy to document the whole process. I would gladly post that.

I reallly can recommend the Sony DDU-1621 DVD-ROM drive. It's really very quiet even when reading from cd/dvd-discs.

Easily the quietest drive I've ever heard.

Haven't seen that anyone has posted this already, so here I go: SR has reviewed the Cuda V, check this out: http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200210/20021014ST3120023A_6.html The Cuda V is actually 3dBA quieter than the Cuda IV! (and that's the ATA100 version, hope the SATA version will be as qu...

absolutely, those components won't draw more than ~100W at full load.

Take a look at the psu-reviews here at Silent PC Review. MikeC is using a Watt meter and measures the current draw of a 2Ghz P4 system with similar components and the max power usage doestn't exceed 100W by much.

very nice!

good to hear that, seems like the vga cooling bit is solved for my silent system at least

yep, it went really fine!

seems like we even won't have to pay any VAT and toll
(ssh.. just don't tell Tullverket in sweden )

the final price was actually approximatively $4/fan.
Pretty good!

question a) the short answer is yes. but I'm going to do better than that :) you could check out this very informative thread on Ars OpenFourm discussing exactly the tailing of panaflo L1As: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=77909585&m=8550981793 should answer your que...

Oz> oh, ok! that explains it

well, I have ordered now, 10 fans for Choy.

If he doesn't want more than 8, i'll take the two extra.

the order grew quite a bit, I ordered a grand total of 60 fans!! hope they have that many in stock

ok, just waiting for a final confirmation from choy, and then I'm ordering.

The price will probably be 55kr/fan, surely not more than 60kr/fan at least.

Oz> how come you you speak swedish by the way?

I have a few more people who are interested, so if it's ok with you guys I'll order 40 fans soon. 10 fans (or would you rather want 8?) for Choy 4 fans for Oz is that right? As soon as I get your confirmations I'll order. Choy> I don't think they ship by ground mail, else I think she would have give...

Ok, good! I just want to see if any more of my friends would be interested before we order. I guess we could order sometime in the beginning in a couple of days or so. Is that ok with you guys? Oz> If it's possible for you I think the easiest way would be if one of your friends would transfer money ...

Ok, here is a deal for you swedes. I mailed bgmicro and asked about shipping costs for 20 and 30 fans to sweden. Here is the reply: "Hi, I won't know the exact amount until the order is actually packed, but I can come pretty close. 20 fans would be about 32.00 for airmail, or 42.00 for express. 30 f...

I'm in sweden too, and I'd be intrested in buying a few panaflos too.

feldt> maybe we could get together and share shipping costs for say 20 fans or so?

Or even better, if there are more swedes here?

Hehe, now that was a bit dissapointing... :o At least, I hope that they are using a good quality thermal interface material between the core and the heatspreader. :) btw. This should mean that you could achieve better cooling if you removed the heatspreader from the P4, right? Maybe that's a project...

I sure envy you americans, with access to quiet cheap fans (panaflo fans for 3$, right?). I live in Sweden and I haven't seen Panaflos available anywhere. If I want a quiet fan I have to buy a Papst, which will cost me 17-18$, approx converted from swedish kronor. And thats the best price I can find...

I have also read the same review that FraZor pasted a link to (digitlife) and after that I recently bought a Sony DDU1621. I can say that the drive hasn't disappointed me at all to this point. It is very quiet (it would probably be inaudible in a normal pc-rig, in my (silent) computer it is audible ...