I think Blue_Sky is right - I certainly very rarely leave an opinion as I don't feel I have the experience to coment in most cases. However, I just thought I would say that the Scythe Ninja in fact comes with a 120mm fan and is even more highly effective (although noisier) than when used passively.

Folding at Home makes no sense when viewed from a global benefit economic perspective. So far the results haven't made a significant impact medically and combined people are using literally 1000s of extra kilowatts to run folding at home. I can see running it on an already running computer, but run...

Trip , I really enjoyed the links in your first post (and the possible explanations in your second post were even better). It seems clear to me that aliens must be involved somewhere - probably those green saliva-dripping ones on the Simpsons. The reason they're on the Simpsons is to fool us into t...

Ralf Hutter wrote:Keller & Schonwalder - Live at Jodrell Bank

I must say that I've never associated Jodrell Bank (site of a very large radio telescope a few miles outside Manchester) with live music. You learn something new every day!

i will be able to cool 3800 with scythe ninja and nexus. the lian li v1000 series case is probably quieter and 100% better quality than any cases that the 2 above me owned. Over the years there's been a lot of discussion on the forums about the pros and cons of steel v aluminium cases. The overwhel...

I entirely agree with your opinion about viral marketing, but I don't think your poll is valid. the whole point about viral marketing is that the victim thinks they are receiving unbiased advice. That is several orders of magnitude more useful to the vendor than any amount of direct advertising, so ...

Six.

Edit: I don't know about the heatpipe.

Fat_bloater_dave wrote:Heh compleatly off topic but i see that you two joined on the same day Steerpike and MikeC...

That's when SPCR was born!

You need to say whether we should count income before or after tax. Does it also include overtime? I get a third of my pay from overtime payments! Depending on whether you count the overtime and/or the tax I could be in any of the top 3 categories - so I haven't voted. Can't complain about the salar...

HD is not suspended. Does that make a difference even when it's idle? I would figure the normal rotation wouldn't be enough to do much, but next time I boot I'll disable it. I don't understand what you've said here at all, but I suspect you've minunderstood what is meant by HDD suspension. Suspensi...

Well, the silence is so golden that I've decided to leave things as they are. I suspect I could bring down the temperature a few degrees by sorting out my cabling and improving the airflow through the system (I have a very low flow Sonata setup with no modifications), but I can't be bothered at the ...

I've just upgraded my graphics card to an Asus AX800XT (AGP version). The blurb and a couple of reviews I read promised silence, but I didn't really believe it and bought an ATI silencer 4 (rev. 2) at the same time. (Yes, yes, I know that they get variable reviews, but I was going to give it a try a...

There are several threads on this in the forums. The bottom line is that no disc drives are quiet, but they can be vastly improved with the help of software such as Nero silentdrive (I think that's what it's called). The Asus drive comes with the Nero software and (speaking from personal experience)...

I definitely wouldn't use blu-tack. It's a bit more extreme, temperature-wise, but I rested my cup of tea against some blu-tack by mistake and it went very gooey and horrible. Darthan's idea sounds good. If you haven't got any packing material, then how about buying a kitchen sponge and cutting it t...

I've just been looking into a fairly similar problem. I've bought a new Asus X800XT graphics card and an Arctic Cooling Silencer to go with it. So far I've left the stock cooling solution in place as it is actually pretty good (although some problems with the fan clicking at slow speeds). Your post ...

Elgar - The Music Makers

scruzbeachbum wrote:Looks like they may have restocked.

... except that that's a fanned PCI card instead of a fanless AGP card ...

Have you tried QuietPC.com? More expensive, but in stock.

You've probably got CnQ enabled. That's a good thing! Enjoy the silence!

The Fall of the Leaf - Elegy for Orchestra. Gerald Finzi

You might find this thread helpful.

I keep forgetting to post my experiences with the Nexus-Drive-a-way. I bought one a couple of weeks ago. I'm afraid I have no previous experience of drive enclosures so I can't give any comparisons. Anyway, the background is that I have a Samsung SP1214 drive in a Sonata case. The drive is pretty qu...

Hi suchageek ! I'm afraid you'll just have to put my heretical opinions down to my amateur and junior status in the world of computing (and, yes, my XX chromosomes) :) Within reason, I always go for form over function (that is, I won't go for a duff product, but I would choose a second placed produc...

Let me live up to some gender stereotyping here...

I couldn't care less what it's called, but if it looks pretty, I'll be going for it .

I bought mine from Kustom PCs.

I can only give you my experience of my Nexus plugged into the "fan only" connector on the Sonata PSU (according to the SPCR review, this supplies 5V). The fan only starts up 2/3 to 3/4 of the time. I now automatically check the fan whenever I turn the computer on, and give it a quick whirl to get i...

I think you could put pretty much anything you like underneath the sorbothane - it's not going to be in direct contact with any hot components. But why not just give it a try with the sorbothane alone? The bottom of the case is noticeably cooler than the top, so you may well find that the extra heig...

I have my hard drive sitting inside one of the Sonata pull out drive trays on the floor of the computer case on a solid square of sorbothane. There is no air movement to speak of down there, but as it is at the bottom of the case it always stays very cool - much cooler than any other components. The...

Hi Nick, and welcome to SPCR!

I'm sure you'll have no problem at all with a 300W PSU (especially a good quality one such as the Seasonic). You might find a perusal of this thread reassuring.

Thanks for the suggestion, but in a month's time my job is going to change radically and my laptop usage will drop radically too. I did debate on changing the power brick, but I really don't think it's worth it now. If my laptop usage changes again in the future, I will definitely revisit the idea.