My MacBook had the 60 gb SATA 5400.2 momentus. It was quiet and didn't vibrate. Then it suffered a fatal hard drive crash doing nothing but sitting on the table. So I put in a 7200 in there, and returned it to the store and paid the restocking fee. The entire notebook was vibrating and humming. Curi...

The iMac has 3 fans inside it, in addition to the hard drive. It might be quiet, but for how long? Fans wear out and these are not replacement fans you can get from the local shop on the corner. I have a hard drive enclosure 2.5 for travelling with, and when it's turned on even when it's inside it's...

Fujitsu Lifebook p7120
Fanless, backlighting of LCD is by LEDs instead of fluorescents and the hard drive in the unit is a 1.8".

Now to see what Apple brings out in January.

I bought a Vantec Nexstar 3, the fancy new ones that come in 4 different colours, for portability. I put in the 30 gig deathstar 75 gxp drive that was loud both seek wise, and vibration buzzing and whining motor into it. It got much much quieter. I was kind of shocked. I guess 18 gauge or whatever t...

I was sitting here thinking, none of the modern CPUs can be cooled passively for the most part.. with the exception of stuff that will come down the pike in the future. So I was sitting here thinking about all the old systems that are possibly still good, but then I realized, most of them belong in ...

The difference in CPU temperature is good for hmm, 7, possibly 8 degrees C in idle temp because of the 120mm fan over the CPU compared to the Phantom. The PSU is SMALL.. and it's light. But it does seem well put together, and the voltages are very good. It's the newer version with the ADDA fan and t...

I was waiting till it arrived, but it's arrived now, and I've ordered it.

It's the 330w version with the aluminum capacitors.

So hopefully when it arrives at my house I'll have better luck with it than I did with the previous 2 PSU attempts.

Rusty, why a 430?

From your rough wattage math you only come up to 216 watts..

Why not go with a 330w S12 as a choice instead? It's cheaper, and you can potentially benefit from a higher efficiency curve.

Pioneer drives are usually the quietest but I don't like their firmwares at this present point in time.

I have a NEC 3520 burner, and it is louder at reading than the Pioneer 120 dvdrom I have, etc.

But yes, the case does make a difference.

Hi, a followup.. I've been away from my comp for a couple days, so I left the power off.. basement smells fine, so it was definitely the computer and not stuff nearby. I still haven't had time to change the PSU to the old one, but I did turn it on today briefly. Within 1 minute of poweron I was able...

I read a review of a S12 that showed that the model being reviewed, forget the # but figure they should all be the same, uses a connector for the fan, which is great. No soldering!

I asked Fortron if it's the same circuit board as the Green Power, and they said no.

That said, the unit is still interesting.

Anyone going to try it? It's already available and in-stock in North America. Cheaper than a Phantom too.

Perhaps even more impressive however is the unique Twin Turbo design which changes the power consumption and clock speed of the CPU on the fly according to the required CPU utilization. CJ Holthaus, Director of System Validation at Centaur Technology demonstrated this technology on a 1.5GHz system....

In case anyone is curious, I asked Fortron if the circuit board on the Green Power was the same as on their fanless Zen PSU and they said no.

Thanks for the replies guys.. If it's the PSU I'm not having much luck then with them. Previous mb blew up so I bought an Enermax Noisetaker and couldn't use it because it smelled too much, so I RMA'ed it and got back a scuffed up one that was only marginally better. So I shelved it and bought a Pha...

Ok here's the situation.. increasingly, I'm finding the room full of a 'electronics' smell. Not burning, just a 'hot equipment' smell, mildly fumey Problem is, the smell bothers me. There's only 2 possible things it could be, the CPU which is a Palomino XP 1700 using Arctic Silver 5 (does this compo...

I do know unfortunately.. I happen to be chemically sensitive. :( Mostly hydrocarbon solvents though (can cause a problem with aerosol air fresheners often, look at the MSDS those are petroleum sprays). However my new futon has this acrid 'sweet' smell that doesn't seem to go away despite being near...

I was wondering, when your supply runs warm, do you find that it generates a mild odour? Not a burning smell, but an electronics smell?

Unless it's some of the other junk surrounding me. I think it's the PSU though.

Hi,

So a followup.. I installed the replacement Phantom around Feb 22nd and to date as of May 9th everything has been working fine, no problems. The warmer weather is starting now so it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

I guess I can answer my own question. My hands were cold, so I felt around the casing. The hottest spot seems to be the upper back left where the corner is.. to position correctly, the blue is facing forward away from you, you are behind the PSU, your right hand is where the cords come out, and the ...

Hi, I'm asking this question because I'm going to soon get a dual temp monitor and defan my 8500, and since I will be using the bezel to set baseline 'before and after' values with the case open and closed, I want to use the other probe for the Phantom so I can monitor the temperature of the casing....

I've been very unhappy with my Samsung experience. I tried a 12xx series first, quickly returned after a big fight because it wasn't doing what I had hoped for. Then I paid MORE money and upgraded it to a 1450. Problems I've had with it since day 1: The printer smells, AND the print quality sucks. I...

http://www.samsung.com/Dn/Down.asp?path=/Products/HardDiskDrive/images&file=2005SHDDpocket.pdf&realname=2005SHDDpocket.pdf&country=HQ The above is a direct link to a PDF of Samsung's new product brochure.. scroll towards the bottom where they have the specs on some of their new audio-friendly hard ...

Ok I installed the replacement Phantom. Watch out Canadians though, it came UPS, so you will have to pay the robber in the brown truck for the 'brokerage' or taxes, or whatever. It got shipped on the manifest as a purchase rather than a replacement. I'll see if I can clear this up but probably this ...

Where I live (Canada) none of the stores stock the models listed on various webpages.. But your idea about the adapter is really interesting.. I can get a SATA hd to PATA adapter? And have it just work? With no signal integrity issues or anything? How much do those adapters cost? It sounds ideal as ...

But did your PSU smell?? I had the same model, and even months later it kept smelling, so I RMA'd it, and got back another one which had the exact same stench. Makes me think they just swapped the case out and sent me back the exact same drive as the distributor it went to is known to be less than t...

I want a single platter quiet harddrive with 8 megs of cache.. Only Western Digital makes 8 meg single platter drives, but I'm not sure I should trust them even though they use FDB now and SPCR indicated they may have improved since the original 800JB's came out. Everyone else with an 80 Seagate, Sa...

Antec got back to me, I have to applaud Mr. Richards and his/Antec's superb customer service. Antec is sending me a replacement and I will be sending them back my old one for analysis to see what went wrong. They are doing this right away, and they are doing it fast. It doesn't get much better than ...

My Phantom went boom just now. And it was definitely not an OTP thing because I did manage to get it turned on after it was ice cold and it stayed up for about 5 minutes before giving up the ghost for good. I cried about the experience here: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=19451 My ...

Below is the message I wrote initially: Sometime between 1 am and 11 am my computer shut itself off. I came downstairs, and pressed the power button on my computer and it didn't turn on. So I turned off the power supply switch on the back, back on, and then pressed on. The lights on the front flicke...