One review:
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-2 ... -SC101.php

I believe there are some other reviews out there, too, if you look around. It's been a couple of months since I looked at NAS, so sorry I can't offer more.

How is it at 1x for movie playback? My current drive, a LiteOn (*spit* *hawk*) clicks and whirs even then, which is somewhat offputting... I popped in my Wasabi DVD into my 3520 and it is very quiet. The same cannot be said for the one CD I tried. However, I know some CDs play louder than others, f...

Jan Kivar wrote:BTW, Neil: VIA doesn't have a native SATA controller yet. AFAIK nForce3-based boards have.

Cheers,

Jan

Yes. I purchased the DFI 250GB and installed XP with SP2 onto a SATA drive *without* needing a floppy drive.

I bought the SATA 80G from newegg a couple of weeks ago, and mine was a JVC too. No audible whine outside the case, though seeks are loud. Those Anetc rubber grommets don't quite do the job.

Try it and see.

I recently bought 3520 and have been very pleased with it. I haven't heard a 3500. I can't comment on the higher burn speeds, but burning a DVD+RW at 4X and a CDRW at 10X is extremely quiet. I thought it wasn't doing anything at first, till I saw the progress bar. Previous drive was a Yamaha CDRW Mo...

Agreed. Good thing it doesn't feel like that to me.

Maybe you guys are thinking about a different Dell keyboard. We've been buying Dells every year since '99, and it gets quieter every year. There is no way you can compare the keyboard shipped today to the ones even from 2002. It is much quieter. Not trying to be difficult, but that's the way it is. ...

I wonder if any of you have tried Dell's keyboard ? It's been refined throughout the years, although I don't know who the actual manufacturer is. To me it's quieter than the LX500 I played with at Best Buy. I'm not sure which revision of keyboard it is, but any dell shipped during the past one to tw...

Somebody here used the Nexus on the XP-120 without modification. Here it is:

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=16965

Just as a followup, I installed a new 120GB 7200.7 PATA 8MB cache, also from China. Very quiet. No whine, seeks *seem* to be quiet (with 3 drives, it's hard to say, but boot up was pretty quiet.). I didn't detect much vibration when I held it. I also have 4 200GB SATA Seagates, and a 160GB. None of ...

I just got a 40 GB 7200.7 from NewEgg, also from China. Seek noise and vibration seem virtually non-existent. However it has a high-pitched whine which does not fade much with direction or closing the case.

We have the stock cooler on an Athlon64 2800+. With CNQ enabled, CPU temp is 38C at idle and the fan is about 1370 rpm at idle. It's usually around 80F ambient. Pretty quiet. When it's not idling, I can hear the fan whining on the other side of the room. Sorry, don't have any load numbers on me.

1.8 G's it is. As I said, I haven't fired up the monitor in a good while. CPU temp is 38C at idle and the fan is about 1370 rpm at idle. I should also note that I only have once stick of memory. Alot of people have reported problems with more than one stick. Also, check MSI's own forum. You'll proba...

I'm using the K8N Neo Platinum with a 2800+. Windows Server 2003 with the AMD driver. It works as expected for me. spends most of it's time at 800 MHz, but ramps up to at least 1200 MHz when I do something CPU intensive. Sorry I don't remember the exact numbers; it's been quite awhile since I loaded...

I have a Kingwin External USB rack. It has once done the "drive is still accessed" thing, and it didn't allow to eject it after 10 mins of waiting. The trick that helped was to open a Windows Explorer window and click every partition (=drive) on the removable drive (and then close the window). Then...

Greetings. Thought I'd relate my 2 cents. Over the summer we installed two internal Kingwin KF-81-T-BK SATA racks: http://kingwin.com/pdut_detail.asp?LineID=&CateID=44&ID=164 One went into a server running W2003 Server with an MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard. The other into a Dell 4600 running XP P...