a short remark by myself (before some other admin starts to flame me, too ;) ): my idle/load "test" is quite messy, too. i don't have the time nor equipment to test or compare SP-97 to HT-101, but i can assure you, that my personal feeling is, that the HT-101 does the job a lot more quiet, giving ap...

What temperatures are you getting with your current HSF (including ambient)? Or what is it's actual CFM rating and how many watts is your cpu processor running at? the stock fan does 29.6cfm at ~2500 rotations. however, i have no idea what the actual performance is, as i said it does ~1000 rpm with...

right, the tiny little 80mm stock fan. bigger fans wouldn't make too much sense, unless drop one fan and use a duct to a 120mm case- or PSUfan.

nay, it's currently running with the stock fan at ~1000 RPM (really good fan once you've slowed it down a bit - even less speed is beyond my possibilities atm.), but i guess a semi-passive solution would work with some ducting. anyway, ducting or using PSU-fan for cooling should be a lot easier than...

the best of the three would be the SI-97, but i would (and did) buy neither of them. i just changed my thermalright SP-97 for a aerocool ht-101 tower-cooler, and i'm quite pleased with it. the three coolers you proposed all ruin your airflow, plus they all tend to generate vibration noises, and it's...

I voted #1, as I know I'd never be able to get the same amount of low airflow cooling as I've got in a cramped SFF/HTPC case. It's probably not impossible, but just much more of a challenge when you don't have much space to work with. Imagine if you will though, an SFF case with no drives (say the ...

the design doesn't play the role here, because i make the case myself. the airflow design remains the same, big or small, as i will only use 1x 120mm case fan and 1x 120mm PSU fan. the air intakes should have the same size, too, no matter what size the case is. the difference between big and small c...

hi guys, first of all i want to apologize for every mistake in this post, i'm german and a quite regular poster on http://www.silenthardware.de/forum (greetings ;) ). i'm posting because the discussion following a post of mine on silenthardware.de didn't quite satisfy me. i'm going to build my own p...