*badum tisch!*

What do these two look like, for those of us that don't know?

My A2 is fine... No ramping and amazingly silent! But if you need an A3, go for it

Try shifting things around on the 2nd ide channel. with the DVD/CD as master and HD3 as slave? Will do :) I'm sure its not power problem. I can run all kinds of devices off this system without any power problems. That was with my old psu, 230watts, the new one is 400watts, so it should be groovy :)

Anyone?

Ok, installed both the drives (with one drive replacing my second DVDROM drive). All drives are detected at startup, with both the newly installed drives showing up with SMART errors (I knew they were a bit screwed anyway). In Windows XP only IDE0 and IDE1 are detected (Drive C and the other Partiti...

It can't be that hard... its just a tone pot and a couple of resistors.

Anyone have any links to a project type site? I really need some schematics for the PCB nore than anything.

I need to upgrade my motherboard soon, I've recently gone through and silenced all the noisey bits of my current machine, so I don't want to put in a motherboard that has one of those tiny noisey fans on it!

Any idea which motherboards will be quiet, or which can have fans swapped for heatsinks etc?

Will the wood not act as a massive amplifier for the drive noise?
Vibrating up the elastic like guitar strings.

I've just bought a new power supply, so I guess I'll reconnect the drives and see what happens.

Can I get all three drives working as I suggested above?

Now all you have to do is skin XP so it looks like OS X

Appologies first, as this isn't really an HD silencing thread... I have three HDs. 1x 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (ST3160021A) 1x 160GB Western Digital WD1600 (WD1600JB-00EVAO) 1x 200GB Maxtor (The drives in a box at the minute so I can't get the full specs) I bought the WD drive to replace the S...

When you suspend the drives, how high will you be having them?

I'll be mounting mine about 1cm from the base of my case, that way, if they do slip, its a short trip to the ground.

I just got the Super Tornado 400 and its amazing! Silent! I was going to go for the 4090 but was put off by some reviews and problem threads on this site. The 120mm fan is more than enough for my systems cooling, I think an extra 80mm would add more noise than bennifit pushing air... if you get what...

I had a similar problem... mine smelled of that electrical burning "brown out" smell... was gone after a few hours use.

You can really hear it? What chip do you have it on? On my AMD 2800+ its silent... a little noisey as its starting up, but when it slows down its silent. If I switch off the other fans the machine is silent. I'm just worried about the HD going bad if I allow it to run without a fan on it. I know it ...

Its outside of the case and bolted in tightly into a metal holder (which will help with some of the cooling)

Right now with the fan back in its running at 28 degrees and I've just been watching some TV shows I taped earlier and surfing...

As some of you will know I have the silencing bug :) Wondering what silent compnent I should invest in next (I've recently bought and arctic copper silent cooling TC 2 and a super tornado 400x PSU), I had the bright idea to disconnect both of the 80mm fans in my case. Wow... its amazing, totally sil...

Yup... smell is gone, or maybe I'm just used to it now :) I haven't experienced any ramping... was this a fault with all models or was it more of a lotto??? As usual I can hear the HD accessing now :D, time to get a fan controller then mount the HDs in some sort of bungee device :) Ahh... the life o...

Temps at the mo.... (I'm burning a DVD and have some torrents open)

160GB Seagate HD: 35 degrees C
AMD 2800+: 49 degrees C
System: 37 degrees C

Just installed my new PSU and everything is groovy! Check out my thread in the PSU forum

Well its great! No ramping or anything... it does smell a little burny though... That nasty brown out smell... I guess its just setting in though. CPU temps are down considerably! Right down to 49 degrees great stuff! I just need a fan controller now to lower my front and rear case fans to make it p...

Okeedokeee... its in... I just booted up... I'm waiting for it to spin down so its silent

Seems great so far, its quieter starting than my FSP Group ATX-250Gt unit, its replacing.

I do have some major SMART errors on my HDs though So I'm reluctant to restart the machine incase it all dies

Bugger... ok... I'll try it anyway!

Why can't I install it now?!?!?!?!?!!!!

It says REV A2 ABC123 on the side of the PSU in a box marked Rev and in the manual it says... well it says nothing... hmmm....

Woohoo! Just about to install it! Fingers crossed everything goes ok! :) Just a warning to others in the UK if you're purchasing from xcase.co.uk they didn't even package the bloody thing! The box (the actual box it comes in, no extra packaging at all!!!) looked damaged and scratched to hell with my...

Thermaltake 80mm fans and controller

Chaps, any idea if this is a quiet package?

I've heard the thermaltake stuff can be quite noisy.

Thanks

No, they aren't... (and I have absolutly no idea how to do that!)

Gaskets? Like a rubber seal around fan cut outs and such?

I just found an old tub of moulding latex I made a halloween mask out of a year or so ago. Any idea what latex is like for sound proofing? I'm considering pouring a layer over the inside of my side panels, then topping off with some foam. What do you lot think of this? Will it work, or just be a was...

A bit off topic, but how do you check the power meter? Is there a program to download, or are you using a volt meter?