I ran across some interesting commentary while doing some more research on the hard drive cooling: Looking for a hard drive enclosure that not only quiets your hard drive, but also DECREASES your hard drive temperature? See the Smart Drive 2002 Copper. The Smart Drive 2002 Copper is safe even for y...

Yeh, that first PCI-express (VIDEO CARD!) slot looks like it will get very close to that 2nd cpu fan. I'm also taking into consideration there is a margin of error in my mockup, so it's possible it won't work at all. Although, at this point, I'm willing to take the chance since it looks like there i...

It's better to get a weather forecast and reschedule a parade rather than blindly holding the parade only to be rained out. :) According to my rough measurements the XP-120s should fit horizontally and vertically. I'm not sure about the clearance over all the other stuff on the mobo. http://img111.e...

Well, I think I'm sold on Yeong Yan YY-0221B after some research on the modding work several people have done on it. Most of it looks like it shouldn't be too hard to do w/o annoying all my apartment neightbors. Some of the cool mods I saw for it: http://www.digistar.com/~gizmo/index.html http://www...

I've been browsing all sorts of forums for an answer to the dilemma for my soon-to-be upgrade: how to quietly cool a fairly high-end Opteron rig with two 15k SCSI drives and two 7.2k IDE drives while minimizing ambient case temperature w/o the use of watercooling? (I'm running dual 2.8 Xeon's in a S...

Ok, ordered some Papst fans as well as a Zalman to replace every fan except the PSU. I'm not too sure what to do with that one...

Any ideas would be accepted!

My Xeon 2.4s hit 32c-36c at load, depending on the season. :p I've never measured my hard drives, but they should be fairly cool since the 92mm Panaflo is right behind them blowing the air out. (All of them are luke warm to the touch) The Thermaltake (supposedly) has the same CFM as the Nidec, yet p...

I have a heck of a lot of components in my system, and I know I won't be able to achieve quiet. So, I'm shooting for quieter. :) The noise making components that I'm willing to change are pretty much just the fans. (Including the one in my PS) Problem is that I can't sacrifice too much CFM in exchan...

The fan shows up in the fanspecs.xls/pdf. Couldn't find it myself.