As you say, it's a bit of a lottery with the ebuyer generic stuff. You've just got to keep your eyes open and go by the reviews.

I don't suppose these fans are as quiet as the Panaflos, Papst, Noiseblockers, Nexus's etc but they are a tenth of the price!

ebuyer.co.uk has cheap and quiet fans available in the UK. The 92mm fan is £0.46 and the 120mm fan is £1.05. They are black, no-name devices. The 92mm fan has a 4-pin connector and the 120mm is 3-pin with an adaptor lead to convert to 4-pin. I chose the 92mm fans to run at 5V on intake, exhaust and ...

Novatech has 80mm and 120mm Nexus fans and power supplies too.

Well, I said I'd report back when I got my Sapphire Radeon 9100. Had it for a couple of months now and very impressed too. Performance ahead of the Radeon 9000 for less money, and not far from the GeForce Ti4200 for less than half its cost. My 3DMark2001 score increased by nearly 80% :lol: I took th...

The heatsink is quite small - smaller anyway than the Enermax in the article. The fan is partly blocked by the transformer, so this doesn't help with the noise. No coil whine or buzz on mine. I've fitted an ARX fan, which is a bit quieter and was very cheap, although it still spins up under load. Th...

Well, I suppose it is a quick DIY alternative to Electro-Convulsive Therapy for the more mentally disturbed members of the forum.

Nurse, the screens!!

I've stuck my fingers in a number of psu's while they were powered up and running a computer (too see how hot the heatsinks/coils were getting) and I never got shocked once. However, I've been shocked several times working on other projects and it really doesn't hurt. It just jiggles your arm a bit...

Check your BIOS. I have the Asus A7V333 mobo and temps dropped by about 15C after I flashed to BIOS rev 1012. Check the Asus site for more details. As far as I know, Asus Probe is fine - your temps look OK as well. Try installing the trial version of CPU Idle - wth Q Fan operating, this enables you ...

Isn't Gainward producing a silent version of the GeForce FX?

Nice - it's even better when you get the results for nearly nothing!

What's the WCPR tweak? I'm trying out CPU Idle at the moment, which has dropped my idle temp by 13-15C to 30-35C!

WOW! :D Installed CPU Idle and my idle temp dropped by a massive 13C straight away!! With Q Fan operating on my Asus mobo, this meant that my Zalman fan slowed right down and the the PSU did too. Brilliant! This means that I can remove an exhaust fan to reduce noise even further. This has to be one ...

Update your BIOS to a later version to cure this 'problem'. I've got an Asus A7V333 too and was worried about my temps - 67C CPU/37C MB idle according to AsusProbe. This was under BIOS rev 1008. When I flashed to rev 1012 the temps dropped by 10-15C and I was mighty relieved!! BIOS's from rev 1012 h...

I was dealing with the UK company, the others are franchises I think.

Another good UK resource for retailer feedback is http://www.romulus2.com/feedback/chart.php?1&1

Some awful customer relations horror stories - dabs.com and Mesh, for example...

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Thanks for the Opera search.ini hack BTW, very cool . Also changed the Amazon search to .co.uk.

Got my Evercool and ARX fans now (thanks Quicklyshop, you are indeed quick!) and tried them out. IMO the ARX was a bit quieter - the Evercool was more whiny and vibrated more. At 12V there was quite a lot of higher frequency noise and some vibration in both (don't believe the claimed 23dBA!). But at...

So how would I rank em with the fans I have. 1. Panaflo 80mm L1A 2. Chieftec 92mm (just edges ahead with it's smoother broadband sound) 3. £2 ZDL 80mm fans 4. Zalman 92mm fans :D :D :D :D :D :D Interested to hear your comparisons with Panaflos, as I have been thinking along the same lines. I've ord...

jhh - let me know when you are off to the States as I am interested in your offer to bring back some Panaflos. Need to experiment with my setup first to determine numbers/sizes though.

Asked e-buyer about their Evercool fan and they replied: Unfortunately we are unable to offer pre-sales/product queries/ compatibility advice. Please see individual manufacturers web sites for further information. So I won't be buying from a company who won't tell you what products they are selling!...

Just wanted to spread some good news about excellent customer service from quietpc.com. I e-mailed them yesterday about a spare part and they replied that they didn't usually sell them separately, but they mailed it to me free of charge anyway and I got it today! :D So many thanks to Glenn at www.qu...

I did a couple of simple tests this morning comparing the Panaflo 1M fan and the Evercool. TomG - I'd be interested to hear more of your thoughts comparing the Panaflo and Evercool fans. In the UK I can get Evercool for £1.56, but the Panaflo is a minimum of £8.99, excl P&P! I've ordered an Evercoo...

Hmmm, just rang that number and 01238 doesn't exist!

Will try and find out the right number and also ask Kool'n'Quiet about the products mentio'n'd above...

Can you believe this? An Evercool fan for only 56p!! Less than half the ridiculously low price at quicklyshop.com!! Must be the cheapest fan ever

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=23880

I've got an HEC-300-LR-PT PSU in my system and it does start really quietly, but when it's warmer/under load it does get louder. Took it out the other day to see if I could replace the fan - bit tight getting it out, but do-able. It has an HEC SO113812H fan with sleeve bearings, which seems to be th...

Sorry to hear that it's not worked out as hoped :( . Try running less fans :wink: - see what difference it makes to noise/temp and see if you can get a good compromise. You may be able to get away without any intake fans at all! Not maybe what you want to hear after going to all the trouble of buyin...

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it toggles images on/off for faster loading, same as the little icon to the left of the address bar

place the cursor in the address field, type 'g evercool' and hit return/press go - it will run a google.com search on Evercool

What about this ARX fan? 10p cheaper, quieter spec too!!

http://www.quicklyshop.com/shop/product ... ucts_id/54

Appears to have 'Cera Dyna' bearing, whatever that might be. There are ball and sleeve models too http://www.actrx.com.tw/fan.asp

Worth trying these too at £1.39

Is your Evercool a 3 or 4 pin fan?

And they do Arctic Silver for £4.95 - cheapest elsewhere is £6.95!

Thanks for the link b2k2, not seen this store before. They don't do a 92mm fan tho . Might be worth a go for graphics card, CPU cooling from my Zalman bracket...

Getting off topic here, but... Focus Set focus to Web page address field F8 Give focus to the search field Shift + F8 Set focus to page, enabling keyboard navigation F9 Restore address, set focus to page (when in address field) Esc Have a look in the Help/Keyboard page - you can do almost everything...