PatrickBateman and Copper, thanx for your input!

I might have a second thought about the Celeron then. But the P4 is a bit more expensive :/

Hello! I'm planning to buy a Aopen Cube EZ 65. But I have some questions you might help me with. I'm aiming at low cost, silence, and I want to be able to play some games like GTA, and edit some music. I'm thinking of buying an Intel Celeron 2,6 Ghz 128 KB 400MHz, is this a good choise? I also have ...

that's right. no room for fans in the front of the case. that's why I made 2 holes in the bottom of the case.

Benj, my homepage is kind of down rigt now. =/ the mods i've made: 2 holes in the bottom of the case + 2 zalman fans. 1 zalman fan for output-air in the back of the case. installed a nexus super-panel to adjust the processor-fan with. made a fancontroller for the 3 zalman-fans (on and off + they're ...

it looks kind of big?
would be nice if it was smaller..

I got a zalman heatsink-cooler on my creative Geforce4 ti4200. works perfect.
it's kind of hard to install it, but once it's done, the heatsink works fine!

well, that's what I thought too, and I tried.
but it didn't work.

anyway I put the fan into the PSU yesterday. a bit expensive for a powersupply-fan, but the PSU is more quiet now. at least I got use of it.

I bought a Papst 8412NGL. very nice and quiet, BUT since it doesn't support RPM it's useless with my nexus super-panel I wanted to connect the fan to. too sad. =/

>You could try a slot fan under the card, maybe with a DIY duct....
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a slotfan won't silence the card..
just make more noise.

to silent your card without voiding the warranty could be hard.
but try a zalman heatpipe VGA-cooler.
but that would of course void the warranty.

Boomerang Rapido, I got a Papst-fan 80x80cm rated 12 db. and it's very quiet.


"For example.. with my case I got 4 case fans that were rated at 21db. "

the more fans, the more noise.
all the fans together doesn't sound like 21db, they make a lot of more noise together.

Papst are sold in sweden.

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hello. just a short question.
I got an old Intel Celeron 800 Mhz.
Bought a new heatsink + fan, thermaltake volcano 7.

Now the bios tells me the CPU is running at 33 degrees celsius.
before I installed the new heatsink the temp was about 44 degrees.

how realiable is the temperatures showed in bios?

try a search on download.com, there you can find a lot of programs that are doing just what you're asking for!

it's always a good idea to stop the fans with your finger to find out which one who is whining.

but too late now.

i would buy a new seagate barracuda, but maybe 80 GB (or more)

aluminium is much easier to make holes through.
just take it easy use a hole saw, and use you dremel to make the hole to look nice.

the link Boomerang Rapido provided will help you. =)

>Guess the bottom is basically the only place you can put a fan if you >wanna mod the case. Any other place and you'd have to ruin the look of >the case. absolutely true. By the way, how are those locking mechanisms, for the drives, cards and motherboard? are things locked in tightly enough without ...

Let's assume I go with the iStyle (anyone see a pattern forming here ). That case has the most hopelessly placed intake fan I ever saw.... but suppose I get out the old Dremel and drill a series of holes in the bottom front of the case (pointing to the floor) and stick an intake fan on there!? I'd h...

I'm into the same idea. I'm just waiting to get some fans by mail, and then I can start building. I'll post some pictures when I'm finished.

oh, that didn't sound to good.

I've hear a lot of the problem you're talking about..
if the fan is quiet for about 5 min. and then sounds a lot after that, the automatic sensor seems to be useless.

why don't you change back to the zalman?

thanks a lot.

I got a Intel celeron 800Mhz socket 370, and was thinking of buying a thermaltake volcano 7 or volcano 9. I'll probably buy a new processor in the future, to replace the old celeron with. I was thinking of 1.5 GHz or something. when I do that, I want to keep the volcano-fan. what fan should I buy? v...

that PSU looks nice.

well, I ended up buying an ordinary ATX-case. I looked around the net to see if there were any small cases to buy, but I didn't find any I liked. Thought of making one myself, of aluminium, but I thought a bought one wold be better after all... so now I have a regular case, this one: http://www.sunt...

I don't think a laptop-PSU will be such a good idea.
try a small PSU that's placed outside the case instead.
I thought of building a small case for my new computer, and I thougt that a small PSU would be good. But they usually don't give more than 125 w, and I don't think that's enough..

well, got my case yesterday, and i think i'm satisfied. it costed me 1200 sek (about 120 dollars).
It's a nice case, but I'll have to handle it with care (think that shiny surface is going to be scratched if i just look at it)

so, buy it.

Hey. I live in sweden, and I bought a case called "Suntek Miditower TH-655" yesterday. (but I havn't got it yet, it take some days to get it by mail..) I bought it over the internet, at a place called "komplett". link: http://www.komplett.se/k/ki.asp?action=info&p=29375&t=589&l=2&AvdID=1&CatID=13&Gr...