What has been your experience so far in trying to get it quiet? Obviously the phantom probably helps, but you mentioned the actively cooled video card. I'm planning on eventually getting two of these things to replace mine and my wife's computers. So, however loud one of these are, it'll be times 2 ...

fashioned nuts, goddam it!?). It's constructed so flimsily that, with the motherboard tray pulled out, the power supply makes the back of the case 'sag' a little (I have a phantom 350 in there). One more thing: the power switch was broken (intermittent) when I got mine. And there's no instructions ...

knutinh wrote:These guys may hang out at www.htpc-news.com

Sure you didn't mean htpcnews.com?

xarope wrote:Looks like there is a review here:

http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/ ... /index.htm

Appearantly the "-EKRS" on the end must stand for giga-bit lan, because that review board doesn't have it.

Needless to say, even though a HTPC would be installed in the rack, I need the fan controller to run indepentantly of the HTPC, so it would do it's thing even if the HTPC was turned off. Is it actually likely the HTPC will be turned off? Mine stays on all the time (it serves as my PVR). The other q...

i've used 3M double-sided adhesive foam tape for years without problems. one advantage is that you can line it all around the fan edges so it 'seals' the fan against the case. and of course one disadvantage is that you can only pull the fan off a few times before it stops sticking, so it's not good...

Silverstone (I think) recently started selling a plastic PSU duct. There were a couple of recent posts about it in the forums. A quick search should turn up the info. Yes, they do . Problem is that this duct is definitely made for the more typical PSU-on-top case. This duct will only angle the air ...

When did this get here??

Foxconn NF4K8MC-EKRS??

Are my eyes deceiving me? Do I finally see a motherboard that has everything I've wanted:
Micro-ATX
Athlon 64/X2 support
Gigabit LAN
PCI-e video
SATA
non-sucky chipset NB/SB(NForce 4 will do nicely, thank you)


*Prepares to be disappointed again*

threevok wrote:I use 1/2" wide rubberbands with knots tied in them to mount my case fan and PSU fan. After about 6 months they are starting to get dried and cracked.

Good idea, but maybe if you used elastic (from the sewing section) it'd be better. I use elastic cord to mount my fans....no problems yet.

Sabrewulf165 wrote:EDIT - So you say that this fan: http://www.compusa.com/products/product ... pfp=BROWSE

Is a Yate Loon and is very quiet at low speeds? If so this may be my choice

By the way...that fan is now just $5 until Aug 6. FYI...think I'll go load up the trunk!

I think this may be my next Athlon64 motherboard purchase since it is completely passive without the neat for heatpipes. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2481&p=4 I was going to buy another Abit AN8-Ultra for myself....but now.... Nice. If they'd just come out with a micro-atx version of ...

anyway, i believe that it uses a quasi hardware/software setup, but as i pointed out earlier, an athon 3000+ running as a server will leave plenty of overhead for the RAID calculations. He has an Athlon 64 running in it (dunno what speed), and had the freeze/HD access problem when running RAID 5. W...

Does your current PC fit in that space (turned sideways)? If so, perhaps you can just use your current PC, hidden behind a painting or photo with a nice picture frame. Heh...that's my current configuration...old, generic PC case, behind the entertainment center. The innards are still just waiting f...

The other option is to get a mobo that supports RAID 5, like the Asus SLI Premium board (the promise controller onboard supports raid 5). I thought the A8N had a Silicon Image RAID controller chip. Also, I believe it's been stated that the controller can only do 0/1 RAID in hardware, and otherwise ...

sweet, i have been looking for a case like this for a long long time!! I'm still looking. :? I'm glad Silverstone is finally coming out with something different. They dominate the HTPC case market. I just still haven't seen anything that I like. I hate the huge, broad, flat pieces of aluminum that ...

Hrm...? I see no mention of Gigabit Ethernet whatsoever, and the chipset itself is only NF4 4x with a vanilla Realtek PHY, so... slim, that chance is. :wink: Scroll up from where you pasted that section , up to the "Introduction". It's a big paragraph where they summarize the features, and that's w...

I like the look of the Gigabyte GA-K8NMF-9 for a quiet HTPC - Gah, I was totally excited there for a sec. I read the GA-K8NMF-9 Description on the Giga-byte site for this board.....and I thought "Wow, where has this board been hiding?". But then I checked the actual specs. Seems the description is ...

Is there some website that is a pretty good source for micro atx motherboards coming out? An all-encompassing kind of thing? I have not found the micro atx board that meets all my needs yet, but I figure it's just a matter of time. But I don't want to have to keep sifting through giga-byte, MSI, etc...

sthayashi wrote:Jamesm, that site had a lot of misinformation on there regarding Linear Power control.

You mean in regards to it's "PWM vs. Linear" comparison? The site is good otherwise, right? as far as building a PWM controller?

Would be great if I had a tester thing but unfortunately I don't . Paper clip thing sounds a bit risky. Heh...well, as long as you're not touching the paper clip with your tongue, you should be ok. :P I wrapped my connector/paper clip with electrical tape so it wouldn't be a hazard to anyone. But a...

I have had, on occassion, a power supply start up when I switched on the power on the back of it. I can't recall if it was plugged into the motherboard or not....either way, it started up even though I had not pressed the case power button, or shorted the pins, or whatever. However, I would rate tha...

Pretty comprehensive info, though a bit out of my league. I added a link to it in the Build your own controller sticky post above. It's nice to have some variety.

My intention is to keep this a 1 hard-drive HTPC, which is why I opted for the Samsung 250Gb. I would have thought that this would be plenty of space for media storage as well? :lol: HAHAHAAHAAHAHAHA :lol: Oh, I'm sorry...you were probably serious. :) :wink: Let's put it this way.....our first HTPC...

Well, I'm by no means an expert at HTPC's....but it sure has become a big interest. I put together our first HTPC only about half a year ago, but I've learned a lot from it, and it sure is a blast to tweak. The best part is when people come over and say, "oh, you have a Tivo?" and I can say, "No, I ...

No idea where to find these 3/8 and 7/8 (or is it 7/16) rubber grommets you guys talk about for isolating case fans from the case. :( Thanks. Last time I was in home depot, I checked every poorly marked bin for rubber grommets....nothing. At Lowes, they had them, but the sizes were too big, I belie...

Get Hitachi's Feature Tool ISO version and write a bootable cd. I used this utility, and noticed that it would only set the AAM of my Western Digital Caviar drive to either full on, or full off. But during the AAM "test", I was able to move the slider to any value. Is it normal to not be able to se...

how do you do this with a 3 pin fan? i just got a 120 mm fan and it is LOUD, my pc can be heard from 30 feet away, so i unplugged it.. Well (and anyone correct me if I'm wrong here), the voltage terminal strip controller works just great with bare wires. Your 3 pin fan really only uses 2 of those w...

I believe the similar Chenming MATX-118 is better out of the box, with what looks like a medium-speed 120mm Yate Loon that is very quiet (I compared it to a Yate Loon) and an ever quieter variable-speed, temperature-controlled PSU fan. I bought mine from Computer HQ (out of stock right now), cheape...

thanks at 5% it shows 1800 and it's really quiet. 10% 2000 +/- 20% and up 2100rpm +/- Maybe I'll get a panaflo l1a. Hmmm...I don't think that's quite right. I'm not sure if 0% in speedfan equates to 0 voltage (or whatever the equivalent in PWM is). It probably doesn't. But all of my fans will have ...

The thread on microATX cases has revived my interest in this. Plus, I got the WAF high enough to start looking. Can anyone tell me if the handle on this case is actually connected to the frame somehow? Or is it just a part of the front bezel? I"m concerned about it being strong enough. Also, the tem...