You should go for a lower RPM fan if you want it to be silent. Maximum 1200-1300 rpm at 12v like the Nexus or a Yate Loon

Some USB drives are faster than others. I suggest you check the reviews and compare them to the speed of the compact flash card

Did you check on the roof ? you never know, maybe a Squirrel took it to read it outside

RAID 0 will increase the performance on hard drive intensive applications and, if you install Windows on a RAID 0 array, the boot time will be reduced However, since it's less " secure " in case of drive problems, I keep my personal and important files on a non-raid drive and I backup them on an ext...

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Congrats to Beefrox who is now a member of the 100 000 points club

If only they could hurry and do a GPU Client console version compatible with the ATI HD2600 chip, I would be in the 200k club in no time

well at least you know it's not coming from the power supply. Any other component in your computer could be making that noise. I suggest you start by unplugging the power from each component and stop every fan. you could even try to remove the video card to see if the sound is coming from it

However, since the Celeron is less powerful, it'll stay longer under load than the Pentium Dual core to do the same task. The computing power per watt is higher with the Pentium dual core

I suggest the Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R It won't support crossfire but I think using 1 faster video card is better than using 2 slower ones

don't remove the fan if you're using a fanless PSU. Those PSUs should always be used with proper ventilation, cutting the back of the case might be a solution

Where to buy a Thermalright HR-03 PLUS ?

NCIX don't have them in stock for months, same for Direct Canada. Is there any other good reseller in Canada for the HR-03 PLUS ?

yes, there's at least 1 inch between tbe motherboard and the lowest fin. It should fit over the NB heatsink

I got a passive XFX 7600 GS for sale if you want it

for 60$ any card will be about the same.

Unless you have more than 4 drives, you should use the lower chamber with the fan blowing towards the back of the case please... a 120mm fan at 600-800 rpm like a Yate Loon should be more than enough

they are hard to find. Why don't you want to buy from NCIX ?

I suggest the Coolermaster 120mm : http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php? ... OLERMASTER

once undervolted, they are pretty good and they have blue leds

angelkiller wrote: Any reason why? Doesn't the ICH8 support IDE?

You'll have to ask that question to Intel. In my opinion, they were too quick to get rid of that " old " technology

The Gigabyte controller is there to provide an IDE connector because the newest Intel southbridges don't have one. It's only an added value if they also support RAID. I have the GA-P35-DS3R and RAID works on both the Gigabyte and the ICH9R. I think angelkiller's board comes with the ICH8 southbridge...

I ran HD Tach on both controllers with 2 RAID0 hard drives. the one on the ICH9R is a lot faster than the Gigabyte SATA2

Here it is. There'a about half an inch between the Ultra-120 and the top of the NB cooler. With a fan on the upper drive cage there should be plenty of cooling for the Northbridge http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8475/ultra120extremejf4.th.jpg http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/1319/cpuzix1.th.jpg...

You could have a fan on the top hard drive cage to cool the video card and the NB heatsink. it might be enough

I'll post a picture when I get home. I don't think you need to change the NB heatsink. Even when overclocked at 330 mhz, the NB temperature never goes over 45C

then you could go with the XP-120

you should probably go with a Thermalright SI-128SE or something like that A Thermaltake Big Typhoon could also be a good choice.

The difference between the DS3P and the R is :

dual PCI_express 16x
IEEE 1394 Controller


The Ultra-120 will fit on both

Idle at 54C is pretty much impossible with a stock cooler unless your temperature in the case is 40-45c. The SI-120 should be much better than the stock cooler. did you calibrate the temperature sensor ? I've seen sensors with a 15C offset http://www.silentpcreview.com/article191-page2.html use the ...

Once you know what your offset is, I suggest you use Speedfan. You can configure the offset in the options so you'll always get the correct temperature.

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