I'm sorry for the f****d up aligning of the temperatures. :oops: The space devides the table, it should have looked like this: :arrow: Testresults: First with Scythe @ top and Noctua @ back and burning the: CPU only--------CPU+GPU CPU 62/57------61/59 GPU 53----------84 Amb 31----------40 NBri 47---...

I'm doing some benches lately because of my thoughts about the best configuration. I've got at hand: - Scythe DFS122512L (comes with a Ninja Plus Rev. B) - Papst 4412FGL (my fan is very smooth. It's about as smooth as the recordings from the Scythe-fans from SPCR) - Noctua NF-S12-1200 (from very clo...

I recommend the Ninja over the Ultra-120. It's more developed towards no/low airflow. If there is a fan somewhere near, it's enough to cool any CPU. It's really nice that it's as wide as it's high, there's no matter how to place it - really nice for fanless cooling. I've got an AMD X2-4400+ S939. It...

I've read some reviews about the Thermalright HR-05 and the Noctua NCU-6, I don't recall the pages though..sorry They were both passively and actively (with the same slow fan@5v/setup) tested. :?: In one review the Noctua won, by a view degrees when cooling passive. While active cooling the lead ext...

I've got some fans on the little Zalman's Fanmates. I don't really like the PWM-fan-controllers, they've got problems and stuff.

But if you read some of the reviews, I think it can take you far.

The fear is actually quite misplaced. I can tell out of experience with my former Thermaltake Big Typhoon. It weights in at about a kilogram. I put my Towercase (Antec P180) in the back of my car and went to LAN-parties, crossing multiple roads with bumbs. Nothing happend, for about ~20 journeys, so...

Answer to your real question: I've seen some dude having a HTPC (was here on the forums I think). He had the fusion with2 exhaust-fans. Those fans cooled a Silverstone NT01, which ran "passive". The Silverstone-cooler was very close to the fans though. I dunno what processor you've got, but it's a p...

LOL feature tool is goooood maaan

I think the shape of the Ninja makes it a better fanless cooler over the Ultra 120. but I dunno if you're going to duct it?

S.

Really, Heavy coolers don't really break your mainboard while moving. But almost all good/recommended coolers have the weightdistribution fairly close to the base.
This counts for for example XP120, Ninja, Thermalright's Ultra's and High Risers..

I've gotten that board for my parents. It works wel, is very cool. It has very much features. We not yet use the computer for Home Entertainment, but it was built with that in mind. At the moment, a AMD Sempron is working out on the AM2-feet. Haven't had problems or so. I can recommend it, it's abou...

Again here.

Do you use a active or passive PSU?
This matters a lot if you've got your holes around the PSU taped up.

If you've got a 120mm-(active)PSU, then you should try the tape-up&no-chamberfan idea.

I've tried something like you did this afternoon, but it didn't help that much... Actually, no temp.diffs. were found. Maybe I had it closed enough allready. I don't use a chamberfan. Instead, I'm using a Seasonic S12-430 in the lower chamber with fan-side up. This is pretty logical: warm air rises ...

I'm pretty new with ducting, But I think it's the best to: - get the duct "as tight as possible" around the Ninja (or any HS). - have a material that's as smooth as possible, preferable are plastics (PVC/PS/PP, watch the temps though, At the moment I don't know the melt-trajectory of the many plasti...

I like the thoughts of "respect nature, then commit in your actions". Here are three bizarre questions for you all: 1 - Do you agree that a random animal is equal to the human species? (Thus not thinking like: humans can do more, and therefore a life of a bug is less important than a human's) 2 - Wo...

I think he kind off deserved it. But what is still weird, the most horrible and cool person ever to have wandered the earth (Stalin), is concidered more like a hero in Russia.

Put that perspective - Saddam was just a naugthy boy (no I ain't gay )

Lian Li + Zalman + Enermax = Gay..LOL

pretty nice having the zalman 9500 fanless

Hehe, me too, I'm doing "quiet" builds since my 13th

[quote="soujir0u"]Maybe they were badly thrashed by the postman, the boxes were a bit beat up. [/quote]


Hmm, I'd have send them back

Hey nzimmers,

How hot can the PVC-stuff get before it gets soft (it's a bit sad if your beautiful duct melts the whole stuff down

For you guys with ASUS MoBo's - the boards are known to sometimes report weird values. @ Crap73 You really should tape the holes around the PSU - helps a lot. It was performed in the P180-review "All nine yards" or something like that. S. P.S.I pushed the little tape on the insides to maintain the g...

can't you make a rounded duct from the exhaust to let's say 1/4 of the heatsink and just remove the Zalman-fan?

Hey penny (what poor country are you from, never seen a dollar?! :P ) I've seen some reviews about the Scythe Silencer whatever-I-don't-recall-the-name, which should be very good noise-wise and well enough in terms of cooling. But, my Hitachi Deskstar T7k250 @ AAM is fairly quiet, sometimes you can ...

hmm, very good one - my tri-cool is beginning to DIE! so I was looking forward to these fans.

I will look into this topic thanks!

I agree,

Their products are ass..

The features are miles of target (lets say the given 16 dB(A) from my old Big Typhoon was more like 250 dB, like a nuke-bomb)

No TT-products could be of interest to silencers, **** 'em

Have you ever thought of a duct from exhaust to the Zalman heatsink?

Like a pipe which ends half-way IN the heatsink, I think with a 120mm exhaustfan you get better results while still having cooling for the MoBo

maybe a bit off-topic: But my Tri-cool of my P-180 has lung-problems. I've got the fan as long as the case itself (about 14 months) and it's caughing and making weird noises of pain. Sometimes it's quiet again as it pretty much is at Low.. but then again it screeches tiny scratching decibels into my...

Well weird case it is, definetly... I always have the same thoughts about Lian-Li. A student in my class said once to me he had a moddified Lian-Li case. At the same moment he showed me a picture... I instantly laughed as hard as I could, without wanting it. Like reflexes or so :D :D No, sorry, Lian...

@ Bicster

Nice job, but can't you cut a piece or so out of the top?

OK, my system is running fairly inaudible (yes, I live in a village, and my ears are better then most) and i've got an P180, it's not the idea that out-of-the-box it's inaudible. The least-noise-making fans in there do 20 dB. Plus, there are a lot fans, you don't want that, neither did I... But stop...