I have an Acer X223W. It only whines when on a lower brightness setting. There are 5 built in modes (text, pictures, manual, standard, movie) and the standard (I think) is the one where teh brightness is the highest, most of the other ones the brightness is quite low, and those whine. So if you want...

I just bought my fanless 4670 and am happy with it, I might have to upgrade to a 4770 when a fanless version hits the market...ugh....the troubles of technology...buy something and 5 minutes later it's obselete.

With my motherboard's BIOS. There's a smart fan option that will increase fan speed according to the CPU temperature.

http://pictures.xbox-scene.com/xbox360/tshirt/02_31_15_xscenefront_onshirt.jpg (It's an xbox website but the message is the same) And there are ways, of which I will not speak about because it probably goes against some rules here, but there are ways to not destroy that warranty sticker, so if somet...

go here.

http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en#

And type in your message in your language and translate it to english and then post whatever you want to say in the english translation.

I really like my Arctic Cooling 64 Pro. It's 30 dollars on newegg and occasionally will go on a free shipping deal. It's got a 92mm Arctic Cooling fan mounted on it with rubber mounts therefore eliminating all vibration. The only issue is that when the fan is at 12v it is loud, stellar cooling, but ...

Ya there's no denying that SSDs are in their infancy right now. The upsides are great, 0 dBa, low power consumption, and no heat production. Downsides - low capacity, high price, performance might not be amazing. But let's see, what can be imporved upon in time? We can get higher capacity drives tha...

Nice rig dude.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835185049

Apparently when at 12CFM the noise level is unmeasureable...

Is that all crap or is it possible to be so close to 0dBa that it's unmeasureable?

Wow, I wanted to buy that Logitech but it wasn't free shipping, I went with an OCZ a couple of days ago and today the Logitech is free shipping...wow...that doesn't surprise me.[/code]

Here is a couple of problems. Is the hard drive slower than my WD 640GB Caviar Blue? I don't want a performance impact. I've heard bad things about SSDs over time slowing down. And...well...unless I'm getting 300+ US dollars for this run to the store I'm not going to buy one, I don't have that type ...

Those gentletyphoons look like freaking junk.

I don't get it. We can take electricity and convert it to heat. Has anyone been able to get heat back into electricity (without screwing around by boiling water and making steam and running a turbine to run a generator) directly? I mean then we could take these big beasts that put out like over 100W...

Well with 7v I need to mess around with the - volt which I already just connected straight to ground and I don't feel like opening the PSU again. I might roll with an LM317 and regulate the voltage to 7v...I don't know though. I thinking of maybe getting a zalman fan mate 2. http://www.newegg.com/Pr...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article751-page5.html It seems like if I can estimate my PCs power draw then I can estimate the needed fan speed. Current rig. Obviously Corsair 400W. AMD 4850e OC'd to 2.8ghz 4GB GSKILL DDR2 800 RAM Sapphire Radeon 4670 Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB Pioneer 116 IDE...

All good advice so far, thanks! Do you think that it shouldn't be too big of a deal to open up the system and do the mods? I'm not afraid of breaking the warranty (got my PS3 on eBay) as much as breaking the system by accident in the process. :) Can't say, I have never opened a PS3. It looks harder...

I have seen pictures of the PS3's thermal paste, it is a white (presumably silicon based) goop. Looks like if you slapped some high quality paste on there (AS5 or Tuniq TX2, I'm a fan of the latter, it does better than AS5) then it would cool the chips down a couple of degrees. Also there are 2 type...

I had a similar situation. I went with the S-Flex 1600rpm. I don't know about the 450, but with my Corsair 400W the 1600rpm closely matched the stats of the stock ADDA but was quieter. The reason why I didn't go with a slipstream is I heard that they are not good for mounting horizontally because of...

If price isn't an issue try to get the card as cool as you can and just go for broke with purchasing sound proofing mats and the like...if you can't destroy the source of the news, cover the symptoms.

If you want a fanless graphics card my Sapphire 4670 is great and outperforms the 9500 in most if not all test IIRC.

Bah! Since heat-pipe based heat sinks have become widely available, water cooling has become irrelevant. [Heat pipes are water cooling, but with evaporation instead of conduction: 540x more efficient.] do you realize the heat capacity of a heatpipe is like next to nothing compared to a gallon of pu...

So I had replaced my Corsair's 400W PSU's ADDA fan with a Scythe S-Flex 1600RPM fan. It is very quiet and I soldered it to the PSU's fan socket so it could be controlled by the PSU's thermal control circuit. However one day after I rebooted the fan started running at full 12v all the time. Turn off ...

I know but I'm just stating for reference.

As it stands, you can't do much at all to reduce the system noise in the current case. You can install games to the hard drive, and you can do some little internal cooling mods (as5, lapping heatsinks, some work with the air ducts pulling air over the heatsink more forcefully) but the console uses 2...

Holes look hideous. Forget eSATA and the lock on the front. The interior panels for the drive bays are very ugly. I liked the looks of the 182 or 180 ones. The top vent for the fan is fugly compared to the vent little thing on top of the fan for the 180 and 182. Other than that...it's just another 1...

The GPU/PSU interactions have been going on for quite a while. Many video cards seem to throw a lot of signal garbage back into the PSU (and anything else connected in the system). Due party to poorly engineered VRMs in the video cards. Only option here other than being an electrical engineer and m...

I doubt it. I don't know though, but I doubt it. Liquid Crystal Display. Liquid + crack...eh...I doubt it'll be able to be repaired for less than a new monitor. And ya you could probably compile a custom linux kernel and get linux to only use parts of the screen, but you'd have to know what you're d...

Really? 100 US dollars? Call me cheap but I am never going to spend 100 dollars on a hard drive enclosure...

I have a Sapphire 4670, maybe not the best GPU, but it is quite nice for me, I'm happy with it.

Does this look like a decent enclosure for a 3.5 hard drive?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Bud-CU-3008-A-Alumi ... rms=66%3A4