I agree with Radeonman. The bigger the fan the less nose for the same airflow. However.. if you have too big a fan you might not be able to adjust downwards as much as you like. And as for damping. It might be easier to block high frequency sounds. But as I said they escape much easier. And low freq...

efcoins: If you have some health tool for your graphics card you can check 3.3V value there. My mobo measures its own regulation, not what the PSU delivers. Perhaps you have sensors for both. Thanks yet again dukla2k. :) Help on the way to stable voltages. I wonder how to solve this properly. More j...

fmah: I think they make the pipes mobo model specific. The point is to buy the whole machine from them, with the heatpipe solution. Then they have a selection of motherboards they can use. The price isnt that bad either. Like 1900 Euro for a decent machine. Rod M: I think it is that company who make...

Hmm.. this guy made his own 'gravity'-pipes. Is there no way to buy already made heatpipes with fluid and wick in it? I saw somewhere that there existed elastic bendable (joint locations) ones even. In that case one can, with some metal working, make some blocks to connect to heatspots and Alu case.

Well.. one could maybe do it passively with some aluminium or copper plates. Similarly to SilentDrive (not smartdrive). Seems like some HD cooling solutions mainly cools the longer sides of the HD. Maybe its enough to cool these properly. Main problem is to make an enclosure that is both quiet, cool...

You could check the Samsung 5400 rpm variants. Cheap, the Spinpoint V60 120 Gb was even quieter (idle) than CudaIV in a Tomshardware test (measured value). SpinPoint V80 160 Gb is probably a good buy right now.

How to adjust one FSP. Might not be the one you have but it should not be that different: http://www.thenakedreview.com/index.php?p=showarticle&id=71 Well the VCore will be derived from the +5V (unless your mobo is one of the few recent ones that also uses the 4 pin 'P4' power connector as well). An...

Can of worms. :) Generally speaking the fan relations probably holds. But some fans might have other characteristics. As for sound dampening you know that there are 'blocking' and 'absorbing' types? Different densities of material absorb and reflect different frequencies. High freq sounds are easier...

scalar: Perhaps a blower fan, instead of axial fan. More expensive.. but fans of such type one can find at spare parts dealers or junkyards.

Thanks again, 'd'. I tried to set the VIDs and I managed to go down to 1.55V now @1333 :) . Its the same as with your a7v333. Although I could not set the jumpers to 1.10V. The the machine wouldnt post even though I had a much higher value set in BIOS. I assume that it uses default settings when try...

Update: Actually found an old reply that said that a7v133 is possible to undervolt further. Does not reveal if its done in BIOS or with jumpers though. Enough evidence for me to go in and risk it. Gonna do it later today. Quick undervolt question: Can you undervolt further with better cooling? If so...

Thanks for the interest, dukla2k. :) Ok. Lets see if we can sort this out. I downloaded the manual for a7v333.. and there seems to be alot more jumpers overall on it. Design looks similar but its probably quite different than a7v133. Jumpers: * The VID is down on the left side of the northbridge on ...

halcyon: Ah. Dont take my words so seriously. :) All those 'opinions' are not verified to any lengths. And if there is one thing in the machine that one should avoid to modify too much, its probably the PSU. This for saftety of both you, your surroundings and the rest of the machine. Uwackme: Hehe. ...

Greets. I have an old Asus A7V133 running a TB 1333 Mhz. I have known for some time that it was possible to undervolt on my mobo. I can even do it without jumpers. I gave up that idea a long time ago because I thought that you had to underclock while undervolting. MikeC has proven me wrong in his ar...

MrMajestic: I stand corrected. But, no. I should proably learn not to assume too much and check the facts. I have been on this forum daily since a while. I didnt think I would miss one thread.

Halcyon: Wow. You actually found support for the PSU? I'm impressed.

Halcyon: There has been some activity in the forums about PFC recently. I think yourself wrote that passive PFC would generate more heat and would that lead to the PF model to need more cooling? Then it wouldent help with a nonlinear thermistor either. It might even be so that it has to be a linear ...

How long have they been making bad Papst fans? People seemed to dislike them a year ago already. I never liked them.. and I never even had one. I just saw their stupid method of balancing the fans with some plugs or shit. They are also overprised. Why not fix it with a better production line, like P...

MrMajestic. This makes us both look bad (even though I did post first). Please read the forum _before_ you post.

I might add that I have an older QTechnology and it runs insanely hot. No temp regulation whatsoever it seems. Stupid once, stupid twice.

Noisecontrol.de has two models. The plain somewhat noisy PPFC variant. And one they mod themselves with a Papst fan and their own verified thermal regulation circuit. So it is probably as silent or moreso than the non-PFC variant. Only problem is the price.

Itz ze funky germanz. Good at technology. Bad at marketing. :) That heatpipe kit was kind of neat. If you could buy one of those one could rather easily install it in your own Alu case. Just drill a couple of holes and apply. The future looks silent. I dont understand, however, why the previous case...

Not many games where CPU instruction speed matters. Some games memory bandwidth matters though. First and foremost its gfxcard that matters.. then more RAM. CPU third.. HD last. That is runtime. If you want games to _load_ levels faster you might have use of a better CPU. FPS games its only gfxcard....

Vendors are often touchy like that. They just like to rant and have no critics. How many times have I not went into a store to get shown out a couple of questions later. :) And they also never get their stuff in order before making moves. "but please note that it's about to have a new face lift with...

Well.. I'd like to believe that is true pingu. But I'm quite sensetive to whine. MikeC seems to think the Samsung has less whine than the cudaIV, even. And that was the 2 platter 7200. I cant imagine the whine of a one platter 5400 of the same technology can be higher either. Although the 7200.7 has...

pingu666: I'd like to buy one now.. but I would really like a head to head test between Samsung and 7200.7 before I decide. And from the specs it also seems that 40 Gb 7200.7 is much quieter from the rest. Havent seen anyone say anything specific about that one either. I'll see if I can set up some ...

bsdgeek: Have to respect the minority groups.

And according to some rumour ATI cheated in 3Dmark buy influencing the programmers (as a partner where Nvidia is not?) to do some ATI optimization.

Why dont ya build a small reactor or dynamo or something that can convert the computer heat into energy again. Perpetual galore! The information work the computer does has no energy conserving factor so it could be possible. :) Joke aside.. and sanity stable: One could build an enclosure around the ...

Is the image quality problem you are describing similar to the one on this page? I have a Geforce 256 that I use a VGA pass-through with, for my HDTV card. There is degradation that I notice in the image quality that I don't notice when using my brother's Radeon 9000. If I were to buy a Geforce FX ...

QTechnology Papst Series have been popping up around here. 300W, 2 350W models, 2 400W models (one or two fan difference). Claim to be silent. Anyone had any experience with them?

Hehe. Seems my blabbler about these drives goes unnoticed. http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=4928 There are some P80 and V80 variants available around here. As you said the V80 are budget and quite cheap per Gb compared to others. But it seems like Samsung is more interested in having...

Of course startup development and production of this kind of product will make the cost enormous per unit. But think of it. The technology isnt _that_ advanced. They said the pipes consisted of copper and water. I dont know the exact internal workings of the pipes but I assume its a tube, fluid and ...