Well results are impressive... According to speed fan the CPU cores are idling around the 20degree mark and the Chipset about 45 degrees. I have not loaded it up yet. The only change really is using a stock northbridge cooler (which is tiny) and I have moved the CPU heatsink around 90 degrees so the...

Hi Guys, Well I think keeping my situation all in a single post may help others not make the mistakes I have made in the past. I came to Silent PC Review about 3-4 months back wanting to silence my nForce4 SLI (board) system. I went about accruing various silent components and the result was really ...

When when when I want one so I can ditch my OrigenAE X11 which is soooo poor at flowing air.

I will be moding it, hope that helps things along.

Shame you are in the states, I would have had it off you!

Well 6750 it is, best price/performance ratio given I am not an overclocker.

Now all I need to do is sort out what ram to use.

Brilliant thanks, looks like I can get the E6750 for about 30% cheaper... this would be the sensible choice right?

Let me know, I want to get an order in today.

Thanks again guys.

Cheers,

I have now decided on the GA-P35C-DS3R board... This leaves a processor to be selected. The new E6850 or the older Q6600 quad core... both the same price. Like your thoughts. I am not big on gaming or anything like that. It is essentially a Media Centre Vista PC that records my TV and streams to my ...

A real shame... the Fusion is only mini-ATX, I just know the second I buy a mini-atx board I am going to want further expansion slots. As it stands now all I need is a PCI-E VGA slot and PCI-E slot for my tv tuner. That will leave a couple free I suppose... although my VGA card does take up 2 slots!

I thought it was too good to be true, you are right it is just a dual core chip. Damn quick one, and by the sounds of things relatively cool too. Think I will still go with one of these, thanks guys.

Hi Guys, Saw these processors come in at a REAL good price... less than I nearly bought a E6600 for recently. I want to use this in my next HTPC build with a new p35 board (Still undecided what to run). Would this processor be too hot for a silent system? Am I mad to do this? I will be cooling with ...

Thanks for all your help guys... I am going to ditch most of my internals as they stand now. I have a 32GB SDD on order. I will remove the HDD cage and open up the intake a little more. I am getting a new p35 board (undecided on model just yet) and a E6850 processor (call me mad as I think this is q...

I kinda figured sooner or later, you'd be back with heat problems. Frankly, you just have too much passively cooled equipment for a case that size and with that style of airflow. Since there is only 1 intake (underneath the hard drive rack), you need to make every bit of that airflow count. The N/B...

A general question about the case design... is it highly rated as a good flowing case? I want to ditch my x11 for something that flows air better.

I am running a AMD S939 4200+ x2 and this idles at 50-55 degrees with a thermal right 120 + 120mm fan. Seems for such a quick processor that is pretty good around the 40's??

I am watching this post.... I am wanting a good board to run my E6850 quad core with 8600GTS - the fan control sounds great to me!! Speed fan does not work with all boards, this puts the Abit quite high on my list.

Lol... awesome! Ultimate in laziness. I am trying to convince myself I should get the PC out of the bedroom and use a second room as a study/PC room... I keep the PC in the room for TV. With my 30" Dell TFT makes for great TV - for now my PC stays

Appreciate all your help. Unfortunately I just kinda went for it as I read about things. The PSU I bought first thinking - great. Having read reviews it was doing well. Next was the graphics card and this was fine, bit warm, but not too bad. Next came the passively cooled northbridge, it was only at...

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I started a post a while back about my heat issues. I have now ordered one of the memory coolers to see if that helps out.

Well I have gone for the Samsung now guys, having searched around I can get the 500GB - and reading a recent post this seems to be the disk everyone swears by :) Thanks for your suggestion Tamas, I am not ordering RIGHT now, so I will hold off if the new drives are moments away, I will keep an eye o...

Full breakdown as follows: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI board Skt 939 4200+ x2 Gigabyte 8600GTS Passively cooled card HTPC OrigenAE X11 v2 Case 4GB Memory (4 x 1GB PC3200 ECC Reg Corsair TwinX memory) Raptor 72GB 10k Drive Silverstone SST ST30NF Silent PSU Cooling: Thermalright HR-05 SLI Passive Northbridg...

I will be using this in a HTPC case and so I have no space to suspend the drive. Is there really anything between the Samsung and the WD? I do hate WD by the way... in many many years in IT I have seen 10 times more failures in WD disks than any other manufacturer!

Hi Guys, Well my origenAE X11 is causing me no end of hassle... my system overheats at the oddest of times for no apparent reason, memory runs extremely hot. Running speedfan I get the following results AT IDLE: Board Chipset 70-75 degrees CPU - 50 degrees CPU Core - 55 degrees System - 40 degrees I...

I certainly dont suffer heat issues with my raptor (although my system does overheat thanks to a poor case design) - but I do suffer noise. The system is virtually silent now, but when that disk starts seeking that is all you can hear. It is very loud 9very being relative to the SILENT pc).

Looks like the WD SE16 drive ticks all the boxes, available up to 750GB - I am going to go for the 500GB which is half the price of the 750. The other alternative I found which some may say is a better drive is the Samsung T-Series, available up to 400GB, but I cant find stock of this easily and it ...

Hi Guys,

I will be getting a SSD shortly for my OS install and apps, but will also need a large quiet disk for music, movies, recorded TV etc... what can you recommend. Ideally 500GB or 750GB - seek noise kept to a minimum with fair performance.

Thanks,

I own a WD Raptor 150GB and a 8600GTS... guess what, ENDLESS CRAP with Vista, I have done shed loads to try get it 100% stable. it is pretty reliable now, but still not good enough. Guess I know why I have had endless cr@p. I thought either my MB was shot as I tried absolutely everything else. I hav...

Hey guys,

Someone out there must be able to make a suggestion? Even perhaps an alternative HTPC case that supports full size boards & has better air flow - I assume that is my problem?

Wow... loads a people looking at this, but no comments so far... a pic of the insides as follows: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/ZeroK66/PC/P1020896.jpg http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/ZeroK66/PC/P1020895.jpg There are 3 HDD's but only one is actually connected, so there is no heat being ...

Hi Guys, Well I started out with the following: HTPC OrigenAE X11 v2 Case Gigabyte nForce4 SLI Board Athlon 3000+ 4GB Memory 6600GT/128MB Card Raptor 72GB 10k Drive First steps were to passively cool the board & replace the graphics card and PSU then upgrade my fans. I opted for: Thermalright HR-05 ...

To be fair it is a pretty large HTPC case. I will sort out some airflow in that area. I have a thermalright 128 cooler now with a 120mm fan coolind downward... hopfully produce some airflow near the memory, failing that I will get another 80 or 120mm fan blowing towards the rear over the memory. I m...