well, so far the only totally passive reports we have are:

• PNY Quadro FX 560 PCIe 128MB
  eVGA 7950GT 512MB
  Sapphire X1950 Pro

anybody else cooling their video card with just a fanless HR-03?

the other thing that worries me about the gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 is that the NB appears to be so close to the PCI Express X16 slot, that, even if you could fit an HR-05 NB heatsink, it would conflict with an HR-03 VGA heatsink.

has anybody tried those together?

just curious - does disabling the on-board GPU in the BIOS have any effect on NB temp? Umm.. not sure, I could try doing that, but the on-board GPU probably isn't being used much, if at all, correct? AFAIK, the on-board GPU may still be rendering and displaying, even though there is no monitor atta...

otteridiz wrote:I removed a tuner card, the VV Saber2020, from the PCIe 1x slot and the temps are down to around 65C.

just curious - does disabling the on-board GPU in the BIOS have any effect on NB temp?

. . . what kind of CPU cooler do you have on your M2NPV-VM? could it be blowing air vertically down onto your NB heatsink? Stock Foxconn HS/fan...the rig is in a SFF AOpen desktop case with almost zero airflow :~) i'm not familiar with cpu coolers made by foxconn. are you referring to the coolers t...

This M2NPV-VM mobo while relatively rich in feature and gives decent onboard graphics, it is plagued with various problems...BUT hot NB isn't one of them. . . . i suppose there must be a bit of variability from unit to unit. i'm quite certain of the accuracy of the measurements i made. i also think...

i tend to keep computers for a long time, typically 4-5 yrs, so longevity is an important consideration. i don't have the manufacturer's temp rating for this NB (couldn't find it on the nvidia website). i've done a bit of searching here about temp vs longevity but haven't found any hard data, just a...

i'd already investigated these possibilities before my initial post. (see item (3) above.) according to thermalright's hr-05 motherboard compatibility chart , the M2NPV-VM is "not compatible." according to noctua's nc-u6 mainboard-compatibility page , "The following mainboards, however, are incompat...

hIn the event of a future conflict, the fan is easily removed. In the event of a fan failure, the fan is easily replaced. You want your NB to run hot because you might want to install a video card at some indefinte future date? :D of course, i don't want my NB to run hot; that's why i'm taking all ...

ryboto wrote:x1950pro with HR-03 passive. Only two fans in the system spinning 900rpm. Check the sig for pictures.

i found this thru the link in your sig: "X9150pro idle/load: 48C/73C". is that what you're currently getting with the passive HR-03?

you might be surprised what temps NB's can withstand; some are rated to above 100C. . . . while it appears to be operating reliably now, i expect that a temp pushing 100C will affect the overall lifespan of the chip itself, its packaging, the board and solder joints underneath it, etc. With the com...

this board looks great on paper.

i'd really like to know if it can support all these simultaneously:

(1) passive scythe ninja heatsink on the cpu
(2) passive thermaright hr-05 heatsink on the northbridge
(3) passive thermalright hr-03 heatsink on a video card

i don't think there is any good place to mount a fan directed at the NB (see photo below). i could attach one to the hard drive with cable ties, but that would restrict airflow to the hard drive, at least along the edge of the fan that contacts the hard drive. notice that the NB heatsink is oriented...

i recently had a good experience with an HR-03 on an OpenGL-optimized video card ( click here ), and i'm now thinking about using one with a mainstream video card. i'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has used an HR-03 successfully with no fan attached, in a quiet PC setup with slow enough a...

i've put together an under-$600 system to run ubuntu, using the following components: antec NSK-3300 case asus M2NPV-VM motherboard amd athlon 64 X2 4600+ CPU scythe ninja rev. B cpu cooler (passive; no fan installed) 2 X nexus DF1209SL-3 92mm case fans with zalman fanmates 1X antec 120mm tri-cool f...

the Samsung SH-S183L is a pretty short SATA drive. i don't recall the specs, but you can probably find it on samsung.com. to see visually exactly how far it extends in my NSK-3300, see a photo in the following thread: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39642&start=0&postdays=0&post...

Amourek wrote:http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=CA-NSK3480

I think it's the same as the NSK3400.

i think you're right. doesn't look like anybody has it in stock yet. . . . but at least we now have a part number!

well, it's been quite a while. i haven't seen the NSK3400 available for sale in the US yet. it's frustrating. has anyone heard anything? i'm about to start a new NSK3300 build but would happily switch to an NSK3400 if i could get one. can an overseas retailer legally ship one to the US, and if so, c...

initially, i was happy with my video board. unfortunately, after a couple of months, its fan developed a very loud and unpleasant whine. tonight, i replaced the fan with a Thermalright HR-03 Rev A VGA Cooler, which is a fanless, passive unit: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v465/ybmkt/nsk3300/NSK-...

another thing i forgot to mention: with the motherboard setting ram timings automatically, the system is rock-solid, even under load, for hours. however the timings it chooses are 5-6-6-15-6 (if i recall correctly). i tried setting the first 4 parameters to 5-5-5-12 and 5-5-5-15, and it wouldn't boo...

What? SATA Optical Drive? That's cheating! You didn't get the experience of routing an ribbon IDE cable! That's the best part! (kidding). i don't even want to think about it... :D How is the stock cooler on your graphics card? Looks whiny. very quiet. i've never listened to it in isolation from the...

i forgot to mention that an additional benefit of the mod is that it gives the notoriously-short power supply cables a much more direct path to the motherboard, so they now fit easily with plenty of slack.

i've completed my build, and it's gone very well, but it required a simple modification to the case. click this link for details.

(UPDATE 7/2/2007 - click here ) thanks to everyone who offered advice in my previous thread: micro-ATX build: P5B-VM + NSK-3300 + which CPU cooler? here are my components: case/PS - antec NSK-3300 fans - 2 x Scythe 92mm 3610KL-04W-B19-FB1 MB - asus P5B-VM micro-ATX CPU - intel core2duo E6400 (2.13G...

my components arrived today, and i test-fitted them. the ninja heat sink, mounted on the P5B-VM, comes right to the edge of the main compartment of the NSK-3300 case. there is defnitely not enough room for the cables to pass through the hole there. i believe i can make a simple mod to make it all fi...

... passive also appeals to me for its fail-safe character. in my experience, fans are often the thing that fails first in a computer. with fans cooling individual components, a single fan failure may bring the system down or even damage a component. on the other hand, if your components are all pa...

jessekopelman wrote:To make things worse, with an NSK3300, your cabling from the PSU come out the side adjacent to the CPU socket, not above it like on the NSK3400.

could this be remedied simply by cutting a hole in the sheet metal? (i have a sheet metal nibbler)

Of course, if you are willing to give up the idea of passive cooling, you'll realize that a C2D doesn't need much and even a moderate heatsink with a good fan can do the trick and be virtually silent. Given the amount of noise even the quietest PSU and HD make, perhaps a little too much thought is ...

You can compare the socket placement of A8N-VM and P5B-VM and draw conclusions. http://www.asus.com/prog_content/middle_enlargement.aspx?model=1312 http://www.asus.com/prog_content/middle_enlargement.aspx?model=766 http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/emreko/NSK3400/IMG_0076.jpg I think it might fit, but it's...

You do know though that without overclocking, you can only make use of 533mhz pc2 4200 ram right? no, i didn't know that. i'm not interested in overclocking. the manufacturer's specs include support for the 800 MHz RAM without mentioning overclocking, so i assumed the system would just clock the RA...