Mr.Perfect: your link does not show any pictures?

Any chnace you could post them in the gallery section?

HDD drawers may make the noise from a hdd worse as it is akin to hard mounting them and adding a 40mm fan that duns at full speed. If you are concerned about silence, steer clear of them. However, if you swap hdds a bit or have stuff on hdds that does not need to be accessed all the time, these are ...

That looks to be a re-branded Xilence RED 120mm Fan. (Xilence is brand belonging to Levicom.de). The specs are about right as have one in my PSU. The fan is quiet and in normal operation it should be very quiet and 36dB looks about right for the 120 version. STOP PRESS: I just looked up the specs fo...

<puts BEng Graduate Mechnical Engineer (3rd class) hat on> I would say that the conclusions of the guy from the Austrian Institute for Heat-Transmission and Fan Technology (Österreichisches Institut für Wärmeübertragung und Ventilatorentechnik, ÖIWV)are about correct. The tip geometry of the fa...

Some internal shots would be brill.
It cousl serve as a guide for all the budding silencers that have dells out there.

Nice work, I would tape over some of the remqining vents to direct the airflow a little more and drop the temps slightly (it has on my rig, but i havent cut the grills out yet.

Motherboard thumb screws do not exist. The closest that you will get a is a screwless motherboard fixing solution in Theramltake Xaser Wingo cases that uses a special extra tall stand-off that you hook the board over and a plastic pin that locks the board in place. Compared to the normal stand-off/s...

qviri: What you describe is a "feature" of all socket A's, 370's, slot A's, Slots 1's and VIA cpu's. Techno pride is correct in that the boards draw alot of power from the 5V rail. The main reason for this is that the original ATX PSU spec specified alot more current capacity on the 5V rail than cur...

you do realise that the sizes of fans are measured by the frame it uses as opposed to the actual diameter of the blades....

By your description, it sounds like TT are spot on

I have a Vantec Aero Socket A cooler thats effecient enough to cool an Athlon XP 2600+ running at 2Ghz at around 34degrees full load.

It comes with a 74mm TMD fan (40+dB at max....yikes!), but you could safely run it either without a fan or with a generic 70mm fan set at 5V or even 7V.

If the airflow inside the case is not organised, then hotspots will develop and having big fans on high will meke no difference.

Pictures will help as those looking can spot potiental problems right away.

You can reactivate and keep the same licence.

Just say that "your hdd crashed and you are having to reinstall windows while your data is being recovered on to cdrs"

Microsoft can't argue with that (I think the cdrs bit is genius).

Zalman NB-47K or NBF-47 +Artic Silver 5 for the northbridge. It just looks like a normal gaming rig,just with quiet-ish components with no sign of the inovation that you in the comps that Mike C, Bluefront and others have done in theirs. You could try a little ducting to help the north bridge problem.

IIRC (from reviews in cdfreaks), Asus make very quiet drives, but they are ide only.

As for the hdd, why the RE (Raid edition) version of the WD Caviar?
Wouldnt the SE be enough?
Are you planning a RAID array in the future?

*off topic* Yate Loon 92mm Silencio edition, Xilence 92mm, Arctic Cooling 92mm, no-name generic 92mm. Yay someone else has heard of Xilence fans, im not the only one.... *End of off topic rant* Perhaps Pure Silence has the same problems with storage and batches that all retailers have and most manua...

if you are going for hi-tech solutions you might try
Pocofoam,
It is expensive and enough pocofoam to be useful would cost several grand
(puts on hold pocofoam pc)
lol

I have a a pair of Nikimi 60gbs (refurbised WD 600BB Caviars) sitting here doing nothing. 1 has a JVC Motor, the other Nidec. Acoustically in these drives , there isnt uch difference. The firmware on the drives is the same as they came from the batch purchase. The drives are slightly old (from 2003)...

I donno about either the matrix to swing cases, but I have a Thermaltake Xaser 5 Wingo, and i have managed to quieten it do an accpetable level with some careful choices in terms of hdd suspension, using draught excluder foam for damping and cablegami.

t's an older model, only improved versions now. but the fans in/out are 80mm and case is lined with akasa sound proofing which i'm thinking is a better insulater, keeping in heat. I would say that this is part of the problem. I quietened my sig rig without using akasa sound proofing, mainly cos of ...

remove a couple of the 5.25in bay covers and use some elastic to suspend the hdds while allowing air to flow over them to keep them cool.

if you need more hdd space get a hdd, i chose a seagate s-ata, but you could try wd's because they are quiet.

(my 2 nikimis are rebadged wds and are very quiet)

A floppy drive will need a floppy cable. Only LS-120/LS-240 SuperDisc drives use ide cables. Either way, none are quiet. No floppy drive is quiet during use, its cos they all are made in pretty much the same way. You shouldn't have any compatability issues with either of the DVD-Roms. If you need re...

I use a Xilence RED 80mm as the psu fan in my comp. It has been very quiet for me. It would be interesting to see a proper review of these fans rather than the subjective user reviews on aria.co.uk. I hope that Xilence/levicom.de release some examples of the Xilence RED and Black fans for testing by...

When i did a fan swap in a my old Mercury/Kobian 300W PSU i had the same problem i.e the fan wires were soldered to the pcb. I did almost exactly the same as you and chopped off the old fan, but that is were the similarity ends. I bought a FEMALE molex connector (Maplin 85p) and crimped that to the ...

you could always take the plunge and get one of these thermaltake turion coolers and if the fan noise gets too much, swap the fan for nexus. Then at least you know that you get a cooler designed for turion rather than one that may crush the core. Just an idea. Regardless of the bad rep Thermaltake g...

On the topic of my PSU however, SpeedFan currently shows that my PSU is giving only 8.61V on my 12V line.

That shounds like your problem in a nutshell.

I have a 17" DifFusion e700 FST CRT, it is quiet in operation but seems to make the vga cable with a low frequency vibration (not enough to bother me at all). Aside from that, i'd say it is prolly the closest a CRT comes to being quiet (unless you turn the monitor on then off and back again or degau...

you might as well save yer self some money and forget the switch to the Antec P180, as it seems to me pretty pointless if you are short of money. You could put the money that you would spend on the P180 on ram or textbooks or somat. As for fans, I would steer away from SilentX fans, they have a bad ...

6. A small box built in to hold extra screws and sundries - Thermaltake Xray 5.25" Drive Bay. Its both a cigerette lighter and ashtray, but more useful is that it can act as a holder for screws and stuff (If you sacrifice a 5.25in bay) 5. Rails/drive sleds which allow you to pull a drive out quickl...

I found out when i was running a vantec aero with TMD fan, that my motherboard was over-volting my CPU fan. Since then, i have installed a Thermalright SLK-900U with a 92mm Thermaltake Smart fan 2 (one of the case fans that came with my case) and not looked back. I suggest that you do the same. Find...

I once sold one of these on ebay....only got around 5quid for it....

I should have told you guys first....

I have bought this fan. A quick REVIEW. The fan comes with a multi-connector that has inputs for both 3pin standard fan (with signal wire) and molex input wires. Accoustic Performace Low rpm (1500) gives silent running at 30cm (1ft). At 5cm (2in) there is a faint characteristic bearing rattle. No ai...