How thick are the panels vs the SLK3000B? I have looked at a CM 330 which is fairly similar to the 340 but found the panels to be quite thin and possibly resonant. The price is VERY good, though.

I'm not sure what the specs for the Evercool 120mm fan are like but if it has a max speed of 1500rpm or less, then consider the Artic Cooling 120mm PWM fan as it can be well controlled by the m/b from 400-1500rpm.

The Ultra 120 will be far quieter than the stock cooler with any reasonable fan

If silence is important, then I'd seriously reallocate your budget to get a quieter PSU and CPU cooler.

I couldn't sleep in the same room as a stock Intel cooler on a Q6600 unless it was SERIOUSLY undervolted and underclocked.

The 4th pic in the 4th page of the SPCR review shows it from the inside

If you look at the 3rd pic on the 1st page, you can see how Antec slotted the rear of the case to allow the PSU to be attached upside down

Will your rendering/modelling software actually use the GPU(s)?

Nice job! I'm sure my effort will be a bit more ghetto :? That's basically what I was planning except that I'll experiment with an exhaust fan as well, running at the same speed as the CPU cooler fan to see if the negative pressure that is developed will allow the 2 fans to run slower than a single ...

My Ninja has a fan mounted on it, and also a duct to channel the hot air directly out the back. This arrangement has some advantages: the fan can be very slow because the Ninja is so efficient, the fan noise is muffled because it's about 6 inches from the back of the case, and the overall system te...

From the reviews it looks like the HSK3840 is a better quality case than the HSK4480. I thought they seemed pretty much the same aside from the upper chamber in the 3840. I think the choice between the 2 would come down to if you had few and small enough components to fit in the 3480. The 3480 woul...

Just to put the concept in context, remember that the intent of the duct is mainly to prevent the PSU drawing in hot air from the HSF. It just seemed that from some of the previous comments that the closely spaced fins of the Ultra 120 might not work so well with just a duct, given the duct wall bou...

I was thinking that I might daisy chain 2 Artic cooling PWM fans - one as the case extract and one as a push though fan on the Ultra 120 with the exhaust fan linked to the other side of the Ultra 120 by the duct. Then the push through fan would be assisted in getting air through the close spaced fin...

Higher voltage usually just means the memory can be overclocked further or has a higher native speed. Some memory with higher than standard voltage will not even allow a system post if the voltage is not raised above standard (meaning you need to use 'normal' memory first to set the higher voltage b...

Thanks. I guess I'll get the Ultra 120 extreme and fashion my own ducting. Too bad the HR-01 Plus no longer has the duct as it would have been a very direct path with my case and m/b. It'll be interesting to see how well the Ultra 120 extreme works with just a case a exhaust fan + duct. If it works ...

Nobody?

On the NSK4480, not only is the bezel removable but it is made of 3 parts that clip together.

Whether this holds for the other NSKs, I don't know but given the way it would simplify the mouldings, I would not be surprised if they were constructed in a similar manner.

I know but I was hoping that the Plus model with the extra heat pipes would also have the duct.

I'm now undecided between the HR-01 Plus, Ultra 120 extreme and Ninja...

Sigh - another potentially decent case (assuming the slots in the bezel provide decent intake for the front vent) ruined by a stupid sideways facing drive cage.........

Just as stupid as the CoolerMaster 532 and 534

If I were to fashion a duct to channel air directly from the heatsink to the rear exhaust fan, which do you think is likely to be the most suitable? The older HR-01 came with a duct for this purpose but the new Plus version no longer comes with one but has fan mounts instead so ThermalRight seem to ...

Not really. They say the Antec's heatsinks get a bit hot but it is otherwise very good - especially at the price.

I was hoping that I could use a fan controlled by the CPU header as the case exhaust fan so that this could run at very low speed when the CPU is lightly loaded and then ramp up for high loadings/overclocking. The duct would help prevent heat from the CPU being drawn into the PSU, keeping that quiet...

Have Thermalright abandoned the HS duct with the Plus version of the HR-01? :cry: Their website makes no mention of the duct with this newer version and the install notes describe how to mount a 120mm fan to the HS. I thought the HR-01 heatsinks were for passive cooling and the Ultra 120 heatsinks w...

Aris wrote:I highly recommend the Antec NSK3300/3480.

Just remember that this case can only take mAtx boards

How about the Antec NSK4000?

Here is the NSK4000 for £26.16 (inc VAT) - it's mislabelled here as the NSK4400 but that version comes with a PSU
http://www.ballicom.co.uk/product_info. ... 71eb279f67

my mouse IS a Usb mouse at least. I don't know if it's optical or not. . Does it have a ball in the base to track the motion? If you care to there is detailed info on the USB/Windows bug here: Anandtech article . Was this bug fixed by the following hotfix? KB918005 The hotfix article doesn't refer ...

Why not just use a PWM fan with the heatsink and let the bios control the fan speed?

Yes, all that test does is show if the PSU will power up. It seems like they didn't read the details of your email.

The other thing besides power lines is the generators. They need to supply the reactive power as well as the active power, While the reactive power doesn't require power input on the generator's shaft, it does require the current to flow through the generator windings. This means the generators need...

What does happen if I set it too low? I'm going incrementally, so will Orthos fail if the voltage is too low? Yep. I've undervolted my E4300 (stock speed) to 0.9875V for normal use and can't go lower without Orthos test failures within 12 hours. I have a separate bios setting saved for my overclock...

I've been waiting for someone to give a decent review of it.

The NewEgg reports aren't very encouraging

Slow fans running at minimum voltage will drop the tach signal out of the monitor's reach. Same thing will happen with Noctuas if you ever try it. My Akasa has a fit every time I try to reduce voltage to minimum, as it only sees 0 RPM and thinks the fan has just died. Yep, I disabled the alarm in m...

The CM 430W eXtreme is very quiet at low power (most non-gaming) outputs. There are varying reports on the noise level of the iGreen 500W PSU and it seems that 2 fans are used with models having one fan being quiet and the other being noisy. I haven't heard much about the noise level of the 430W or ...