The grommets have held up fine so far. I ran the molex chain that came with my modular (PC Power & Cooling MKIII Silencer manufactured by Seasonic) to connect the molex fan controller. I am going to to get a SATA to molex connector as it's up near the top bay where I installed my DVD burner. Of cour...

I shouldn't have said drive rails. But I was thinking about the P180. Instead I should of said drive tray. This is a large, close-up photo of it: http://www.fractal-design.com/img_prod/FD-CA-DEF-R3-TI-8.jpg In that photo you can see where you can screw a 2.5" in from underneath. If you look closely ...

For now, I am running the 2 stock fans @12 for now. Just built it. They are quiet. I did try the fan controller which does work. Have to hook it up to a molex connector which means I had to add a cable that had one which I didn't care for. Just installed a HR-02 Macho and it's fan is quiet too. This...

karkee wrote:Anyone have used the R4 yet?

Just moved from Antec P180 to Titanium Grey R4. Love it so far. Fans are quiet.

If you have any other questions, just ask.

I decided on the Thermalright HR-02 Macho. It was delivered today. New Egg does not carry it. It came from an Amazon partner. I opted for one fan. It mounts horizontally and will line up pretty well with the rear fan. My Fractal Design Define R4 Titanium Grey arrived Tuesday. :) Has fan controller f...

Nope. Not going to use aluminum foil.

Thanks for the tip. I guess it doesn't matter that it mounts horizontally? How does one fasten the collar? Also ordered the Fractal Design R4 in Titanium Grey. The case fans and my PSU are white so I was tempted to get the white one. But too hard IMO to keep clean. Both parts are coming from differe...

I do casual gaming and even Skyrim on high graphics gets toasty with 3 120s. Is that a graphics card issue or a CPU issue? It mostly offloads to the GPU in Skyrim and I was mistakenly OCing all wrong, I set it to 4.5 auto before learning that produces too much voltage. I got to 80C on the GPU but t...

I just looked at your posted reviews: They tested the coolers running stock rpm and measured sound levels 10 cm away from the fan in open case. Imho these reviews are not suitable for picking a cooler according to spcr-standards. Or will you run the cpu cooler fans at max rpm? There is no need to u...

Thanks for the replies and suggestions. But they raise more questions. I am inclined to use a 140 fan as the new R4 has a 140 rear fan. For instance with the single fan used on the Thermalright HR-02, it would almost line up with the rear fan. That would eliminate a second fan used on the Havik. The...

I should have said I want 140mm fans instead of any 120s. My bad.

I agree with JJ. I think $50-$60 is a reasonable price for a cooler. Guess that rules out the Noctua.

I should have said I want 140mm fans instead of any 120s. My bad.

I agree with JJ. I think $50-$60 is a reasonable price for a cooler. Guess that rules out the Noctua.

I am going for sort of quiet, not silence as evidenced by my GTX 560 Ti. (I will look into a different cooler in the near future). That said, I will be also going for a mild to moderate OC which always seems like an oxymoron or a compromise between quiet versus performance. But I think chips, cooler...

I have a P-180, SP 2 500w with an Abit AN8 Ultra. Bit of a stretch but it reaches. Keeps 2 Rators and 300g Seagate cool in lower cage. Got the PSU some time ago just for the P-180. No problems.

ArisJust this weekend I was really surprised seeing a 30-40 year old woman asking which videocard is better for gaming She was probably buying it for her teenage son. I'm FIFTY years old and build my own rigs and have for years so maybe, just maybe she was buying it for herself. My sisters build th...

You can believe whatever you like. But did you not read that I back up to an internal drive an external hard drive and run Ghost 9? (Oh yeah and I store DVD copies at my sister's house). So how is that a risk of losing data? Or more directly, how how am I at risk of losing data since I follow geat b...

I have read their article as well as others and take them with a grain of salt. They have been around for years but they left some points out of the article. I love running RAID 0 and have since SCSI days. I back up to an internal drive and an external drive and have never had a hard drive fail. I a...

Of course I have. :) Have a Zalman 7000 ALCU on current CPU. Getting retail version and I usually remove the thermal tape, apply AS and run stock for awhile. This P180 and PSU works well at cooling this hot Intel chip and Northbridge. Current system here: XP Pro, Modified Slipstreamed SP2. 16K Clust...

I just ordered the Abit AN8 Ultra (passive heatpipe) and AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ . Moving from Intel based Abit IC7 Max 3. Not going to overclock. Rest of current specs are below but getting a BFG 6600 PCI-E video card with passive cooling. Everything else look ok? What BIOS rev for the X2 is best? A...

Thanks for the reply, but my main concern with this particular case has to do with the drives being heavy and only supported by those rubbery grommet things. I'll have a cat on the seat and the LCD will be boxed and packed securely. I guess I may have to remove the drives unless someone else has ano...

I just sold my house and decided I could not trust the movers with my PC. I kept the original box so that's a good thing but I have a couple of questions about how to minimize damage. When I moved from San Francisco to Phoenix (not very far) I laid my PC motherboard side down in its original box and...

Oops, you're right.

I went ahead and ordered the TPII 550w. It was 79.99 shipped after rebate at Newegg, so I could not resist. I like mine a lot and the modular design came in handy when installing it in my P180. It's a little fat for the bracket in the P180 (the side brackets flanges out a bit) but with patience you...

Does anyone have links or descriptions of the bios problems people were running into with these Abit boards? I definitely like the idea of a reliable passive cooler on an nforce4 board, and I have built 4 machines with Abit mobos in the past (my first build was a P3-450 w/ an Abit BE6), but I lost ...

Mine was shipped from the San Francisco Bay Area to Phoenix. While the box wasn't in good shape the case was fine. The clips on the side doors work if you remove it carefully. I use a little pressure pressing up at the same time. I've had mine off and on at least ten times. Reset button works. I hav...

I like Storage Review a lot and yes I have read their article and no I'm not changing my mind because they (the forum folks) are so biased. I configured it with 16K clusters/16K stripe and it flys. Period, end of story. :lol: I'll happily run my synthetic benchmark and post it. It's fast . Real worl...

I love my 2 74 Raptors in RAID 0. I have a 80 PATA Seagate and an 80 Western Digital external drive for backing up stuff and storing the latest drivers, utilities, data, etc. I also have Ghost 9 which makes incremental back-ups to and copy it over to my other drives. Running RAID 0 just means you ca...

~El~Jefe~ Btw, you assumed I am a guy. I'm not a guy. I'm a middle-aged female into building her own rigs. :) I like multi-tasking a lot on my current Intel w/HT so at this point the lowest X2, at 3800+, looks best. I am going to wait it out a bit and see if the prices start to drop in a few weeks.

Incorrect? It's perfectly logical. Two cores > one core, so it will dissapate more heat and require a bigger heatsink or faster fan to cool it to the same temperature. It may be logical, but not necessarily so. :o Did you read the articles? "Clock for clock, the Athlon 64 X2 will consume less power...

~El~Jefe~ what you said appears to be incorrect. You said, "however, it does get a good deal hotter/more wattage usage than single core, so really, venice is the coldest solution for tweaking or non tweaking setups". There are comparison graphs here: http://heh.pl/&Sz "As advertised, both X2 models ...