Check out the 90nm semprons. They are very cheap, pretty fast especially for what you want to do, and they are great undervolters. they run stock at 1.4V and hardly put out any heat at all. I didn't even need to undervolt mine like i had planned. i'm sure you could get the Thermals down to 20W easy ...

i am at work so i can't post any pictures. here is a pic of the case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163033 It is acutally the LC-10 but is the same layout as the better know LC-03. If you knowtice the support that extends from the 5.25 drive rack to the back of the case...I...

i have a similar setup you are planning with a silverstone lc-03 case. it has the exact same layout as the silverstone you are looking at. Here are my specs: silverstone lc-03 msi k8n neo (sideways cpu bracket allows ducting through the 60mm fan holes) sempron 2600+ socket 754 geforce 5200 fanless h...

It is the exact same layout and look as the silverstone LC-03. Two 60mm rear fans and one 80mm intake. Overall, i think it looks a little over the top in silver but black might look pretty good. I have the LC-03 and it works quite well after I modded it a bit by taking out the top support in between...

Wow. I can't belive that this myth about speaker cables has persisted for so long that some poor sap smart enough to know that SPCR is a good site would spend 1000 on a power cable and think it can actually help him. I am a member of the audio engineering society, my friends work at monster and velo...

The Turion 35w chip runs at 1.35V and 1.6 Ghz. I just got a Sempron 2600+ at 1.6 Ghz and 1.4V. It has no SSE3, CoolnQuiet, and AMD64 but this thing runs really cool at stock speed and voltage for only 80 bucks. I was going to undervolt it using CrystalCPUID (my MSI board does not support underclocki...

I have an MSI K8N Neo for socket 754 that does not allow undervolting in the bios. I know I can lower the voltage for an athlon64 with cool n quiet and CrystalCPUID, but can i undervolt using CrystalCPUID using a new sempron 2600+ that does not support Cool n Quiet? I heard the new semprons can run ...

my laptop bounces around all the time to no ill effect. Maybe desktop drives are different but it would be kinda dumb to have a portable computer stuck to a desk while it is on. The higher spin rate and rotational inertia of a desktop drive could cause more damage to the bearings than a laptop drive...

Keep it simple. Adding LEDs and thermistors might not be wanted by every buyer.

seagate drives have a self diagnostic cycle they perform sometimes. this is the noise that you hear. It bugged me too until i found out what it was. Now it is annoying but at least i know what it is.

I am a thermo engineer. Two radiators in parallel work better than two in series because heat transfer works better with a higher temperature difference. Both radiators get water at the same high temperature so they can cool more effectively despite half the flowrate. With two radiators in series th...

I want to try to suspend my seagate 7200.7 cause the seeks are driving me crazy but i want to be able to run multiple drives in the future if i have to. I was thinging about sandwitching two drives between two pieces of aluminum to form a box structure. I figure i could mount 1 or two more drives in...

i just got a new NEC and it is very fast. Unfortunately, it is also very loud. worst i've ever had. I got the new version of the drive i guess cause some people said the drive was quiet. get the plextor. i had one and loved it. silent costs money

I tried everything i could think of to try to silent my extra drives and for the most part they stayed off. However, they always spun up right when i was trying to sleep and really started bugging me. My solution was to just take them out of the computer and put them in my old p3 500 and stuck the c...

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So i just got my first watercooled setup and the swiftech 350 pump was vibrating my entire case making a racket. I had it mounted with a bit of double sided tape (the stuff with the foam between the sticky) but even several layers of this rather stiff foam was not helping. Because i am too lazy to r...

I had a shuttle and i swaped the fan for a panaflow H1A. I set the fan control in the bios to Low unless the CPU got over 60C. Never has yet. My power supply in my case was actually not too bad but it was the 220W model. I'm not sure if that makes any difference. Now the computer is not too bad for ...

quote] probably not a challenge to cool in a big enough case with a big enough heat sink and a big, slow fan moving air accross it. but there is no room in this little box for that. i am going to have to wait for reviews that show dB figures.[/quote] i'm not sure why everyone thinks you need a big c...

If i had posted this in another spcr forum, i probably would have gotten a bunch of people telling me i am going the wrong way with my clock speed. They would just tell me to underclock and forget about performance. I guess i chose the right forum. Sorry guys in other forums, i didn't buy a 3500 jus...

I have been looking into the reserator for some time now but i am not sure if it will be the best solution for me. I plan on buying a 3500+ and overclocking it mildly. I also plan on cooling a 9800 pro or future high end graphics. My original plan was to use a single 12cm radiator and a nexus 120 on...

Stupid answer to a stupid question:
Turn your case upside down and flip your CD-Rom over.