Sunbelt Software's new AV product seems to be pretty good. I've just installed it on my wife's computer.
Read more about it here.

The special offer, only available this Friday, can be found here.

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Olle

First you need to realise that powerful fans are inherently noisy. If you want to pull air through some serious restriction, there must be noise. Now when that's clear, I'll present two options: 1. Modify your case to reduce the restriction, thereby increasing the air flow and lowering the noise. 2....

Given the very same hardware I see no reason why there should be any difference whatsoever in power consumption during idle. - There is no computing going on. - There's no reading or writing to the HDD. - The screen shouldn't change. To figure out which OS is more efficient it's better to see how mu...

SilenceOfTheFans wrote:a silent computer is a computer you cannot hear

If you can hear the computer, increase other noise sources 'til the computer noise is drowned out...

/Olle

A few more comments comparing old & new fans here . I don't understand one of their statements (below image 6): "To deal with this noise, the newest Analog Devices fan controllers are designed to drive the fan at a frequency of 22.5 kHz, which is outside the audible range. The external control circ...

I'd like to read some more in depth technical description of those 4-lead fans and the PWM circuitry. I know that modern digital model railroads use PWM for speed control. The default setting use a fairly high frequency, but if you want more control and smoother run at low speed (typically for shunt...

I don't use any screen protector for my power supply.

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Olle

X58 - Core i7 will support SLI ... No. Actually, no chipsets support SLI per se. SLI support is defined by nVidia's graphic drivers and based on wether or not the mobo manufacturer pay royalties to nVidia for SLI support with that motherboard. Since nVidia doesn't have to pay royalties to themselve...

Note that the graph tends to exaggerate the difference ... because the bottom line is not 0 dBA, but 16 dBA. Quite the opposite, I'd say. The decibel scale isn't linear, but logarithmic. The zero-level is therefore at negative infinity, not at 0 dB. Just for fun I've recalculated the data to a line...

In front of me I have an almost new Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook S Series. The fan is on constantly, even at idle. It might go faster under full load, but I don't do full load that often. At 50% load it stays the same.

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Olle

Packing it in a layer of sturdy brown paper and mail it to some friend at the other end of the country should do the trick! I read an article about some computer magazine that had hard drives sent to a recovery company. First, as a test, they sent some drives with a history of being in burning build...

I've been contemplating the same (original) question for some time. There are a few things to realise: 1. All cooling is air cooling. The differences lies in how heat is transferred to the air. Today it's mostly water vs heat pipes. 2. Water cooling can be substantially more quiet. The cost is money...

I'm sceptic. These cheap wattmeters (in general, not explicitly this model) have a reputation of being unreliable. - At low power, like a single device on standby, they often show a too high value. - When used on switched PSUs they often fail badly too, for reasons unknown to me. It would be nice to...

Your passively cooled GPU creates a need for good case air flow. 1. Follow Neil's advice to reduce restrictions at the air intake. If that's not enough... 2. Add another fan. I'd consider a side mounted fan to blow fresh air onto the graphics heatsink. This will reduce the load of the other case fan...

Yes they do contaminate if you look at the total life cycle. First we have production. - Raw materials must be collected and refined. Quite a heavy burden on environment in many ways. - Electronics manufacturing then use loads of clean water and energy. Transport from manufacturer to consumer. (Ener...

LG L227WT
Totally silent, as far as I can tell. No other problems either.

/Olle

The triangular shape of the front intake door vents is probably designed to convert the low velocity, high pressure air at the outside to high velocity, low pressure that the fans operate at. ... You seem to have misinterpreted something... Fans don't like to operate in low pressure. Instead they w...

(Disclaimer: This is a general observation, since I have no experience with any of the fans previously mentioned.) When it comes to quiet cooling the top priority is the same as with all other cooling aspects: To have sufficient cooling. With insufficient cooling you have worse problems to deal with...

Nick Geraedts wrote:However, there is one department where the TRad wins outright - size.

... And Accelero S1 win in terms of cost. Less than half the price of the TRad. Fitting any fan of your choice doesn't seem too difficult either, provided you have the space.

Cheers
Olle

Interesting! I've recently thought about getting some of these for my RAM as well. I question how they affect RAM temperatures with four sticks used, since the gaps between the sticks is pretty narrow even without heatsinks. With sinks it's possible that the gap become so small that it will reduce t...

May I ask you to reconsider...? I'm a complete n00b when it comes to mechanical design and metalworking, ... I hope you don't mean this. By definition a n00b is somebody that doesn't have a clue and will/can not learn... A newbie, on the other hand, is willing to learn even if it takes some effort. ...