I add my 2 quiet cents. If the card has a cooling system with the fan - it can't be silent. If someone can't hear the fan, that only means he has more other ambient noise. My question for users, that modded 4670 with passive HS is, if there are any other areas on the card that need cooling (apart th...

For quiet system you must not have power hungry components. So I use: - 790FX MB + X2 BE-2400 CPU + 2GB RAM - 2600 XT VGA - 2x 2,5" HDDs - 320 GB each - Etasis fanless 300W PSU Yes, my HDD setup is insane! :) :) :) This setup is one year old. 2600XT will be replaced with 4670 soon, as it has similar...

Hi Kato! Maybe you schould consider an exaust fan. You can better manage airflow with side panels on then. Try considering top exaust... Like I did: http://shrani.si/f/1x/Jk/3oQvKuRF/pc1.jpg http://shrani.si/f/2h/aJ/2mD9SXgB/pc2.jpg That way you put out all heat that builds up. With convectiont, tha...

@digaderfox: You can check the 'some kind of protection in the bios' so, that you unplug fan on VGA cooler and then cool the new 'fanless' card with anoter fan plugged elsewhere... For your trouble with Accelero S1 fanless setup. Are your temps taken off the heatsink? If yes, then I suppose: a) you ...

Finally there may be hope for a new card with low power consumption in idle/2D mode! I'd ask users who own 4670 cards to write how much the card underclocks in 2D mode. If they can measure power consumption, would these figures be welcome. I have 2600XT and I lowered idle power draw for about 10W wi...

Yes, we should wait a while. I didn't find review with Athlons X2 BE. The first reviews have Phenoms (and overclocked Phenoms) and these are not energy efficiant jet.

I have my fingers crossed.

I was thinking of Sapphire HD3850, but as initial reviews say it has 70-90W max power consomption. I didn't see how much idle would be.

According to xbitlabs the values for 2600 XT are: 21W idle /49W load.

Hi, I want to update my Athlon XP / Radeon 9700 PC with something stronger and more energy efficinet. I'll keep my Etasis PSU, Plextor IDE DVD-R, PCI TV card, PCI USR modem, Scythe QD, etc. New motherboard should have IEEE, PS2 ports, COM port... I'm thinking of buying an 790FX based MB. Components:...

Could this board be a solid base for building a quiet PC?
If it's true that AMD 790FX consumes 10W and it would be used with BE-2400 - then maybe yes.

What do you think?

edit:
Here is the link:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mot ... uctID=2694

@K10: I suppose you'll never be happy with 3.5" HDDs. Util SSD become afordable consider 2.5" HDD in enclousure (or double enclousure).

I'm thinking of buying Quiet Drive 2.5â€

I have a question for all un-happy Seagate users - what type of motor did you have:
1) http://www.engit.com.au/Silent.jpg
or
2) http://www.engit.com.au/Not-Silent.jpg

I prefer Seagate over all other brands, but it must be with motor 1. Motor 2 is bad in terms of idle noise.

@batka: 20-21 degrees? WTF? What HDD's you have there. I suspect that you must have huge amount of air moving there.

I have low airflow setup and HDD were too hot to be instaled up. Now they are on bottom.

Well, that's why it should be worth, to try double enclousure. But right now I can't afford jet another experiment. @Thomas: If you put P180 directly on the floor and take HDD out and hold it in your hand, will hum go away? I had to change my Samsung HDD, that was recomended here - as it was not goo...

What is silent for someone, can be loud as hell for the otherone. 'Completely silent' - does this exist? I can hear 2.5 inch drive (Toshiba) in my laptop. It warms up to 50 degC. @Thomas: I think it will be close call. Scythe Quiet Drive made huge diference for my 3.5 inch drives, but it's not silen...

Thanks for the reply.

Well, I have almost passively cooled computer... I guess I'm looking for overkill.

Do you have any airflow across two 2.5" enclosures? How high are temp?

@MikeC:Usefull review. I would love to see that SPCR would compare more MB (or chipsets) while keeping other components the same. I'm thinking to go with 650i SLI chipset. Any chance that you review of Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 MB? Is it really true that nvidia chipsets draw 20W-30W more than Intel ch...

Another silent maniac here. Well I can clearly hear the HDD in my work notebook.
So, in another thread I'm asking, if anybody tried an bit of overkill and used 2,5 and
3,5 Scythe enclosures with one 2,5 HDD...

Maybe that would be silent?!

I have two 3.5" HDDs in Scythe Quiet Drives. They are the loudest noise maker in my PC. So, I'm thinking of buying 2 Quiet Drive 2,5" and new notebook HDDs.

I read this on Scythe web page:
'Possible Super Silent HDD Case for 2.5â€

I saw that cooler on thermalright web site last week, emailed them when it will be released, but they said that they don't know yet...

Found this link:
http://forum.coolaler.com/showthread.php?t=156671

So, there you can see the diference compared to old version.
Could be interesting...

I got reply on another forum. Someone tried to run his E4300 at 0.9V
at stock with succes on Gigabyte...

Hello, Has anyone tried to undervolt CPU at default speed with: - Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 650i or - MSI P6N SLI Platinum 650i I did read manuals, but they don't say what is the minimum voltage you can select in BIOS. As far as I can understand, you can only go up on MSI, but I'd ask if anyone can co...

Passive GPU cooling is overrated for silence. It just means you need fans (that will make noise) elsewhere to pick up the slack rather than the one on the videocard. No, not true. It's only one part of a true quiet PC, but you must take care of other componentst too. You must have all components wi...

The GeForce 7950 GT shoud have max power consumption at about 60W.
I suppose you need good airflow for 'passive' card.

I have my hopes on 8600GT for a passive solution (similar power consumption as GeForce 7900 GS).

Maybe is this THE table we are looking for:

http://www.playtool.com/pages/vidtable/table.html

@pyogenes: But did they bouth had the same motor? I did buy a Samsung HDD - SPCR favorite at that time, and was very dissapointed in terms of idle noise and vibrations... Sold it. I think it's useless to talk about silent HDD - as they don't exist. You need to try them, as it's too much diference fr...

The high pitch whine from the Seagate 7200.10 drives me crazy. I seriously doubt it's above the frequency that only younger people can hear it because I (29 yrs old) can hear it loud and clear with the P180B door closed from 10+ feet away. That's assuming minimal ambient noise. I'm still trying to ...