worked on my geforce 4 4600
with zalman fan bracket and 7 volt 120 mm NMB from Dorothy
Attached using artic thermal epoxy

UrbanVoyeur wrote:yes.. and I fell for it.

i am so ashamed

at least it's quiet

miker wrote:LOL, that is funny. You're right that a lot of people could make something comparable in their workshop.

*cough* rip-off *cough*

miker wrote:The pics at silentmaxx.com are way too small. I can't even tell what that Verax looks like.

tru - anychance of seeing some pics of yours UrbanVoyeur

You could also try a Blue Orb w/ holes for GPU mounting - cheap ($10 US) effective, quieter thatn stock, especially when undervolted. Or you could try Vermax (silentmaxx.com) for their GPU cooler. Copper plate, 60 Mm fan. Very very quiet. Expensive. ($50 US). woah, those verax's G01's look awesome ...

Update from Samsung UK -seems just the same really Dear Customer, Thank you for your mail. The last mail means that we have already provided the SP1614N, but not many. Thank you. Sincerely yours Storage System Division === For other supports, Please visit to www.samsunghdd.com === ------------------...

Okay... Now, at least, I know why materials harder than cardboard may be a good idea. :oops: Cardboard and the foam it's attached to will expand when heated, causing the whole thing to bulge and end up not being duct-shaped, which definitely degrades the whole thing to "open air". Now, I'm using a ...

Let's assume I go with the iStyle (anyone see a pattern forming here ). That case has the most hopelessly placed intake fan I ever saw.... but suppose I get out the old Dremel and drill a series of holes in the bottom front of the case (pointing to the floor) and stick an intake fan on there!? I'd ...

lovely case, crap airflow tho. No front fans make it HOT.
But I can stare at it for ages

Tom P wrote:Looks like somebody just volunteered to help out on power supply reviews!

lol

Pjotor: How difficult was installation of the heat pipe? I'm planning on getting a 9700 Pro and the ZM80A-HP, but installation of the damned thing looks a little daunting. Did it go rather smoothly? Also, is your card cooled exclusively by the heatpipe/passive cooling? What are the other specs on y...

8 meg cache info -official response from Samsung worldwide

here responding to my email enquiry

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=5833

Emailed Samsung worldwide asking about the 8 meg cache version of the drive (UK site's feedback didn't work :roll: ) copy and paste follows: Dear Customer, Thank you for your mail. We have been just providing SP1614N in Europe. But we think that it is not much for supplying every consumer. Please ke...

Riffer wrote:I still haven't got around to listening to the .wav's and he is doing graphs.

lol

I would use the FSP300-60PN in the hottest case, it has more airflow. They're both going in Antec SX830 cases, so airflow should be about the same. I would assume that the P4 machine will be hotter since it has more components and the processor gives off more heat than a P3. I seem to remember read...

can't hear it when the case airflow is ok.
Gets noisier when things start heating up. So I need to improve the airflow to keep her quiet.

running my 2 x maxtor ata 133s at 48-52 degrees for a year now.
Bought as a replacement for 2 dead IBM Deathstars.

I know that vibrations are reduced when decoupled, but I thought that whine was due to spindle speed and that decoupling has little or no effect on this?... That has been my experience too. Decoupling is great for diminishing seek noise. However, in a very quiet rig, decoupling doesn't help to get ...

cliche, Our silver compounds will not conduct DC current, so the memory on your video card will not be "fried". Our silver compounds are capacitive, so they will pass very high frequencies. The capacitance allows crosstalk on the memory chip signal leads and prevents proper operation. A good cleani...

Hey, even with quiet drives I hope you guys have it decoupled. Sit it on foam and the whine and vibrations should be less or inaudible above everything else in your case. :roll: I know that vibrations are reduced when decoupled, but I thought that whine was due to spindle speed and that decoupling ...

I own the Audigy2 card, the M-Audio Revolution 7.1 card, and the Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96 card. I've carefully auditioned them with the Monsoon Planar Media 14 speakers as well as the Creative MegaWorks THX 5.1 550 speakers. For games, nothing yet touches the Audigy2. It provides flawless sound rep...

Also The choice of thermal compound is up to you, I have used Arctic Silver 3 on my core, and Arctic Alumina on the memory. PLEASE DO NOT USE ARCTIC SILVER3 ON YOUR MEMORY CHIPS! I have been told that if even the slightest bit of AS3 gets between the legs on the memory chips your card will most like...

Ok I just received my Maxtor's SATA 80gb today... I tell you: definitely buy these drives!! my case is still open and still I can barely hear them!!! superb drives that flat out beat seagates both in noise reduction & performance. :shock: Would love to see a comparison between the IDE samsung and t...

I cannot believe this. After turning off all my fans one by one to test which one is the loudest I got to the point where I turned all of my fans off and still I receive a huge amount of noise coming from "nowhere". I then unplugged the Hard Drive and voila. This freaking Western Digitial is louder...

Does this drive have less whine than a Barracuda IV

Mike's review seemed to imply that on that level at least, the single platter was superior.

After silencing my fans, gpu and PSU, my 2 x Maxtor's whines are driving me up the wall

Riffer wrote:That guy has been around for a while - each case is made individually, and then he sells them off to collectors.

Ah - that makes sense. I'm always looking for lovely cases since I stopped spending money on cars. Might order one sooner rather than later

That's bulshit. AS is not supposed to be electroconductive. Nice constructive comment there. Did u not read the comment from AMD regd AS not being recommended due to potential thermal conductivity http://www.xtremetek.com/info/index.php?id=14 [H]ardNews 1st Edition Saturday April 26, 2003 Posted by...

lol - that's is so funny. They have not got ther PR sorted have they !

Fabool wrote:Zalman has a new northbridge heatsink on their korean page, the ZM-NB47J.
You can see it here: http://www.zalman.co.kr/product/zm-nb47j.htm

Damn - hope the heat dissapation is not that much better as I have just bought 2 of the old NB heatsinx

My fans sound like a wet fart.

Oh - my wife informs me that was me