Thanks for the comments, Neil. After quieting the rest of the system--suspended drives in Antec Solo, fanless Ninja, Zalman VF900 on the vid card, and Nexus intake/exhaust fans--the Antec Truepower is now loud enough that I've been thinking of replacing it with one of SPCR's recommended power suppli...

My Truepower II 430 has begun making a high-pitched warbling sound when booted for the first time. After it warms up a bit--5 to 10 minutes--the warble is gone and sound returns to normal. It appears to be the power supply fan--when I stop the fan, the warbling sound also stops. There have been no c...

There's one of these in a friend's Compaq Presario--apparently AMD has OEM'd a few different 939 Sempron's for HP (and perhaps others). They seem to be standard A64 chips with part of the cache disabled. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Sempron_microprocessors#Sempron_.22Palermo.22...

Now here I am stuck without fan speed controllers and no courage to try the various voltage mods :p It's not that hard, Fungi. :) I recently did my first voltage mods for the two Nexus 92mm in my Solo. I just took a standard molex splitter cable--you know, that kind that lets you plug two drives/fa...

Anybody know anything about Ram in these computers? I went crucial.com and scanned my system. I have 2x 512mb sticks with a max of 4 GB allowed. They are DDR PC3200. I want to add at least another set of 2x 512mb sticks. Can I just go on ebay and buy any brand or type of DDR PC3200 sticks and they ...

I have a 74GB Raptor and a 160GB Seagate 7200.9 suspended in my Solo. The original build used two Nexus 92mm at 5v for intakes. I removed one of the two 92mm Nexus for another project (was going to replace it) and found that my drive temps didn't change more than a degree at most. Right now, they ru...

You could always mount the (slightly more available) 80-120mm adapter onto the Silentboost. Yes, that was my first thought. Unfortunately, the CPU socket is right at the edge of the board and there is not quite enough clearance for a 120mm fan. Aside from that I think your only option would be to l...

The 92 Nexus doesn't really push any more air. The difference in blade area is barely over 10% and at the same RPM, that's all the airflow increase you can expect. Then the adapter will case impedance loss, thus eliminating the minor gain. W/o changing the heatsink, all you can do is maybe lower th...

In my spare system, I've got a Thermaltake Silent Boost on a 2800+ Barton (undervolted to 1.55V and underclocked to 2700+.) Temporary pause for obligatory damning of Thermaltake. (Give me a break--I got it for $5.00 and it's a big hunk of copper.) Resuming now . . . I swapped out the nasty TT fan fo...

is a 50% markup on price really worth it for a custom air vent for the PSU, and to have someone else put it together for you? i guess it may be for people who don't have the time or know-how to do it themselves. Exactly right--this system is perfect for people who lack the knowledge or time to buil...

slightly off topic, but does anyone know where to get the 5.25" vent used on the model 11? Also my question :!: :?: Would be great for ducted airflow to the PSU in an existing or non-EPCN system ... Sign me up--I'd like to get the 5.25" vent and the duct. Mmm--EPCN could do us all a favor and post ...

The system is in an Antec Solo, with 120mm Nexus exhaust and two 92mm Nexus intake fans--all at 5 volts. The airflow appears to be good--the 3800X2 is overclocked 20% at stock voltage and is cooled with a fanless Ninja. (Though I may have to turn the fan on in the summer--just got the Ninja a few we...

If you search for NB47J and ultra-d on this forum or google, you'll see full pics of people who have modded this heatsink for use on the ultra-d. It involves some creative cutting and bending of fins. However, you only need to mod it if you really want to use the top pci-e slot or are going SLI. If...

Ok, thanks for the responses. I suspect that the reason for the 480 watt recommendation is people with junk power supplies and two SLI'd vid cards trying to achieve massive overclocks . Couple of questions about this board: - Is a Zalman NB47J suitable for chipset cooling? (Works fine on my current ...

My Asus A8N5X has to be RMA'd because of a bad IDE port. I'm thinking of getting a DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D to replace it. The DFI board appears to have excellent build quality--high quality caps, etc. I'm not a big-time overclocker, but I do like all the tweaking options offered on the DFI board...

Thanks for all the input, everyone.

It's all moot at this point, though. I got a great deal on a Scythe Ninja today with Yate Loon fan, so it's going on my 3800X2 and the Zalman 7000 AlCu will get moved to the Barton system.

Three words: Katana , Katana and Katana A few more words: Zalman fans aint excatly known for the ultimate quietness. The included fan on my Katana is far more quiet, than my VF-900 (both at 5 volt). And according to the SPCR review, the VF-900 is one of the more quiet Zalman fans... Also, there's a...

Yes, I agree that the Zalman 7000-AlCu is quite good. It's a known quantity, while, on the other hand, I only know the SI-97 from reading about it.

I need a cooler for a Barton 2800+, and I have been offered a used SI-97 for $20. I'd have to add a fan, of course. For about the same price, I can get a new Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu. I already have one of these on a 3800X2 and like it very much. I've heard the SI-97 called the best ever Socket A heats...

I have the SOLO also. . . . there's precious little space left over. Most, if not all, of what's available would be on the sound absorbent coatings on the left side panel. Not sure if the foam would replace or add to the effect of that. Yes, that's the question--where would the foam do the most goo...

Just finished moving my system to an Antec Solo--big improvement in noise and cooling! Drives are suspended, Nexus case fans, Zalman 7000CNPS-AlCu on CPU, Zalman VF900 on video card, and Zalman heatsink on NF4 southbridge. Only remaining noisy component is the PSU--an Antec Truepower II 430. I had s...

Thanks, Tibors--that's exactly what I needed.

I have to RMA my Asus A8N5X because one of the IDE ports failed. I'm thinking of buying a new board with better fan control and then selling the replacement A8N5X. On the A8N5X, only the CPU fan can be controlled by Speedfan. Ideally, I'd like to get a motherboard with at least 3 controllable fan he...

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My post was not intended to recommend one vendor over another, but rather to note an alternate source from whom I had just bought the HSF being discussed. They're probably both good vendors. I have no experience with Heatsink Outlet, but they look fine. EndPCNoise is an SPCR sponsor, and I've had se...

If you look at the picture more closely you'd realise they are considerably different designs. . . . There is a reason for the difference in price between the two. So unless you think endpcnoise is shipping the 80mm version I'd avoid it... Sorry, I apparently lost part of my post when editing it. T...

dhanson865 wrote: If that doesn't look like the stock HSF that came with your CPU you can get it for under $20 US from http://www.heatsinkoutlet.com/AMD-B.htm and it is almost as good as a Thermalright XP-90.

Or you can order it from EndPCNoise.com for $11.95 plus shipping: AMD Heatpipe HSF

Take a look at Notebook Hardware Control (NHC). http://www.pbus-167.com/nhc/nhc.htm I'm using it on my Sony laptop with a Mobile P4 2.4GHz. NHC keeps the CPU idling at 1.2GHz and increases the CPU speed as necessary under load--so-called dynamic switching . It also allows you to underclock ATI's mob...

Thanks--that's what I needed to know.

I'm putting together an nForce3 Socket 754 system for my son--he wants it as cheap as possible.

So, I have a stock Socket 939 HSF that came with my Athlon64 X2 3800. (I replaced it with a Zalman 7000.)

Will this stock AMD HSF work on a Socket 754 motherboard (Abit NF-8)?

Thanks.