if the 9600 does have lower performance than the 9500, i wouldn't mind as long as it's quiet and costs less! what about the 9200? could that be the perfect quiet card? I SERIOUSLY doubt that. 9200 might be quiet underperforming card which will be useless for gaming in less than a year is my guess. ...

You probably already opened it but...
After opening side panels you will notice there is opening to left and right of the fan cover for screw.... Granted you have tip magnitized drive, you can do it without opening the front cover.
I bet my comment is already too late anyways...

WOW! Pretty hefty price for 80GB drive. I think I will pass on for now until other companies make even better peforming drives at comparible noise level.

Well I've been using those fan grommets from SA... (bought like 40+ of them at one time and for few systems I have... one of system hogging 24 of it)... They do make noticeble difference for my untrained ear. My case which has reputation for being solid case (cooler master ATC-201) used to have vibr...

The noise reduction material is likely a resonance damping material such as Dynamat. There is precious little clearance in the case to allow for foam. I wonder what the heck they mean by a noise reduction cable? I would want to know which fan they mean by, "quietest case/heat-pipe fan in the market...

I use shielded rounded cable that has flexo type shield. (8cm ones) Much more managable than typical cheapo rounded cable which is WAY too stiff to bend as well as keeping the signal integrity great compared to typical flat. Only minus would be cost.

I currently have a Lian-Li PC68 which is a great case, but I am not sure how quiet I can make this case. It certainly vibrates quite a bit, which is why I'm thinking about the coolermaster 201 silver case. Anyone used both of these cases? It seems like the coolermaster (after checking it out in a s...

the antec's another one of those...blow dryers :D nexus is quiet, silenx is quieter 8) just avoid antec...and enermax and vantec and kingwin power supplies by all means. they don't understand the meaning of quiet! :lol: Well, antec might be another one of those... but if you look at their regulatio...

I spent some extra ordinary amount of money on quieting my system down. Now in retrospect, it would cost about $300 more for brand new system vs changing parts... (changing part involved me $600-700 at least before selling the unused parts back) Thus, my vote goes to about $300 range. Frankly, most ...

All, I live in Japan, and the house I live in has floor heat where hot water passes through pipes under the floor in order to heat the house (quite antiquated, I know). I have to believe that having my computer sitting directly on my heated floor contributes significantly to the overall temps my co...

If it works as mentioned, it could be an win & win situation. 1) Sound insulation thru PVC pipe (highly unlikely from what I can see unless they can minimize turbulance in it... more likely it will generate additional vibration is my guess though) 2) Cooler temp means lower fan speed necessary... de...

As the subject says, im after some nice and quiet fans :) (trying to make my shuttle SK41G nice and quiet cause its whine is annoying me) :evil: Fans i need: An 80mmx25mm case fan, a good fan for this seems to be the Noiseblocker S2, thought i am having huge problems trying to get this fan in the U...

RMA'd the last of my IBM 75GXP drives to Hitachi recently -- a 30G 2 platter model at least 2 years old. Bought in the good old days of 3 yr warranties. Somehow the electrical connection seemed intermittent. Took a while to get a drive back. Absentmindedly formatted/installed Win XP a couple days b...

What is a Esometric mounted fan :? and why would it be used? Hey anne, nice to see you over here @ SPCR, I think he meant elastomer fan isolator mounted fan. Is that what you meant jinu117? It helps isolates the vibration of the fan from the being amplified by the case. Your absolutely right... now...

According to the specs on that page for 40 x40 x 10 fans, the noise is :cry: 36 dB for 8.6cfm at 8800 rpm for fastest in series or 25 db, 5.9cfm, 5500 rpm for the slowest in the series. They don't seem very quiet. No room for a larger, quieter fan? Could you mount a fan on the outside? 25db 40x40x1...

The thing about compressor I can think of is... I bet you can suspend that and wrap them in insulating material without having to worry about overheating it... (just guessing) So... if its sound is within reasonable level, we are expecting cooler system and maintain current noise level even with fas...

jinu117, sweet setup:) Since the Sonata seems to have problems, I'm turning my attention to the Cooler Master 201. Could I request some further advice and clarification. - I'm not sure how all of those fans are being controlled. Is it with the Vantec or the Enermax or something else? What would be ...

As the processor generates more heat (I fully expect 80w to be standard in highend CPU for next few years)...air cooling will have its limitation as far as silence is involved. (Even with upcoming 9nm production I don't expect it to run much cooler as they are ramping up on speed and die circuits) R...

i havent seen any major retailers carrying panaflos, but there are a lot of online vendors. if you live near los angeles, there is a store in van nuys that sells em for $4.50 or online http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=220&item=CF-109&type=store All electronics also has st...

I haven't tried shin-etsu itself... but reviews tend to agree they are in same league as Coolermaster one with shin-etsu. Compared to AS3, the difference is negligible...between coolermaster one and AS3. (Coolermaster applied correctly will be 1c cooler than AS3)... Now, applied correctly might not ...

Keep in mind that you can always add 80mm fan on top of its heatsink to make it even COOLER than stock while much much quieter. The ram sink sounds like excellent idea as I notice I can go quite high on overclocking my core and it will detoriorate (artifacts) even with HS temp staying same (memory g...

$165-190...Ati Radeon 9500pro $ 65..........SB Audigy oem $ 70..........Altec lansing 251 5.1 $165.........2.4ghz intel $ 85..........Albatron 845PE $ 72..........Kingston 512 2700 $105.........Western Digital 80/8mbcache $735 Total This system will not be overclocked, it will be mainly used for ga...

armageddon415 wrote:I currently have the truepower, how much quieter is the Nexus compared to the truepower?

Roughly half to 2/3 of truepower. (guessing based on my experience with true power/zalman/seasonic... and nexus is supposed to be quieter).
Frankly, I would fan mod truepower as it is great PSU already.

I just get impressed at those people who is willing to work on PSU without discharging it at least few hours first... I usually turn my computer off, switch PSU off, replace it with backup PSU, let the PSU sit 24 hours before I open it up, etc. Never got shocked by it yet and don't plan to. (Does li...

Zalman 5700Cu it is. In fact, I saw similar gain with Thermaltake in my athlon rig. Instead of tuning it for even more quietness, my system is over clocked instead now...

Keep in mind IDE standard is very restrictive on length. (another reason SATA is being looked at very favorably as it can easily go over few feets unlike IDE where real reliable maximum ends at 24") (Specification only allows up to 18" I think... but current crops of cables are a little higher quali...

I read about lapping in quite a few places... Never really had time to do it nor was sure what they claimed was possible with the kind of airflow I have (at low CFM through each fan in case). Heck, for once in last few months, I haven't bought something new or thought about something new (well thoug...

Shuttle ones are rated at 200W. I think there is company in S. Cali that makes their newer batch (not achme but someone else) that was willing to sell to end user. You might want to find it out. (our sudhian has some decent info on SFF)

Putting together a P4 system, except I can't find max watts for each of the parts listed on any of the companies sites. Is there a database some where that I'm just totally ignorant of? I've looked, just maybe not in the right places. Some links would be great, even just some hints. Thanks :) You c...

I would also like to chirp in and mention that Antec Truepower was devoid of this noise other than Seasonic. (The Zalman had it too which the company acknowledged and is swapping out in S. Korea at least).
Of course, you WILL have to mod it for fan noise reduction for silenece)