The RAM? Don't want the ram sizzling, now do we? I'm not very knowledgeable about GPU cooling. I am just going off my belief that the more contact/coverage, the better the cooling. Maybe I'm wrong, I probably am. :P Actually my past experience with Zalman indicates it traps heat which heats up memo...

Well the tape is pretty damn strong! I tried it out with two pieces of heavy iron and shaked them like a crazy, the tape held it together no probs, so i bet it can hold that petty little plastic fan on. ;) If it does fall off sometime I'll tell u guys all about it :) One thing you wouldn't have to ...

now, that might not fit my lian-li v1000 case... I guess I will be stuck with thermal right XP-120 most likely :p But the weight!... wonder how many people are going to be willing to put that copper block in stock frame.

General recommendation: Leave your hands off Thermaltake stuff (darn copycats). Go for the originals they emulate (ThermalRight, mostly, and Coolermaster). :) Uhmm... what was the latest Coolermaster's origial... HS from? (which they couldn't make it as good as Aerocool's) BTW, Anthing that is ther...

My experiences
Freeze -> Heat
Crash -> voltage
Typically in case of intel.
Random crash -> mostly memory related but could have reached end of chips or chipset's limit.

Kind of hard to beat it with nice PSU and case combo. Without PSU.... well... different story

I took a good look with my AI-7 and it surely will accomodate it fine. Not sure about p4p800 i got though... Gonna be nice upgrade in cooling with V1000 I ordered once it comes out.

Ahaha... couldn't endure myself cutting on case anymore. Ordered one.
Not expecting any more over clock etc but it should give really cool air to upcoming Thermal right 120mm heatsink that I am waiting on.

Phish, got a favor to ask you. Can you open the side panel up and run the prime 95 and compare it with side panel on and see how much diff on temperature you get on CPU? Thinking about possible upgrade but not willing to throw down $200 plus for quite new antec p160 I have right now. (Pretty satisfi...

I have a Tempur-pedic mattress. Here are two problems: 1. It absorbs heat extremely well. When I cover it with a blanket, it can stay warm from my body heat for days. This may raise the ambient temperatune. 2. When I put my ear in contact with the bed and cover my other ear with the Tempur-pedic pi...

Another problem is that you will most likely feel vibration even if you successfully decouple the pump. Those tubing 1/2" thick at that short length tend not to bend much and puts enough strength to vibrate the radiator. There are some excellent materials to do this such as vibration dampner mountin...

Bah...

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/en/products/vga_silencer/ Clockwise would be better I would think. Maybe we are confusing the direction to look at from? Scoop up as u said would happen when going clockwise. If you put your hand underneat the fan you will notice air getting blown out of it instead of i...

From looking at the side with logo and translucent shrouds, (top of GPU card) does it spin Clockwise or Counter Clock Wise? I would assume it should be clock wise (to scoop the air) but it is rotating counter clock wise (changing direction of voltage input will just make sure fan doesn't even turn)....

Case looks nice. Looks almost BTX to me. Have anyone noticed the separte air path from MB/component area and bottom HDD are which gets flow from PSU? Looks like to me with proper suspension and dampenening, most HDD noise will be killed in this one. Also for the CPU rest of component cooling area, t...

id buy it cuz its green! But really, anybody see pix of that guys case! He has a watercooled rig and he STILL has more fans in his computer than me, I mean, these people are crazy! The funny thing is that he has a UT2003 decal on it, while my computer with only 2 fans in the WHOLE thing runs that g...

To my eye the rubber isolator is really isolator with the need for them to put wire to casing part for ground. Thats gotta be able to make it about equal to EAR grommit in its effectiveness. (which is no small claim). THe thing I am still having hard time figuring out is... 5 1/4inch slots don't get...

1 Seasonic 400W or 350W PSU fan modded with panaflo. 1 Zalman 350W PSU - with coil whine. 1 Antec TP 380W PSU with fan mod. 1 Antec TP 550W PSU with fan mod. With fans swapped they sound about all same. Seasonic runs cooler than the other 3 usually though. Best rail goes to 550W TP of course. If you...

... My post was a response to the idea that we should recruit people from other teams. In my mind, convincing people to change their TeamID would not change their ideas (or lack thereof) about silent computing. Perhaps I'm mistaken, though, and the people who switch to the SPCR team will soon get t...

Werd... Why should it matter if machine folding is silent or not? Do you care if your work machine folding when you are at home is silent or not? Is the silent PC absolute value such as 30db @ 1 meter away for over all system sound with certain frequency only acceptable or is it realative? (For thos...

Dave, Welcome to SCPR! We haven't come across a supplier of Seasonic PSUs here in the UK, but I guess our hopes are not high that these will be any better than the Zalman, SilenX or the 50 different Fortron clones. Seasonic IS better than Zalman right away. To get to the level you want, you will ha...

On sandra 2003 for the 7200.7 40gb i got 32833 score For the the WD 80gb in raid 0 i got 44000-46000 For HDtach i got: 14.4ms seek Max read at 61151kps Min 21076kps Ave 46254kps For the westerd digital in raid: 13.5ms seek Max 61151 min 70805 ave 44905 I will try HD speed and see what i get on it. ...

And to think, IBM was a leader in HDD ... Now their hard drives went to hell and got bought out by a Japanese company, what can I say... And the royal sony, toyota, honda customers are? Besides, I'd like to find 1 person in this forum who actually used 180GXP and had problem with it. Step up... :)

My recommendation on farm: Cheap combo CPU & MB (athlon) with onboard NIC. (XP 1800+ would suffice) + 128MB RAM (SD-RAM works fine with these cheap MOBO) Make sure the NIC is compatible for boot from LAN, etc on Linux environment. PSU whatever is cheap. SVC.com has 350W for $10 nowaday (RAIDMAX). Yo...

My experience with water cooling is that it DOES help reduce noise a lot, but this comes at a price....of money, safety, and its a bit more complicated... Looking back, it would have been cheaper (and probably just as efficient for not overclocking...) to have just gone with a high quality heatsink...

I would check PSU first as well. Be careful, you could be losing data in no time.

Oh..... no... what is Zalman doing -_-?! I've yet to see one of those coolers doing EFFECTIVE cooling. It just doesn't have effective area for heat dissipation nor enough airflow to cool it (and quiet at same time). I guess there are some markets for people wanting a bit quieter solution than SLK-90...

I can't believe... what these peeps saying. Of course the head will be an issue just like any other restriction in system. If the world is ideal and energy is conserved, sure why not? Why do people mention about difference between spiral block and white water about restriction? Head is basically how...

Depends on your budget. Maze3 and Swiftechs are top dog a far as availability and performance goes. (Whitewater stuff is not in production at this point which beats this two blocks by 2-3c given decent pump). However Danger den just came out with new design (its still under non-disclosure for review...

Most of air cooling guys would be better off with cooler master. (more solid feel compared to lian-li). Now if they are doing water cooling, the small width of cooler master case might give you some problem. Not to mention Lian-Lis offering of full tower alu case. Case is a case after all. (I have b...