Tidy wiring! Looks like the combination of motherboard and case doesn't make it very hard though. Something that catches my eye is that the motherboard has an alternatively positioned CPU-socket and with that CPU-cooler, which means the awesome Ninja isn't as close to the fans as in a setup with a s...

I find it somehow more attractive than the Ninja, Infinity or Ultra-120.

But then again, I've never been one to go for looks in computers

Azerty.nl has S2 now as well.

Ordered it, but it seems something went wrong, didn't get an email from them about the order yet, and when I log in there's nothing on the order-list.

Oh, and by the way: THE S2 IS ONLY 15 SOMETHING EUROS!

Apparently the Dutch importer has the S2 now. Should be in online shops like azerty.nl within a week or so.

I guess SilentPC.de should get it at about the same time. Although they've been saying they would have it the 31st of May, and they've been saying that since somewhere last month.

Personally, I hate it when people see a brand new, kick ass case like this, and the first thing you hear is "WILL THE GTX FIT?!". The GTX is a rediculously huge card, if it fits, then you're wasting space ;) Anyways, back to the Sonata, looks nice, something I might've bought had it been released a ...

This: 1x Maxtor DiamondMax 11, 160GB (7200rpm, ATA133, 16MB) - Bootdisk 1x Maxtor DiamondMax 9, 200GB (7200rpm, ATA133, 8MB) - Storage 1x Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 250GB (7200rpm, ATA133, 16MB) - Storage is not compatible with this: I sleep 3m from my machine so it has to be silent you'd be better off ...

Hmm.. Haven't I seen you somewhere before, like, Tweakers.net or something? :lol: Didn't see that 600W PSU in the setup you posted on Tweakers. I say 600W is rather a lot of overkill. Those new Radeon cards are supposed to be really energy efficient. After a little trip to the PSU calculator and suc...

A VGA card loses it's heat to the rest of the case (most cards, anyway, some have an exhaust at the back), so if the cooling of the a video card is bad, that just means the heat will stick with the card, so less of it will go into the case. Not sure about this though - the heat will still go from t...

I like these cards..

He's speaking of bad VGA cooling. A VGA card loses it's heat to the rest of the case (most cards, anyway, some have an exhaust at the back), so if the cooling of the a video card is bad, that just means the heat will stick with the card, so less of it will go into the case. Now of course, this is st...

So.. why don't they sell these things seperately yet? I want to build an HTPC with one of these. Even if the Fan takes up an entire U

I remember, we had a 286 when I was about 4.. The thing ran on DOS and Windows 3.11, I used to play all kinds of games on it. Outrun, GoldenAxe, Prince of Persia, Paratrooper, Frogger, Pitfall, God of Thunder, some Pacman clone, Patience, and some other silly stuff.. I was quite the gamer back then

I'm thinking I might want one of these, even though there's nothing to validate the entire thing, as I haven't really heard MikeC about it, I think it may help a bit for guiding airflow and for spot cooling. I don't reckon their the magical things described here, but I'd sure like to try a few..

Bah, although the heatsink design looks promising, the fact that they have only two heatpipes, and an aluminium block, scares me. I don't think it'll be much for high-end cards. Just as well it looks like it won't work for a PC with a large CPU tower heatsink on most motherboards. In effect, this th...

Is it just me, or did they use pretty copper heatpipes and sink, but an aluminium block directly on the processor? :/

7200.10 have a big difference between batches in the noise level. most of the new ones are pretty loud. i got several, it takes some serious work to make them reasonable. raptors are loud too but at least you know they are what they are... an enclosure on some foam inside a closed case - it should ...

Oye, I don't really buy it, though. What kind of an asshat would sell things that cheap and get only 15 of em? Iif you can make a profit on that kind of pricing, you'll want to stock up a lot of them. Unless of course, if perhaps, it's the kind of sale that's just there as a promotion stunt, not to ...

Quite an important detail you forgot there..

Where?

Yeah, I would really get rid of that stock AMD cooler. Although I'd probably try and modify the 120mm exhaust a bit as well, so that it can just but put up with soft rubber fan mounts without touching the case, as well as make the hole bigger so you'd actually get some effect from having a 120mm ins...

A guy I know from a Dutch forum said he Emailed AC's Dutch office and asked about the S2, they said it was going to be released in The Netherlands somewhere halfway through may, which is like, I haven't seen it yet though. On a German website (www.PCSilent.de), it says that they'll have the S2 the 3...

I would ditch the raptor idea and go with a double seagate 7200.10 drives in striped raid, even if they are noisy, they aren't near as noisy as the raptors. I have a 7200.10, and really, if you suspend it, they're not half bad. I'd say if you get two Seagates, put them in quiet drives or some other ...

I don't know what you mean by "Dynamic fan control", but it sounds a lot like what AtiTool does. I may be wrong though..

I have an ATI Radeon X1600XT, and it has a terrible fan (40mm :() which spins rather fast on standard settings. But, with ATITool, I underclocked the whole thing by about 15% (still does what I need it to) and adjusted the fan speeds so that the fan is off if the temperature of the GPU is below 60C,...

both rated at 20dBA (lets assume that is accurate). Would the total noise level be 20dBA or 40dBA? neither, it would be 23dBA. check out this stickied thread . Not quite, two times 20dB would turn into 23dB, but dBA isn't dB. Besides that, this rule only counts when the two sources of sound do not ...

Well, I can't really say anything about the Lexa, apart from what I read here and there, and although I haven't really seen a trustworthy review about it, I'm pretty sure the P150 will take it down any day of the week. About the two optional 92mm front fans, yes, if you take two low RPM fans, say, N...

For music, you don't need a lot of speed. And yes, most games play almost completely from HDD these days. But, still I'd say that depends on the game in question. So if you really want to use it as quiet as possible, you should just try the minimum or perhaps a little above it for a bit and see how ...

For the GPU cooling, you don't necesarily have to get a big aftermarket cooler. You'll be surprised at how much you can lower the noise by adjusting the fan control with a program like AtiTools. Factory settings of these fans are way over the top in my experience. I don't know what kind of fan is in...

I have two 92mm Nexus Real Silent fans at 7v in the front, with both the fan grill and the dust filter on, the both of them together are quiet enough to remain inaudible over the rest of my system. I have never had any Noiseblocker fans, but I am really quite pleased with my Nexus fans, I can defini...

So they're only available in Denmark?

I blame the vikings

Hey, I figured there'd be at least some people here that know a thing or two about hi-fi, so I thought I'd ask here. So, I have a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard with onboard HD audio, and I connected my JVC Stereo Set to it through a simple stereo mini-jack to dual RCA jacks, which all goes prett...