Interesting concept.

With the 2 120mm in the upper back corner, looks like an ideal set up for a bare XP120 without fan.

Main question is this: how do you get the main mobo power connector all the way to the top without making it look ugly...

I shall bite. One of the most important things that factors in is the noise floor. That is, what is the ambient noise? Your ears get used to the ambient noise so anything louder than that is "noisy". Different people's places have different amount of ambient noise. This all depends on the type of fu...

Just making sure, all of Nexus fans 80mm, 92mm, 120mm are redone Yate Loon sleeve bearing Low speeds right?

If you are underclocking that low permenantly, you probably want to make sure that you choose an OS that will run efficiently at that speed. WinXP may not be a great option since it eats resources up. I take it you have done your homework and am guessing that something like 1.0ghz wouldnt do passive?

My brother bought the exact last one from computergeeks. I told him about it, and he got in. One good thing is they refresh their website instantly. I did the "punch f5 furiously" thing and lo and behond, 5 seconds after my brother said he submitted the order, they put up a sold out declaration.

Hmm... I hope that Yate loon isnt going to be too noisy. I would have jumped for job if they used the low speed version of that fan. But, I await a SPCR review...:p

Looks like we bought off their entire stock of these fans!

Last I checked, they only had 3 remaining!

I just picked up a couple of these. Thanks for the link OP!! Here is hoping that they are quiet. It will be like a week before i see/hear them though cause I went with Ground Shipping.

You may want to consider the Globe 120s. These will give you the CFM if you need it, but will also quiet down when you dont. I am both overclocking and running a quiet system - its very possible even without water cooling! You just have to be able to accept 5-10C higher temps which is fine as long a...

I would rank noise makers as: 1. Jet 7 2. 4x Adda fans 3. NF7-S NB fan 4. GPU fan 5. Harddrives 6. PSU Possible Solution: 1. Thermalright XP-90 w/ nexus 92mm or panaflo BX L1A 92mm 2. Panaflo 12L 3. Zalman NJ47 4. arctic silencer rev 3 if it fits 5. Nothing you can do w/o hassle 6. Seasonic Super To...

For me, it is the antec power supply is the biggest contribution to system noise. Followed by the Raptor which is high pitched. After dealing with your antec power supply, you may want to consider getting a zalman fanmate to quiet down the Arctic NV silencer. BTW, i have the trueblue 480.

I am interested in this as well. I have a 120mm fan as exhaust, and there is that "gap". It seems that a small amount of the air it exhausts hits the metal, and comes back into my case. Should I just stuff air conditioner filter in the gap? I guess this is somewhat the same question the OP asked.

You can try to isolate the fans from the case with fan isolators: McMaster-Carr 5801K6 and 5801K8 K6 works perfect for the 80mm L1A. K8 works OK on the (thicker flanged) 120mm L1A but you can't take them off w/o ruining them. They fit real tight. I got this info from Lenny who got it from Ralfhutter...

thanks scara, ill keep that in mind. Perhaps I can make some sort of lexan plates to duct to pci slot holes in addition to what you suggested.

thanks for your reply! So far, 2 hrs of CS:S and Dawn of War each have not shown any wierd dots or screen abnormalities. My CPU did reach 62C :shock: Thats when I raised the 92mm Panaflo M1BX on my cpu to 12V for a lil while. Other than that brief 62C temp, nothing else out of the ordinary. Does rem...

I got the Zalman ZM80-D for Christmas and have a couple of questions: 1.) Is it supposed to be somewhat of a pain to install? I spent a good hour or so installing it - very slowly and reading the instructions twice or three times. It is on my 9800 Pro 256. I had also received an additional ramsink s...