2) I'm somewhat hard pressed to say a 2 door has less flex than a 4 door. For exotic sports cars, they have a frame designed to soak up the power of whatever behemoth is powering it, however a 4 door sports car (I'm at a lack for examples, so I'll just say beemers and audi's) they have that B pilla...

So you might step into the street and directly in front of a bicycle. The only sensible thing to do is only rely on your eyes and so never step into the street without looking! Hey lm, this world you live in, where humans don't make mistakes... where can I sign up? Any small 4 door with a respectab...

what kind of cpu are you trying to cool and are you worried about noise? What is the most economical quiet CPU cooling device? ;) Scythe Mugen 2 Rev. B, as mentioned, is a great choice. Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus is also an option. If size is an issue, a Big Shiruken would work well. Depending on ...

If I had my way I'd have a wide, very shallow desktop ATX case. Tall enough to house top end graphics cards, and with the optical / HDDs mounted beside the mobo instead of in front.

Googled it and yeah, looks very similar.
http://www.npowertek.com/product/nph-105-1.htm
Would be interesting to see an SPCR review of this style heatsink to see if the 'big single' heatpipe works in practice.

Has anyone tried using a Shiruken or other low-profile largish cooler in a desktop/HTPC case with the fan blowing upwards? How did it go?

Just wondering if anyone has tried ditching the stock GPU fan on their card, and rigging up a 120mm fan in place on the stock cooler?

I have a HD5770 but aftermarket coolers are thin on the ground.

Any before/after temp comparisons, subjective noise comparisons, pictures, would be awesome.

It looks to me like the Ninja would foul the PSU when the PSU is mounted? Unless its a hella thicker case than it seems in the photo.

Could a Seasonic X-400 run a overclocked Core i7 and a single GTX 480 in a Silverstone FT02? A core I7 can have anywhere from 18 to 130W TDP (depending on which i7 you mean), so the answer I guess would be "depends", given that the GTX 480 has a TDP of 250W. Assuming you're going fairly hardcore (i...

Great review. If scythe had put a flat base on the Ninja 3, *or* had used a bolt-through system for the Yasya, I'd be rushing out to buy one at the first opportunity. I really have to question their choice for pushpin design sometimes. Especially when they have already done a bolt through system bef...

The important thing for you is to look at the efficiency around the lower loads (20%). There's a table here http://www.silentpcreview.com/Enermax_Modu87_500W that shows the requirements. You'll have to look at how important having the extra 2-5% is, given how much extra a gold/silver/bronze PSU may ...

Excellent replies, I think I'd be wise to actually backup, and leave RAID well enough alone. It seems the 'cons' outweigh the minor 'pros' for my usage. My 'critical' data (wedding pics, movies of bubba) and so on is around 80gb so far, so may have to look at investing in a blu-ray burner. Will mean...

Hi, I have a few questions about RAID. I've done some reading but lots of the guides go into the 'nitty gritty' and I'm just not ready for that level yet. I have 4 types of data I keep. 1. Critical - Wedding photos, honeymoon photos etc. Really want this reliable - so error correction and backup sho...

Nice Maß! Awesome rig, too.

One wonders if a 120mm Nexus/Shiruken/Noctua fan run at 7v or so would drop the temps down significantly? Wouldn't be that hard to jerry-rig a bracket to mount a fan close to the HS on it. I thought the main problem with fans on GPUs was that they were typically 50mm screamers...

To be honest I think the fact that the GTS250 is 55nm, compared with the ATI 57xx's 40nm, means you're always going to fight harder to cool the card quietly. GTS250 is quoted at 145w TDP, according to Wikipedia. 5750 quoted at 16w/86w TDP (idle/load) 5770 quoted at 18/108w 57xx has GDDR5, GTS250 has...

I might do tests in the future. Right now I simply would like to know what it is I'm feeling. Is it EMF's, UHF's, light waves, radio waves, heat waves, etc. etc.? To know what you are feeling, you need to know how you are feeling. Pyschosomatically, or physically. I'd say its 50/50 chance either wa...

How exactly does one create the next Google, and what would that look like? The hundred million dollar question! The next google will not be a google. Google is not the 'next' altavista, it is just... google =) You have to think of a problem, then an ingenious solution. Trouble is, there are proble...

Weed-whackers and gasoline-powered metal/concrete saws I can't stand, but that might be the pitch rather than the loudness. I like a bit of noise from my cars too... I think you've hit it on the head pope_face, with frequency. I'm a fan of cars too, and there are some loud cars I love the sound of,...

Water and electronics don't mix, especially not when it's so close you your crown jewels...

Great setup for testing HS fans, I likely. I would add to the comment that testing @ 12v, 7v, 5v has its advantages. (Even 6v, for those that wire two fans in series). To me it seems easier for a home user to set a fan to run at a specific voltage, than to get it to run at a specific RPM. I think yo...

Google is your friend... first search result bought this up. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2384 The changes don't stop there. The revision 'B' nVidia 'G94' GPU has also been tweaked while undergoing a die shrink from 65nm to a 55nm, dropping the overall power use of the videocard....

Flanker - us kiwis just don't seem to 'get' some things. Like washing machines. I've tried both top loading and front loading and I have absolutely no idea why anyone would ever use a top loader. But that's all kiwi families seem to use. I've not had a single stretched t-shirt since getting our fron...

If you don't plan to overclock, the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus would be my pick for those who are worried about A) board bending, or B) their budget. Although the stock fan is noisy, you could try a push-pull setup (with another, quiet fan) and set them at ~6v each. Thats what I plan to do anyway ...

Has anyone developed a USB-based fan power / controller solution? Would be a pretty easy product to sell, because it would work on darn near any PC. Sure it wouldn't be BIOS based, but making a program that adjusts fan speed according to CPU temp would be a piece of cake.

I'm not here to prove anything to anyone. I asked a simple question: A non-optical, non-wireless USB mouse. Does it exist? As already explained before your post, even trackball mice use optical sensors. And "laser" mice are just a different form of optical (laser instead of LED). You could try an '...

Hmm, hadn't considered a passive 5750. None in NZ. I can probably ask a couple places if their suppliers would import one. Only get the Go! Green 5450 here in NZ... so far. pricespy.co.nz is the 'average' version of newegg for us. Not that exciting to see really :lol: I know I can get Gigabyte Silen...

My current ASUS 8600GT drives me nuts, easily the dominating noise in my case. High pitched whine even if I'm just browsing. Case design doesn't help (has a vent right next to the card - Coolermaster elite 334) Rest of system is a Core2Duo E8400 at stock 3.0ghz, Gigabyte board, stock cooler at the m...

In the review of the Zipang 2, they test the SY1425SL12ML (1000RPM) which is just a tad below the SY1425SL12M (1200RPM) retail version. Article is on this site, can't post URLs (postcount) but it's this one... article965-page7.html This fan proved to be one of the quietest ever tested Strongly consi...