Certainly it could be a bad sample, and I'm glad to hear someone say the 3-platter model can be quiet, as I may eventually move to SSD for the boot drive and replace the two TB drives with a 2 TB model, so I'll still have 4 TB storage total. By that time, I'd guess only the 3-platter models will be ...

WD replaced the drive (WD20EARS) under warranty. The original drive was the new 3-platter version, while the replacement is the old 4-platter version. The replacement eliminates the annoying noise. In my open air dock, both drives make a constant hissing noise, which is expected, but the 3-platter v...

My NEC 20WMGX2 does not do this. It's an S-IPS panel, though.

I'm using the lower drive cage in my Acoustipack'd Antec P182. Guess I could try replacing the grommets and moving the drive to a different location in the cage.

I recently installed a WD20EARS drive and have established it is responsible for a low volume, warbling noise that is driving me nuts. Imagine a pure tone that is interrupted for maybe 50-100 msec every .5-2 seconds, and you'll understand the wooo-woo--woooooooo-woooo---wooooooo-woooo... sound the t...

I've got 3 1 GB WD green drives. My WD10EACS has been in service as the Recorded TV drive for WMC (Vista and now Windows 7) since Nov 2007, and I have two WD10EADS drives bought two weeks apart in Aug 2009, one for the OS and data and the other just for data. These are all in my Antec P182 case and ...

Hyperthreading is not much to loose. For instance people still have to disable it in some situations. When would you want a chip not to have multi-threading... other than to avoid heat buildup? Hyperthreading is a very poor approximation to multiple cores, and when multiple cores are available, I w...

Ok so I got the 212+. It seems to cool very well. Only problem is the fan is extremely annoying. Even at 800rpm it has this really high pitched annoying bearing sound. I thought it was electrical noise from my power supply at first but I narrowed it down to the fan. The noise just gets louder and l...

The Active PFC issue has the potential to affect all UPS's that aren't true sine wave. That said, my APC XS1500 has worked find for years with my APFC Antec NeoPower HE 550. My problem with CyberPower is that their pure sine wave UPS PP1500SW-T2 tripped the AFCI breaker in my house as soon as it was...

Eagle156 wrote:

tima wrote: +1 on the Hyper212 Plus. <snip>

Are you using the stock fan that came with the HSF?

Yep.

While researching a new system, I recently became aware of this myself, and to my horror, I discovered I had been using a plain old APC XS1500 for the last three years with my NeoPower 550 HE, which I confirmed on Antec's site is Active PFC. It's worked fine all this time. Nevertheless, I was in the...

Cooler master 212+ seems good: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/19383-cooler-master-hyper-212-plus-cpu-cooler-review.html +1 on the Hyper212 Plus. Installation was easy, and while it does have a backplate, at least it doesn't involve gluing it to the motherboard. I fear...

I just bought a new Antec Signature 650, and it has a terrible noise signature. Testing it outside the case with the Antec PSU tester to provide a load, it starts off at a somewhat high fan speed and then immediately drops to very low speed, which is fine. Unfortunately, it settles down to emit a co...

snq wrote:I use the platters to put my drinks on, keep the magnets for fun, and the rest goes to the recycling bin.

I'm juvenile enough to enjoy asking people to "Bring me that funny looking magnet off the fridge, please."

Is the FZ120 compatible with the BTF80/90 LGA775 backplate, so that the latter can be replaced with the former?

Bought the DVR-215DBK to replace my Samsung 203B which was horrible. I am forever glad I made the switch. The 215 is of course loud when unbridled, but the sound it makes is much smoother, much more controlled than the Samsung's. It just sounds like more of a quality product. In addition, unlike wi...

With a P5B and two P5B Deluxe's at my disposal, I can confirm that the P5B does not have a built in speaker. I don't know where people are getting the notion that all modern boards have them built in... even my "top-of-the-line" Asus Maximus Formula doesn't have one built in. If you go to a friendl...

FWIW, my experience with several of the Scythe fans was this: 1. 800 RPM Slipstreams - Quiet at 12v, but not enough cooling for a main case fan (E6600, 8800GTS 512MB, TV tuner, Prelude, no overclocking). I have one in the lower chamber of my P182, where it does a great job keeping the 3 HDs cool. 2....

...once a second or so, it wiggles a tiny bit. The automatic restart circuit is trying to restart the fan. Apparently your "Quiet Fan" is turning the fan to too low an RPM so it quits turning. This is not a problem as long as your CPU temps are OK. However, I'd think there are more bios settings to...

if it wiggles, than start up power is not enough to spin it up. Or then you should look your bios setting. Most motherboards you can set temperature thershhold, under which fan does not spin. Of course I've looked into the BIOS. There are three options for CPU "Smart Fan Control", namely "Auto", "V...

I just rebuilt my system around a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 Rev 2 motherboard and ZeroTherm BTF90; previously I had an Intel D975XBX and Zalman CNPS9500. The CPU is a Core 2 Duo E6600, the GPU is an 8800GTS, and my case is Antec P180b. Other components include a Prelude, TV tuner card, 3 HDs in the lower ...

I went to the WD web site to see if they have a clear answer to the question of spin speed. From the Greenpower page, it states that for any particular size of WD GP drive, the spindle speed is fixed, not dynamically changing. It also states that, depending on which drive in the family, the speed r...

I just finished modding my PC and I'm pretty proud of it. Unfortunately, my physical desk looks like crap. I'm wondering if any of you have any suggestions for nice desks to look at? I've been looking on amazon and they sell lots of junk for cheapo office people. I'd like a desk on which the PC can...

Is there a significant difference in noise level between the Antec Tri-cool (running on Low) and the Nexus 120mm? I got a new Antec Solo case, and my computer is fairly quiet, but the thing producing the most noise in this system I believe is the Antec Tri-cool mounted at the back of the case. This...

Sorry no pics, but spotted quite similar solution . My duct is a bit larger, covers all empty slots and has no external fan. Not bad. I do have one empty slot below the card, so something like that might work. Is there a recommended tape for this sort of thing? I might also try a slot cooler to act...

I was quite buzzed about temperatures with the card. It seems that heatsink airflow has really bad design. Even the cooler is two slot model and is supposed to exhaust warm air, most if the air is actually blown inside the case from four oddly placed openings in cover of the heatsink. A little duck...

The first time or two, the caddy is quite hard to move. If you pull towards you by grasping both sides of the fan, it should slide 1/4" or so with about 5 pounds force. Then it should wiggle out easily. I think I was applying more like 50 pounds. :) Still wouldn't budge. Yes, Nexus at 12V is louder...

On the older P180, you just pull it toward you, then to the left; it should just slide out. It's held in place by four fingers that go through holes in the metal plate. You can see them from the hard disk side of the partition as four small black squares of plastic. That's what I'm seeing on my P18...

Anyone have a tip on removing the lower chamber fan bracket from the P180B? This is the fan between the HD cage and power supply. I've tried simultaneously pushing from the bottom and top of the fan's frame, but I can't get the thing to budge, and I don't want to break it.

The 9500 mounts in Socket 478 using what appear to be the same bars the 7000 uses; those bars go into the slots in the 478 retention mechanism. From the review : http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/z9500/bracket-comparison.jpg In front, the clips for the CNPS9500. Behind, the clips for the C...