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by Shaman
Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:53 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Updated Antec NSK3300, the new NSK3400
Replies: 114
Views: 86727

A google search in english for NSK3400 turns up mostly aussie stores claiming to have this case for sale. However from the number of vents at the top it's clear they are using a NSK3300 picture, and they say "380W SFX PSU". :?: Was this case always called NSK3400 in Australia? Or are these stores us...
by Shaman
Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:16 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Updated Antec NSK3300, the new NSK3400
Replies: 114
Views: 86727

This must be coming out real soon, I think this is gonna be my next case, unless a silent cute shoebox style case comes out before it. :) Does anyone know the reasoning for the HDD mount at the bottom being so deep into the case? Is it to put the HD further away from the user and thus reduce noise? ...
by Shaman
Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:37 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Any Aria/NSK1300 cooling success stories?
Replies: 12
Views: 13079

Ok thanks guys. So really there's no way to make this case acceptable without modding it. I would hate to use a hole saw on such a cute little case. :? However I think that with just a few more rows of square holes in the PSU enclosure, the airflow would improve dramatically. I can't believe Antec d...
by Shaman
Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:29 am
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Any Aria/NSK1300 cooling success stories?
Replies: 12
Views: 13079

Any Aria/NSK1300 cooling success stories?

Seems everything I read about the NSK1300 is negative, horror stories about CPU's close to or above 70ºC, everyone warning to stay away from it. But is there anyone successfully running their system on one of these cases? Preferably a non-overclocked system perhaps with a mid-range graphics card in...
by Shaman
Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:37 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: All these vertical tower heatsinks, what about the mosfets?
Replies: 20
Views: 8127

The ultimate solution to this problem....blow your rear case fan inward, toward the tower heatsink. Construct a three-sided duct, the side toward the MB left open. Most of the air will be blown through the heatsink, but a portion of the airflow will hit the MB components directly......plenty of coo...
by Shaman
Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:34 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: All these vertical tower heatsinks, what about the mosfets?
Replies: 20
Views: 8127

aristide1 wrote:Well that's why God invented this thingamajig
I don't see how that would cool the mostefs with a huge tower heatsink in the way? And if you're gonna use an extra fan just to cool the mosfets, might as well use a HSF that blows down at the cpu and cools both and avoid using another fan = less noise.
by Shaman
Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:21 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: All these vertical tower heatsinks, what about the mosfets?
Replies: 20
Views: 8127

All these vertical tower heatsinks, what about the mosfets?

Mosfets and voltage regulators, don't they need as much cooling nowadays? Or does everyone running tower coolers simply accept the fact that their motherboards will have a sorter life span as a result of insufficient cooling?
by Shaman
Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:00 pm
Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
Topic: Shoebox Case without PSU over CPU
Replies: 1
Views: 3386

Hi, Besides the ones you already listed, I haven't seen any shoebox case where the psu is not on top of the cpu. Even the Qpack and clones have a structural bar on top of the cpu that prevents installing tall coolers. Some people have cut a part of that bar to fit taller coolers, I don't know how so...