The Zalman chipset heatsink works great, but it gets in the way of my video card. It's grinds against my geforce 7800gs when i put it in and it scratches the heatsink cover. Ofc this depends on the layout of the motherboard. With your layout, i could get away with it. But if you try to put a 7900GTX...

Ya, I am specifically staying away from Asus because of my PSU. It's a shame because I really like the looks of the Asus motherboards. I am now debating between the 2 passive Abit boards, the K8N, and the AT8. (the ones with the blue heatsinks w/ heatpipe, not the copper colored ones). Abit K8N - I ...

Hi, My motherboard just died the other day (MSI Neo2 platinum) after 2 months of operation with my P150 case. Im looking to upgrade to a good PCI-E motherboard, but I am weary about what motherboards will be compatible with the problematic 430 NEOHE. So far I have had little problems with my MSI mob...

I am thinking of cutting off the grille as i think much of noise is being caused by the air turbulance of my Nexus120 hitting the grille. However, it doesnt look very good with the grills cut with snippers, and I don't want a big gaping hole for fingers and wires to fall into. So I am considering on...

Get it from Silencio on ebay (i forgot his exact ebay username). And he is also a regular on the board. Yes he is from Germany, but his shipping prices are surprisingly cheap to US and I received my items from him within a weeks time. I ordered the 80mm Yateloon from him (as well as some verax stick...

I don't know if this will help you but this is my 'poorboy' approach to quietly cool down my geforce 6800 nu: 1) remove the shroud covering off the heatsink and unplug the VGA fan. 2) buy a fan card bracket, this is basically just a bracket that fits under your video card, and is a plain silicone bo...

Im sure at 1000rpm brand new, youll barely be able to hear the Zalman. Using the 7v cable it came with it was very quiet (1600rpm?), but only lasted a year before i started hearing some buzzing motor sound. I tried oiling it with 3in1 oil did not help any. The bearing was probably too worn out by th...

Im buying vinyl and sonex foam. Going to layer the foam on top of the vinyl (where there is enough room). Maybe you should try the same thing and get the best of both worlds. That stuff is insane expense. Hence my questions about the items I posted earlier that seem far more reasonably priced. For ...

I bought the cooldrive6, which is pretty much the same as the aerogate3, but with an HD cooler builtin. It just plain works. The software could be a lot better and more flexible. -First off, you cant control your fans from the front panel, you can only do so through the software. -Second, the softwa...

Im buying vinyl and sonex foam. Going to layer the foam on top of the vinyl (where there is enough room). Maybe you should try the same thing and get the best of both worlds.

For vibration dampening, I would go for vinyl sheets that are similar to the ones pre applied to the p150. Try to look for cascade VB-2MPC vinyl sheets which is a minipack that covers 4.5 sq feet and costs between 15-20 dollars. You may be able to find this at automotive stores. One place on the p15...

I don't think vinyl would help that much, unless it's vibration is causing the racket Actually for my NEC drive, much of the sound is from vibration, not just the woosh sound you hear from an optical drive at high rpm. On my P150 case, I can barely feel vibration from my fans, but when I'm burning,...

Has anyone ever experimented with dampening directly on an optical drive? I have an NEC nd-3500 that is really loud when its reading and burning at 8-12x. If I slap on a vinyl dampening sheet on top of the burner, and some on the bottom (but not over the vents), do you think it would make much diffe...

I was wondering this myself because i was considering the Ninja to replace my xp90. I also own the MSI NEO-2 platinum board which has a fairly unique motherboard layout. The board is suited very well for an XP-90 because the heatsink fins are now horizontal instead of vertical and the heatsink overh...

Yate Loon don't make any 92mm fans do they? Yes they do, however they only seem to be available from Silencio: 92mm Yate Loon Some of the Scythe and Glacialtech fans have been getting good reviews. DOH! I just ordered some stuff from Silencio a few days ago, but I didnt see any 90mm fans from him o...

Hi, Well i blew my budget on the Antec P150 and a bunch of quiet fans and fan isolators. What i didnt buy was a new 92mm fan for the front of the P150, since I still had a spare Zalman 92mm laying around. Well it turns out the sleeve bearing is wearin down and it is no longer as quiet as it used to ...

Well on my P150, I only needed to fill up the 1 amp requirement for the first and second 12v rail(im using the first and third power port on the PSU). My third rail is left unused. I think you actually only need to fill up the rails that you are using. Your computer should have no problems fullfilli...

I don't think lead is a good idea unless:

1. you live near a nuclear power plant or toxic radioactive dump
2. think that the aliens are downloading porn from your computer
3. you are Lex luthor and trying to spring a trap on Superman.

It seems to me that a supposedly silent PSU like the Neo HE is a bit redundant if you have to hook up all sorts of fans (loud) and other devices to it to get it to work. Just my $2c. Yeah it is redudant, but you dont really have to hook up that much to it to get it to run. If your components cant m...

After playing with the he430 more, it seems you do not need to hook up all 3 rails as I have initially thought. The only thing to make sure is IF you use any of the v12 rails, you must fill up the 1 amp requirement to get it to run. No one should have a problem getting 1 amp on the 2nd v12 rail beca...

Most fan controllers arent deep, so you cant use the rear screwholes of the drive rails, but you can use the frontmost screw holes of the side rail to secure the fan controller. This is enough to secure it using 4 screws, two on each rail.

Also another important thing concerning the PSU, and this applies to the "good" versions as well as the "bad" version of this model: it requires a ridiculous 1 amp on each of the three 12v rails just to boot up properly. I don't know why they do this, this is way more than any other PSU i have seen....

Got mine from Newegg recently and it shipped in the exact same way. Except I wasnt so lucky because the top part of the case door was cracked, the front was a little blemished on the aluminim cover, and the spring was missing on one of the optical drive covers (the one that forces the drive door to ...

I already did just that and contact MSI about my motherboard requiring the -5v. Im awaiting reply. I fiddled around some more and was finally able to get the PSU to work on my mobo; I had to draw up 1 amp in each of the 3 rails. 1st rail: Geforce 6800, which draws about 3 amps from what ive read 2st...

The vinyl does help, all you have to do is knock on it with your knuckles (as you would to fruit). With vinyl dampening it would sound like a thud, like a piece of solid wood. Without it, it would have a more of a tin sound to it with metallic harmonics.

Ok, after doing some google searches, i found this out from a forum user on techspot.com: "I want to raise the issue of ATX spec changes and backward compatibility conflicts. I chose to buy an Antec NeoHE 430W ATX v2.2 PSU (http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=28430) to replace my dead ...

Well I am one of those people that bought the P150 with the Antec 430 neo he that didn't work(MSI Neo2 platinum motherboard), and tried to RMA it only to find out that apparently, the PSU is not compatible with my motherboard due to it lacking the 5v in the 20pin connector. The message i got from An...

Obviously newer mobos and graphics cards that require extra power wont have this problem. Antec support told me to load up as much hardware in the box as possible and turn the TriCool fan on full - I did this; when I have 2 disks and the fan at the highest setting the machine boots fine!! Argh, tha...

Case: Antec P150 PS: Neo HE 430 PS Details: #S05110077439 - Warranty sticker was torn. MB: MSI Neo2 Platinum Nforce3 Bought from: Newegg.com - 2/14/06 DOA - Fans would run for a second, then shut down. I am only running 1 optical drive, 1 hard drive, and a geforce6800. I am now using my old Zalman ...

I don't want to put anything thats flammable in my case like asphalt.

Vinyl has 2x the dampening capability using the same mass as asphalt. The motherboard tray is relatively flimsy compared to my older Inwin case, which the P150 is replacing.