Who says it moves much air at all? Maybe it's a quiet fan because it's low rpm, just what the card needs but not allowing much overclocking.

The P4P800 northbridge heatsink is rather large and I had to get a new video card since my Geforce4 Ti4400 + Zalman ZM80 HP would not fit on this motherboard because of the northbridge heatsink. I wonder if the newer passive heatsinks they make are slightly better in this regard. It might also be vi...

Exactly how much quieter (appreciable), in a room of moderate to low ambient noise, is the Seasonic vs. the TruePower series?

John, From your specs, it seems you have gone with stock cooling - I am waiting to see if the new Intel cooler/fan combo for the 3.06 is as effective and quiet as a Swiftech MCX-4000 with a quiet, Asus Q-power modulated fan. How are you finding it? Louder than I'd like it to be, but in my current d...

Under load temperatures never exceed about 53C when the room is warm and I'm specifically targetting full, 100% w/ hyperthreading load, i.e. two instances of seti@home. Typical under-load is about 47C. Idle temperatures? I don't really recall. Somewhere around 35-42 or so, maybe? Why Plex? I bought ...

I don't know for sure, but I think you can't currently get FDB from WD.

Well, I ordered and received 2 IBM 180GXP 180GB HDD's, and no crickets have sounded yet. But hot damn, I really need to replace the retail heatsink on my P4. It's loud and whiney.

My experience would seem to indicate that there are loud and quiet hard drives even of the same model. I guess it just depends on your allotment of bearings or something else. Maybe SR got a particularly and singularly quiet review model, but the drives out in the wild are on average a bit louder.

Please?

Hi guys, here's my current specs: Pentium 4 3.06GHz w/ HT (81 watts maximal) Asus P4PE Deluxe Mobo (i845 chipset) 1GB PC3200 Corsair XMS @ 333MHz (2 x 512MB) Geforce4 Ti4400 w/ Zalman Passive Cooling 2 x 180GB IBM 180GXP HDD's @ 7200rpm / 8MB cache (both suspended in NoVibes III) 1 241040A PlexWrite...

Basically a cut & paste of my post @ SR: Hopefully the SR review is coming out soon and can answer my question more scientifically, but in the meantime I'm perfectly willing to accept subjective assessments of both idle and seek noise. I think I'll end up buying either the IBM 180GXP or the Maxtor 2...

A bit of bad news maybe. Two users in the same thread @ SR report hearing chirps (like crickets) every 5-10 minutes from their 180GXP drives. In the absence of mitigating information, I'm in a holding pattern in regards to which HDD I'll buy next. Perhaps Maxtor 200GB FDB drives. Suspended in NoVibe...

Well the major point being that it's much faster than the Barracuda drives, while being only ever so slightly louder at most. C'T has acquired a very good reputation for scientific, precise, well-informed approaches to determining their stats -- I trust them. StorageReview, well, need I say more? It...

The answer to my own question is:

IBM 180GXP series, of any capacity (60-180GB, I believe)

Large capacity, -- as quiet as the Barracuda IV, almost as quiet as the slightly quieter Barracuda V.

C'T (German magazine) objective noise analysis (for those of you who don't know, these guys are very professional):

drive noise w/o accesses: 0.9 sone.
w/ accesses in "quiet" mode: 1.1 Sone.
in "fast" mode: 1.7 Sone.

For comparison, the Seagate Cuda V: 0.6
1.4
2.7 Sone

Sone is not logarithmic.

What a moron.

That's incorrect.

Is it possible he's just factually wrong.

EDIT: NO!

http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/dis ... 72,00.html

But its full size won't be known by the controller, true?

My only fear now is that potentially such a drive might not be usable. Intel's brand spankin' new Granite Bay (E7205) doesn't support beyond ATA100. Not that I don't trust third parties to produce adapters, but anyway I think I'll stick with industry spec, not Maxtor spec. :D Thank you both, gentlem...

I bought the 400 watt PSU a couple months back, do you think it'll be sufficient for my 3.06GHz P4? It's being powered by a Panaflo 80mm L1A, I took out the ADDA (I think that was the name). Naturally it doesn't spin up right away, but soon enough. I have the Lian-Li server (big sonofabitch) case wi...

There's a certain placebo effect possibly going on. It's a German company, it's got to be good. I just paid $20 for a fan, it's got to be good.

Which cooler is singularly suited to low-airflow fans? I'm guessing the Alpha is indeed a good general purpose cooler, and may exceed most other units when it and its competition are coupled with medium airflow fans. But what about low-airflow fans? Does it become very inefficient with this kind of ...

Operant symbol here being >, not ==. But thanks for your current advice. Now, on to the question I really asked . . .

Anyone have any advice? I'm willing to settle for 5400rpm. Capacity is most important, after noise of course. Any FDB (fluid dynamic bearing) drives around in this capacity?

I just bought one + an Asus mobo w/ passive northbridge cooling. How can I keep this heat engine cool? I realize it'll be very difficult. :D I really haven't the slightest which heatsinks will work well with a Panaflo 12v 80L1A. That's the loudest fan I'm willing to contemplate. Do you suppose an Al...

which psu is the most quiet? The seasonic, the Qtech or the zalman? I hope the zalman because here in Belgium, seasonic en Qtech aren't avaible in the pc-shops...and the zalman costs almost 90euro = 90 dollar From personal experience I can say the Seasonic stays quieter longer than the Zalman. Zalm...

Cute -- very cute.

Replaced fan with Panaflo 80mm L1A withi good results. Fan does NOT start initially, but after a few minutes it always gets going. I'm definitely not concerned about the unit failing any time soon . . .

Does the fan plug in to a 2-pin connector inside the SS PSU, or do I have to do some soldering and stuff?