cmthomson wrote:Here's a picture from my SPCR DIY "superclocked superquiet" article.

Great, Thanks!

I'm pretty sure you don't need an inlet fan. Two outlet fans should be entirely adequate for this system. As for ducting the Ninja, you can see in my articles in the Do-It-Yourself section of SPCR how simple it is to duct out the back case hole of the P180. The sides of the heat sink tower line up ...

I am thinking of moving my PC away from me, like in a linen closet right outside my room. Nothing dampens sound more than nice fluffy towels. I am planning to work with 3 cables: 5m or 10m cable HDMI for video to my BenQ FP241W monitor. 5m or 10m cable 1394b connection for a 3 to 4 bay enclosure fo...

where?wolf Yes i have removed the stamped grilles at all the intake and exhaust ports. I have also remove the two swing out doors that are infront of the front filters. I then painted the area around them black, so that it looks pretty nice. My PSU is a Enermax 495 watts, that has a large intake fa...

where?wolf I am pretty new on this forum, and have tried quite a few of the posts to try to bring my CPU heat down. I have a P4 3.0E Prescott which is overclocked to 3.4Ghz. As i stated in another post, i put a piece of card board in the upper compartment, dividing it into two seprate compartments....

I'd start removing fans. I'm pretty sure you could remove at least one. However, you may not appreciate the improvement until you deal with the GPU cooler if it happens to be noisy. Thank you very much for the help! Much appriciated. I will give closing the top hole a try. The vga cooler is soon on...

It would be easier answer if you were more specific about your goals. Are you trying to make it as quiet as possible? And what's your CPU, GPU and how many hard drives do you have? Generally speaking, if you put a duct on your Ninja to either the top or rear fan, your CPU temps should go down and y...

Only you can say for sure. Unplug the Nexus and see what happens to your drive temps. As for a CPU duct, I don't know that it would make much of a difference or whether you would need one at all. Again, only you can say for sure. Make one and see what happens. It really depends on what you are tryi...

I am running 3 SATA drives in the lower hd pull out cage, in a P180 case. I have the 120mm fan inbetween the hd cage and the power supply. Is there any advantage to moving the fan out of the center, and trying to install it infront of the hd cage? I don't know if there is enough room to do this, bu...

Hi! I whas just wondering if you guys, can tell me if I can loose the psu tunnel Nexus fan? I have a 480W psu with 2 silent 80mm fans at 1100 RPM after 1 1/2 hours, according to the fan monitor. And I have 2 Raptors down in the cage. The Nexus I have there now is running at 7V. The idle temps of the...

Just a small question. Does anybody here know if Cooltek 120mm rev 2. 38 cfm, 15DbA? (1000 rpm) Black and white fans are any good? Or is it just a bad Nexus wannabe? The 120mm Coolink SWiF fans? Update on the black & white Cooltek fan 120mm I bought a Cooltek 120mm just out of curiosity. They are p...

A 1900GT will not draw 30A or anything even close to that, 30A on the 12V line is 360W which is twice the power draw of a 8800GTX. It's more like 8A or something. The enermax is more than powerful enough, but a seasonic S12 would be quieter. Totally fanless is very unpractical, and in most cases wo...

Thanks for replying, the Seasonic PSU is pretty expensive at around 60 €,i might just use a cheep generic PSU and ad a Nexus fan, for the disk i´ll have more information when i start buying the components. How much power do i need for this configuration and if i buy a generic psu how much do tha...

thank you for the input, is the any P/SU that would be suitable to run crossfire in the future AND have just a 120mm fan? The P/SU where?wolf posted is good, but it uses two fans. thank all again. Oh, you wont have an easy time finding a 550W, 38A (recommended minimum for X1900 crossfire) psu with ...

Ok, I have been doing a lot of reading on these forum to find the information to put to put together a fairly quiet computer. Here is what I propose: CPU : AM2 Athon 64 X2 3800+ OEM- http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103732 RAM :2 Gigs of DDR2-667, not really planning to do an...

Just a small question.

Does anybody here know if Cooltek 120mm rev 2. 38 cfm, 15DbA? (1000 rpm) Black and white fans are any good? Or is it just a bad Nexus wannabe?

The 120mm Coolink SWiF fans?

I had a chance to get $90 discount and bought P180B, Zalman NB47J, VF900CU and some noctua fans on tuesday. Too bad i didnt get your advise before that :o. At the moment I am in need of all the drives. But I'll consider an upgrade once I get the system up. I will assemble it piece by piece and look...

Have an oldish build, and it's a bit noisier than i'd like. P180 Asus A8N Premium Athlon x2 4200 Scythe Ninja + 120mm Antec fan on low. Seasonic S12 500 ATI x850 It's quieter than the harddisk, but has a steady hum and fan hiss noise - cant locate by ear where it originates as my hearing sucks. The...

First thing. Do you really need all that hd's in the case? Maybe try to move some of the "least important" ones to external USB enclosures as backup disks? That many hds will produce a lot of heat and noise. And even if you use rounded cables for all those hd's. You will have problems with that many...

Help! my computer broke down and my dad promised to byu a new one to me i want a good computer for gaming can someone comment this system i tried to choose very balanced components I am mostly intrested in playing modern 3d games CPU COOLER Glacialtech Igloo 5100 case: THERMALTAKE Mozart tx case fa...

hello, i'm tryin to make my old pc (1.7 ghz, athlon 2100) quieter, and I'm looking for some CPU coolers that'll do the trick. (socket A) anyone have recommendations? Hi! Why not get an Thermalright SI-97A with a 92mm Nexus or Scythe Minabea? fan? And I guess, that it even would be possible to stick...

Hi, I am considering buying the relatively new Silverstone Grandia GD01 htpc case. I currently have a Scythe Mine CPU cooler, which has a height of 150mm. The Silverstone GD01 has a total height of 170mm. Does anyone know if the Scythe mine will fit into a HTPc case? If not, what would be a good re...

Get the Hr-01 combo at this shop. Cheaper than Swe shops and you can't get the duct in "gamla Svedala" ;) All in a neat pack with the S-clip as well so that you can turn the cooler if your socket is in the wrong direction. http://pc-cooling.de/de/Kuehler/AMD+Athlon+64/Thermalright/100700352/Thermal...

The Ninja for sure. Check Thermalright's site about the HR-01. Pulling the motherboard isn't such a big deal. I spent at least as much time fashioning a nice duct and fashioning one for a non-tower heatsink would likely take longer. And frankly somethings are worth doing right the first time. O.k. ...

[quote="ultrachrome"]Others have tried to duct XPs but I believe they met with mixed success. If you are going to buy a new heatisink, buy a tower heatsink: HR-01, Ninja, etc. It will be much easier to get the results you want. In fact, the HR-01 comes with a duct.[/quote] Thanks for the ansver. Bot...

[quote="qviri"]XP-120 is not a tower heatsink.[/quote]

Thanks for the ansvers guys.

Would a duct work with XP 90 too? I forgot to say, that I have a 120mm Nexus on the heatsink now.

And would that bend on the duct have any restricting impact on the airflow do you think?

Hi! I like the idea of having a s.c tower heatsink, and beeing able to duct it to one of the exhaust fans in my P180B. And that way get rid of the cpu fan on my socket 754 Epox sli mobo. ( I have a 400MHz overclocked 3000+ Clawhammer rev. cg. With an XP 90 on it for the moment). But I'm not that del...

[quote="jackal2513"]no one built a P180 based system on SPC forums then ?[/quote] I have got good results, with 2 Noctua fans as exhaust, 1 x 1200 rpm in the rear. And a 800RPM Noctua at the top. Removed 3 cd bay covers and just installed a 120mm fan filter there. Taped up the holes in the cd bay ca...

[quote="mcgerard"]where?wolf - I looked at that Anandtech report and I can see that there seems to be little difference between the 7300GS and the 7600GS with different implementations showing idle power around 125 Watts and load power around 200W. However I am now confused because my choice was bas...

[quote="where?wolf"][quote="where?wolf"][quote="mcgerard"]Thanks for the replies where?wolf and cmthomson. I had a look at the Thermalright HR-01 with duct and agree that with the duct it would seem to make a very efficient C2D cooler. But I was hoping to use only one fan in the upper chamber and so...