tuniq is rather unique as far as sinks go. while the fins are restrictive, the construction of the sink is that of an incomplete air tunnel. two things will affect the efficiency besides the amount of air the fan pushes - the static pressure and the size of a motor housing. it's possible to have a r...

steel wool or similar cooper mesh might do the trick (cleaning pad of some sorts). i made the cooper one and it was great, very non-restrictive. had to replace it with a more conventional filter though since i was making a system for someone else and maintenance on those require a bit of effort. it ...

not really in the order requested:

dothan 730 @ 2.6Ghz l p4c800ed l 4x512MB bh5 2-2-2-5 5:4 ~3v l Antec Neo 480 moded l 6800GT

use it as one would any other desktop pc - work, games, movies, etc.

how about an external sata enclosure that is modded for silence and removed from a main pc to some place where the noise impact is minimal?

this way you can even use regular hard drives instead of 2.5" ones...

a board that supports mobile cpu won't clock as well as the boards he mentioned. otherwise it would have been a great solution. not sure you can get that setup under 100w under any circumstance... but still, should be possible to cut the power consumption by more then 50% with all the latest tech. c...

lite-on is still in business; they gabbled benq (phillips) and now all benq drives are made by lite-on, which is a pity. that will explain the poor quality of 1670 model mentioned earlier. old benq (1620, 1640, 1650/55) are almost impossible to find. 1640 are the quietest drives i've tested. 1650 ar...

darn, not available, hah...

thanks for the reply man

"Intake at the front was covered mikro filter uses in professional audio."

any links for that?

i've been trying to get some good filters and so far most are either not good enough or they block too much flow...

thanks

i see, thanks. i gotta read up on that...

that's pretty fast. wonder if it's possible to put 2 sticks in raid in windows for better throughput.

good speeds. wonder what would happen if you'd be using a faster usb stick... "CORSAIR Flash Voyager GT 8GB Flash Drive" seem promising. Where are the specs or Benchmarks about the Corsair? Afaik the Firestix-R are the fastest around, since the Firestix-S where tested by xbitlabs to be the best ove...

good speeds. wonder what would happen if you'd be using a faster usb stick...

"CORSAIR Flash Voyager GT 8GB Flash Drive" seem promising.

i also came across an interesting article on how to make a raid out of those thumb drives :

http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/thumbraid_1

silly marketing aside, the psu's themselves are not bad at all. i got me the 750 recently simply because it's the quietest of all the similar single rail units for that amperage that i could find.

Plextor PX 708A DVD-RW Drive will do the job of the other drives np. it reads dvds and writes cd-r and dvd-+r.

for single drive i use this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817198003 it didn't mask the seeks on my seagate but i swapped it for an wd aaks500 and now it's quiet :P i was actually looking into moving all of my drives away from my case and here's a couple of things i found ...

"Overclock Intelligence Agency" have no idea what they are doing... positioning the tuniq is very much detrimental to it's cooling performance. the way they mounted it, it intakes the hot air from the back of the vid. card and then re-cycles it again since there's no clear path for air to the back o...

yah, it's not bad at about 6v. at full blast you'll hear a "motory" whine.

about Lian Li PC-101... does anyone know how long the psu chamber is?

also, would the case take 8800gtx card?

they are actually rather noisy during writes - i got several of them and they do drive me nuts sometimes

so, the chirping is pretty normal for these, unfortunately.