Neil- One thing I'm still having trouble figuring out about your idea is the "swept back" thing. You see, the normal "swept forward" design makes sense to me. But if you imagine a swept back design, that would bring the angle of tilt of the tips of the fans to be nearly parallel to their direction o...

Heh... um sadly I don't really know TOO much about PWM or how to test for it, except what you already have heard: that PWM tends to make panaflo L1A's clicky. I had a cheap little fan controller that a friend of mine gave to me, and it apparently used PWM. I can't be certain, but I do know that it m...

Uhh... just thought I'd add my two cents: For HDD performce-related issues, I'd go check out storagereview.com - if you look at their leaderboard, they have the Maxtor MaXLine III as the leader for the most recent quarter. They also claim that it has unusually quiet performance. If you do a head-to-...

Folks up there missed their opportunity to say,


Welcome to SPCR, blunden!


and yes, the last word any of US have seen, YOU have also seen, assuming that you read that last few posts before your own.

a, so have u tested it with a panaflo? Is it your impression that it does NOT use PWM?

I'm thinking about getting the NXP 305, which I figure'll use the same method to change fan speed as the 205

DrCR -- I've been considering for awhile now the possibility of using a side duct for intake to a Nexus on an XP-120, then ducting the rear exhaust and around the heatsink, forcing air expelled through the fins to go out rear exhaust, and then forgoing the use of a fan on the rear exhaust (or like y...

DrCR... ummm whoops, I forgot to look at the date of the last posting! :oops: But yea I just like really quite fans, and the mentioned greater CFM/dbA sounded rather appealing to me... it surprised me that there wasn't more interest in this thread... people are willing to shell out >$150 for new "go...

Thanks Tibors, that makes perfect sense! I appreciate the help.

It is about my system: I'm not really familiar with what heat sensors refer to what temps in my system (eg, temp1=cpu?, temp2=??), and here I thought I'd try speedfan, to see if my mobo uses pwm fan control, I was presented by this: http://www.humboldt.edu/~sdh13/oddtemps.gif Could someone please ex...

OK I hate to reveal my ignorance about anything electrical/technical, but... this sounds great but I'm not sure I could make it all work without killing myself! Despite my misgivings, I'm thinking about tinkering around with the sunons and some potentiometers and the powerplant pci thing (it's only ...

ARGGGH!! you got my hopes up that the case is available already with that subject heading....

OK could I just say I check SPCR now twice daily to see if the P180's have started shipping yet? So yeah, it's generated QUITE a bit of interest... :? It's just a bit frustrating having to wait for so long to get a nice, long, in-depth spcr review of one... or have the chance to purchase one myself....

Here's something that I've been confused about since I first saw/heard about this case: WHAT is the purpose of the mesh dust-screen-lookin-thing that everyone seems to be calling a "spoiler"? Why would one want to filter the air coming out of the case? Hopefully we would put effort into filtering ai...

Umm... that's not cool. But seriously, when ARE they 'sposed to be out? I've read a number of things, and earlier reports said earlier dates, but everything I read indicates they should be out by now!

-PS

Mike or Devon: This is yet another excellent SPCR review of a very interesting product! Thank you both for your hard work! Like a number of other posters to this thread, I'm wondering if you had or if you could (for us, your dedicated fans and supporters) try a simple fan swap in the PSU for some Pa...

Mike - You're right... it was a bit of an over-reaction. I guess I was just hoping that maybe the whole side-vent thing had been improved and was maybe worth revisiting. Apparently that's just not the case. But hey... has anyone else experienced a ridiculously quiet, basically inaudible Antec 350S P...

Been awhile since I've posted here, though I do regularly come check out the reviews. Frankly I was a little disappointed by this one. The fan was tested and measurements made quite nicely, but am I simply remembering wrong, thinking that you folks usually put together a system in new cases to see h...

OK, Mike, this may be a dumb question, but... which direction was the air in the duct going? From the front of the case to the back, or vice versa? It just seems to me that if you have it pulling air in from the back of the case that you'll be putting room-temp air directly onto your heatsink, which...

Excellent, thanks a lot folks!

I recently bought one Samsung PATA 160gig harddrive for a new system. When I was installing Windows XP Prof, it showed the maximum space for one partition to be ~131000 megs, and now in Windows, my partition is shown as ~127gigs. Could someone give me some enlightenment as to what's going on here? S...

Actually, Ralf, I would believe you! Certainly it takes a lot of practice to be as good at it as you are...

Also... Running the system with 2 instances of CPUBurn to heat things up as much as possible, I got case temps of 35°C and CPU temps of 49°C at an ambient temperature of 70°F. this sentence makes very little sense, seeing as how: (A.) the table shows 33°C, while the sentence says 35°C... which is co...

The price in the review says US $22-27... where the devil is it that inexpensive? I seen it on www.newegg.com for $76...???

....does ANYone have some idea what the outcome of this review was? I could be wrong, but did it seem to show that the SATA spinpoints perform slower than the normal ide spinpoints? I must have been reading the graphs wrong....

Ralf, What are those tests supposed to demonstrate? Some of the graphs have unlabeled axis, and overall, it's somewhat hard to tell if higher is better or lower is better. Sadly, I think I've been spoiled by anandtech.com reviews... but seriously, does that review show any of those drives coming out...

for you folks who're having problems... have you contacted Seasonic support to try to make good on the 3-year warranty? I thought I had read earlier that they were being very good with replacing units that had odd fan problems... anyone want to verify or refute this for me? I WAS hoping to get a Sup...

Sorry, JVM, but I really think that starting a new thread would be overkill for my question. All I want to know, from as many people as possible, is: if you hold your Samsung SATA 160g HD in your hand, how quite is it? I'm just curious about it from an objective point of view, not curious about how ...

Hey folks, I am now joining you as well... I'm not sure how much my pc will help, but I'll see if I can get the program running somehow at my university... I have connections in Academic Computing :twisted: Then we could have possibly hundreds of (relatively slow) computers amassed!! bwahahahah! Any...

I know this is a very old thread, but please let me resurrect it for a simple-minded question. From what I understand (just off the top of my head), isn't maximum IDE throughput 133mb/s? Also, isn't the theoretical maximum throughput for SCSI 160mb/s? Finally, isn't the theoretical maximum throughpu...