Recent content by celltech

My biggest problem with this setup is not the parts they picked, but they don't work properly! Not having Cool N' Quiet working is a deal breaker for me. I want my rig to throttle down when its idling, and then fire back up when needed. That and the fact it would not finish a benchmark you...

I have a X2 4200+ EE (65 Watt) overclocked to 4600+ on a ECS 6100SM board. On top I planted a huge all copper Zalman 7700. And before you say the 7700 does not fit AM2, I took the tension bar off the stock AMD cooler, ground down the middle 'bumps' and made it fit 8) With QnC on it idles at...

Hmmm...I don't know what version I have. It is the silver one, I wish they had the black one out when I got mine. The door issue looks easy to fix...just a few ribs of plastic on the inside would stop it...

The thick fan will move more air for a given RPM. I just keep mine on low, but mounted the control leads on the outside so I can crank them up if needed. All my internal fans are Vantec models set on low. My Prescott can build up some heat when I push it.... As for the cable lengths...it's...

Well, I have a P180 and can answer some questions... 1. The drive covers are pretty sturdy, they take a good pull to remove 2. The door hinge is not so tough...But by that I mean the '2nd' hinge. The door pulls open, but then the little side flap also opens. Only a plastic nub holds that...

Older versions of Diskeeper CAN do over 500Gb...you just need the enterprise edition. I have 4x250Gb in a Raid-5, resulting in a 750Gb partition. I had to upgrade from the residential version to get it to work. It does slow the computer down to a crawl, but I only let it run at night...

You are never going to hit 50 cfm at only 20 dBA. Take a look at these: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page2.html I have an Antec P180 and bought some surplus 120x38mm fans from http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/antec_tricool.html. Antec claims 36 cfm at 17 dBA on low, 48 cfm at...

I just put a VF700-Cu on my Leadtek 6600GT AGP last night, and I love the thing. Temps are ~5C cooler across the board with the fan on 5V and the card overclocked to 575/1000. Idle temp is 44C and load is not quite known as I haven't played with it much. Also used AS5 on the GPU. I have it...

Looking at my P180 the metal 'squeeze tabs' on the rails have to be even with the front of the drives. Not to sound stupid, but do you have the drive pushed in far enough to make the tabs click? How much are they sticking out? And the drives install from the front of the case...