Near Silent PC Spec..

[meansizzler]

Trying the make a system as quiet as possible, not enough cash for the Zalman TNN-300 Project I had planned, so I came up wiht this..

Acousticase 340, lined with Acoustic Material and HDD Cage Removed..

CPU- Core2duo E6400

Scythe S-flex 800RPM Front Fan
Akasa Amber Rear 120MM fan running at 10.5 V
Scythe Inifinity CPU Cooler running at 7V
Antec NeoHE 550Watt PSU ----Replacing with 520 Watt Corsair
1st bay - DVD Writer
2nd bay - Memory Card Reader/Floppy in 5 1/4 bay convertor
3rd bay - Seagate 250GB 7200.9 enclosed in Xilence HDD Enclosure
4th bay - Hitachi 7k400 enclosed in Xilence HDD Enclosure
1st 3 1/2 Bay - Superdisk
2nd 3/12 Bay - 2.5" 100GB Seagate 7200.2

EVGA Geforce 8800GTX Silent?
PCI Capture Card
Audigy 2 ZS
Terratec Dual DVB-T PCI-E TV Tuner

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What do oyou think, will be a while before I habe enough for the graphics card...

 

[meansizzler]

THanks, after reqading reviews of the NeoHE, seems that it's a hit or miss, either works or will work for a few months then dies, will probably go for the 520Watt Corsair as it has good reviews, Tagan Easycon 700Watt was my second choice as I have had two Tagan's and they are rock solid, but the 700w seems to be very loud on reviews, was considering the Enermax Infiniti but no reviews on how loud the fan is, andway will look into the Noctua 800rpm fans, I know about the clicking noise on the S-flex but could not find any fans which had similar specs.

For the hard drives, I already have them, yes they are loud, but cannot justify spending any more on them, the 250GB cost me £75 and the 400GB set me back £170 last year, so going to spend £100 on 2.5" 100GB 7200.1, as that will be my main windows drive.., might for for the 160GB version as it has the 16MB cache, and can use 60GB for XP MCE, and 100GB for Vista..

As for the case I has P150 build all speced up, was going to buy one and line it up wiht Acoustic foam as having seen the P150 in person the sound deading panels are are load of waffle, look exactly like the same panels from the NSK4400 except with 1mm of heat absorbing material.., and the P180 is to big and UGLY.., so then came along the acoustic case, the actual designeis like 4 years old, they just changed the front panel, simple in amd out airflow, but I reckon I could do something with it, once the hard drive bay is removed, will have enough airflow for CPU cooler so can run all the fans at low RPM...fitting in a 8800GTX will be easy then, but currently have no plans on buying one as the Vista Drivers are terrible for Video playback, so may go the Ati Route

Anyway, any other recomendations on cases are welcome,

Flanno, nice system specs, i'll ignore the Dell part, but what's with the on board Audio, will do your Z-5500 no justice at all, best put a soundblaster in there, even the Audigy 2 ZS, which I still regard as the best soundblaster out of the bunch, MLP 5.1 sound amazing, as well as WMA files when you use the CMMS Stereo Surround.., onboard sound is really as low as you can go..,

 

[meansizzler]

The Nvidia drivers for Vista are really bad, the latest beta ones are terrible for video playback, while they add video overlay control they also add video tearing, can't even think of what gaming is like on there..