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Use elastic suspensions. You can rig up something that's held in place by bungee elastic or something: I did this all the time to mechanically de-couple a hard drive from a case to reduce vibration noise. No reason why it won't work the other way around. Check silentpcreview's forums for hdd...
I don't mean any disrespect, but positive pressure is a hell lot better for dust control than negative pressure. Negative pressure will cause air to enter the case from any possible venue. Positive pressure keeps dust out by intaking air only over filters.
Just to add into here, great case to work in. If you felt like it you could even fit a triple up front and a double up top internally and you'd still have enough room for a single 3.5'' drive.
CNPS 8000 in terms of acoustics is a bloody failure compared to the CNPS 7700.
I'd just ride it out and wait for the CNPS 8700 to come - heatpiped 7700 which is likely to be better than that 8000 by a longshot.
Read the review of the CNPS 8000 and weep.
I don't know.
However, I did find this line in the motherboard's manual. It says something about having to run PCI-e at 115 while FSB is 333.
Does this sound about reasonable?
Hmm.. perhaps you are correct. However, my friend running on a X2 3600+ has the same issue.. great overclocks with one stick of RAM, not so good with two.
My personal experience with overclocking the NF-M2 are awesome. With one stick of memory, that is.
With one stick of memory, I've hit 340HTT with EASE. 340 * 8 = 2720 on a Sempron 3000. However, as soon as I insert another bank of memory, it ceases to push even at 270 * 8. I'm thinking that...