I ordered a couple of fans,
a Nexus 92mm and a Nexus 120mm (D12SL-12), I'm going to compare these two fans to the Silenx 92mm.
I may go with a Seasonic S12-430, and replace the 120mm fan with the Nexus 120mm.
I'm looking to build a very quiet system without using water cooling.
I'll probably...
Im just starting to put together a future PC system.
Im starting with the power supply, Im looking at the Antec Phantom 500, which is available for purchase now.
I really like the 88-90% efficiency rating from the review at: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article241-page5.html.
What I dont...
After looking for days for a review , I just found this one:
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=caviarre&page=1&cookie%5Ftest=1
The WD1600SD looks like a very nice drive.
It fits what I'm looking for, something a little smaller (120GB to 160GB), along with great performance...
This drive seems to be very quiet, at WD site it says idle-26 Seek 0-31.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=88
Has fluid dynamic bearings.
While there advertised quiet drive, the WD3200JD is idle-28 Seek 0-33.
I can not find any professional reviews on the WD1600SD...
I should have included this in the original post here:
My future PC will have the following parts:
Motherboard: not sure yet, probably a i915 chipset, Asus,Abit, MSI, etc.
Pentium 3.4f 64-bit enabled
Thermalright XP-120 CPU Cooler
ATI X800 PCI-e
1 GB memory (2 X 512MB DDR 4200)...
Would anybody know one way or another, if a power supply is on the AMD recommended list, does this make it a quality power supply?
This would mean that AMD tested it, right?
While looking for a new power supply, I came across this one. Is it any good? Does anyone have any experience with this power supply?
Here's 3 sites with some info about the supply:
http://www.workspower.com/...