building a quiet BBQ pc

[Technoid]

I thought most of their site content was a bit deranged

Not just the price

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by az
They sell a kit - case (you need it because the heatsink is the entire right side (when viewed from the front)), CPU heatpipe, harddisk cage, northbridge cooler, PSU - for 820 EUR!

AZ

GAWD, that's expensive!!!

[Pace]

Are you quite pleased with the power supply dZeus?

I have my P3-800 running with the Zalman 6000Cu as well, and just need to add a quiet harddrive, possibly a Seagate Barracuda V, but I would ideally like a 3-year warranty on the drive...

Also thinking about power supplies as you can guess, wonder if that place would ship to the UK...

[CHHAS]

I recently replaced the fan in my PSU with the Pabst they advertise as 12dB, talk about a world of difference

As for quiet harddrives I heard some really promising comments on the silectpcreview forums about the new Samsung drives. I'm waiting for their review before I purchase a new one.

[WyWyWyWy]

dZeus can you please comment on the CoolerMaster ProStudio?
Really no audible difference at all?

[Jammrock]

dZues is currently out on a skiing holiday, but should be back shortly.

I've asked him about his p/s and he seems to like it. Though you do need a case with a removable p/s cover on the back, or cut one out yourself. He has a CoolerMaster case of some type that has a removable p/s bezel.

I just built a nice little SFF (small form factor) computer for a friend on Friday:

case/mobo: http://us.shuttle.com/specs2.asp?pro_id=163

...and slapped in a Baracuda V HDD. This thing is silent as can be...when the CD-ROM drive isn't running.

Though I did spot a new Plextor CD-RW that has a drive speed controller

http://www.plextor.com/english/products/Premium.html

Maybe someday I'll built a nice quit rig like that for an HTPC.

Jammrock

[CHHAS]

Is that thing really quiet Jammock ? I would have thought something that small would need a lot of active cooling to run.

[Jammrock]

The CPU is cooled via a liquid/vapor system that's very effective. Besides that it only has two fans, one 90(100?) mm on the back (where the radiator for the CPU cooler gets cooled down) and one 30 mm fan in the p/s. Both fans are low RPM and very quiet. To help things there are vents in the side of the case.

With the super silent Baracuda V hard drive, the computer is whisper quiet when the CD-ROM isn't running. Simple as that.

Jammrock

[az]

There is a program called CD-Bremse which reduces the CD-ROM's speed, and thus noise, even more so than speed. And no one really needs 52x CD-ROM drives (or even 24x, for that matter).

AZ

[dZeus]

Originally posted by Pace
Are you quite pleased with the power supply dZeus?

I have my P3-800 running with the Zalman 6000Cu as well, and just need to add a quiet harddrive, possibly a Seagate Barracuda V, but I would ideally like a 3-year warranty on the drive...

Also thinking about power supplies as you can guess, wonder if that place would ship to the UK...

The PSU works just fine. It's been tested by C'T (famous German PC magazine), and they concluded that the 350 Watt that it's being advertised at is a gross exaggeration (it performs more like a 200 Watt PSU), but nevertheless it could power a P4 2.8 GHz with 9700 Pro without problems in stress-tests (in another, this time online, magazine), as found here. It doesn't have a ATX12 connector as required on many P4 motherboards though (Asus boards have connectors for regular molex power input as well).

They ship to almost anywhere in the world from what I could see on their website.

Originally posted by WyWyWyWy
dZeus can you please comment on the CoolerMaster ProStudio?
Really no audible difference at all?

I don't have any measurement tools (dB measurement tools are quite expensive), but I couldn't hear any audible difference. My guess is that there is a difference, but it's very small, and probably mainly noticable on very noisy systems which have Delta fans spinning at high rpm figures, etc.