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Thor

Reku wrote: »

So 2 small 100mm fans will outperform a bigger 200mm fan?
Interesting... I'll try remember that for the next time I buy a case (years from now no doubt).:cool:

2 x 120mm! Basically it's more to do with fact they are separate, but generally speaking two fans will always out perform a bigger one. Really comes down to their quality.

Noctua wins everytime!

ED E

But in general are larger fans spinning slowly far less noisy?

Genghiz Cohen

Thor wrote: »

2 x 120mm! Basically it's more to do with fact they are separate, but generally speaking two fans will always out perform a bigger one. Really comes down to their quality.

Noctua wins everytime!

Thought 1 large fan running slow would do the same as smaller fans running fast.

Procrastastudy

You've three things to consider with Fans - noise, air Flow and static pressure.

It will be very different for different fans - even if they are the same size - let alone different sizes.

uncle_sam_ie

Thor wrote: »

Noctua wins everytime!

I'm a fan of Noctua but, the new Corsair Series fans look to be better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11TIfocssvY&feature=g-user-c

PseudoFamous

ED E wrote: »

But in general are larger fans spinning slowly far less noisy?

No, I have two 200mm fans in my case atm, and they make only marginally less noise than if I had more, smaller fans. The air flow is godawful, too. Honestly, get two 120/140mm fans instead of a 200mm or larger fan.

ED E

PseudoFamous wrote: »

No, I have two 200mm fans in my case atm, and they make only marginally less noise than if I had more, smaller fans. The air flow is godawful, too. Honestly, get two 120/140mm fans instead of a 200mm or larger fan.

Are you comparing the same model/series in different sizes though?

IrishMetalhead

ah fair enough but if he decides not to then talk to me =P

Thor

IrishMetalhead wrote: »

ah fair enough but if he decides not to then talk to me =P

Will let you know how it goes either way.

freeze4real

Guys were can get FULL TOWER ATX case( 305 x 244) for lesss than 45e in total thats including shipping.

Procrastastudy

Why a full tower? Why not a midi tower?

freeze4real

I dont want ot take any chances of my motherboard whch size is 305MM BY 211 wont the case.

Eboggles

freeze4real wrote: »

I dont want ot take any chances of my motherboard whch size is 305MM BY 211 wont the case.

It will, it's a standardized form factor. It's actually meant to fit .

Procrastastudy

You only need a midi tower - Merc beta is about €30 from HWVS - delivery is €19 though.

freeze4real

Eboggles wrote: »

It will, it's a standardized form factor. It's actually meant to fit .

So are you saying that any ATX moherboard will a mid tower case.

Procrastastudy

Yes ATX boards fit in any ATX case. Full towers are used for water-cooling setups or if you have more Porn (and more HDDs) than God.

Closest I could find: http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/midi_tower/20068994/thermaltake_v4_black_edition_mid_tower_no_psu/details.aspx

freeze4real

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Yes ATX boards fit in any ATX case. Full towers are used for water-cooling setups or if you have more Porn (and more HDDs) than God.

Closest I could find: http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/midi_tower/20068994/thermaltake_v4_black_edition_mid_tower_no_psu/details.aspx

Thanks you very much.

Now I can order a case.

IrishMetalhead

would avoid the v4 if your sensitive to noise, the case fan is extremely loud

Edit: Try and add a tener to your budget and get this:

http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/midi_tower/20088073/antec_one_hundred_midi_tower_nopsu/details.aspx

has two good quite case fans rather then one loud one on the v4
or this if you don't want to wait for the one hundred to come back into stock:

http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/midi_tower/15354717/antec_three_hundred_midi_tower_no_psu/details.aspx

it's very simular to the one hundred but it dosn't have a painted interior and has less cable management features

Thor

I have added another Noctua fan so I have an added intake fan.

This is great because it means I have an intake fan pulling cold air in without the added heat from the hard drives.

It also gets air directly to the graphics card and overall adds more airflow to the case. So temps should be down throughout the case.

glynf

Nice setup & very tidy build Thor. That GPU is huuuge BTW

Thor

glynf wrote: »

Nice setup & very tidy build Thor. That GPU is huuuge BTW

Cheers man, yeah the graphics card is beast. Should be nice when I add another!!

ED E

Need to get mounts to thread the cabling through and make things neater, but its a lot better than it was.



Screens are at different heights btw as the 22 is on a custom adapter so isnt centred on the VESA. I did it this way as in the future I'll probably end up with two identical screens(probably not two of those dells though) and moving the mounts would then mean redrilling the walls and making a heap more dust, not ideal.

[Rasta]

My latest build arrived:



Case: CM Elite 372
Graphics: 670 2GB
PSU: Corsair HX 650W 80+ Gold
Mobo: Asus P8Z77-V
CPU: 3570k
RAM: Patriot Viper Extreme 16GB
SSD: Samsung 128GB 830 6Gbs
HD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm (the one packaged in bubble wrap above)

also adding a 1TB 5400RPM from my previous PC.

Currently sending back the PSU because it failed the paperclip test.
Will add another pic once build is complete!

uncle_sam_ie

I got an epileptic attack from viewing that photo.

[Rasta]

yea, its not the best camera. borrowed it off someone else.

Bazzo

Looks like a sweet setup man.

I agree though, it does look like Michael J Fox smoked about 20 Js in that room with the windows closed, then took the picture.

Apologies if that offends anyone :pac:

Gbear

Bazzo wrote: »

Looks like a sweet setup man.

I agree though, it does look like Michael J Fox smoked about 20 Js in that room with the windows closed, then took the picture.

Apologies if that offends anyone :pac:

ED E

[Rasta] wrote: »

yea, its not the best camera. borrowed it off someone else.

Looks more like user error to me

[Rasta]

ED E wrote: »

Looks more like user error to me

Turns out you're right.
Flash was set to constant off(didn't even realise), so the exposure time and my unsteady hand caused the nice effect

hobochris

Ok I'll Bite

Inspired by the L3p desk I decided to build my own pc desk as well, I know this has been done a few times before But I had to have one so I built one to my own design.

Here's some pics from when I was fitting the parts.

Side View:

Inside:

Inside (alt angle):

Where the Rad and PSU live (plus nice view of the desk top):

Installing Quick Decouplers in the loop:

Closer Look at the Reservoir:


Its still a work in progress but currently in use, I am adding components as I go.

Base specs are:

cpu: i7 960
Ram: corsair 4GB sticks X6 (24GB total ram) currently 9-9-9-24 but will be changing timings shortly to get the most out of the ram.
MotherBoard: Asrock x58
Harddrive(s): 128gb M4 ssd + some old 300GB drive I had from an old machine.
GPU: Saphire 6950 2GB with shader switch (not the best card out there but not the worst either)

I use the machine mostly for Dev work hence the stupid amount of Ram, getting into pc gaming a little so will upgrade the GPU when I need to, right now BF3 is fine on it so its more than I need.

Boot time at stock settings is 31 seconds