From: Charlie Russel - MVP on
I use the P180 for my SBS Server, and like it a lot. With a Seasonic PS
(high efficiency), and Arctic Cooler heat sink. In general, I'm liking the
Arctic Cooling heat sinks better than my Zalman. The combination is quite
quiet, very cool, and has solved all my "flakiness" problems with that box.

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<miso(a)sushi.com> wrote in message
news:8ca005a0-3257-46f1-afe4-838b61664ccf(a)s27g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> On Jan 15, 9:29 am, NYTELTECH <NYTELT...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>> Thank you all for the suggestions. I am currently looking for a better
>> case.
>> I never took any of this into consideration before, this being a first
>> build
>> and all. Now that I know for sure what the problem is, I am going to
>> start
>> GAMING!!!!!! LOL
>> YOU GUYS ROCK!
>>
>> "Rune Moberg" wrote:
>> > "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnho...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
>> >news:3ACAD0AB-7238-4B84-8766-DECD4AA34FB7(a)microsoft.com...
>> > > more powerful than those. Use 80mm fans. 120mm fans are too noisy.
>>
>> > Nope.
>>
>> > As others have pointed out, they don't have to spin so fast to move an
>> > equal
>> > amount of air.
>>
>> > With your logic, 40mm fans would be near noiseless. Yet 1U servers are
>> > the
>> > noisiest machines known to man, because they have to employ 40mm fans
>> > to
>> > move air.
>>
>> > E.g. Papst has a 120mm fan that can push 70m^3/h (18dB), alternatively
>> > you
>> > can get their 80mm fan pushing 45m^3/h (19dB). For 79m^3/h you have to
>> > put
>> > up with 37dB using a Papst 80mm fan. You do the math.
>>
>> > (sorry for the e-mail Colin, I hit the wrong button in the newsreader)
>>
>> > --
>> > Rune
>
> There is something to be said for using high efficiency power supplies
> as well. They generate less heat.
>
> I've built some PCs out of the Antec Silent PC case. [They have a few
> models now. I use P180] Of course it's not completely silent, but the
> fans all have multiple speed so you can experiment and get the right
> combination of fans running. I also use Zalman heatsinks.
>
> http://www.silentpcreview.com/article249-page1.html

From: miso on
On Jan 15, 10:06 pm, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<char...(a)mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:
> I use the P180 for my SBS Server, and like it a lot. With a Seasonic PS
> (high efficiency), and Arctic Cooler heat sink. In general, I'm liking the
> Arctic Cooling heat sinks better than my Zalman. The combination is quite
> quiet, very cool, and has solved all my "flakiness" problems with that box.
>
> --
> Charlie.http://msmvps.com/xperts64http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
>
> <m...(a)sushi.com> wrote in message
>
> news:8ca005a0-3257-46f1-afe4-838b61664ccf(a)s27g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Jan 15, 9:29 am, NYTELTECH <NYTELT...(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Thank you all for the suggestions. I am currently looking for a better
> >> case.
> >> I never took any of this into consideration before, this being a first
> >> build
> >> and all. Now that I know for sure what the problem is, I am going to
> >> start
> >> GAMING!!!!!! LOL
> >> YOU GUYS ROCK!
>
> >> "Rune Moberg" wrote:
> >> > "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnho...(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
> >> >news:3ACAD0AB-7238-4B84-8766-DECD4AA34FB7(a)microsoft.com...
> >> > > more powerful than those. Use 80mm fans. 120mm fans are too noisy.
>
> >> > Nope.
>
> >> > As others have pointed out, they don't have to spin so fast to move an
> >> > equal
> >> > amount of air.
>
> >> > With your logic, 40mm fans would be near noiseless. Yet 1U servers are
> >> > the
> >> > noisiest machines known to man, because they have to employ 40mm fans
> >> > to
> >> > move air.
>
> >> > E.g. Papst has a 120mm fan that can push 70m^3/h (18dB), alternatively
> >> > you
> >> > can get their 80mm fan pushing 45m^3/h (19dB). For 79m^3/h you have to
> >> > put
> >> > up with 37dB using a Papst 80mm fan. You do the math.
>
> >> > (sorry for the e-mail Colin, I hit the wrong button in the newsreader)
>
> >> > --
> >> > Rune
>
> > There is something to be said for using high efficiency power supplies
> > as well. They generate less heat.
>
> > I've built some PCs out of the Antec Silent PC case. [They have a few
> > models now. I use P180] Of course it's not completely silent, but the
> > fans all have multiple speed so you can experiment and get the right
> > combination of fans running. I also use Zalman heatsinks.
>
> >http://www.silentpcreview.com/article249-page1.html

Well the Arctic Coolers are certainly cheaper than Zalman. I'll take a
look for the next system I build. However, the Zalmans are really
quiet.
http://silentpcreview.com/article267-page1.html

I used Seasonic PS as well. 600 watts I don't believe I ever heard the
fan turn on.

I had a Gigabyte rocket cooler fail, so they are off the list. Too
noisy anyway. It didn't fail to cool, but it's speed sensor no longer
reported to the mobo.


From: Mr. Steroid on
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:43:50 -0800, Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:

> There's really only two possibilities, here. One is hardware, the other
> is an infection.

You are a genius! What sort of infection?
From: Charlie Russel - MVP on
Problem was hardware - heat related.

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http://msmvps.com/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel


"Mr. Steroid" <steroid(a)baseball.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:43:50 -0800, Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:
>
>> There's really only two possibilities, here. One is hardware, the other
>> is an infection.
>
> You are a genius! What sort of infection?