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the fan is the part that's making the noise, if the fan is noisy then you can replace it. i'm not sure why you'd be happy using a noisy PSU in a HTPC, as I'd have thought you'd want it to be as silent as possible.

I keep seeing reviews of the vapochill micro's that suggest that have really good performance for the price/weight/noise/ease of fitting etc. Don't see them mentioned much round here though? As mentioned 25C/44C isn't bad at all. What's the ambient temperature in your room? You're not...

what motherboard?

don't see why not, they're gonna be fairly heat insulating though no?

Well at the time (going back a couple of years now) most of the reviews I read said the soundstorm was better than an Audigy, but not as good as an Audigy 2. I've never compared the 2 side by side, so it's difficult to say. I do know that soundstorm was better than pretty much any other...

ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe or Abit NF7-S V2 best Socket A boards, might struggle to find either still being sold though. They both have Soundstorm, which is slightly better than an Audigy and has realtime Dolby Digital decoding.

I could argue with both those points. Checkout the THG monster CPU charts for comparisons: http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=241&model2=211&chart=77 This particular one shows a P4 630 against a 3700 San Diego running Clone DVD. Also it's still early days with it (beta...

kinda depends, what HSF you got? Cause a lot of fans with a high CFM don't perform as well as you'd like, as they have a dead spot in the middle where you want the most cooling. I keep looking at all these 'novelty' fans from Thermaltake and Coolermaster etc. But most of them don't seem to...

Personally I find that acoustic matting works well on cheap cases, with side walls like a toaster, as it stops them from 'singing along' with the case. On a more expensive case like the wavemaster it's gonna make little difference. Fan speeds controller may be the way to go, knocking fan...

what you've got at the moment is just normal operating temperatures. You can go another 5-10C on the load temp before you might want to consider some additional cooling. If you bought a Dell of PC World type PC (probably with the temp sensor disabled :mad: ) then it would probably run at...

is it mainly for quietness, because I don't think a 2600 is a particularly good overclocker?

your HTT speed thingy bob oujey wotsit has to be kept below 1000, so whatever your CPU frequency is multiplyed by your 'CPU clock ratio' needs to be less than 1000. So any overclock over 250Mhz needs it to be set at 3.

Try this one maybe: http://www.almico.com/speedfan427.exe

212Mhz on the RAM does seem a little poor, even for value RAM. What happens if you knock it back to 133 then up the FSB further? I assume you've remembered to lower your HTT multiplyer to 3?

Every 6600GT I've ever seen runs at 500mhz, that's the standard, then the 'extreme' or OC versions run at 550Mhz+

I think a 6600GT runs at 500Mhz default? So it's not such a massive overclock. As long as there's no artifacts and everything is stable then I wouldn't worry. 145C?? I think that's the temperature that you can start to cook on it.

An opty 146 is a 10x multiplyer yeah? So you're not gonna get to 3GHz without dropping the RAM speed are you? I doubt that RAM can do DDR600? Personally I'd stick some more of the same in and run the RAM at DDR400 on tighter timings. If someone can explain why that's wrong I'd appreciate it.

Bit retro isn't it :P 2.4Ghz (12x200) is easily obtainable. But I think that's about your lot on air cooling. 1.7v or so. Pi 1M in about 44 seconds.