Silenx crap :(
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Silenx crap :(
silenx ftwQuote:
Originally Posted by trouble2000
DarthBeavis,Quote:
Originally Posted by DarthBeavis
I think I'm going to skip 780i. My first EVGA board was flaky so I RMAed it. I just found out that my Asus 680i will boot a Yorkfield just fine, so I'll stick with that for now, especially when it works for Tri.
I hope to step up to Skull Trail when it gets available.
Can you advise me as to how you manage to fit two Vapochill units inside your (presumed) 22 inch Mountain Mods cube? Or do you have two stacked cubes? I'm also assuming that you use two Vapchill Litespeed units or you have the Jinu VapoLi modified units.. Am I right?
Now, I hear that they are creating new format cases with 8 slots, presumably to accomodate Skull Trail's four gpus. So, you are saying that the Skull Trail will take four standard GTX-style cards without any SLI connectors, and that the magic will come together via software, right ?
That's what I like most about DarthBeavis. He's not afraid to challenge all conventional wisdom.
He says DD fullcover blocks are superb, and now I trust him and will try. Whatever you say about SilenX, you don't know what he knows.
Way to go, DB !!
Hey that's a really clean look NEvolution! How about you slap a MCW60 on that 2900XT? You should be able to clock to at least 925 on it :slapass:Quote:
Originally Posted by NEvolution
I'm running 950 on mine @ 1.35V
I've already had my share of SilenX failures..never again :) I'm a Yate Loon guy from here on out.
That was what I planned to do but I could not find a place to buy it. So I ended up going with the HR-03.Quote:
Originally Posted by binormalkilla
If I find it some time down the road, I'll need to get one and clock past 900 at least.
Please enlighten me about these "failures" you've had.Quote:
Originally Posted by momoceio
lol , mine spins nice and quietly ...:ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterlogged
Maybe SilenX got their :banana::banana::banana::banana: straight. Some people have had some really bad luck with them.
Some colour concepts :clap:
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Hi Been i like the way the top one looks! what hardware do you have in there?
emPUR3 I like that first cae: the black lines are super tight.
RE SilenX
Considering I have bought/sold/used THOUSANDS of dollars in SilenX fans I can attest to them being dead sexy. Especially the 38mm deep ones.
However out of the hundreds of SilenX fans that have moved through my hands I have had several obnoxious failures. Leaking oil from the mylar seal/sticker is one particularily annoying failure. But usually the failure is just that the fans make a clicking noise of some kind...or the LEDs fail...
I did have one CPU cooler fall apart....that was a real pisser.
But mainly I encountered a prejudice towards them from people that have never even used them. SO I stopped stocking them all together.
I myself have a prejudice against Yate Loons and refuse to use them so there!
Brave words, CyberDruid. You have my admiration for guts there :D
have you not seen the size of his chin .. he can take it :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by IanY
tbh i have got 3 silenex 80mm fans from 2/3 years ago and thats where my prejudice comes from. all 3 seem to have developed a rattling noise and its almost like the fan has come loose from the chassis
How do you think I lost that one eye :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by Origin_Unknown
Yep I got that exact same failure. They just don't last for a long time...and they are not really suitable (too low static pressure) for high density finned radiators.
On a PA type rad the deep body fans work pretty good though.
My personal favorite fan for ANY watercooling set up is the Sanyo Denkei SanAce 1011 103.5 CFM fan. It's really a superior fan.
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Originally Posted by CyberDruid
do you prefer them @ 7v like vapor does?
i'm curious as my first WC build is coming up at the end of the month and i'm trying to gauge some opinions
Yep 7V is a sweet spot.
They are in that Lian Li case I posted above.
That's odd because I consider a fan "failure" to be where it simply doesn't work anymore. I've got "leakers" that burned off all the oil they could and have been running 24/7 without so much as a peep out of them for well over 9 months now. I took it as "excess" oil burning off, but if it's everything from inside the bearing chamber, I'm fairly certain that I'd hear a noise of some kind (rattle, click, squeal) by now, which simply isn't the case.
I've said before that I won't recommend them for rads, but if you've already got them, they do make nice case fans. I've got more than I'd like to admit having, most are scheduled for use (as I have 5 ongoing builds), some were for cases that have outlived their usefulness ( but may still find life as MOSFET or RAM coolers).
@ IanY . . .I am actually using a single modifed Vapochill and using it to waterchill both CPUS (well, I will once my cpus come in). I am making a pimp setup for it (tubing in polished conduit with foam insulation sprayed in.
For fans . . .I actually use Yates and SilenX in builds depending on the color scheme . . .Yate for blue cause they are cheaper, otherwise SilenX. For Autopsy I used all AC Ryan. The SilenX's are really quiet in Hellmouth. Just wish they were not so spendy.
The AC Ryan Blackfires are fun to look at...but not so much to listen to.
CyberDruid, would you recommend those San Aces and running them at 7V as opposed to running a 50cfm or so fan that already runs pretty silent at 12V? High cfm will help during the hot summers, but otherwise I'd want things to be pretty damn silent, if the San Aces are just that at 7V heh.
Where can you find those San Aces anymore? OOS at Petra's, where else can you get them? (At a decent price)
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Nothing too special, but theres mine. :)
Anything involving a water cooled 900 definitely takes some skill. Good job!:clap: