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Yeah I'm just trying to help you pal and your welcome for the advice btw.. anyway, get it with a Titan aluminium fan as I said earlier. They are excellent for heatsinks.

Get the Alpha PAL, it's the best heatsink imho.. Get it with a Titan aluminium fan. It won't get much better then that when it comes to air based cooling :P.

What the hell? Cheiftec doesn't suck.. If anything they make better quality products then TT. I agree with Ridic.. Xaser cases has too much crap everywhere and they look ridiculous. But I'm sure allot of ppl find them really cool looking.

I like TT, they have some pretty inventive products. But I've heard that most of their HSF's are pretty crappy and I know that their water cooling systems are total crap, might as well go with air cooling. When it comes to HSF's I would recommend a Alpha PAL 8942. You could run it with a 80mm...

Ehm.. oki. Lian-Li chassis are known for their sweet design, high quality build and good performance. Anyway it's matter of taste, and ppl get the things they tink are/look best. I think completely the opposite of you.. I Like more simpler designs and I think the Xaser chassis has too much...

Out of curiosity, what didn't you like about the Lian-Li chassis that you looked at?

That's allot of fans, but if you drop down the voltage to about 6V.. It shouldn't be that noisy. I highly recommend Lian-Li PC-70 anf PC-60 aluminum cases. Do some searches on google and there will be plenty of benchmarks of Lian-Li aluminium cases VS the traditional steel case.. The...

This thread is getting tiring.. But anyway, the heatsink on 5900u has I think 3 different steps.. When it's completely idle it has much lower rpm then if it's getting stressed while playing games etc. So it should be louder under gameplay, but you wont really notice that since your probably...

What brand do you have.. Some 400W psu's are less effective then some psu that have less Watt.

This is what I have decided on: -Corsair TWINX1024-4000 1024Mb (2x512Mb) DDR PC4000 CAS2 500Mhz with Black Heatsink (AMD OK) -ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe i875P 4DDR-DIMM 5PCI Audio SATA RAID GB-LAN FireWire Socket478 ATX -Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4GHz -C Hyperthreading 512Kb 800MHz Boxed...

Did you get it here in Sweden for $270 or was it from US or somewhere else in Europe? Was it brand new, with warranty etc?

$270.. Was that on ebay? I live in Sweden and the prices are still pretty high here. The new retail price on a 9800pro is about $480. From the place where I'm getting my card, they all cost exactly the same.. However Connect3D is the only brand that is available at the moment :/.

Correct, but this is not the point I was trying to make though.. I know that the 9800pro costs less, but some ppl are so hooked on Nvidia that they would still pay $100 extra for a card that will only give them minor improvement in fps.. On the top of that they are louder and produce more heat...

Ohhhoh! Which one to pick? They all cost exactly the same. Connect3D Radeon 9800Pro 128Mb DDR TV-out DVI Retail AGP Hercules 3D Prophet 9800Pro 128Mb DDR TV-out DVI Retail AGP Hightech Excalibur ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128Mb DDR DVI TV-out Retail AGP Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800Pro...

I thought I should just mention the 5900u's heatsinks are much louder then 9800pros.. It was previously called "The dust buster" cause it sounded like a vacuum cleaner (5800 cards), I think it was about 70dbA... Although Nvidia has fixed this a bit on the 5900 series, it's still louder and...

Haha, that's weird man, how hot does it get when you stress it though? Your other results were after playing SOF2 for about an hour. The CPU is the one part of you computer that really takes up most of your psu. Maybe it's acting kind of funny because it's getting insufficient power from your psu.

Allot of heatsinks have cooling paste already "glued" to them.. Sort of feels like rubber, but it melts as soon as it gets warm. If the had placed the heatsink the wrong way, not making the cooling paste connect with the core.. Then 70 °C his quite possible. EDIT: I'm not sure if thats the...

I'm not sure, don't have all the details around that.. I'm only quoting what he told me. He said they had some how placed the heatsink wrong and it made it less effective, allot!.. According to him he almost burnt his hand on the hot air blown out from his rear case fans.. He might have been...

I'm pretty picky when it comes to noise levels.. I try keeping all my fans under 20dbA. I think slot fans are about ~37-40-something dbA(correct?), which is loud to me. Do you know which brands of 9800pro still has this problem? So we know which ones to keep away from.

EDIT: lol, sorry.. what I meant to say was.. I'm using water cooling, and I cool cpu, gpu and chipset with it.. gpu, not psu.. I don't know where my head was when I wrote that.. But I think most ppl understood what I meant.. Don't think there is such a thing as a water cooled psu :cheese: