Archive for June, 2009

All of us heard of the upcoming ASP.Net 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 due in Q4 2009 so I thought on listing the highlights on the ASP side. You can find the original whitepaper here.

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I just finished modding my computer with the goal of making it more silent. It all started with an Antec Sonata III 500 which was supposed to hold my new Core2Duo. I like this case. Sturdy build and quite heavy. It has springs for the harddrive mounts to dampen the shocks and sound, a good 500Watt source and gorgeos looks and also it is very easy to work with, especially with me poking my head inside it to check and modify stuff.

 At that time I stuck with the Intel stock cooler which of course proved too loud. From the perfomance it was ok. I am not an overclocker so it was enough for the job. Still I needed to change it because it was loud as hell. I chose A Scythe Ninja 2 which can normally be used also in a fanless mode but I did not risk and installed also the provided fan, which is a 120×120 – 800rpm one (very quiet also).

My shock was of course that my system was as loud as before so I turned my head to the cooler on the VGA. This was a Saphire 4850 with a Zalman cooler; Noisy as hell as I saw, and thus I had to go for yet another upgrade which turned to be an Arctic Accelero S1 Rev.2. Also this is designed as a fanless sollution but again I wanted to play safe and added the turbo module which consists of 2 low rev fans barely audible.

All in all the system is now quiet and yet powerfull to play anything I throw at it. I could not make it dead silent but its miles from where it started. Below are some pictures I took along the process.
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