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post #21 of 22
2/24/12 at 3:52am
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Originally Posted by FeistyMonkey View Post

HDD coolers seems a bit extreme.

Actually I think of it as conservative rather than extreme. Rather than pushing performance to or beyond design limits I'm thinking of putting less pressure on components. HDD coolers can't hurt. Each drive takes one bay with or without the coolers. They don't take any power. The cost is negligible compared to the cost of time to replace a drive or restore data from backup and even less significant compared to the value of the data. So they can't hurt. Do they really help? Why risk it?

Of course we see endless examples in many threads of extremes of effort and expense that have absolutely nothing to do with performance or reliability.
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CPUMotherboardGraphicsGraphics
Intel Xeon W3680 Westmere-EP Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (Rev. 2) PNY (Nvidia) Quadro 2000 1GB Maybe add a card for 3rd display 
RAMHard DriveHard DriveHard Drive
Mushkin Silverline (6 x 4)=24 GB DDR3 1333 C(OS): 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 - MAX IOPS Edition, S... D(Data): two WD RE4 1TB 3.0Gb/s (RAID 1)  External backup: LaCie D2 Quadra 1TB e-SATA 3.0... 
Optical DriveCoolingCoolingCooling
Sony Optiarc AD-7261S-OB CPU Prolimatech Megahalems Rev. B. w/Noctua 120... CM External GPU Duct & 120mm Ex. Fan HDDs Zalman ZM-2HC2 Heatpipe Coolers  
CoolingCoolingOSMonitor
Case. Addl. 140mm bottom intake fan Scythe Kaze Master Pro fan controller Probably Windows 7 Professional 64 bit 2 displays TBD  
KeyboardPowerCaseMouse
TBD Seasonic Platinum-860 860W CM ATCS 840 (minor mods) TBD 
AudioOtherOtherOther
Cyber Acoustics CA-1001WB 5.25" Drive Bay for now  Drive A: Internal FDD w/ card reader & 1 USB 2.0  USB 2.0. 7 port PCI Card 8GB Verbatim Flash Drive. Internal system docu... 
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post #22 of 22
7/14/12 at 11:41pm
Do you folks of any cooler that can mount in the 3" bay?
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