Silentium T2

[pendulum79]

I've seen an Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 on special offer and I think it looks great. It would save me a bit of money compared to the sonata 2 I'm looking at. I just want to know if the Seasonic 350W unit that comes with will be enough to support what I'm putting in, the AC website seems to say it can handle anything up to a 3.8GHz P4 and 6800U but I think it's right to be a bit cautious.

I'd be running:
A64 3200
MSI K8N NEO4-F
1GB DDR
80GB SATA with a possible addition further down the line
Sapphire X800 GTO²
DVDRW and DVD ROM

Also, if people have experience of these I'd be grateful; are they big enough inside? are they a pig to work in? is all the cooling marketing BS? does it compare well to the sonata 2?

Thanks for any help guys .

 

[pendulum79]

Hmmm...found a few reviews that put me off a bit. The plastic bits are really cheap and one reviewer broke quite a few bits, there's only room for 1 HDD to be used in the muffler thing and the PSU seems to be housed in a non-standard casing .

EDIT:
Ooooh never mind I've found the Coolermaster Centurion 532 for £5 less. I've always like their designs. The 380W PSU should hold up ok shouldn't it? Only real changes I'll be making is running the X800 on 16 pipes.

 

[JEDIYoda]

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