This is how my A1G4XE-system will be at the end:

[Helgis75]

amigamad wrote:
@The_Editor

some very nice cases those they make a change from beige or aluminum, my cheap case will have to do for now it looks a bit in your face mostly painted red. One day ill put pictures up on yahoo website at the moment im still creating a faceplate with bright power on and hard drive light with a speed display from a 486 turned up side down and tweaked to display 801.need windows reinstall to get yahoo site building stuff tto work.

Sounds really promising...Good thing that the A1XE-mobo will be out quite soon...We are soon into the February month... :-)

[Helgis75]

ple3003 wrote:
come on!!
i'm pretty sure the g3/g4 consumes about 5-25 watts, while the pentium3/4 as duron/athlon/XP around 50-80 watts! The 63@600 doesn't even require a heatsink!!!

The radeon 8500 doesn't get as hot as the Geforce TI 4200-4800 models. Using a slightly bigger heatsink would require a very little/slow fan.

The nortbridge from VIA does not need cooling, and wont get very hot at all.

OK, hd:s can get very hot, but i've never had to use any form of cooling on my IBM 60GXP 7200rpm. But if you're going to use two hd:s, just don't squeeze them togheter. Separate them a bit.

The PSU actually does a great job in transferring the heat away from you computer, as it is placed in the top of the tower. Usually enough, and it's pretty quiet too.

Last note: i'm bying a PPC to get rid of all the fans/noise, not the opposite  ;-)

Surely a very good advice..Thank you.. :-)