http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2505/s6303450.th.jpg Recently I bought a universal notebook power brick, Trust PW‑2120 . It is very useful when you need to supply something in range between 12 and 22V with up to 8A (not much than 120W power). There is a teeny fan inside, as you can see, and yeah...

What do you exactly mean by simplicity? The functionality you don't need eating additional energy -- you can avoid this. I'm not familiar with the differences between the G31 and G41 chipsets. AFAIK, there is not a one crucial difference to tell about. Even mainboards look absolutelly the same. Als...

kamaleon wrote:G31 or 41 or G45 in strict power consumption issues?

The first one, G31 Simplicity means economy

Any G31 chipset powered board will be a perfect "upgrade" choice. Btw, your current 7100 is still a great low power S775 variant So you can even remain on your ground, and not change installed software.

Safe vendors, IMHO, are: Biostar, Gigabyte. MSI 7100 is also good, I remeber that board.

boost Socket 775 is dead It is not. Just because the cheap as dirt Wolfdale :) Why pay much? To pay what for ? A 2-4 fps diff? ilovejedd And how much does the E8600 cost, exactly? Certainly more than a Core i3-530. And what is i3-530? Clarkdale is a Lynnfield's scrub, with a weak cut-down RAM-contr...

The problem is that although my motherboard allows changing the voltage of the GPU and sideport memory, it doesn't indicate what the default voltages are. You can measure any V you like manually by the means of a digital multimeter. Just make us a few hi-res photos. GPU-Z says that the bus width of...

Stephen7372 wrote:Thanks but I can't find any reviews of DVD drives

They usually are at about 3.5W(idle) - 15W(write or spin). And BD-drive eats more than DVD-drive.

The motherboard has a 24pin and a 4pin additional power connector. Yeah, these four ends are useless in low power setup because they just duplicate already existing power rails -- in case you have a powerful GPU in PCI-E it will need some additional current from the old ATX20. So it is designed to ...

akwok wrote:Any suggestions?

No news for you here Buy any you like (or SPCR approved), then put it into a sound absorbing material. It won't heat up much cause it's 2.5".

andyb
Hey, you can use an SD card along with USB adapter
They all do have the blocking latch.
And the capacity range is huge.

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As for autorun.inf viruses, I can recommend you this little appy, it's free, no ads or nags.

What's stopping a manufacturer - or a brave modder - from transferring the contents of a power brick into a TFX or SFX Oh yeah! I'm searching for the right (one I'll not regret to use only internally) power brick to disassemble it and to fix it in the empty ATX box, along with electrodacus ' Winmat...

flapane

GA-G41M-ES2H

I had this one. A bit warmer than G31, but still pretty nice for a chill-n-silent setup. Don't know about fans and voltages, sorry. I had it only for 1 day, didn't take any tests But I liked it.

P.S. Don't take Asus. Their budget boards are not so interesting.

I'm not sure if it would show lower -- depends on good the Active PFC in the EDAC is -- it apparently has APFC. Yes, you right. But then you mention that the DC power numbers exclude the power taken by the HDD. What about the AC power? If the AC power includes the HDD AC includes HDD, and DC doesn'...

What I would like to know is if you have any comments on the noisiness of this combination You should be prepared to higer noise level if you go for a top level hardware. That's axiom. Powerful hardware needs good cooling . CPU fan , PSU fan , videocard fan -- the main sources of noise in your conf...

You don't mention how any of those power measurements are obtained -- AC or DC. Are they right? I don't believe the power brick would drop to 48% efficiency. It's rated at 85%! AC! )) There is written! I measure by the means of a digital multimeter U1242A Agilent, it's quite adequate thing, though ...

electrodacus

At last my tests with DC-DC board were performed. Don't know about disabling CPU fan cause it blows on NB heatsink too.

Got AC 36,4W of apparent power with EDAC AC-DC(235V>20V) + Winmate DC-DC(20V>ATX), idle. Apparent means ...there is even less, maybe 30W of active power :wink: I struggle now for getting one of a 230V Kill-a-Watt versions, then I'll tell precisely how much is consumed. Configuration: E6300 2.8GHz @ ...

hmsrolst wrote:Do you think G31 draws much less than G45?

Intel thinks so

barefootzero wrote:Hi All,
I found that after overclocking my HD 4200 IGP from 500 to 800Mhz that my idle power dropped from 35W to 32W at the outlet.

That's fantastic Perpetuum mobile!

Can you revert your changes back and measure it again?

I'm praying for a fanless CULV & ION board, but I'm dreaming :D Oh yeah! ) If you need it for entertainment. I touched the Samsung N130 recently. It's very silent when doing a usual internet surf. Don't know about serious loads. Very nice model. I like it. Though it may have unsatisfactory frame ra...

I don't think that the first two, or the one from Mini-Box, would be suitable as their voltages (12v & 48v) are outside of the Winmate's range. As for the FSP one, that site doesn't seem to be offering them for sale to consumers. Oh, boy! :shock: You're right! )) I forgot about the main characteris...

Am I stupid or can't one get one of these outside Canada, let alone Europe ? Ebay page has shipping in Canada only. Shipping to: Canada, Europe, United States, Taiwan, Australia, Japan I got one from electrodacus living in Eastern Europe. Delivery took two weeks. MikeC Don't know if I should do it ...

I'd like to avoid having to cut and modify the cable if at all possible. Is there an adapter that would do the job? Have you any thoughts about the way this DC-DC converter will be fitted in your setup? Maybe you don't need right that connector, cause the converter will be hidden inside the PC case...

Guys, how can it be that LED monitor has a higher contrast than fluorescent bulb illuminated one? All people do notice this phenomenon.

(I'm not about those foolish digits of million ratio in a dinamic contrast mode)

however, the actual amount available to the OS is only 3324MB, according to the Task Manager. I made some extra screens on purpose -- to show that the full amount of 4GB memory can be used. Look at processes window more attentively. BTW, how did you get the classic theme for Windows 7? Easily. Cont...

lm wrote:I just got something by random from a local store. What's the difference?

It depends on the model, and can be not so accurate with readings when it comes to real use. Look here for some links. Also useful information is left here, at electrodacus thread.

Found an AC 220V alternative to North-American Kill-a-Watt on e-bay. It's a reworked original Kill-a-Watt actually. With the UK BS1363 socket :) Need to mount a Schuko one there, if you live in Germany e.g. http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/2/7/7/3/5/0/webimg/28292977_tp.jpg Any thoughts? There are not...

If you don't understand what I'm talking about, you shouldn't be talking about CPUs. And I'm not. I thought we are talking about OSes, not CPU. CPUs are all 64-bit instructions capable nowadays. individual applications aren't capable of addressing more than 2GB each. Up to 3Gb with some Microsoft a...

nirvanaguy19 wrote:is this combo good?

Yes, very nice set. If you aren't sure it will power up your configuration w/o problems ask directly Mini-box.com staff for some advice on it. They must know much better their own hardware. Here we can suggest you only theoretically, and basing on similar cases.

You still gain registers, which make things generally easier and faster. Registers? What registers? :P What for do I need them being an ordinary Windows user, not a scientist, or programmer, or something. I just wanna run games and Photoshop. Yes, here I can encounter with the most crucial benefit ...