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- Tue May 27, 2014 5:32 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: cheap Cooler Master 120mm are as quiet as Nexus
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2329
cheap Cooler Master 120mm are as quiet as Nexus
I can recommend the 120mm Cooler Master 1200 rpm sleeve bearing fans as being no noisier than the reference Nexus 120mm fan, at least at 12V, which is the only way I could conveniently test them. They are tremendously cheap, with a 4-pack running $16 at Newegg. There are many other Cooler Master fan...
- Tue May 27, 2014 5:13 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Looking for quiet 120mm LED fans
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5203
Re: Looking for quiet 120mm LED fans
I've been happy with the inexpensive Cooler Master 1200rpm sleeve bearing non-led fans and I see they make a blue LED version. The ones I've had are no more noisy at 12V than the Nexus 120 fans. There are many variation on Cooler Master 120mm fans, and my experience is only with the ones specificall...
- Fri May 16, 2014 4:20 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GTX 750Ti sips power
- Replies: 153
- Views: 190669
Re: GTX 750Ti sips power
I've received the MSI 'Gaming' edition 750ti that will be going to Mike for review. I tested it in my system, which is 'quiet' by SPCR standards, but not silent. It's a Fractal Define R4 with stock rear fan, and 2 Coolermaster low speed 120mm intake fans, all running on 12V. CPU heatsink is a 212evo...
- Sat May 10, 2014 11:49 am
- Forum: Donate for Reviews
- Topic: ALL HAIL THE GTX 750 TI / $150 (CAD)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33553
Re: ALL HAIL THE GTX 750 TI / $150 (CAD)
Mike - I'll order the MSI 'Gaming' 750ti and see if I can get it shipped directly to you. Is the address in the sticky in this forum correct? {Silent PC Review; 361-6417 Fraser St; Vancouver, BC V5W3A6; Canada} ^^ quest_for_silence - thanks, good suggestion - I have a couple Zalman Fan Mates I could...
- Fri May 09, 2014 8:02 pm
- Forum: Donate for Reviews
- Topic: ALL HAIL THE GTX 750 TI / $150 (CAD)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33553
Re: ALL HAIL THE GTX 750 TI / $150 (CAD)
I would happily buy one and have it shipped to SPCR for testing, with the understanding I could pay for shipping it on to me after the testing, and I'm OK with the likelyhood that it would be weeks/months before it was completed. I have an EVGA 750ti FTW and the noise level at the minimum fan speed ...
- Fri May 09, 2014 7:35 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: SilverStone RVZ01: Mini Raven Case
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15451
Re: SilverStone RVZ01: Mini Raven Case
SilverStone had revised the fan and fan speed in the power supply used. http://www.silverstonetek.com/images/memo/ST45SF-G-Fan-speed-curve-comparison-with-V1-&-V2.jpg In the Q&A on the product page they say the two versions can differentiated by a sticker on the outside of the box. Which version of ...
- Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:26 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI Mini-ITX Motherboard
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12743
Re: Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI Mini-ITX Motherboard
With a 120mm tower cooler, (Hyper 212 evo) the fins overhang the PCIe slot's centerline by about 4mm. This cooler is symmetric, there are a few that have things offset just a bit, where you might be able to turn it one way or the other and get it to fit. A 92 to 100mm wide cooler would fit with no p...
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:58 pm
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: Apple's new MacBook Pro and Asymmetrical fans
- Replies: 10
- Views: 26942
Re: Apple's new MacBook Pro and Asymmetrical fans
The spacing of the impeller paddles varies around the circumference of the wheel, that's the innovation. It even looks like it's not quite symmetric on opposing sides. Having the wall off-center, that might make for a more gradual pressure/velocity/impedance transition at the outlet. I know in super...
- Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:46 am
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: WD Scorpio Black 750GB & Scorpio Blue 1TB
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17716
Re: WD Scorpio Black 750GB & Scorpio Blue 1TB
Yes, the Samsung M8 HN-M101MBB 1TB drive was generally available before WD's 9.5mm drive was out. I have one and it's been fine and quiet.
- Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:40 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Samsung Series 9 Ultra Portable Notebook
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5630
Re: Samsung Series 9 Ultra Portable Notebook
I just got a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 - it has a matte-finish 12.5" display and with the $50 "Premium HD Display" upgrade you get an IPS display panel with essentially perfect off-angle colors. It's not really bright, but it otherwise blows away any laptop screen I've used, including my 15" Macbook Pro ...
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:18 pm
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: FS: New IBM ServeRAID m1015 SAS/SATA cards
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2786
Re: FS: New IBM ServeRAID m1015 SAS/SATA cards
PM Sent for 1 of these.
It's a low-profile x8 PCI-E 2.0 card with two internal SFF SAS x4 ports, for those interested.
It's a low-profile x8 PCI-E 2.0 card with two internal SFF SAS x4 ports, for those interested.
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:34 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: saving power: locking nvidia gpus' clock to low 2d desktop
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1916
Re: saving power: locking nvidia gpus' clock to low 2d deskt
Difference in core power will be 12.5% at the greatest, enough other components operating means overall power difference will be much less on a percentage basis.
Nothing to be even slightly concerned about.
Nothing to be even slightly concerned about.
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:59 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: My Corsair VX450 fan seems loud
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3595
Re: My Corsair VX450 fan seems loud
I have a VX 450 and I found it was very sensitive to the temperature of the incoming air -- I had a down-blowing CPU cooler that put plenty of heat out where the power supply was sucking air in and it never was very quiet except at absolute minimum load with on-board video. I measured temperatures o...
- Tue May 25, 2010 1:36 pm
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Because the D510 and the i5-661 in IDLE consume equal ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4268
With the processor idle, the power consumption is mostly by devices such as RAM and the chipset (north or south bridge chips) -- and these are similar in each system. The TDP numbers are a guide for system designers to make the cooling performance as needed -- they represent the typical maximum powe...
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:43 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: is there a way to get 45nm in 975x msi?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2112
The 45nm processors use a different communication protocol to the motherboard to select voltage etc. If the BIOS and motherboard don't support it, there's not any way to do it yourself. Many boards did get BIOS upates to support the 45nm chips, but if there's not one yet from MSI for that motherboar...
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:40 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: It's here! It's here! Intel 45nm Quad
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5302
Aristide - these new Xeons are still Socket 771 but unfortunately they're not compatible with many older boards - My Dell PowerEdge 2900 server will work with the 65nm processors (5100 and 5300 series) but not the 45nm ones (5200 and 5400 series) - Bummer. The new Penryn-based parts (server and desk...
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:22 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Rant: Why's there still no SMP client w/ checkpointing?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6000
It's not checkpoints, but deadlines that are the problem
The Windows SMP client (or core, really) does checkpoint in pretty much the same way as the conventional single-thread client. What's likely the problem is the current short deadline (4 days) on SMP units. A dual core machine folding 8 hours/day will miss the deadlines. My 2 Ghz iMac C2D runs 24 hou...
- Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:01 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: A serious FYI to Folders who OC.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3633
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:25 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Affinity Changer - run two F@H SMP clients on a quad core!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 36601
Results vary by WU project
The benefit of running two instances at once varies a lot between the different SMP projects. Some of them leave less free CPU than others. If both of my WU's are p2653, there's a 25% increase on Pts/day while running two (frame time goes from 9:50 to 15:45). Production goes from 2570 to 3220 PPD Wi...
- Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:39 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Affinity Changer - run two F@H SMP clients on a quad core!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 36601
I have heard that under Ubuntu you should get more ppd, but it is under Ubuntu where I still have 20% idle even with 2 instances. Yup - both true :o My machine is a Dell 2900 with dual Xeon 5140 2.33 dual core cpus. Over the last few days I've been switching OSes With Windows Server 2003, my CPU ut...
- Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:14 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Need 5.25 inch bay cover - mesh
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8501
Looking carefully at the blown-up image on the FrozenCPU site, there are two small nubs on the side flange that seem to correspond to the two forward screw holes on an optical drive. This baby ought to just snap into place in most any case. Very nice. If that doesn't work, drill a quick hole through...
- Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:27 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Zalman VF1000 LED Graphics Card Cooler
- Replies: 32
- Views: 31198
vf900 ok?
Seems like the results for the vf900 are inconsistant with earlier tests - it was a great cooler in last year's test. I tried to calculate the difference in GPU power consumption - the net difference is ~25-30W but the CPU is different from the previous test. The rated TDP is ~10W higher in the new ...
- Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:53 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: How hot should memory get?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4722
big heatsinks == bad news on AMD mobos
If your board is like all the other A64 boards I've known, the RAM slots are all packed right next to each other, and even if you have just two DIMMs they use adjacent slots. "High performance" RAM with large heatsinks block two of four sides because there's no airspace between the inner heatsinks. ...
- Mon May 28, 2007 11:03 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Dual-Channel Memory "Real World" Performance
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6902
My results with Folding@Home on an AMD X2 gave a 15-25% drop in performance with a single 512MB versus two. It's likely SuperPi is not nearly as memory intensive as you think... Fooling around with memory timings showed me they don't matter so much: going from the stock 200Mhz 2-2-2-5 timings to 166...
- Sun May 27, 2007 10:09 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: APC UPS question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4644
The spark is usual. It's probably mentioned in the manual, if you read it carefully. The advice for charging is so that if there is an outage in the first hours the UPS is connected, that there will be enough juice to provide backup power. I also think the charging circuit firmware does some calibra...
- Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:21 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: SPCR Designed Computer Systems
- Replies: 216
- Views: 402778
Bravo Mike and SPCR! These look like fine systems. The prices are not unreasonable, considering the extra work required and the fact that End PC Noise undoubtly pays more for components than Dell or Newegg. The economics of a small business' labor and parts prices are not the same. Remember folks, i...
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:48 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: CPU cooler for E6600 recommendations?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4210
Look to the past...
I'd actually suggest the Zalman CNPS 7700-AlCu, or the 7000-AlCu with Zalman's adaptor for socket 775. For an all in one, simple heatsink these are still a great choice. And it will work just great on a 65w cpu like the Conroe 6600, even with the fan controller turned all the way down. It's got what...
- Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:53 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: #### General FAQ ####
- Replies: 15
- Views: 63907
Tell me more about -5V output and motherboards that require it. I have a new GA-K8N51PVMT-9 Gigabyte motherboard (s939/nForce 430/GeForce 6150) which Antec tells me is not compatible with their power supplies because it requires -5V, which has disappeared from ATX 2.x standards. What power supplies ...
- Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:09 pm
- Forum: Consumer Advocacy
- Topic: Antec Neo HE PSU Users Poll
- Replies: 355
- Views: 673463
Neo 430 HE from a P150 purchased late Dec./early Jan. from newegg. It won't startup my Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9 system: Athlon 64X2 4200, 1 gig ram, on board video, 1 sata hd, 1 dvd-rw. This is a GF6150/nF430 board. It will power a system with Athlon xp-m 2600 (at 2.3ghz oc'd), Asus a7v880 mobo, 1.5 ...
- Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:30 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Finally a concurrent for Antec's Aria !
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14605