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- Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:13 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
- Replies: 38
- Views: 46059
Re: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
I put together one PC with it recently. You can ask me, but I don't have access any more. Fan control worked. If I remember correctly every "temperature" entry on "Fan Control & Real-Time Monitoring" in BIOS (page 2 in review) leads to sub-menu displaying the target temperatures. For my i7-3770s fan...
- Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:21 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: PowerColor SCS HD4650: A Fanless Budget Graphics Card
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15916
My Powercolor 4670 also needs 15-20W in idle. It's a manufacturer problem, they saved expenses in hardware or BIOS validation. This topic came already up here, but I'm still puzzled why some websites read a very low idle consumption with the Powercolor.
- Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:59 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Core i7 launch
- Replies: 47
- Views: 49595
Some findings of the german hardtecs4u.com Power consumption of VRM and CPU . Nehamlem is the new idle king. Waiting for efficient chipsets/boards in mainstream market now ... Notice the higher power consumption at load with turbo mode on (86 W vs 114 W). This is due to the fact that the voltage was...
- Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:17 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus M3A78 Pro: An ATX 780G Motherboard
- Replies: 30
- Views: 28645
Looks like overscan issues with HDMI. How annoying!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:36 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: WD VelociRaptor: A Triple Crown
- Replies: 125
- Views: 102879
Re: MIKE CHIN ARE YOU LISTENING ????
Don't know about the XP journal file. There does seem to be some writes going on in XP that I can't move. Let me know if I can move anything else. About the NTFS metafile frenzy fetch Sysinternal's Process Monitor, watch file access and delete all default filters. Lot's of acesses to $LOGFILE and $...
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:06 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: WD VelociRaptor: A Triple Crown
- Replies: 125
- Views: 102879
Re: MIKE CHIN ARE YOU LISTENING ????
WinXP on FAT32 or is there a way to offload the NTFS journal file?victorhortalives wrote:Strid wrote: 1. OS drive - Mtron 16GB (but without the journaling/page/temp files on this). Ubuntu & WinXp
2. Local Data Drive - Raptor 74GB. Local stuff + OS journaling/temp directories.
- Sat May 10, 2008 10:46 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: X2 4450e tested on Abit AN-M2: very low power
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17939
Nice findings, Palindroman. The Asrock NF7G-HDReady consumes 17 to 18 W as you mentioned in another post in the gallery? What's the most efficient Intel-based setup at the moment? I still remember the Abit iL-90MV here
- Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:48 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Sparkle Power's 250W 80 Plus SPI250EP
- Replies: 35
- Views: 32588
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:00 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Athlon 64 power reduction: C'n'Q, Vcore, mobile, tools
- Replies: 22
- Views: 94536
This article is mainly obsolete for today's Athlon CPUs but your combination still covers it. Hmm did you try it with the new stick only? Perhaps it's defective? If it boots with only the new one, get into the BIOS and set every RAM setting to lowest speed. Lower lower MHz and and put command-rate t...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:00 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: I dont game should I get 8400GS, 7300gt, or something else?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7354
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:27 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Help choose SSDs for SPCR's test systems
- Replies: 88
- Views: 57013
USB Flash drives, try to get OCZ ATV Turbo (turbo being the defining word here) in either 4GB or 8GB. That is the highest performing flash USB drive (consistently from test to test) that I've been able to find. Beats anything/everything by Corsair, Buffalo, Patriot, etc. For both read and write spe...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:50 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Most quiet fan-cooled middle-high-end GPU
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3743
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:02 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Temjin TJ08 and oversized PSUs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8485
I got the case for over a year now. What I like: The design is simple and clean The size is just right for µATX mobo + ATX PSU 120 mm fan Ninja fits What I don't like: The drive bay covers are fixed with two screws and aligning them is a PIA. A part broke out of the front USB ports, so I can only u...
- Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:52 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Anybody gone HD-less?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 32438
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:55 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Raid 0 failing, any way to backup individual hdd?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3447
Yeah good 'ol dd. dd The name dd stands for "copy and convert". Don't see it? Well, "cc" was already taken for the C compiler, so the author chose the next letter in the alphabet. The syntax has sort of an evil, JCL-like quality to it. According to The Jargon File, the interface was a prank. dd /dee...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:48 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Lowest power Intel/AMD setup ?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 25503
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:42 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Anybody gone HD-less?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 32438
CF cards need to be set internally to physical instead of removable. This is the case with some new cards. See here.
About the write cycles: I wouldn't be too worried. The german magazine C't wrote on a simple USB stick over and over for weeks on the same physical adress on got no error so far.
About the write cycles: I wouldn't be too worried. The german magazine C't wrote on a simple USB stick over and over for weeks on the same physical adress on got no error so far.
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 2.5 HDD silencer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4656
I have and a Quiet Drive for 2.5" Internal HDD Silencer for 2.5 inch HDD and can't complain.
- Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:10 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Help choose SSDs for SPCR's test systems
- Replies: 88
- Views: 57013
Ok after further researching about the ATA type I can says that some cards just detect wether they are behind an ATA host and just switch the type. This means a card that has Fixed + CF-Removable sets itself to either one of them. Sources: http://hjreggel.de/cardspeed/speed-news.html "It also suppor...
- Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:58 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Help choose SSDs for SPCR's test systems
- Replies: 88
- Views: 57013
Well some more good news from http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/index_de.html The mentioned Kingston Ultimate 266x seems to be fixed from factory. There are all UDMA CF cards listed and some tested. And some of the tested have the magic word "fixed" as ATA type. I'll copy the table (a hacked to look...
- Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:34 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Help choose SSDs for SPCR's test systems
- Replies: 88
- Views: 57013
Ok I've found something new in the recent C't (26/07) Addonics Quad-CF PCI Adapter This beast let's you combine up to 4 CF cards in RAID 0/1/10. More than 2 fast cards in RAID-0 are pointless since the internal IDE channel gets saturated. They used a Kingstom Ultimate 266x and got 41/24 MiB/s read/w...
- Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:06 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Controllers: Spindown Support
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13672
without using hdparm, will Windows own power management spin your drive down? also, is your SATA controller (ICH integrated) running in native SATA or IDE mode? You can check by going to Device Manager, and finding if your controller shows up under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" (IDE emulation mode), ...
- Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:54 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: HD 2400 Pro v 7300 LE v G33 IGP - Power consumption
- Replies: 39
- Views: 33907
I went to buy the article that you linked to below as it sounds very detailed but they don’t take Paypal unfortunately. Did they test any passive 2600 XT cards that had low idle power consumption? I have my eye on the MSI and Gigabyte cards. No further tests as I'm aware of. I could manage a scan...
- Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:48 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Help choose SSDs for SPCR's test systems
- Replies: 88
- Views: 57013
from http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39278: Speed The installation of the USBoot filter driver ("driveguard") gave a write speed boost. Don't know why, though. My sticks are a Buffalo Firestix-R 4 GB and a Buffalo Firestix-S 1 GB for all my applications which don't rely on a par...
- Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:39 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: HD 2400 Pro v 7300 LE v G33 IGP - Power consumption
- Replies: 39
- Views: 33907
so I ordered a PowerColor HD 2600 Pro SCS3 256MB instead. Unfortunately it idles at full speed unlike the HD 2400 Pro so the power consumption is higher. I wonder if this limitation is due to a poor design of the board or is a limitation of the chip. Does anyone have a HD 2600 Pro that idles at a l...
- Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:05 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: What to get AMD 690G or Nvidia 7050?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 44953
I'd go for a 7050 given a comparable price:
viewtopic.php?t=42510&highlight=7050
viewtopic.php?t=42980&highlight=7050
viewtopic.php?p=364338#364338
viewtopic.php?t=42510&highlight=7050
viewtopic.php?t=42980&highlight=7050
viewtopic.php?p=364338#364338
- Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:51 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: My experiences with Windows XP on USB stick (and Linux)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 32996
- Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:29 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Help choose SSDs for SPCR's test systems
- Replies: 88
- Views: 57013
Windows on a pen drive is doable, but: 1st you must either use a write protection (e.g. EWF) or FAT32 and 2nd you loose standby/hibernation. If you switch to Linux everything is fine. Read the details here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39278 EWF: http://www.silentpcreview.com...
- Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:04 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Help choose SSDs for SPCR's test systems
- Replies: 88
- Views: 57013
- Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:01 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Windows on USB Flash or CF Practical?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9369
I prefer USB pen drives over CF. See my posts below. The stick running Linux is fine after 1 year of daily use.
viewtopic.php?t=39278
viewtopic.php?t=37678
viewtopic.php?t=39278
viewtopic.php?t=37678