Thanks AZBrandon. It works in the 180-250V range, so it is good for me. However the plug is British like. I would need two adaptors British-to-rest-of-Europe. If I don't find any other options I will go for this one.
I'll wait a bit in case someone can help me with other options.

First of all, I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, if it isn't I hope that some mod moves it to the correct one. It is about power consumption of systems. I know many people measure power consumption with an electronic device branded "kill-a-watt". However it is designed for 125V elec...

Nope, there is not an end to this. When you finally get your video card silent then you will start hearing the hard disks like you haven't heard them before

I'm very surprised by the noises of the papst fan. I don't own a 80mm papst fan, but I own several 120mm ones from papst. The 120mm that I own don't make any clicking nor other wierd noises at 5V, 12V or at any other value in that range. I'm looking forward to reading the review for 120mm fans to co...

Another vote for Ninja

If you don't want to use speedfan, nor the gigabyte utility, you have other interesting alternative, motherboard monitor: http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ However it could be a little old and newer motherboards could not be supported. You can use coretemp too, and other option that comes to my mind is RM...

If your motherboard has the appropiate sensors then you can access them with several freeware utilities. I would suggest speedfan from www.almico.com. It also provides the possibility to control your fans

I found some interesting information about undervolting and overclocking in this post: My experience on undervolting & overclocking Core 2 Duo I've seen there that the lowest voltage that it can be used is 1,15V (for E6400 at least) and not 1,05V. EDIT: I was kinda blind when I looked for posts abou...

Ok, so let's assume a not overclocked E6600 at idle (at 6x266=1.6GHz and being not overclocked and not running at the edge of stability, CE1 and speedstep can be enabled). What is the lowest voltage that you can set with RMClock to get the lowest power consumption, and what is the power consumption ...

And what is the lowest voltage at lowest possible speed? (Interesting for lowest consumption at idle)

I have one question about C2D undervolting that maybe you can ask. Which is the minimun vcore that you can select (using crystalcpuid or rmclock or similar)?
I know that E3 and E6 revisions of Athlons have a 1,1V lock for Vcore, and I would like to know what is the limit of Core2Duos.

OK, I finally bought the Athlon X2 4600+ for 249€, something in the middle of the two options I considered before. I got in this processor a 75W TDP, so I think it won't be too hard to keep it cool with a Ninja Scythe or Thermalright Ultra-120 (my next buy). What I'm a little dissapointed with is ...

OMG, why does AMD do this to us?
I understand that they lock the CPU frequency multipliers for marketting reasons, but I don't understand this thing with the Vcore.

I am trying to undervolt an athlon X2 4600+ with crystalcpuid or rmclock. No problems at load, but I can't undervolt under 1,1V at idle. In RMclock the lowest option is just 1,1V (the default with C&Q) In CrystalCPUId, I can select lower voltages but in CPU-Z I can't see any change below 1,1V. In my...

AMD64 TCaseMax - v1.19 ---------------------- CPU Information (CPU #1): Standard CPUID: Family: F, Model: B, Stepping: 1 Extended CPUID: Family: F, Model: 2B, Stepping: 1 CPUID String: 20FB1 Processor APIC: 0 Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (Manchester) CPU Speed: 2412.42 (201.04 x 12.0) Revision:...

Then with your rule of thumb I think am in conditions to upgrade :) I've seen the benchmarks in tomshardware.com and the x2 4400+ is more than 50% faster than my 3000+winchester in most cases. And the price is not that high, that is why I decided to make the upgrade. Upgrading to a complete new syst...

I currently have an athlon 64 3000+ (winchester). These are my upgrade options: Athlon X2 4400+ Toledo (max TDP 89W) at 304€ Athlon X2 4800+ Toledo (max TDP 110W) at 239€ I think that TDPs are max and the real TDP depends on luck, but do you think that gettin the 4800 is too risky? Obviously I w...

I think it will be easier and safer for you to buy some adaptors in some store. I don't know about online stores, I know only of some local stores.
But if you search a bit you will find them.

I need it for portable data. I finally got a really silent system, and now my old 2,5" 40GB external usb enclosured HD is the source of noise. So I'd like to replace it. What I am looking for: - Portable (small): that's why I chose 2,5". Smaller HDs than 2,5" are very expensive and with lower capaci...

New update: I have put my disk in a homebrew enclosure (aluminium box and gel packs from a sports center here in Spain). At last my computer is dead silent!!! From my desk (less than 1 meter from computer) I can't hear any sound from my computer. The only thing that makes me know that it is turned o...

In RMclock there are several profiles. You could use the power saving profile when you want your computer only folding. That would stuck it at 1GHz 1,1V. When you are active in your computer you can switch to power on demand profile to allow the use of full resources.

I would suggest RMClock. It is a great utility. With adjusted voltages I get about 10ºC lower temperatures in my CPU when idle (at 800MHz) and about 15ºC lower on load (at 2GHz) in my athlon64 3000 with 89W TDP. I also use it in my laptop (2GHz PentiumM), and now the fan is off most of the time. I...

Update: I bought yesterday a Samsung HD401LJ and I have to say that it is much quieter than any of the seagates I had before (7200.7 and 7200.8 satas). I even would say that the seagates should be in some kind of black list in SPCR :lol: The samsung is much quieter in idle, which is what I most care...

Anyone?

If nobody has any experience with these drives, could anyone at least suggest which 2,5" silent drive is a good option for such an enclosure? I mean the most silent option

Thanks

I see 2 options
1) buying an enclosure + HD
2) buying a full product

Problem with 1) is that I can't find an enclosure that connects through SATA, all are IDEs.
Problem with 2) is upgradability, but I don't care too much.

Any recomendations?

I am seriously thinking into buying that samsung. I got the idea that it is going to be really significantly more silent than the seagates, everyone in the forum seems to be really happy with them :D (and everyone in the forums seems to complain about the seagates...) About the power management I ha...

I have already tried something like that. But the problem is that I cant isolate the front because there is not enough space for damping material, and I dont want to block the airflow. I just put damping sheets in the sides, bottom and top of the case. The computer is on the floor, and the front of ...

Thank you :D . In fact I am usual reader of SPCR, just this is the first time I write in the forums :) I have my hard disks suspended with soft elastic suspension (that sewing thingy ;)). I have no vibration noise at all, my concern is about idle noise (and seek noise, but this is not so annoying). ...

I have two seagates (a SATA 160GB 7200.7 and a SATA 250GB 7200.8). I usually work at night, and for me they are terrible noisy. The rest of my system is already quieted (antec sonata, scythe ninja, low power components, ...). The only thing I can hear are the HD drives. I am considering the idea of ...