good news for file server....

You can try to connect the fan to a motheboard 3pin chassis fan. I am curious though. You cannot control the 3pin fan connected to the motherboard 4pin using the bios, a motherboard utility, speedfan or something else? My bad axe 4 pin fan controller cannot control 3 pin fan. I think threadstarter ...

PowerColor with Accelero X2 is quiet
http://www.powercolor.com/global/main_p ... asp?id=134

my gigabyte silent pipe 7300GT idle at 70C+ and loat at 80C+.

when I increase intake fan speed, it will 60C+ at idle, and 70C at load.

have you tried fan option in motherboard?
Under "Boot Configuration"
"system fan" -enable/disable
"fan control" off/slow.

Did your cpu temperature also increase?

I suspect your case less air exhaust after changing to VF900.

if you are not in rush, ATI will launch new card X1950 Pro based on 80nm process. Promised to be energy efficient. 60W less under load compare to X1950XT/XTX

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4472

Tried myself, these cpu cannot go below 1.1V

E3 Venice 3000+
E4 Manchester X2 3800

and on the same motherboad, Clawhammer CG possible to set 0.85V.


I read here, many winchester cpu possible to set ~0.8V

The artificial limit of 1.1V is caused bu the CPU's not by the boards. The limit can not be caused by the CPU, since it is the board that applies the voltage to the chip. Sure, the chips may not like sub-1.1 voltages, but the chips themselves can't stop us from applying said voltages. it's caused b...

thanks a lot.

It's really a nice data/analysis that hardly found in other web.

Directx 10 will be useless until Windows Vista release. Guess it still quite long to wait.

I think intel eist didn't work in xbitlab test. Enable and disable eist still the same power consumption, 26W.

here from xbitlab with eist and cnq disabled .

The Journal of Pervasive 64 bit Computing has a piece entitled Conroe Busted in which Conroe performance claims (made by Intel w/ Anand's help) are scrutinized and found wanting. you believe that blog? it's fanboy blog. the result is from victor wang sciencemark test, with two result being removed ...

here my post
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... highlight=

it's possible to change mount to gfx fan mount.

No clicking noise from PWM.

Thank you. I just wasn't happy with a passing reference, since this is the first I've heard of it. I have a feeling AMD did that just to prevent OEMs from making "Turion equivilant" notebooks using desktop processors.and software like CrystalCPUID. Thus, you can undervolt all you want in the BIOS ,...

this review stated 7900GT consume 65W and 6600GT is 48W.

http://sg.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=3335&s=8

Just warning, new amd core - venice, san diego, manchester, toledo refuse to undervolt less than 1.1V. That's a VERY SERIOUS accusation with huge repercussions for all of us here at SPCR. The least you could do after making such a general sweeping statement is provide us a link. You sure it's not y...

Just warning, new amd core - venice, san diego, manchester, toledo refuse to undervolt less than 1.1V.

I do full, nightly, automated backups using WinZip command line. This is set up as a scheduled task in WinXP. .... For full backup/restore, winzip will have problem in short name. Winzip doesn't store fullname with corespondent short name. Here a scenario you zip eg c:\Program Files\Microsoft Offic...

So far, I'm running a week with no virtual memory (swap file) and everything is running perfectly. I typically run 10-20 apps at a time, and use the computer 80+ hours a week, so I think I'm giving it a good workout. I don't run any "wierd" apps like Photoshop, however, that have bizarre memory all...

any ati with dvi can support 1920x1200. Matrox G550 only support DVI up 1280x1024. I don't know about geforce series but 6600 defenitely support it. Here a person using it for Dell 2405FPW, a ATI 7500 and ATI 9250. http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1223172&page=1&pp=15 http://www.ati.c...

EasyRaider wrote:Surely it will do a worse job than the monster GTX 512 cooler. I'm not sure about X1800 XT, but I'd forget about overclocking.

my thinking also.
Some of 7800GTX (XFX??) cooler using 90mm fan, compare to VF700 which use 70mm fan.

I doubt this theory, cause in reality I just out of limit.
I'm running CPU AMD64 4000+ @ 0.875V and VDimm at 2.6V (default). The different are 0.425V, more than 0.3V limit. It has been run for 6 months without any problem.

yeah, it's not 90nm die, but where is the exception?

Dual core cpus have two, slightly slower cores than the fastest single core systems. They work best with workloads that can execute tasks in parallel. I'm hardly an expert on the decoding of mpeg video, but my guess is that current dual core processors might be marginal for this task. The dual core...

get X2 3800. It's much better from 1080p. Anyway you can't undervolt X2 3800. it's refused to set volt less than 1.1V.

I had pentium 4 2.4B. Migrated to AMD 4000+ clawhammer early this year in quest for better computing, less noise and less power consumption. I only see incremental enhancement. But amount I spend was quite big consider complete overhaul. Now just use X2 3800 for the same reason. I can't see huge adv...

dan wrote:what is the estimated power consumption of an x2 @ 2ghz and @ vcore 1.1v?

based on this review
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 800_3.html

load ~65W idle 5.8W.

I doubt that low,

The problem is not on motherboard but is on CPU itself. I have Clawhammer 4000+ on MSI Neo2 K8N, run on 0.9V 800Mhz perfectly. But when I plugged Venice 3000+ to this motherboard, it refuse to go below 1.1V. I think there is 'spec' to limit the min voltage.

preti9cboi wrote: Yeah! that's what i was talking about. Did it take a lot of time to do? What type of materials would i need to do it?

One store in my town (singapore) did it for SGD$2 ~US$1.2. It takes less than 5 minute. You need connector and tool to clamp it.

I'm sorry. I ment to say, do you know if i have to hook the fan from the zalman up to the PSU or can i do it to the videocard? Welps, i'll find out saturday. Defauft is connected to PSU but it can be modded to hook to VGA Card my post here, hooked to videocard. http://forums.silentpcreview.com/view...