Yea u missed out something alrite... Is your idle wattage with the HDD spinning or with it spun down? It's only a few watt difference compared to a notebook HDD, but that's quite a good part of the total 40W. It's hard to have your Seasonic SS-330GB to be as efficient as the notebook power brick. Th...

Wow now that's a cool app.

If only my Speedfan had any rpm to show...

Nice overkill.

The cooler is worth more than the thing it's cooling.

(...says the person who once use the Ninja to cool an Athlon )
(It's the doing so that is fun, right? )

I've seen a 2-3 degree increase switching from Shinetsu to Zalman's bundled generic goo. But, it may be just the application. I don't think I saw more than 1C difference between Servisol, Anabond, and Nanofusion with my Ninja and undervolted A64. Perhaps the difference will be greater with a hotter ...

Wouldn't it be faster to just remove the old fan and screw the new fan outside the PSU without the funnel, while changing airflow charataristics such that it sucks from a bigger angle and not just from the funnel? That's what I did b4. Also, it's possible to find screws long enough that can screw bo...

To me any high-end HSF is unique: :D XP-120 - You see a 120mm fan towering above the mainboard Ninja - You see a sheet of metal with some heatpipes instead of the 120mm fan Zalman flowers (attracts butterflies?) and Thermaltake Orbs - you see a fan surrounded by fins, pretty interesting sight. Can g...

Can we have SPCR reviews on the 500W? Pweety pweese? The fan behaviour may be different, and that may make it a good fight against current Seasonics (and 1 or 2 Corsairs). Of course I'm not eliminating the possibility of a swap to a faster fan too, since even Seasonic has done that... In places wher...

i actually researched this topic quite a bit about a year ago Best option i could find was the Zalman 7000 ALCU I know its fairly old, but its quiet and now that TDP's on CPU's has come back down, is actually suffecient for modern processors. Plus it will fit under 70mm clearance. But you need to f...

And the PSU is going to be loud, unless it's an external brick. Zalman's ~25dbA is probably gonna get drowned out. What kind of PSU are you assuming will drown out 25 dba? I could list somewhere north of 10 different PSUs that would be quieter than that even when the DC output is above 200 watts. R...

I won't defend against the Zalmans on their fan quality. :lol: But if you consider other factors: Slim case, low airflow, how many coolers can go fanless unless with a CPU undervolted/underclocked until 15W? And the PSU is going to be loud, unless it's an external brick. Zalman's ~25dbA is probably ...

Hi Andy Just try these Coolermaster products for yourself. Then I don't need to explain all this bullshit . After all, its all about silence ! George What's "these Coolermaster products"? Is he trying to be generic so that he's supporting the entire company or to avoid getting shot if a single prod...

Unless you're using a server rack, if you're using a slim-case, high chances there will be a blowhole on top of where the CPU would be. If you can make use of that, the allowance for air intake problem will be solved, and it'd be better than tower cooler since the fan will be drawing cool air. The s...

You can't calibrate the readings (meaning not just to add/subtract, but also multiply/divide, or even do some kind of non-linear function - I think I ended up with a quadratic one for my P4 :roll: ) because that involves taking many readings at different temps and comparing it against an accurate se...

George van Kralingen, are you in any way affiliated with Coolermaster.??? Andy The way he reviewed is interesting. First it's "should only be used with EE CPUs" - so it cannot cool normal CPUs. Next, "making it even more silent with more airflow". Cool, I didn't know you can have something more sil...

I've seen worst... On stock heatsinks that is. :P (Think especially Intel, those with the center copper core) But that's why I won't be afraid if your CPU catches fire if you use your Ultima. On the other hand, if you're looking for as low temperatures as possible... I still would think that lapping...

From the Intel D201GLY2 Mini-ITX mainboard review: "and the Sparkle SPI220LE power supply fan did not turn on" In the review it had to handle 10W of heat. If somehow we can make it not turn on @ 20W (meaning 80W @ 80% efficiency), we have a cheap solution to a hybrid high-power external brick. :shoc...

At a max load of only 220w, this unit could be cooled passivly. I know they have passive 220w external brick converters. I wonder how much this thing costs. If not far from an external brick, the external brick would seem like a better buy. :roll: One has to wonder if its worth the trouble though. ...

If all FlexATX are as efficient/quiet as this one I would pick up the AOpen FlexATX case right now (don't have hope for the HEC cases... oh well). Conditions in a FlexATX case won't be as nice as in the test platform though, these cases have at most a 80mm exhaust/intake at the side where the PSU is...

Somebody did what I hoped someone would have done for a long time. :D Or actually almost... but still, good data. Now there's solid proof that power consumption is not linear to clockspeed ...or is it? I noticed you're using the kill-a-watt meter, so are those system power consumption? I reckon 89W ...

Wrap it in foam, duct tape it, wrap it in more foam, and insulate it. Then enjoy the silence for the 15 minutes it takes for it to overheat and fry. There isn't really much that can be done about coil whine other then replacing the component, which is a really bad idea unless you know how to solder...

SPCR should get their hands on more of these type of heatsink, priced cheaper than top end yet having good performance. Or unless those companies are still unwilling to send review samples despite knowing SPCR, or are they unwilling to send review samples because they know SPCR? ;) I mean, a 840RPM ...

That ~0.3°C/W isn't really a reliable comparative due to the simple fact that the original test CPU had a TDP of 62W while the current CPU has a TDP of 130W. Even if we take the measured AUX12V power of 78W, the difference in core heat is just too big for the comparison to be reliable. That's why ...

I'd love for a direct comparison against CNPS-7k, which had ~0.3°C/W at it's lowest speed, at which it was quieter than 24dBA. Things that didn't make sense to me: Original CNPS-7k weighs >700g. This bigger cousin weighs >400g. nvm I found the reason for that - there's a whole clump of metal in the...

I continued using my whining VA-20 for at least 6 months IIRC, there was no problem whatsoever even when I stressed it hard. After that, the guy whom I sold it to never complained about anything too. Maybe he couldn't complain about the whine since it was clearly stated there when I sold it off at h...

Heheh... I'm also no expert actually. But I've tried using a large fan @ longer distance vs a smaller fan up close to cool a heatsink, both spinning at roughly the same speed. The smaller fan ended up more effective, I can only guess it's due to the higher pressure. You see, unlike radiators, air ca...

Yep I did think of that, and I still consider that as a possible plan B. But thanks for the suggestion anyways! :) After reading further about this on the overclocking.com forums, I decided to go back to using water to cool, and simply place a radiator inside the PSU box with the dielectric oil and...

My motherboard does not have eSata unfortunately. Although I'm assuming there is a way to add it on.. Like this? I have a cupboard next to my desk but I'd say I would need more than 2M of cable since it's on the other side to my case. eSATA is actually... just SATA. Like the thing in your link, it ...

Oh you're in Australia, that'd make it harder and more expensive to get things, my bad. And regarding the fitting part, my bad again, it's not good to assume things based on looks alone, because it might fit but not totally as according to here: http://www.goldfries.com/hardware-reviews/arctic-cooli...

I'm assuming your WD is a Caviar. Ok now that's loud. CPU -> I'd go for hybrid fanless/low/high-fan-speed cooling, since budget is tight and still serves your purpose of quiet downloading. Gigabyte P35 boards support undervolting. You're in luck. Just set the voltage and speed to the lowest you can ...

A PSU won't cause the CPU and GFX down the loop to get too hot, after all it's only supplying the power with 80% efficiency, so for 80W of CPU + GFX the PSU only emits 20W of heat.