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- Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:03 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: AMD Wraith: Upgraded Stock Cooler
- Replies: 26
- Views: 53590
Re: AMD Wraith: Upgraded Stock Cooler
Stock heatsinks similar to the right can be spotted in many lower-end Phenom II and newer products. I say "similar" because there are many slight variants of the fan and heatsink, just like Intel's. http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/amd-wraith/00.jpg I find the design pretty good for the si...
- Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:56 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Lian Li PC-Q10 Mini-ITX Case
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19307
Re: Lian Li PC-Q10 Mini-ITX Case
Am I the only one here who feels that this case could have easily fitted in a mATX mobo if not for the position of the PCI-E 16x slot on most mATX mobos?
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 6:21 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22171
Re: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
Dug out my power meter, measured values are from wall System is Antec TP-550 (Bronze) and GTX 460 (hence the high idle power) Prime 95 Large FFT 1.0V (stock) @ 3GHz: ~78W 0.8V @ 3GHz: ~68W Idle 0.8V @ 800MHz (same value whether undervolting or not): ~52.5W Worth it? Yea my stock heatsink seems to th...
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:23 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22171
Re: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
My asrock has voltage override alongside voltage offset. If using override according to cpuz (and bios) it stays at that 0.8V regardless of frequency. I would reckon while VR is integrated much of the control would still remain external, otherwise overclockers would either have a high chance of dest...
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:13 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22171
Re: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
In terms of? At this stage in technological development it is mostly enthusiasm that creates market for over price and minimal power saving.HFat wrote:Not necessarily. Have you measured the effect?wwenze wrote:surely that is worth something
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 9:11 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22171
Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
One year passed and nobody's talking about owning and tweaking them... My G3220 has been running at 0.800V at 3GHz without any CPU-caused errors since day one, workload including overnight x264 and overnight gaming, surely that is worth something. 0.8 because that is the minimum my motherboard allow...
- Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:25 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Rosewill Silent Night 500 Platinum 80 Plus
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16867
Re: Rosewill Silent Night 500 Platinum 80 Plus
What is PART 2?8. NOISE, PART 1
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:22 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Seagate Barracuda 3TB: 1TB Platter Behemoth
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21320
Re: Seagate Barracuda 3TB: 1TB Platter Behemoth
I bought the 2TB version of this (ST2000DM001) after reading this review. The noise (which is apparently due to head parking) is very obvious, as pointed out by numerous others on the internet. This thing does not make it as a silent PC drive. A warning needs to be placed at the end of the review in...
- Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:16 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p Ultra-small Desktop PC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4720
- Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:14 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Zotac ZBOX HD-ND22: At Last a CULV Nettop
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8721
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:11 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: 80Plus Platinum (115v) finally exists
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12671
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:52 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: is there a pin mod to undervolt on socket 775
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2880
I don't know the default voltage of your Celeron so can't give the exact pins, Page 45 of this pdf shows the location of the VID pins (when looking at the mainboard), page 15 shows how to get the voltages. http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/316963.pdf Connecting the VID pin to groun...
- Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:50 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Nightjar is silent & operates at 100.00% efficiency - Re
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4542
- Fri Jul 02, 2010 5:58 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Efficiency measurements, then vs now, comparable?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2884
I just realized, Bronze would need 82% efficiency @ 20% load, meaning 110W for a 550W Truepower New. Which makes it more efficient than all the abovementioned PSUs already. But this is not what I'm asking - for example, a PSU was measured to be 80% @ 100W in a 2006 review, another PSU was also measu...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:59 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Efficiency measurements, then vs now, comparable?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2884
Efficiency measurements, then vs now, comparable?
I would like to ask, the measured efficiencies in long-ago SPCR PSU reviews, can they be used for comparison against those of the more recent reviews, say, those within the past year or two. Reason I'm asking - I got an Antec Truepower New which I can either sell or replace a Seasonic S12. I'm guess...
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:40 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Athlon II X4 610e & Phenom II X4 910e: 45W & 65W Qua
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23994
From what we can gather, the only real selling point of these CPUs is the lower operating temperature... but then again, most standard AMD processors undervolt fairly well. I read this, but... Do these CPUs undervolt better than normal ones, or are they just the same with lower starting voltage and...
- Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:24 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: What is the best fanless/extreme low airflow cooler now?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4490
What is the best fanless/extreme low airflow cooler now?
Still Scythe Ninja? Or Orochi? Or other tower coolers?
Extreme low airflow meaning no fan mounted on the cooler, some chassis exhaust fan if the CPU's lucky, else only airflow from the PSU's fan.
Extreme low airflow meaning no fan mounted on the cooler, some chassis exhaust fan if the CPU's lucky, else only airflow from the PSU's fan.
- Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:20 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: My 5V fan mod with kitchen shears: ok to do?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5501
Best part of trick - ability to switch between 12V and 5V without removing the pins (again) or through a 12-5V-swap adapter cable. That's a great trick that nobody's mentioned till now. However it could be dangerous if you forget and use the extended molex for something that needs 12V. For my 12-5V ...
- Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:08 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Thermal Pad vs. Thermal Grease?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6890
Pentium 4 heatsinks also came with pads using some unknown black material. Pads are still found on some GPUs also. Pads are common also on Southbridge heatsinks. I recently removed one on a Gigabyte board. It looked desperately cheap and inefficient at best. Something to also keep in mind is that re...
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:05 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Passive CPU cooling not necessarily the quietest solution
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10871
Well, the 3dB assumption is true only for fully constructive interference between two point sources. Think somewhere in mid-high education w'all have been taught about waves. From that we know that the doubling of loudness will only occur at specific points, and at other points destructive interfere...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:10 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: VIA Artigo: A Pico-ITX System
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16677
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:23 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Solid State Fan, Ionic Cooling Hits The Big Time!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16172
- Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:16 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Passive or near-silent AT PSU for my old school DOS Box?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5474
Not to pour cold water, but the money you're paying for that new PSU may be more than what your rig is worth currently. Unless your MIDI card is really important, which I doubt it is, considering how much computer sound technology has improved. You would get much better sound by moving onto a new hi...
- Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:50 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Quiet, cool CPU == toasty northbridge?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6002
Yeah.. on my first PC with the toasty chipset, I bought a Zalmann heatsink which, while much larger than the factory one, still got to the same temperature (it took longer to do so). If it hits the same temperature eventually it suggests something else is bottlenecking the heat transfer rate; it to...
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:30 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Enermax MODU and PRO 82+ series, Seasonic's new challenger
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5477
Enermax MODU and PRO 82+ series, Seasonic's new challenger
Source: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1872004 Thank the distro for making the documents available. :) Enermax MODU82+ Confidential Product Info Enermax MODU82+ Confidential vs Competitive Brands Enermax PRO82+ Confidential Product Info Enermax PRO82+ Confidential vs Competitive ...
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:14 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: New CPU cooler from Scythe, "Orochi"
- Replies: 51
- Views: 34980
Ninja's 10 is effectively 12.
Talk about equilibrium, it may not happen with 10 heatpipes. Ultra 120 has 4 (times 2 = heatpipes while TRUE has 6 (or 12), and we see... 6 degrees difference and higher overclockability.
http://anandtech.com/casecooling/showdo ... i=2943&p=4
Talk about equilibrium, it may not happen with 10 heatpipes. Ultra 120 has 4 (times 2 = heatpipes while TRUE has 6 (or 12), and we see... 6 degrees difference and higher overclockability.
http://anandtech.com/casecooling/showdo ... i=2943&p=4
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:14 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Blower fan vs conventional fan on a video card heatsink ...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3818
One problem with blowers is that in computers and many other applications including air-cons and some notebooks, is that the fins are very very small relative to the bearing if you compare it against a axial fan. Hence it has to spin much faster to get the same airflow/pressure. But it's the lack of...
- Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:39 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Replacement 60mm CPU fan for Ultra heatsink - Socket A
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5710
- Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:18 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: What's up with thermal pastes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5420
Regarding the resistance of TIM, continuing from my previous post, the 0.01 value, of course, is just an optimistic guess. Lets guess how bad the variables need to be for e.g. 0.05C/W which will result in 5 degrees difference. The die of a Brisbane is ~0.19 square inch. If we use that as the useful ...
- Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:17 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: What's up with thermal pastes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5420
No Sendorm, you can't look at it like that, temperature difference comes about as a result of thermal resistance, not the other way round. And Arctic Siler's claim of <0.0045°C-in2/Watt (0.001 inch layer) is not insignificant, well not as insignificant as you may think. That value, you see, has the...