Sainty: Obviously nobody talks about the fan of the mobos, as there are much more mobos without fan than with fan, Gigabyte or not, P35 or not. But, Gigabyte has not only motherboards, but video cards, CPU fans, computer cases, etc. And back to the mobos, although they mostly don't have fans, they s...

At least as far as the readers are concerned (and not the money you get from the sponsors and such), it does not make sense to make reviews like this. Again (i.e., after that article about that TFT monitor) you should only concentrate to the silence related aspects of products. Like detailing what t...

Eh... you know all of this is so weird. Gigabyte engineers use all these snobbery serious facilities, and then for example, automatic CPU fan control of their motherboards (which is exactly about noise and heat) are so poor that a schoolboy could write better. At least for the non-enthusiastic produ...

I think that since all optical drives will be rather loud when they spin the disk at 40x-50x CD speeds, decreasing that noise with a few dBA-s has no practical importance. So I think the features of QuieTrack that address that issue are quite useless, so is measuring them. What does mater that QuieT...

Well it should be obvious that two processors, both with practically the same TDP (which is not made up by the marketing department, like you said, but by the engineering team) Not by the marketing department... my experience regarding hardware specs of other stuff (not on CPU-s TDP-s, as I can't m...

Well this article compares an E6400 with a P4 631, the E6400 uses less. Yes, that's quite impressive, but it compares the CPU-s under high utilization. For most non-gamer rigs the idle consumption is much more important. And also, idle is where leaking has the most importance. I understand that Cor...

The last place where I used to find useful detailed information about a product is the Web page of the manufacturer/brander. This was not an exception. That temperature unfortunately doesn't say much about the question. I think that it is the highest temperature where the CPU can safely work without...

You know what, despite that NetBurst is such ineffective, I'm not sure if the C2D would consume less in most cases than a 3.06G Cedar Mill Celeron. After all, the Celeron is single core, and has 1/4 of cache, which together means much less transistors, and hence, I guess, much less total leakage cur...

I know I'm too picky, but surely they don't require a 4 pin CPU fan, since 3 pin fans will work as well (just they will always spin on maximum speed -- means they don't work for a silencer). Now if they don't indicate the PWM/DC option, not even in the manual, then IMHO they desire to lose tons of c...

I am changing motherboard for one that only take 3 pin fan For some motherboards with 4 CPU fan you can chose in the BIOS if the CPU fan will be controlled with PWM or DC voltage (as a 3 pin fan). (Usually they don't tell you on the Web page of the product if it can do that or not, but they used to...

Alas, there are problems. A PWM fan is required to start at a PWM setting equivalent to 30% of max RPM ( not voltage!), which means a 1000RPM Nexus 4-pin PWM fan would have to start at a 300RPM PWM setting. I believe a 1000RPM Nexus cannot do this. In general, low RPM fans have higher starting volt...

3 of the 5 Cedar Mill Celerons actually have a higher TDP than the C2D (including the 3.2GHz) My guess is also that C2D eats considerably less. However I didn't find any concrete tests where you could compare the power consumptions in real-world situations, so I just can't know if how much less. As...

Would be interesting to see Core (2) Duo and AM2 (EE/SFF/65nm) competing against each other. Also against the slowest Cedar Mills (i.e. ~3.2GHz 65nm Celerons). For most non-gamers the real-world performance difference between a near 3GHz Celeron and a E6300 is most certainly totally negligible, but...

Beware with the HDD, if you didn't. If the other components in your rig will be silent, the sound of the HDD can be rather annoying.

No mater how much I google for it, I don't find any comparison of the power consumption (temperature) of Core 2 Duo E6300 and some of the slowest Cedar Mill (65nm) Celerons, like a Celeron D352 (3.2 GHz). Does a E6300 consumes significantly less in idle? And during single-threaded full utilization? ...

Do these PSU-s come with the Yate Loon or the Protechnic fan nowadays?