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- Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:54 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Imac 27" 2011 + Vortex 3
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4521
Re: Imac 27" 2011 + Vortex 3
AFAIK, the problem isn't from the point of view of the SMART report from the drive, but rather that the Apple drives are actually custom-built with an extra 2-pin temperature connector that controls the fan. I've heard it mentioned that you can use an external thermal sensor of some sort to solve th...
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:49 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Ultra low power 24/7 box
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2849
Re: Ultra low power 24/7 box
A much cheaper option with similar hardware to the MSI board above is the Intel D945GSEJT : http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GSEJT/D945GSEJT-overview.htm I've run one of these for a while now - typical operating power draw is 11w with a Samsung 320gb 5400RPM laptop drive and a ...
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:35 am
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Overclocking -- Concern about Northbridge -- Watercool it?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11578
Re: Overclocking -- Concern about Northbridge -- Watercool i
Aye, that's true with the new ones, but the P5N-D uses one of the nForce chipsets, last of the truly toasty consumer-grade motherboard chipsets . The HR-05 is certainly a good idea with a chipset that prone to toastyness.
- Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:51 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Radeon HD 4650 - Should I bother upgrading?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4746
Re: Radeon HD 4650 - Should I bother upgrading?
Yeah, if you're insisting on going AMD, and are only interested in single-threaded performance, you'd probably be better going for a 3.7ghz quad-core Phenom over the 3.3ghz hex-core. I'm with the others here though - neither chip will come close to a stock Intel i5 or i7, let alone an overclocked one.
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:05 am
- Forum: Site Feedback
- Topic: The Official Anti-Spam Thread
- Replies: 31
- Views: 68241
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:04 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: I give you the ANTEC SOLO II
- Replies: 177
- Views: 283124
Re: I give you the ANTEC SOLO II
Meh, I like the new design. Keeping the PSU up top keeps things compact with no stupidly long cable runs, and gives you extra exhaust over the CPU area for free. Some of you people must change PSUs on a daily basis to be annoyed by the support bar and position of the PSU! Ultimately, the Solo has al...
- Mon May 30, 2011 4:25 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Whine-proofing Solo
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2610
Re: Whine-proofing Solo
One other thing to try is to disable EIST in the motherboard BIOS. My main PC's motherboard has really annoying electrical whine/burble unless I disable it, unfortunately :/.
- Sun May 22, 2011 3:48 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help with quiet, low power games / htpc machine
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4089
Re: Help with quiet, low power games / htpc machine
For what it's worth, I'm running a Pentium DualCore e5500 (2.8ghz) + a 5570 + laptop blu-ray drive + HDD from the 150w PSU in an Antec ISK 310-150. It provides enough power for some pretty decent 720p gaming on my TV (Bulletstorm etc is fun on a 32" screen), and the graphics card is very well behave...
- Sun May 15, 2011 7:38 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: My Quad-Monitor Rackmount PC and HTPC!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25279
Re: My Quad-Monitor Rackmount PC and HTPC!
Ridiculously neat setup, once again . If I didn't have to haul my big PC out to LANs every so often, I think I'd duplicate the rackmount idea in seconds.
- Fri May 06, 2011 3:07 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: mini-ITX Case for Overclocking
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2333
Re: mini-ITX Case for Overclocking
I'm really not that sure you'll be able to run a 2600K at 4.8ghz from a 150w Pico-PSU. A rule of thumb (approximation only) for overclocked power consumption is: Overclocked Wattage = TDP * ( Overclocked clockspeed/ Stock clockspeed) * ( Overclocked Vcore / Stock Vcore )^2 Even assuming you don't ha...
- Wed May 04, 2011 2:48 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: HD6850 + Accelero S1 rev2 What am I doing wrong?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6135
Re: HD6850 + Accelero S1 rev2 What am I doing wrong?
Did you have some decent cooling on the VRMs? Furmark is particularly brutal to them (indeed I'd hesitate to use it for testing an unknown cooling solution), and it's possible those have damaged the card by getting too hot.
- Wed May 04, 2011 10:03 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: HTPC to replace painful Acer Aspire laptop
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6767
Re: HTPC to replace painful Acer Aspire laptop
For what it's worth, Hitachi HDDs are not generally known for being quiet or vibration-free. In a cheaper case like that, you may get some quite loud results from one of them.
- Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:57 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: HTPC to replace painful Acer Aspire laptop
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6767
Re: HTPC to replace painful Acer Aspire laptop
Well, clock speed isn't everything, but the E-350 is probably (at best) on a par with the old T2250 Core Duo in terms of raw CPU capability, probably a bit slower. The advantage comes from the fact that the GPU section of the E-350 can accelerate most forms of video/multimedia if set up correctly. I...
- Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:07 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Empty 120mm fan frame as duct = no case fan
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8463
Re: Empty 120mm fan frame as duct = no case fan
Makes sense. Have you tried it with the fan just mounted to the back panel, so it acts as a duct to the heatsink by itself? Or do you have a grill on the back panel still and this would therefore cause turbulence with the fan up against the grill? Could always use tape (electrical tape or, ideally, ...
- Sun Apr 03, 2011 4:51 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Sandy Bridge + i3-2100T -- why can't I get under 22w idle?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 24226
Re: Sandy Bridge + i3-2100T -- why can't I get under 22w idl
So.. what gives? Can efficiencies in the PicoPSU and Intel Mobo explain the nearly 8 watt difference in our idle power consumption? Absolutely! Some of the newer Intel motherboards are truly exemplary when it comes to idle power consumption, and I wouldn't expect an Asrock to keep up in terms of ef...
- Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:47 pm
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: Macbook pro's 2011
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11727
Re: Macbook pro's 2011
I had a new MBP for about 10 days, but ended up returning it. It ran so warm along the back left corner that it was warning up the qwerty row, making my fingers tingle if I was playing a game o.O. Also noisy as heck, even compared to my 2008 Alienware laptop! I was really quite disappointed, it bein...
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:34 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Core i7-2600K outpaces Intel top of the line 6 core i7-990X
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3759
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:13 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Core i7-2600K outpaces Intel top of the line 6 core i7-990X
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3759
Re: Core i7-2600K outpaces Intel top of the line 6 core i7-9
Eh, it's not really all that surprising, is it? The Gulftown CPUs are a die-shrink of a 2-and-a-bit year old architecture, while the SB chips are less than 2 months old :). The fact it keeps up in some applications is pretty impressive I reckon! More to the point, who on earth considers a $1k CPU to...
- Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:30 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Unofficial way to play the original WoW as a Worgen?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3205
Re: Unofficial way to play the original WoW as a Worgen?
Nope. You want the content, you gotta pay for it, unfortunately =/Fire-Flare wrote:I've never played the game and want to try it, but only after PAYING $70-100 can I play as the race that interests me most.
Anyone know a way around that?
- Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:54 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Might be out of my league
- Replies: 48
- Views: 24695
Re: Might be out of my league
Have you made sure the stock fan is being thermally controlled, rather than being at 100% all the time? On the Power-->Hardware Monitor page in the BIOS, make sure that Smart Q-Fan is enabled.
- Fri Dec 24, 2010 4:23 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: sata dvd-drive in older computer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1854
Re: sata dvd-drive in older computer
If it is a Dimension 2400, you're out of luck with a SATA device, unfortunately - IDE only.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/s ... /specs.htm
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/s ... /specs.htm
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:40 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Case recommendation. Tempted to get Fractal Design Define R3
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
Re: Case recommendation. Tempted to get Fractal Design Defin
Bear in mind that it's going to be impossible to reduce the noise of 9 HDDs substantially, as there are no cases that I know of that allow you to properly suspend that many HDDs while also muffling the airborne noise of them :/. I mean you are simply wrong: http://www.silentpcreview.com/Nine_Suspen...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:39 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Case recommendation. Tempted to get Fractal Design Define R3
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
Re: Case recommendation. Tempted to get Fractal Design Defin
Bear in mind that it's going to be impossible to reduce the noise of 9 HDDs substantially, as there are no cases that I know of that allow you to properly suspend that many HDDs while also muffling the airborne noise of them :/. I have nothing to say against the R3, but you need to understand that a...
- Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:38 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Need new GPU card, not a gamer but something decent
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3619
Re: Need new GPU card, not a gamer but something decent
Hrm, Photoshop and Illustrator tend to make quite good use of the features of nVidia cards for acceleration purposes. A fanless GT210 would probably do quite well, and nullify any loud-fan issues . Something like this:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=LN29349
http://www.scan.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=LN29349
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:31 pm
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Where to buy Silicone Feet for Antec P182?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2740
I'm sure Antec would sell you a spare set of feet if you sent them in a little request via their temporary parts form at http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/Events/us/EuStore/ . I did that to purchase a P183 side panel, and while the setup is a little more ad-hoc than I'd like, I got the panel very quic...
- Sun Oct 03, 2010 3:24 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: "best" temp monitoring software
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10995
I like http://openhardwaremonitor.org/ . Same interface as HWMonitor, but it's free. Can setup temp indicators for the task bar, as well as configure a little Win7 gadget. Considering it's still in beta, it's very neat, and has made its way onto my thumbdrive for PC fixin' .
- Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Help with speed of wd20ears - 00mvwb0 on win xp
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3875
Yeah, did you make sure to follow the WD instructions for Advanced Format HDDs? As Jasper says, it's very important for these drives to achieve their rated speeds on an old XP system.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:29 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 120mm x 38mm fans
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2317
I'd probably go for one of the Scythe Ultra Kaze 120*120*38 fans - I believe they do 1k, 2k and 3k rpm versions. http://www.amazon.com/Scythe-ULTRA-KAZE-DFS123812L-2000-120x120/dp/B001JI01PQ That's the 2k rpm version - I own one, and while it's definitely not silent at full tilt, it's very smooth an...
- Sun Sep 26, 2010 3:10 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Is the Solo too small for my build? ( heat issues?)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4464
Re: Is the Solo too small for my build? ( heat issues?)
If they are aware that this small case causes overheating issues, why not make it slightly larger so everyone is happy. I'm kinda intrigued, I've not heard of the case causing overheating issues really. I've owned a Solo, and if anything the cooling on it was actually a little better than my P183 -...
- Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:09 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Looking for a TRULY silent drive for an 'open' pc case.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4895