Never mind, ordered the gear and hopefully it'll be enough for my needs.

My home server:

CPU: Intel E6400
MOTHERBOARD: gigabyte 965 ds3-p
RAM: 4x2gb DDRII corsair
VIDEO: ati 4550
HD: 1x2.5' G.Skill Falcon 60Gb SSD, 2x3,5' 1.5Tb WD GREEN, 1x3.5' 750Gb WD GREEN
POWER SUPPLY: Corsair VX450

Idle: ~80w
Load (converting avi to mp4): ~100w

I undervolt my E6400 equipped file/bittorrent server...as it is on 24/7 I thought I'd save energy (even if just a bit) by undervolting the CPU at stock speeds...got it down to 0.95v with EIST enabled...(2.13Ghz at load, 1.6Ghz at idle)

E6400, Stepping L2, running at stock speeds with EIST enabled (going between 1.6 and 2.13Ghz) 0.975 (BIOS), 0.944 (Windows) Gigbabyte DS3P, Orthos stable for 8 1/2 hours now..any lower than that and Orthos fails after a couple of minutes (~0.95v) / seconds (0.90v).

Thanks guys for your replies, I will probably go the AMD path (saves me ~$AU200) and I might just go a notebook drive instead of SSD as it's double the price of the notebook drive.

I'm hoping to get this system to consume no more than 50-60w...

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Hmm...the specs of your machine doesn't seem to add up to too big of a power drain on the PSU, my VX450 is currently running a P4EE, 8600GTS, 2 hard drives and it is whisper quiet...I can't hear it from half a meter away...maybe you got a bad sample...I am very happy with mine. Just to make sure, ar...

According to some guys at the NCIX forums (LINK) the Ninja fits the Asus Maximus Formula with no issues.

So I'd say that you'd be fine.

If you're worried about the heat, just replace the stock heatsink with the Accelero S1 and you should see the temps drop between 10-20*C depending on if you put a fan on it or near it. The 8800GT is an awesome card to have in your system, you should be able to play most games (except for Crysis, of ...

However... the two western digital hard drives seem louder than ever! That's the problem, once you've made the rest of the system barely audible or inaudible, there is always the hard drives... I have the same issue, before I adventured into the whole "I-want-a-system-that-can-barely-be-heard" I co...

Like Michael said, there are no issues with using the Hitachi Feature tool to enable AAM on your Samsung drives. I did it just last week on my two new HD501LJ's...worked like a charm.

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Yeah that helps, thanks. 70 is a bit hotter then i'd like to se really. I was hoping for something more like 65 max. On the other hand it's not a problem. The card should be able to handle that easily. And sticking the fan closer to the heatsink might help as well, specially at low flow rates. Aele...

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WR304 wrote:You haven't put the heat sinks on the graphics card VRMs.

D'Oh, must have been concentrating on other things when sticking on the heatsinks yesterday...stuck them on the wrong parts.

Fixed now...


Thanks.

Hey Aelek,

No worries, I disconnected the fan that is on the S1 and put a Antec TriCool on Low at the front of the case in front of the videocard (not attached to the upper hard drive cage).

Ambient temps ~25*C

VGA Temps (idle/load)
GPU: 52*C/70*C
Amb: 43*C/54*C

Hope this helps you buddy.

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The VX450 works perfectly fine in the SOLO, as a matter of facts I have one sitting next to me right now and it is quiet as!

I highly recommend it.

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