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- Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:17 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: The fastest passively cooled graphics card... Ever
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12243
Re: The fastest passively cooled graphics card... Ever
I've been waiting for this since the announcement and pictures were posted last fall. With the Scythe SP1225FDB12L 120mm fan that is currently installed on the front blowing across the fins it should do well in my son's Mini p180. Then I get his Gigabyte silent 5770 to replace my silent Sapphire HD3...
- Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:06 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Passive (Accelero S1 Rev. 2) Gigabyte Radeon HD6850
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10984
Re: Passive (Accelero S1 Rev. 2) Gigabyte Radeon HD6850
Thanks you for the pictures and well documented process. One of my rigs is the same case but in black. I believe it is one of the best PC cases ever. The system currently has Sapphire 3870 Ultimate HD silent units that has been chugging along without a hitch for about >18 months. With the heatsink f...
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:50 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GTS 450 launched, various versions available, fanless too
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10401
Re: GTX 450 about to launch, listed already
Newest Fermi-based GTX 450 is hitting shelves. Priced at $ 130 for a reference card and positioned to compete with HD5770, it just might be a sweet spot for occasional gamers with smaller-than-huge LCDs. A single PCI-E 6pin means it's frugal on juice, too. I know I'll be in the market for it. Apart...
- Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:04 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Silencing my old 8800GT - A few questions
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3781
- Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:57 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Which cards are electric noise-free?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6784
Oh man - Seasonic. I was an early adopter of there PSU's - well before they got big in the states. I had 3 units that all had fan issues - one not working out of the box and 2 that ticked under mild load. Their customer service was great but still it was irritating. As far as video cards - it is so ...
- Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:44 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quietest Hard Drive?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7605
No special mounting in either. The XPS Gen 5 uses standard Dell green plastic screw brackets - which is where the Samsung F3 drives are. My rig has a drive saddle/cage that the Hitachi drive sits in with pins in the holes on the side of the drive. When slid into the drive cage in the case it creates...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:22 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 500 Gb platter, when does it double to 1Tb?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2828
Not so soon. Maybe not until 2011? The next capacity point for 3.5" platters is 640GB and it'll be available in early 2010: I hope it never gets to 1TB per platter. Why? Because I'd rather see 1TB SSDs for the price of current HDDs in 2011 :) I'd like to see it too but I still have to pay my mortga...
- Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:40 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quietest Hard Drive?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7605
I can't hear my drives . Koolpc - good luck in your purchase decision. :) By the way - what Samsung drive are you looking to replace? I did purchase 2 of the F3's the day after I ordered my Hitachi drives. One of my sons Raptors died - thank goodness for Raid 1 - and I was back on Newegg. I could b...
- Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:49 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: if 5400rpm is good, is 4500rpm better?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6777
To clarify - my point of the early "viewport" was a comparitive to the special Raptor drives of a couple of years ago. Diminishing returns comes into play with drive castings and platter size. The margins are so thin I'd hate to be in the PC component industry at the moment - especially hard drives....
- Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:02 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quietest Hard Drive?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7605
It's not so much that I recommended one over the other. If you look at the bottom of my post - I stated SSD would be the quietest. I'm stating from what I have hands on experience with. I think you have to look at utilization as well. Can a quieter drive from another drive manufacturer make one hold...
- Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:39 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: if 5400rpm is good, is 4500rpm better?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6777
I had few of them and installed/serviced hundreds of PC's with the Bigfoot drive. One of them is no match for the power of the .357 magnum. The bare aluminum cast makes for a great target. :D The one thing they did was use that second/third/fourth unused 5.25" drive bay that many tower cases come wi...
- Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:27 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: if 5400rpm is good, is 4500rpm better?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6777
- Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:52 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quietest Hard Drive?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7605
The upgrade from the Samsung drives to the Hitachi drives I posted earlier went excellent. I can't believe the difference in the overall sound of my system. I thought the Samsung drives only made mild sound during read/writes - and those were barely audible. The Hitachi drives I can't even hear - no...
- Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:08 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quietest Hard Drive?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7605
I've got a couple of Samsung drives that I'm replacing. They are still very quiet and running well. Drive space wasn't the biggest concern when I purchased them- quiet was. Well the time has come to upgrade and I went back and forth before settling on a pair of Hitachi 7K1000.B HDT721032SLA360. I di...
- Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:38 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: [SOLVED] Twintech GTS 250 fan speed problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2538
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:11 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Seagate 7200.12 500Gb impressions
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15417
- Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:45 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Anyone here seen the Gigabyte 9600GT Model GV-NX96T512HP yet
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10805
I'm sorry to hear about 2 failed Gigabyte cards. I ended up with the Sapphire Ultimate HD3850 for my e521 and not one heat issue. If I remember correctly I've never seen it above 60c after hours of gaming. My 5400+ never EVER gets above 30c no matter what task. I "upgraded" a relatives rig with the ...
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:28 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Seagate 7200.12 500Gb impressions
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15417
- Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:20 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Best gaming Core 2 processor
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6634
Thanks guys, I don't think I'll change my processor for a while yet then, but I'll probably change my graphics card in the near future. Thanks again :) Nice rig you have there. I wonder though if you would become CPU limited in changing your graphics card from your current model. There definitely a...
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:09 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Seagate 7200.12 500Gb impressions
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15417
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:09 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD ships dual-platter 500GB mobile drive
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3403
Those look real nice. I wonder if WD will ever sell just the cooling frame from the velociraptor for laptop drives. I was under the impression it wasnt very good for cooling. And how many laptop drives need a heatsink? The VR does fine without the cooler, and it runs very hot compared to most 2.5" ...
- Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:38 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD ships dual-platter 500GB mobile drive
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3403
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:00 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Gigabyte passive HD4850
- Replies: 77
- Views: 77679
Thanks for the post. It looks like a decent silent cooling solution. I still have a Gigabyte 7600GT Rev. 3 SilentPipe running strong in a rig. I can't believe all the heat/fan related posts about the 4850 I've seen at various places on the web. I thougt (hoped) AMD's next GPU iteration would be at l...
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 6:46 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Sapphire Ultimate 3850 vs 3870
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5830
Richy - thanks for the detailed information.:) I've got the 3850 version of that card and even during the most recent freakish heatwave here - it was over 90 Farenheit here for 4 straight days - the GPU temperature never got above 60 Celcius in my e521 after several hours of gaming. That was in a ro...
- Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:39 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Sapphire Ultimate 3850 vs 3870
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5830
Re: Sapphire Ultimate 3850 vs 3870
Is it worth the difference in price to upgrade from 3850 to 3870 (don't have either at the moment)? How does the temperature differ? I have a Sapphire Ultimate 3870 with the large passive heatsink. Good card really and pushes Call of Duty4 and Race Driver Grid along at 1600x1200, without stutter. H...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:50 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Best silent 9600GT!
- Replies: 103
- Views: 64946
- Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:22 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Finally a decision: SAPPHIRE Ultimate Edition Radeon HD 3850
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3917
They’ve finally released an Ultimate 3870 as well just in time for the launch of the HD 4xxx series. :) Oh what the hell. :shock: It looks just like my 3850 ultimate. For the price I paid though, I'll pass on this. Though with the maturity of the production for the 38xx series of chips, I'd serio...
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:32 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Finally a decision: SAPPHIRE Ultimate Edition Radeon HD 3850
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3917
Well I'm satisfied so far. It fits quite nicely in my Dell BTX rig. The system is near silent - the only sound being a barely audible whoosh of the 120MM CPU cooling fan. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to anyone. Played CSS for about an hour. The card didn't go any higher than 60C during that...
- Thu May 29, 2008 8:57 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: [Stress test for] GPU?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8212
- Thu May 29, 2008 8:40 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Finally a decision: SAPPHIRE Ultimate Edition Radeon HD 3850
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3917
Finally a decision: SAPPHIRE Ultimate Edition Radeon HD 3850
Well after much study and a system change, I finally purchased my video card and went with the SAPPHIRE Ultimate Edition Radeon HD 3850 512MB. Newegg just sent me a message that they were going to be charging tax in my state starting June 1st. So between that, a price-drop, and a $20 rebate I'm sati...