Well, all depends on what's subjectively considered quiet. I think that all gtx570 at stock speed both with reference or with non-reference cooling are QUIET. 560 could be even passive. A point that has been ignored here is that the reference design has poor VRM, prones to fault, so I would avoid AN...

I have preordered the H100. The new design (oem from cool it) works well with thin radiators and low powered fans. While not exactly silent, it should be still quiet. But of course I have a big case (the 800D) and i prefer to have 3db more rather than stressing 1kg on my mainboard. Check some H60 re...

ONE single underclocked nexus fan is audible to me up to about 4 meters distance.
Go figures...

electrodacus wrote:Can you put your hand on the Northbridge heatsink after one hour or more in use?.

I dont know but the system sensor says usually 45°, while the cpu averages 51°C with light usage (Music playback only -with equalization)

I hope I will find a solution to eliminate the only fan in my system (it is not noisy since is only at 5V under 800rpm) but it get a lot of dust in my system I will probably be able to use a filter but I will prefer to remove this completely even if I need to change the motherboard. If you know a m...

electrodacus wrote:I have purchased one 220W AC adapter from Liteon PA-1221-03 this has the 4 pin din connector necessary for my PSU and with the right pinout.

Wow this is very nice.
For my system i'm overdone even with the gateway. It runs 24/7 and it is pretty cold to the touch.

electrodacus wrote: The problem with High efficiency PSU is not affecting the Winmte DD-24AX since this will work even without load.

I definitely can confirm this. The Winmate worked powering only the VFD110 (replacement) that i got from OrigenAE.
And later didnt make a hiccup powering the entire rig.

Two thumbs up.

This drive is definitely cheaper in europe/germany (bout 20€ less than WD GP). I've had decent luck with the original F3 1TB (which had some reliability issues). Looks like nowadays ALL damn HDDs are unreliable so it is a gamble. Warranty is 3y like WD GP, but Samsung warranty is a PITA to deal wi...

2.The AC adapter is heavy 820g plus the AC cord 160g total 980g and if I add the shipping box ATX cable adapter cable and PSU the total will be close to 1.4kg an this is bad because the shipping cost is higher. Should have skipped the power cord that with american plug is worthless for me (actuallt...

Hi Electrodacus,

Yesterday, I got the psu along with the gateway wall wart (it surely is good quality, worth the expense i think).
Praise also fo the good packaging.

Will check it this friday or sunday. Looking for cable adapters and sleeve.

I'm in need of more capacity (to slowly replace my 1TB drives with 1.5 and 2TB ones). At the moment the sweet spot pricewise is the 1,5TB, which is enough for a couple of units. I noticed that there is a new series with 64MB cache. The power in Watt seems the same accordign to WD specs, but what abo...

@telstar - I too am considering purchasing one of these (GA-EG45M-UD2H) but it must have the ability to undervolt in the BIOS. Does it for sure and how low can it go? I use 1.0v. 0.9-0.95 should work too. Min is much lower. Other than that how are you liking the board and have you tried using Linux...

How could I have missed this?

I'm reading the review now...

They don't say who makes these power supplies. To me, they look the same as the DC-DC boards that mini-box sells. A-Tech is thankfully mounting a sensible 6-pin input power connector, and charging $15 for the service. Add a P4 connector and another $15 for that! Nice business. A-tech is a boutique ...

I was checking the thermal sensors going to place an order soon when i stumped over those: http://www.atechfabrication.com/products/power_supplies.htm They carry the pico psu (120W). After reading the issues of the pico 150XT, I thought that this can be a better product compatibility-wise. I do not ...

Hello, Thanks for the reply. I know I have to install the OS and run some programs to check stability before doing any under/overclock. But I'm planning ahead, trying to figure out which voltages should go, i.e. reducing vcore also do i need to change also cpu termination voltage and and cpu referen...

I'm considering the pico 150 because i want to go completely fanless and i have space only for micro-atx psu or smaller.

These compatibility problems worries me a bit, though.

Maybe i'm better with the 120? There seem to be no problem with that, correct?

Very nice, i like it

I have a 15k SCSI raid setup (very noisy but cool) and I will be upgrading to SSD this winter.

This pretty much answers the original question

First the configuration: Motherboard: GA-EG45M-UD2H Thermal paste: my beloved Shin-etzu microSI Cooler: Scythe Ninja mini Fan: Nexus 120mm (with resistor, currently at 900rpm) The fan is not in vertical position, but oblique ~15° due to case space, but this way is cooling decently also the chipset ...

Not sure if it's been added already.

Up to 0.5V for the cpu and very customizable bios.
I'm liking this board very much.

It's not that difficult. You can take the first measurement, then select the ticker on the first, do a second measurement to compare and click on the second ticker. You can see up to 8 graphs at the same time, plus the one u are measuring (in yellow). I use the black background. SpectraPLUS is very ...

Went with the ninja mini. Will put a fan as close as i can to cool a bit. exaust if the psu is not enough, another nexus fan will be added.

Other (important) thing:

on the eg45m, does the IDE port works for a DVDROM, and it is bootable (to install Windows and eventually bootable memtest etc)?

The usage is for a music server, not to reproduce video, so the onboard video is needed only to power the lcd touschreen (dvi). The sound will be provided by a modded Essence ST, and an audiophile firewire dac later. The pc will be very low noise (2 undervolted nexus 12cm fans and nothing else). OS ...

quest_for_silence wrote:

new2spcr wrote:What is a Corsair H5?

I mean it's the H50 (an economic cpu liquid cooler).

Regards,
Luca

Yes the model is the H50. I confused with my case which is the OrigenAE H5. I corrected also the first post.

My goal is to run it without the radiator fan.

I'm trying to make my htpc totally fanless (for crazy audiophile reasons, not because i cant stand 25dB of noise). I just heard about the H50 and saw some tests. It seems a good candidate to replace my ninja mini, which with hot summers here needs a fan. I have it engaged with an A-tech sensor. The ...

boost wrote:The case's height is 160mm, the cooler's height is 159mm.
In that case you need a Scythe Ninja Mini.

OK, i've got a problem of height then.

What would you suggest then?

Thermalright HR-01 4U (with a s775 adapter)
Thermalright Ultima-90
Schythe Ninja mini
Noctua NH-U9B

Here's a couple of case reviews: Big Bruin and techpowerup . Of course I have read them and saved a lot of pictures. The first review is really well done and the case comes out very well. All i can say is that i want it :) It has a lot of features that i was looing for: -all black -hifi-looking fac...

Found an alternative case, much better looking (all black! :) ) and with nice VFD in place of the bright and messy lcd that is fashion now. Chieftec HM-01B: http://www.chieftec.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=341&Itemid=604 Airflow seems worse, but because of going low-power and passive...