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- Fri Feb 14, 2014 10:50 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Bay-trail motherboards
- Replies: 282
- Views: 417207
Re: Bay-trail motherboards
Are you using Media Classic Home Cinema with hardware acceleration? Which codec for video/audio decompression?
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:53 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Bay-trail motherboards
- Replies: 282
- Views: 417207
Re: Bay-trail motherboards
I'm quite interested in the Gigabyte J1800N board, for use as a HTPC to replace an older Athlon X2 4800 + HD3200 machine. Here it will be available in 2 weeks for a decent price, and I can hopefully reuse two DDR3 RAM-modules I have lying around. These Baytrail boards are mostly interesting if you r...
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:45 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: kabini or baytrail with ecc-support
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6382
Re: kabini or baytrail with ecc-support
I was also looking for a cheap Baytrail (Avoton) board last week. Unfortunately they are all still quite expensive and not readily available. The price of an Supermicro Avoton board was more or less equal to the price of a Supermicro X10SLM-F + Xeon E3-1220v3. The power consumption of a similar Xeon...
- Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:19 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
- Replies: 38
- Views: 43648
Re: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
Thanks for the actual measurement of the 12 WD drives in your system. If no higher spikes are hidden in this measure, the power draw is not bad at all, and it even includes your CPU, motherboard etc. Probably the power supply also has some capacitors capable of handling intermittent peaks of short d...
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:41 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
- Replies: 38
- Views: 43648
Re: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
That's a lot of power for start-up. Seems to suggest it's better adapting the external HDD-cases for SATA connection, and using the external brick connected to the external drive. Has anyone tried connecting multiple harddrives to the DQ77KB?
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:21 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
- Replies: 38
- Views: 43648
Re: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
Thanks for the explanation Bill. I'll check with a power meter how much power Draw is during boot- and spinup. Might have to go down to the i3-3225 to get a little extra power budget for the harddrives.
- Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:16 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
- Replies: 38
- Views: 43648
Re: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
Just got rid of the i5-3470. Next attempt will be with the i7-3770S. If I power the board with a 130W Dell power supply, will it be sufficient to power up 2 x HGST 5K4000 4 TB drives and 2 x WD Green 2 TB drives? If it's impossible, I could keep the HGST drives external, or go for the WD Green WD20N...
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:20 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
- Replies: 38
- Views: 43648
Re: Intel DQ77KB: A Low Power LGA1155 Motherboard
Later BIOS will not accept CPU off the compatibility list. Thanks for this interesting tidbit of information! I got this board before Christmas, and paired it with an i5-3470. After Windows was installed, I updated the BIOS to the latest version and afterwards, the board was dead. I suppose this is...
- Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:20 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22997
Re: ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II
Amazingly quiet Graphics Card from Asus, thanks for the excellent review. I think it's a good choice that you're not making benchmarks of the Graphics Cards, since that is so heavily done on all the other sites. With that said there's a raging debate about the performance of the 7970/7970 GHZ Editio...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:04 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Efficiency vs load analyzed for 20 PSUs
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12881
Re: Efficiency vs load analyzed for 20 PSUs
Thanks a lot for taking the time to make this comparison between the power supplies. I like very much your methodology with lost watts vs watts output, as it gives a much clearer comparison of the power supplies of different ratings. It is difficult to compare efficiencies of two power supplies, one...
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:23 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GPU Fan minimum speed
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15200
Re: GPU Fan minimum speed
Google Msi Afterburner and download that. It will allow you to get fan speed to 0%. That doesn't mean that it will turn off. Most fans have a minimum speed so reducing fan speed from 20% to 0% might not do anything at all. Thanks for the tip about MSI Afterburner. Is there anything to do if it does...
- Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:49 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GPU Fan minimum speed
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15200
Re: GPU Fan minimum speed
I'd definitely love to know also if there is Any way to reduce idle fan speed below the minimum 20 % since I'm looking at a XFX 7970 DD, which is noisy at idle according to reviews.
- Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:47 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Passive Hyper TX3 + G530
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2712
Passive Hyper TX3 + G530
I tried experimenting with the H61+G530 build, which was recently blessed with a new Hyper TX3 HSF. Since the CPU is frugal, and the heatsink is quite big, I thought this would be a good candidate for trying to cool it passively. The computer was still running after 1 hour, of Prime95 and rthdribl, ...
- Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:29 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GT 610 vs HD 6450
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23452
Re: GT 610 vs HD 6450
I'm using the GT 420 at work with a 2560x1440 monitor, and due to the GT 420's tremendous power saving abilities, it can clock itself almost completely down. This though causes 2D performance of Aero to be reduced so much, that dragging around windows are not smooth. On the Intel HD2000 on a 1920x12...
- Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:25 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Fixing Ivy Bridge high CPU temps: IHS removal video
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9172
Re: Fixing Ivy Bridge high CPU temps: IHS removal video
Thank you, that saved me a lot of time and effort!Fire-Flare wrote:No, Sandy Bridge caps are soldered to the chip. At best thermal paste reaches 1/15 of that efficiency.
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:10 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Fixing Ivy Bridge high CPU temps: IHS removal video
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9172
Re: Fixing Ivy Bridge high CPU temps: IHS removal video
Thank you for doing the video and sharing it! It's very generous of you to put such a big effort and time into showing how to fix the Ivy Bridge IHS. I'm amazed by the difference you have recorded, 98 degrees is an extreme temperature at 4 GHz. Do you know if this would also make a difference on San...
- Thu May 31, 2012 1:04 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Xeon E3-1230 V2
- Replies: 33
- Views: 43448
Re: Xeon E3-1230 V2
Thanks for the explanation cruelsister. Do you know if the power consumption of both running discrete graphics are equal? E.g. does it consume electricity having the IGP disabled? I imagine the 8W difference in TDP is only when running the IGP under full load.
- Fri May 25, 2012 1:28 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Xeon E3-1230 V2
- Replies: 33
- Views: 43448
Re: Xeon E3-1230 V2
The Xeon E3 v2 is quite interesting. I've been looking for when Dell's doing a refresh of the PowerEdge R210 II, and during the last week it was updated to the E3 v2. It's the same price, which is nice. Here the price of the E3-1230V2 is equal to the i5-3570K. The former is 100 MHz slower, but featu...
- Fri May 25, 2012 1:03 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Nofan CR-95C IcePipe 95W Fanless CPU Cooler
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6947
Re: Nofan CR-95C IcePipe 95W Fanless CPU Cooler
Sounds impressive!
- Fri May 25, 2012 12:16 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: DH77EB + I5-3750k Combination Low Power
- Replies: 22
- Views: 41857
Re: DH77EB + I5-3750k Combination Low Power
Thanks for sharing! That power consumption is amazingly low! I have measured my Linksys E4200 wireless router is using 12W. I'm thinking, could this board also use the mini PCI Express slot for plugging in an Intel Centrino WLAN adapter and act as a router through the Intel My Wifi Hotspot? Looking ...
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:18 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: NVidia GPU always runs full speed when using multi screen...
- Replies: 46
- Views: 28245
Re: NVidia GPU always runs full speed when using multi scree
It's really weird that dual-display should put a bigger load on the graphics card, than running a single high-resolution display. A Dell U3011 is 2560x1600, while two 19" monitors are 2560x1024. I guess if your doing productive work with dual displays, you should just use the onboard Sandy Bridge IG...
- Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:42 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Best CPU cooler for i5-2500K
- Replies: 37
- Views: 28271
Re: Best CPU cooler for i5-2500K
I would definitely recommend the Hyper 212 Evo also, for it's low price and good performance. I built a machine for my collegue, also using the i5-2500K and it's very quiet and the temperatures are very low. It can be controlled by the PWM fan controllers on e.g. Gigabytes motherboards.
- Sat Jul 03, 2010 1:07 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: 4850e at what speed/voltage can I passively cool this CPU?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3947
I've used a normal 4400+ X2 (Brisbane) in a home server, and the lowest voltage it could run was 0.8v. It was stable at both 1.2 GHz and 1.0 GHz, but we chose the latter because power consumption was most important. To cool the CPU the stock heatsink was used, with fan removed. It was never burning ...
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:45 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Opinions about Hitachi 7K1000.C
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6601
Often Hitachi drives are some of the best performers, even though they for some reason rarely get reviewed. I've had several DeskStars and no failures. Some people are haunted by past experiences, and if they've lost a lot of data I suppose that could influence the purchasing decision. Hitachi today...
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:28 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Quietest cooling for AMD Athlon 64 LE-1600 in home server?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6441
Sorry didn't know the FreeNAS was a special embedded install. That complicates matters a bit. Maybe there's some other way to undervolt it, or you could consider running Linux and use Samba for sharing the harddrive. But considering FreeNAS has formatted the drive in some unknown way, it's probably ...
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:51 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: AMD New Radeon 5870, 5850
- Replies: 194
- Views: 137757
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:20 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: AMD Athlon II X2 245 vs 240e dissected
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3333
- Sun Jan 10, 2010 3:48 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Quietest cooling for AMD Athlon 64 LE-1600 in home server?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6441
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:41 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: AMD Athlon II X3 435 vs. AMD Athlon II X3 405e
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4302
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:19 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Quietest cooling for AMD Athlon 64 LE-1600 in home server?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6441
If you don't mind the reduction in CPU performance, you can run your CPU at 1 GHz 0.8v. Then you can just remove the fan from the stock heatsink. That's what I've done with an Athlon X2 4800+, and it's completely stable and temperature is not a problem. You might even be able to run it a bit faster,...