PMSL: "Secondly, they have a tough time measuring or hearing this noise because it is at such a low level, and Taipei is a noisy place. I did visit Seasonic headquarters in one of my trips to Computex, and while it is not a particularly noisy building, it is in Taipei, on the Northern side, and nowh...

Full specs listed here from Intel http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI They are from a pre-production server we have at work, we found they were too hot and have since changed to E5-2609 80w cpu's. They are ES's and are from about Oct...

I don't see the need for 4 or 6 or whatever number of hotswap drive bays for enthusiasts? I would be much happier if something like this came out for 2.5" drives but taking up 2 cd bays, allowing 8-12 hdd's in total, either 8x 15mm or 12x 9.5mm http://www.frozencpu.com/products/11681/cpa-505/Lian_Li...

KadazanPL , I would suggest it may not be the power supply as well. I have two Zalman 850HP's and I always thought it was the first one that I bought that made quite a loud squeal until I swapped my X58 board from my desktop PC into my server (when I got my X79 setup in October - yes October!) The s...

hah sweet, 2.16 fixed it! Using the exact same settings as before, the fan speed stays at about 60% of so from pressing the power button to getting into windows, then goes to the lower speeds as soon as the program starts running. It is available on the P9X79 Pro download page under utilities, I'm u...

Good idea, I'm downloading 2.16, I installed 2.11 from the CD.

The cpu fan header lets me go lower as well, down to 20%, but it has the same bug, it forgets to set below 60% when the PC is rebooted.

I'll get back to you once I've installed 2.16

With my new P9X79 Pro motherboard I'm having a strange problem with fan speed. First of all, if I set the fans to quiet or anything in the bios they won't go below 60%, which is too loud. So in windows using AIsuite I've set the fans to lower speeds, the rear 92mm's on 45%, and the two 120mm's on my...

Kadazan, to fit in lots of hard drives like my Server TJ-07 build!

You say it is easily the most expensive case you've reviewed, the TJ-07 is about the same price

Doing a bit of searching it appears to be using 667gb platters, possibly 5 heads, so only 2.5 sides of the platters will be used, then slightly short stroked.

This post is simply a bump, I'm curious to see if any 2 platter 1.5tb's are shipping yet

The 3 platter 2tb uses the same chassis as other WD 2 and 3 platter drives. This means the spindle isn't attached at the top as it is on 4 platter drives.

Why the 2x 250gb drives? There will be better drives out there that are faster and quieter for not much more money.

I use a TJ-07, it has 7x 5.25" bays but if a 2x 5.25" to 3x 3.5" bay is used in the top bay and mounted back slightly you get the use of 8 5.25" bays. The power supply position means that the power supply fan stays quiet and the 6x 3.5" bays down the bottom can removed for a massive radiator or a nu...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3858/the- ... 3tb-review

Short version: It has 5x 600gb platters and runs extremely hot.

If the ambiguous spacing on that page are close to realistic, it looks like the new 160gb will be priced about half way between the current 80gb and 160gb, possibly slightly closer to the current 80gb price. The new 300gb will be more than the current 160gb, I'm guessing it will be twice the price o...

In my experience most boards with integrated graphics are a bit touch and go. Using motherboards without integrated graphics I've never had a problem putting in raid cards into any of the slots, that includes an intel 975 chipset, nvidia 680i, intel p35/45, intel x48, amd 890fx, intel x58 and p55. W...

Price is by far the most important reason why ssd's aren't in every pc. If the price was the same per gb as mechanical disks, noone would be using mechanical disks. However the reality is that SSD's will be too expensive to replace mechanical disks for a few generations yet. I think the real questio...

There is only one problem with getting a 2TB F3, the 2TB F4 is now out!

http://www.i4u.com/article37039.html

Bump from the depths! I now own two of these PSU's as I simply couldn't find anything better out there. The new Corsair AX1200 is a stunning unit but I don't need something rated anywhere near that high. I spent hours the other day researching and ended up buying another one simply because I couldn'...

Of course there will be problems with hdd's above 2tb. That isn't seagates fault. I would argue that noone should have 'just buy' a 3TB drive. If you don't know of those limitations you shouldn't have that much data just sitting on a single drive! If you are smart enough to know about the limitation...

The largest platter is still 500gb. I think the next step will be 640gb platters and we will see a return to popularity of the 640gb drives as they will be priced similar to 500gb's at the moment and will be faster. What I'm unsure about is the next capacity up from that. 2x 640gb platters is 1.28TB...

I had 6x 500gb (5x 465gb, 2,500,xxx,xxx bytes usable) drives in raid 5 once and with winxp I had a partition of 2.2 or so billion bytes and another one of about 300 million. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me as I don't have that array anymore, but it was something around 2.2 billion byte...

I always used to use Asus boards but problems like this have made me shy away recently. I had about 15 of them from the 440BX days (if you don't understand that, google it) My woes started with a P5Q Deluxe that I was buying for my server to replace a Supermicro PDSGE (loved that board, only non-Asu...

I was surprised too, nothing referring to noise at all!

More importantly though, where is my 10K SATA Cheetah to compete against the Raptor

There is a bug in hdtach which only reads over the first 1TB of a Hard Drive for random access times. If you look at the graph it clearly stops at the 1TB mark.

Witness:
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=77 ... pert&pid=5

Now on the WD site http://www.westerndigital.com/en/produc ... riveid=763

It has 64mb cache which is new, but it looks as if it will still have 500gb platters.

Well for me, I have an i7 975 in my gaming system, an E8400 in my everday use system and another E8400 in my server. I'd like to update the motherboard in my everyday system from my now ancient P5N32-E SLI motherboard, but the problem is that I need either 2x SAS ports or 3x PCIe slots (8x lanes for...

I agree, I got to Anand and Techreport for performance and platform info, then come to SPCR for power consumption, idle states etc. I too beleive that sites should show figures with turbo boost enabled and disabled, it can make things a bit hard to compare otherwise. Personally I think turbo boost i...

My bad, I meant this drive. http://www.westerndigital.com/en/produc ... riveid=477

Stupid naming schemes! As above, if you don't need 500gb then that hard drive is the quickest.