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- Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:41 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Corsair RM Series intro'd
- Replies: 90
- Views: 89587
Re: Corsair RM Series intro'd
Thanks for the advice. I will report back when the replacement arrives.
- Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:57 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Corsair RM Series intro'd
- Replies: 90
- Views: 89587
Re: Corsair RM Series intro'd
Your outlet is properly grounded, right? And by "proper", I mean it's actually grounded and doesn't just have a socket for the ground pin. The PSU has been plugged into an ungrounded outlet, I just tried also a properly grounded outlet and turned ErP off - end result easily audible buzz and whine. ...
- Wed Nov 20, 2013 10:58 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Corsair RM Series intro'd
- Replies: 90
- Views: 89587
Re: Corsair RM Series intro'd
Got a 650W version a couple days ago. The unit seems to emit buzz or whine when the system is powered off, enabling ErP support in BIOS does seem to reduce the noise quite a bit though. Turning system power on cures the problem for a some reason. Not sure if there's variance between different RM PSU...
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:28 am
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: WD Scorpio Black 750GB & Scorpio Blue 1TB
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17392
Re: WD Scorpio Black 750GB & Scorpio Blue 1TB
This is a bit disappointing, since I was planning to swap my WD Green+SQD to 1TB Scorpio Blue+dual SQDs.
I wonder if Samsung notebook drives offer fairly silent seeks and are free of that annoying platter calibration noise?
I wonder if Samsung notebook drives offer fairly silent seeks and are free of that annoying platter calibration noise?
- Sun May 22, 2011 2:55 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: HDPLEX H3.SODD Fanless Mini-ITX Media Case
- Replies: 49
- Views: 38990
Re: HDPLEX H3.SODD Fanless Mini-ITX Media Case
Very nice, however should I be concerned about motherboard VRM and chipset cooling with this case?
- Mon May 31, 2010 3:51 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Seasonic shows X-Series, modular, 80 Plus Gold @ Computex
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118941
Sea Sonic Unveils the New X-Series 80PLUS(R) Gold Power Supplies Computex Taipei 2010 Last year, the launch of the Seasonic X series, the world’s first 80PLUS(R) Gold certified multi-output ATX power supply, was a total success. The full modular X-650 and X-750 won many accolades and industry awa...
- Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:50 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Powercolor GO! Green HD5750 (passive)
- Replies: 88
- Views: 72851
Finally available for preorder in EU.
http://geizhals.at/eu/a496815.html
Price is currently a bit steep, 35 euros more than non green passive 5750.
http://geizhals.at/eu/a496815.html
Price is currently a bit steep, 35 euros more than non green passive 5750.
- Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:32 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: WD Green 1.5TB vs. Seagate 7200.12 500GB
- Replies: 29
- Views: 37631
- Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:53 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Is Lian Li PC-B10 silent?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 26861
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:00 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Fanless 5750 announced
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17426
- Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:24 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Putting Drives on Standby
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10294
Has anyone gotten revosleep to work with Windows 7? Is there a hardware solution for sata power control?
Edit: Found "A Hand Made SATA Hard Drive Switch"
http://www.thesataswitch.com/buy.htm
Edit: Found "A Hand Made SATA Hard Drive Switch"
http://www.thesataswitch.com/buy.htm
- Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:05 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Scythe Quiet Drive 2.5
- Replies: 45
- Views: 37018
My two 500Gb 7200RPM 2.5" drives were clearly audible beforehand, even when soft mounted, but are inaudible in that enclosure. For 1Tb of silent local storage that's cooler and quieter than a 3.5" drive, and a hell of a lot cheaper than SSDs. So do you think that 2x2.5" in SQD would be more silent ...
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:59 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: 5900rpm Seagate Hard Drives: Barracuda LP, Pipeline HD .2
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13355
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:59 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: 5900rpm Seagate Hard Drives: Barracuda LP, Pipeline HD .2
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13355
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:54 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 5750 - Holy Poop
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12076
- Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:16 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Some info on ATI 57xx series cards...
- Replies: 53
- Views: 32590
- Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:29 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Some info on ATI 57xx series cards...
- Replies: 53
- Views: 32590
- Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:53 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: EcoGreen F2 500GB not as quiet as expected
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19372
So I would say it is not inaudible at idle. If anything, the idle noise is worse than the seek noise. I want to try putting the ecogreen in a scythe quiet drive. That will add a couple layers of metal to block the sound so I'm hoping for a big improvement... Yes, scythe box will improve idle noise ...
- Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:09 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Nexus Value 430 PSU: Affordable Silence
- Replies: 149
- Views: 133716
I just received my Nexus Value. It's a clear improvement over my older Antec EW with scythe fan mod, but I can still hear it from one meter distance. I would say that the noise character is nice unless you put your ear right next to the psu. I don't currently have anything in my computer that could ...
- Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:13 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Seasonic shows X-Series, modular, 80 Plus Gold @ Computex
- Replies: 172
- Views: 118941
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:14 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Nexus Value 430 PSU: Affordable Silence
- Replies: 149
- Views: 133716
Nexus seems to have new 530W version of this PSU, Nexus NX-5000 R3. Preorder price is similar to 430 value here in Finland.
http://www.nexustek.nl/Nexus_NX-5000_Qu ... y_530W.htm
Can we expect SPCR review of this unit?
http://www.nexustek.nl/Nexus_NX-5000_Qu ... y_530W.htm
Can we expect SPCR review of this unit?
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:40 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: ATI vs nVidia fanless cards for mkv hardware acceleration
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8486
Check out DXVA support in MPC Home Cinema.
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/DXVASupport.html
Even the cheapest Radeon HD* card will be enough for basic decoding, NVidia doesn't support VC-1.
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/DXVASupport.html
Even the cheapest Radeon HD* card will be enough for basic decoding, NVidia doesn't support VC-1.
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:51 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Quiet and fast - WD green, Seagate LP or Samsung F2 ?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13399
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:59 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 500GB / platter is out!
- Replies: 110
- Views: 95406
I have the F2 currently mounted with Nexus DoubleTwin on upper bay of NSK3480. I also had it inside Scythe box that was sitting on floor. I don't believe that different kind of mounting will eat the noise delta between F2 seek and idle. I guess WD20EADS is a bit too expensive right now, so I'm going...
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:55 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 500GB / platter is out!
- Replies: 110
- Views: 95406
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:37 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 500GB / platter is out!
- Replies: 110
- Views: 95406
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:00 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 500GB / platter is out!
- Replies: 110
- Views: 95406
- Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:39 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 500GB / platter is out!
- Replies: 110
- Views: 95406
Does your F2 spin-up sound anything like the following:
http://tinyurl.com/samsungF2
My F2 seems to make those weard sounds randomly even in idle.
http://tinyurl.com/samsungF2
My F2 seems to make those weard sounds randomly even in idle.
- Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:51 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5 TB - Have anyone tried it?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 43933
My quick impressions: with case open and drive sitting on floor idle noise is easily audible. Noise character is pleasant and perceivable volume is a bit higher than Antec Tricool@5v. If you have very low noise fan(s), you'll want to take the last step. With drive placed into Scythe box, idle noise ...
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:18 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: MSI 4830 PowerPlay power consumption
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6446