It might draw too much current. Sum of all the fan amp ratings shouldn't be higher than the fan header amp rating. But I can't find what the rating of the fan headers is in the manual for that particular board.

All modern boards do have fan control in BIOS at least for the CPU fan, even if they don't come with any fan controlling software. According to the GA-990FXA-UD7 manual it has four fan headers. What I get out of pinouts only the CPU and 1st system fan headers can be controlled. The CPU fan can be ei...

quest_for_silence wrote:I beg your pardon, but I think you don't know not even what it is a "sonic signature".

Maybe I really don't, please enlighten me.

You can draw the minimums for each on the following fanXpert2 tests on the both noctuas you are looking What mobo were those fans on? but no where as good as MSI (and lately seem Asrock have the best bios PWM fan control) I considered MSI And Asrock boards, but MSI doesn't make Q77 boards, Asrock h...

It's not sonic signature I'm after specifically, but rather I want the fans to be virtually inaudible at say 0.5m distance when CPU is at 25% load. If that's possible then sonic signature doesn't matter, because I won't hear them. If it isn't then sonic signature matters, because I want the fans to ...

On Define R4 or XL R2 the frontal fans are 140 or 120, but the NF-A15 are not standard 140, it should not fit on the front without some modding (and even then im not sure), the correct fans if you want noctua and PWM are the NF-A14 PWM, they are standard 140mm fans on standard frame. NF-A15 is 140m...

I don't want Mugen4 because it covers a RAM slot. HR-02's stock fan isn't that great. If I replace the stock fan with NF-A15 it would cost 47,18€ for the cooler + 23,01€ for the fan, so 70,19€ total. NH-U14S costs 71,55€. So for almost same price I get second fan clip, ULN adapter and Y-splitter cab...

I found out that the Asus P8Q77-M case fans can't be controlled by Q-Fan 2 and fan xpert. So I'll acquire Intel DQ77MK. All the fan headers on the Intel board are PWM. So I'll need a heatsink with PWM fan(s) and PWM case fans. I'm thinking of getting a heatsink that performs well with dual 140mm fan...

So I'll go with an Ivy Bridge i5 and a Q77 mobo. Besides i5 3570, I can also get 3470 at the local vendor. 3570 is about 5% faster according to cpuworld benchmarks and costs 10% more. So in theory it isn't worth it, but in reality that's just about 15€ (20$) more. So I probably should go with the 35...

Also, native PCI support went away with Sandy Bridge (ix-2xxx). According to this table on Wikipedia business chipsets 6 and 7 series do have PCI, consumer chipsets don't. Intel also shows legacy PCI support on this diagram. http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/diagrams/q77-bloc...

Still waiting for the RAM to arrive, local vendor didn't receive it yet. But today he lent me 2x4GB Crucial Ballistix kit untill my RAM arives. So I could finally test how Audition utilizes CPU with more RAM. And it's no difference. I also analyzed CPU and hard drive usage with xperf. CPU usage is t...

The PH-F140HP/TS fan ("HP" is displayed on the box but "TS" is on the label and on the website) The review also states it's 3-pin header. The frame and mounting holes look different on PH-F140TSl . It's odd that it has 3-pin header and PWM control. How can a fan be PWM controlled with just 3-pins? ...

I ordered the G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-8GBSR2 RAM kit today. There RAM isn't in stock, so I'll have to wait 2-10 days to get it. The RAM modules won't fit under CR-95C. I decided that system stability and performance mean more to me than passively cooled CPU. While I wait for the RAM to arrive I have ti...

It's called cherry picking? :D A funny term for serious high-tech procedure. If there's no cherry picking I guess manufacturing procedures are much more reliable than they used to be years ago. It also makes sense then, why only top end CPU model is unlocked for overclocking. If all the CPU models w...

I wasn't trying to say low TDP versions are any different by design, but could be different by production quality. I'm not very familiar with Intel's CPU production process, but as far as I understand all CPU's with same architecture, number of cores, threads and cache are basically the same. But no...

The Asus mobo is not on that RAM's QVL. It's on G.Skill ECO models QVL. They're 3.5V which is O.K. but just 1333MHz, so I wouldn't take those. And compatible RAM list for the mobo on Asus Website is empty. It's a kind of hard to find RAM that I can be 100% sure it will be compatible. But any DD3 wit...

I definitely am trying to build a system as low power as possible, but it still much offer considerably more performance than my current system. We'll see how much power will the system draw at the end and what CPU cooler will be suitable, but first task is to buy more RAM for my current system, to ...

I intend to keep my current system, because I have some other plans for it, so I won't upgrade it. I'm going for a completely new build. I checked with a local vendor and I can buy RAM in advance and later the rest of the build without RAM and still get Windows DSP licence. So I could try buying 2x4...

- For the initial calculation, you max out the threads. For this part, you want the highest clock for 4 active cores. That would be 4770 and 4771, both at 3.7 Ghz. But 4770S and 4770T are also close. - For the second part, the individual threads never surpassed 50%. So, there's something else in yo...

Why not consider the Intel core i7 4771 . I guest I forgot to add it to my table. :oops: It's just a little faster (it's performance is rated 0.2% better here and it costs just a little more than the 4770, so it might make sense to choose this one if I decide to go with 84W TDP. It's base frequency...

Guys on the Audition forum told me, that Audition can make use of multi-threading, but it depends on the process/effect it is doing. If the process can benefit by using multiple-threads, it will use them. But there are many processes in which current chunk of audio depends on previous chunk, so they...

Looking at the Audition task manager images, both of your cores are being used, but not at 100%. Perhaps there's some other limiter in your current system? Or, maybe Audition is set up to only utilize up to x percent of a core? I don't think there's some limiter in the system. A single instance of ...

What version of Audition are you using? Later versions might use multicore. Adobe sidesteps a full answer for the CC version: Does Adobe Audition CC support hyperthreading and multicore processors? Yes, Adobe Audition CC is optimized to work with current multicore CPUs. Note the don't say anything ...

Although check if they have B85 or H87 versions of the intel mobos I think I want the Intel vPro features, which only Q87 has. There's also a SuperMicro model available with that chipset, but costs twice as much. I have a custom built SuperMicro server too, but never tested any features of the mobo...

I think the SeaSonic SS-400FL2 Active PFC F3 400W 80 PLUS Platinum Fanless ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply is a good option, as long as you dont get any whining (all PSU can not only seasonic), another option that is platnium and similar price range is KingWin Lazer Platinum Series 550 Watt Power Supp...

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. I tested Adobe Audition and it uses just a single thread and CPU usage is 25% so it uses that single thread to the full. So indeed I don't need the 8 threads of the i7. I need a CPU that performs well with single thread. i5-4570T is 35W TDP...

i) In general, it is easier to build an efficient airflow system within a smaller chassis for a given fan noise level because of aerodynamic fundamentals. Since it it crucial to have a proper airflow system with fanless CPU coolers, I recommend you consider a micro-ATX system as well in lieu of the...

Thank you for the reply. The CPU wouldn't overheat as it's only 35W TDP. The SPCR test used an overclocked/overvolted 95W TDP CPU and it had 54C rise over ambient. I know. I read that test. But it was done outside a case so there was nothing there to prevent hot air from escaping. I don't know how m...

Being my first post on these forums, I'd like to say hello to everybody first. I've been reading reviews and the Recommended|Reference articles now and than. I don't have much experience with silent builds and I don't consider myself a silent PC enthusiast, but I must admit that I hate noises that f...