That would be great news for heat dissipation! :D Hummm. Maybe. Intel might take the view that the low(er) power consumption of Pentium-M allows them to stuff loads more gubbins in the processor and wind the clock-speed up before it hits unacceptable levels of power consumption (say 150W). Point is...

Hummm... well if I were you I'd strongly question your friends desire to buy from the US. I've bought stuff from the US in the past, but it's getting increasingly difficult. US vendors are getting ever more paranoid and insular in their dealings with the Rest Of The World now I think. Apparently thi...

I think MikeC has hit on a key point, and that is that you need to factor in the selection effects and the sample of drives owned by people who post here. How many people turn up to post here to complain about their IBM drive dying? Not many. Does that mean IBM drives are reliable? No, far from it (...

My approach was two-fold: firstly to move the sensor away from the heatsink, and secondly to flip the fan over so that it draws cool air in through the heatsink and exhausts into the case. This quietened the PSU down a treat. The minor downside was that it dumped a lot of heat in my case, and I had ...

Btw, isn't 44 C a pretty hot temp for a hard drive. Mine is in the high 30's and I'm thinking that's too high. Over time anything over 35 will wear down your HD is what I have heard before. I'm not so sure about this last point. The problem with the Internet is that people make up random stuff and ...

Speedfan doesn't seem to work with hibernate. The lowest BIOS CPU fan voltage on my ststem (HP pavillion) is too high, so I use speedfan to adjust fan speed. This works fine until I hibernate: it seems that on resume the setting is read from the BIOS again, and now there's nothing speedfan can do a...

This bit looks like it might be a bit of a challenge in a typical computer case:

Operation: 0°C~25°C

Here's another one:

http://www.fanlesspower.de/

How good is this fan at 5V (clicking, vibration) ? Can it replace a standard 80x80x25 fan (hole distance) ? It's audible at 5V, mine made a sound like the bearings where rubbing. It's tough to replace it using the mounting system provided (the Zalman fan is very thin, 12mm or whatever, less than 25...

That's odd -- nutball and unregistered, your opinions are very much against the review results on the main web site. Could you please elaborate? (I've never had Seasonics myself, so I don't know which opinions are closest to the truth.) Like unregistered I bought a Seasonic based on the reviews her...

Just... whatever you do... don't buy anything made by Seasonic

Nowhere_man wrote:wumpus wrote

The question you have to ask yourself is: what's more important? performance or noise

Performance.

Framerate is life.

It may be yours, it's not mine

I have done the right things and clean et cetera and come to the conclusion XP sucks. It is slow and cumbersome and I hate it. I will stick with sleek out of date W98SE. :) ROFL. W98 sucks donkeys. XP Pro with all the Janet-and-John UI stuff turned off (so it looks like W2K) is a fine operating sys...

Dunno. Is that an internal or external supply? If internal, where does the heat go?

I agree that when playing a game, we tend not to notice the quality, however, by looking at the farcry screen shots, you can see obvious differences. I didnt even had to try. I hope its the driver's fault, not the card as mentioned by Tom's Hardware. I may be thinking of getting the 9800pro instead...

I can't speak for power consumption, but my TFT buzzes (very slightly) if the back-light isn't set to full illumination (I'm guessing it uses the same PWM-style voltage control as found in some dimmer switches, it sounds very similar). Having said that the buzzing is a lot less offensive than my CRT...

But I don't understand the 2 molex thing. Most people are just going to plug them both into plugs on the same sting. Even if they don't, in (nearly) every PSU out there all the molex's are sprung from the same line anyway. Are they going to require a revision to the ATX spec, and call for a dedicat...

Your motherboard manual should tell you this (well, the manual for my Asus board does), I presume it will vary between different manufacturers and different boards. The current rating of the fan should be printed on the fan, shouldn't it? My board supplies 350mA for example, which is sufficient to r...

I like the reviews over at 3dss - problem is that they don't seem to have done any since 2001. Quite a few of the systems that I am considreing were not made then :( Yeah, it's a shame 3DSS seems to have gone into hibernation, I think PC audio is an area which is sadly neglected when it comes to "s...

It really depends what you mean by hiss levels that are unacceptable. I picked up a Videologic DigiTheatre Platinum which I'm very pleased with. It's very highly rated by all those who seem to think they know about PC audio (I don't claim to be one of them), eg. www.3dss.com. AFAIK it's not made any...

Vegita wrote:My drive is 96% full.. and not defragmented...

I'm guessing this lend more support to the theory I need more RAM?

You need more memory and a new hard-drive.

I have the same board as you, and I'm also unable to undervolt :evil: Even the so-called uber-BIOS didn't solve the problem. There was a solution posted on one of the other boards (CPU one I think) about how to solve this by cutting the bridges on the CPU to lower the default voltage that the mobo d...

I don't agree with some of you if you say that 512MB of RAM is a joke. I've got 512megs myself and I can play the latest games without any problem, WITH eyecandy. Imo the only valid reason to have more RAM is when you're a heavy photoshop/3dsMAX/... user, or when you want to play a game while burni...

Ummm, yeah, I can back that up. I have 2 Lite-On drives (1 DVD and 1 CD/RW) and they are both *very* noisy. The only reason I haven't slung them out is that I hardly ever use them (only when installing software). One of the two (can't remember which) doesn't respond properly to the Nero drive-speed ...

Well, looking in another thread it looks like the new version of the Zalman Z80 thingy will support NV40, so getting the heat from the chip into the case might not be an issue.

Where it goes from there... however... that's what worries me.

I know we've touched on this in the past, but I came across this and it confirmed some of my suspicions and fears about the next generation of graphics cards: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=26426 The reference design of the NV40 has two external power couplers to supply the necessa...

I've read rumours that the next generations of graphics processors (NV40 specifically) will consume 150W.

Just rumours mind you, but I don't think it'll be long before the CPU is the second hottest component in the box.

Hmmm. I've been trying to use Speedfan but it just doesn't seem to play nice with S3(STR) power management. It works fine when I boot the PC from cold, varying the fan speeds as I'd wish it to. Whenever I resume from standby it seems to lose it's marbles and think all the temperatures are -1C, and c...

Umm, yeah, what 'where' said

As far as how hot a drive can get, the drives are spec'd to 60C ambient temperature.

Yeah, that could be an issue. My card is a Creative Labs card, which i think is based on the NVIDIA reference design. I think asking Zalman is a very good idea

I have a ZM-80C on an FX5900 Ultra (which is pretty much identical to the 5950U, if anything it runs hotter AFAIK), if you look back a month or two you'll see I posted my experiences (which have been pretty positive). I did have the Zalman fan, but changed it recently to a 92mm Panaflo M1A (the 24V ...