Can anyone explain, step by step, how you calculate a CPU's power dissipation at various speeds and voltages? Some figures have to be known before you begin: - The stock frequency (Hertz/Hz) - The stock voltage (volts/V) - The stock heat emission (watts/W) If you know these three, you can calculate...

Never mind the temperature if the card is stable. If you really want to know, there should be information for you in the so-called white papers over at ATI's web site.

Please -- check the Recommended lists and read the reviews before asking. I'm sure that they will answer your questions. Also, check the previous threads in this subforum; you're not the first, and certainly not the last, to ask for a recommendation. About the price, and if it's worth it -- it's up ...

Staying off the topic -- interesting about the origin of brownie points (I'm a linguist and a translator, so I'm supposed to be). The reason I asked was that I thought it might be a derivation of "brown nosing", which would make your comment really sarcastic...

First things first: 1. Double check that you're reading the correct sensors. 2. You say the room temps are way up. Get them down before anything else, then check the temps again. 3. Re-seat the heatsink. If the temps are still high, clean the heatsinks from dust. The XP-120 should be able to cool ju...

Brownie points -- is that good, bad, or ironic?

Silencer has an 80mm fan, Tornado has a 120mm fan. The heatsinks inside the Tornado are smaller to accommodate the larger fan.

Cheap, Clean, Cool and Quiet Case Cooling

Actually, most of it is semi-old news to SPCR regulars, but nevertheless a good starting point for newcomers.

Post a link to the manual, and we might be able to help you... Without any info on the brand, the BIOS, or other stuff, it's hard to give constructive advice.

Thanks Rusty -- yeah, the server and/or network at work got me... Timed out after the posting confirmation, so I didn't see the results. Thanks for cleaning the mess.

Answer: Yes.

- Get a Zalman FanMate for a few dollars if you want to lower the fan speed. Cheap and easy. - Yes, you can use any connector that fits, no matter the name stamped on it. - Yes, a better fan will improve the results. I know Enermax makes temperature adjusted fans, but there should be quite a few mor...

I will receive the PCI version any day soon -- I won it at a contest. Since it's free, I won't switch, but had I bought one I probably would've gone with the encased version.

Agree w/ liquid_celica. You shouldn't worry about the CPU/VGA temps unless you experience artifacts and/or instability.

My 5900XT (from Leadtek) has one.

slimeballzz wrote:Here is another review here


Yes lets hope the review is out soon as I have been waiting quite patient.

Tee hee -- the translation begins well:

Original:
Autor: Joaquin Arias Hurtado

Translation
Author: Stolen Joaquin Aryan

I just love machine translations

I had no stability problems whatsoever with a fanless ZM80A-HP on my previous 9700 Pro card... If your case ventilation is good, the card will be fine. As long as it's stable, don't worry about the temperature.

Thermaltake's heatsinks have a history of working almost as well with the fan blowing in either direction. Sucking makes it easier to duct.

Dremel works, but it's really, really, REALLY slow for holes of some size. Hole saw should be the best -- if you have one of exactly the size you want -- but hole saws for metal are pretty expensive, and you need a fairly high-powered machine tool for it. If you already have the tool and the hole sa...

Measure well, drill a hole close to the center, and cut the hole in a spiral outwards with a good pair of tin snips.

See this thread for good tips.

What do you need 500W for, let alone 700W??

check with a random fan lying around which will tell you if your fan sucks.

If a fan is bad -- does it suck or does it blow? (Sorry, couldn't restrain myself).

AMD:s max temp is closer to 90 degrees C (!), but it will be unstable before that. My idle temps with a mobile 2500+ clocked to 3200+ speeds are 44 degrees C using a duct and measured on a NF7-S v2.0 with MBM. That cooler of yours should give you lower temps, even if your case ventilation is flaky. ...

I doubt you'll get a lot of answers to your question in this forum... Very few of us use phase change coolers -- mostly because they're too noisy. (Perhaps not noisy per se, but noisy to us.) OTOH you might get lucky here. I still suggest you ask in other, more performance-minded forums as well, as ...

Qbert, if you can't hear any difference, there are at least two possible reasons -- either you just aren't that sensitive, or there are other parts in your system whose noise drown out the HDD. In standard computers, the HDD is rarely the noisiest thing. It's usually the CPU fan, followed by the PSU...

Maybe it's better if you know Spanish... I don't, so I have to put up with the Robot English.

It's the only review I've found so far -- and I've been looking a while... MikeC is supposed to have a unit for review; let's hope it's out soon.

It's the only review I've found so far -- and I've been looking a while... MikeC is supposed to have a unit for review; let's hope it's out soon.

ferdb, I don't think any more nominations are plausible given yours... An axial fan at 25,000 rpm -- that's three and a half times the speed of an 80 mm Delta!

Found one here (auto-translated from Spanish).

Those who know Spanish, click here.

The temps you should worry about are those of your harddrive. It's easier to swap a burnt CPU than to recover the contents of your HD -- it can be a real PITA if you have a lot of important info on it like family pictures, school papers or the like. My recommendation is to try to keep the HD below 4...