Hi, My needs are simple enough, I need: Matx or mini-itx 2x SATA 6 ports Undervolting Low idle power draw. It's a shame that most of the low end MSI & Gigabyte boards don't support undervolting anymore & ASUS's Idle power draw is quit a bit higher (from what I have seen) Any recommendations? Thanks!

I have both a 2011 base model Mac Mini (2.3ghz 8gb RAM & 120GB SSD) And a 2009 2.0ghz C2D mac mini. I'm personalty very disappointed with the new mini from a noise perspective. At idle it's fairly quite but noticeably louder the the 2009 model. The problem is that typical of apple cooling is somewha...

I would have thought a fit-pc2 would do the job for you?

OK I have found out that the MSI H67MS-E33 B3 can do all that I need from it except I'm still unable to confirm if I can disable CPU cores. Anyone know?

Hi, I'm looking to pick up a H67/H61 mini-itx or matx board in the next few days. I need a board that supports the following though: IGP overclocking CPU undervolting Disabling CPU Cores (eg turning 2 cores off) Low idle power consumption I was looking at the following, but can't confirm the feature...

An 8400 GS is probably the slowest card you can still buy new. Some of them have DVI and HDMI so with a convertor should work with your setup. I personal wouldn't go with the HD 5450 as i had one and it's quite surprising how many games it will play with medium / low details.

From the few I have tested the MSI GTX 460 Cyclone was by far the quietest. The Gigabyte card runs it's fans at 1500rpm idle I believe.

I have the MSI E33 with a Core i3 530. Undervolting is limited to 1.1v on this board. That still allowed me to overclock to 3.5ghz @ 1.1v and still save 12w under load. Not great, but worth having. Thanks for the info. How is the stability, STR/S3 sleep, USB, video, etc. General stability seem fine...

I have the MSI E33 with a Core i3 530. Undervolting is limited to 1.1v on this board. That still allowed me to overclock to 3.5ghz @ 1.1v and still save 12w under load. Did you see any idle power savings at 1.1v? On my Gigabyte H55 MB I could go a low as I wanted, except unstable at 0.975v and no i...

I have the MSI E33 with a Core i3 530. Undervolting is limited to 1.1v on this board. That still allowed me to overclock to 3.5ghz @ 1.1v and still save 12w under load.

Not great, but worth having.

Just out of interest has anybody measured the idle power consumption of either the 21.5 or 27â€

I had the Powercolor but I returned it and got a Sapphire which solved the problem. See this thread.

No it's the one with the modified AC cooler.

Just a little word of warning for you folks. I picked up a HD 5750 made by Powercolor. Once install I noticed that it was idling at 33 Watts, this seemed on the high side so I returned it and got a Sapphire 5750. Installed it and it's pulling 16 Watts. Not sure if this was a one off or the BIOS desi...

Does anyone know of a tool that can adjust the 2D clocks of this card under Windows 7?

I ask because this card is only undercloking to 500/1150 for some reason.
Ati Tool Tray & Riva tunner arn't working.

I'm getting rather high power consumption on this new build and I suspect that isn't helping.

Thanks for the input, I'll order the MSI 785GM-E65.

The BenQ G922HDL uses 13 watts @ 70% brightness and is rather cheap too!

I haven't used an AMD setup for a while so i’m looking for motherboard recommendations.

I need the following features:
785G + DDR3 support
Sideport would be nice but not needed.
Good range of undervolting options
eSata
IGP overclocking support
MATX

Any ideas?

Might be of interest Clicky

Thanks for that!

The 9800 GT looks to be the best value card there.

I would opt for the 4830 but I have huge amount of transcoding to do so cuda is more importaint than gaming performance at the monment.

Cheers, Ryan

I have noticed that both of these card's have "green editions"

I would prefer to go with a 9600/9800 over the 4670 & 4830 due to the CUDA support, trouble is I can't find any power consumption numbers for these card's.

Has anyone had any luck finding them?

line wrote:How about this HIS 4350 card?

Thanks, I might just about get away with that. It's a shame there isn't anything based on the X series as I literally only need the card for the HDMI out and not games etc...

Hi,

The new Mac Mini is very quiet.

Windows 7 isn't officialy supported by boot camp yet but the Vista drivers work OK.

As for conection's it has mini display port and DVI.

Hi,

I'm looking for a half height PCI-E x1 card that has as low power as possible.

All I can find at the moment is a 4550 & 8400GS both of which use to much power for this system.

Any idea's?

I currently have a Ninja 2 in my 3480 that just about fits in.

I'm looking for a cooler that has it's fan blowing down that will fit this case.

Something like the Scythe Shuriken but a little larger if possible.

Any idea's?

Hi, I currently use a 2009 mac mini with the following:

Core 2 Duo 2ghz
4Gb DDR-3
500GB 2.5â€

Thanks for the info, at the moment the system is pulling 39W idle & 46w load so the Pico should be more than man enough.

I wasn't sure where to put this but anyway I wanted some advise on a couple of issues. My current system is as follows: 1.83ghz Core Duo (mobile) Gigabyte GA-8I945GMMFY-RH 4GB RAM Antec NSK 3480 Scythe Mini Ninja Zalman ZM-NBF47 Northbridge Cooler WD 500GB HDD Single 120mm Scythe 800rpm fan. Now the...

Hi, I was given a Hiper media case as a freebie so I was looking for a motherboard and CPU to go with it. I came across a C3 Samuel 2 800mhz based flex ATX board for it witch has a tiny heatsink and a 40-50mm fan with Northbridge style push-pins around the socket. Now I was hoping to go passive with...

Thanks for that, I looked at the dimensions and it a little too tall for the Shuttle. I have decided to ditch the X1600 pro and go for a passive X700 or 6600GT.