I agree with Mongobilly, Athlon 64 3000+ on Socket 939. If you want slightly lower cost then the socket 754 with a Sempron 3000+ is also a good buy.

It maybe not as future proof as 939 but certainly cheaper and with most of the performance.

This power supply isn't call GREEN POWER just because its got high efficiency. To compile with the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, the weight and use of hazardous materials has been reduced. This makes it easier to recycle and therefore will be cost less for Fort...

Looks like a winner except being second best (just 2 W more, nevermind) at the lowest output. Draws 32 W less than the Phantom at their highest load? If true, then we're really talking high efficency! The Phantom have a 86-87 % efficency at that output and 120 V, so even better at 240 V, which shou...

3. No CF card is comparable in speed to a CD-ROM drive. No thumbdrive is comparable in speed either, AFAIK. Also, getting USB booting to work with Windows is...challenging, to say the least. Thats not strictly true.... Corsair Flash Voyager - Read : 19MB/sec - Write : 13MB/sec - 48x CD-ROM = 7.200K...

StarfishChris wrote:British air is sparser and absorbs sound more effectively.

Is that a fact? So there is an upside to living here after all!!

Give it a few weeks and i'm sure Fortron will have these to market.

Interestingly the specs on the UK site says:
• Under 25dBA low noise design
The global site says:
• Under 30dBA low noise design

I guess they thought us Brits will believe anything!

There is no heatsink design on the market that can't be made in a copper version without breaking the motherboard (thanks to third party mounting mechnanisms) so none of that matters at this point. If someone was to create such a giant then it would matter but until then, we don't have to make such...

As Bluefront says, this debate comes down to not whether aluminium is better than copper but instead what’s more important, surface area or conduction efficiency? If the two heat sinks have the same surface area then copper will win, but if you used the same weight of both materials and made them as...

BOOGS why have you created so many pro Maxtor DiamondMax 10 threads? thanks ! Diamond Max 10 - super quiet drive it is indeed.. DIAMONDMAX 10 - This drive is a diamond, QUIET + V FAST !!! Verdict: DIAMONDMAX 10 Sata ............ TOTALLY SILENT re:SPCR Recommended HD list. NEEDS UPDATING !!!!!! It's ...

This is all about perceptions. You perceive a DM10 to be silent but others may not. The other issue which alot of people find when starting out on silencing is they think they know what’s causing all the noise. They change that item and are surprised when the general noise level of there computer do...

They should be the same chips so i would safely say yes they do support cool n quiet.

Thats great news paulsiu! I don't think it really matters about the name much, you know how fast it is.

HyperOS Systems wrote: Can be destructively reformatted (The HyperDrive III can perform a full format almost instantly)

It a good way of marketing, if the battery dies you can kiss your data goodbye!

Electrcial forms of storage have a long way to go before they can compete with storage that requires moving parts. Personally i see the future of storage in holograms.....
At the moment laptop hard drives are about as close as you can get to cost effective, quiet storage.

But does the Athlon 64 2800+ s.754 ClawHammer (0.13) support c'n'q and allows multiplier and fsb change on the fly? I've read i post that it doesn’t - but it was only one opinion that I found - and maybe this was mobo issue, because not all mobo support c'n'q? Anyone to confirm/deny this? I have an...

My nidec spinpoint has started emitting an intermittent very high pitch noise. Its often does it 10 mins after boot up for about 2-3 minutes. It then goes away completely? Performance seems unaffected and all my data seems fine but still any noise like that gets me worried. Time to fire up my backup...

Hmm... Powernow works on the Laptop, but does not work on the PC. This mean RMclock won't work on a machine without powernow? The multiplier changes might work but i doubt the voltage changes will. What board do you have to test the chip with? Ah, I see. I thought states between min and max would b...

Since there's no heatspread on these, wont there be a compatibility issue with current desktop heatsinks? AMD aren’t likely to market these towards the desktop market so why would motherboard manufactures support these E stepping chips on socket 754 with BIOS updates? If these two issues are solved,...

I was having a look at the UK Samsung site and there's no mention of any hard drives whatsoever. :shock: Have they pulled them from the British market or are they just not making any noise about them? Strange that there missing but then again the Samsung UK site is not always that up to date. Plent...

1. Does the program need PowerNow to work? I am thinking of trying this in a desktop board first. As far as I can tell, the MB supports Mobile Athlon XP-M. As far as i am aware as long as the BIOS allows the changing of the multi and voltage from windows which it should because PowerNow would never...

What does this mean? Normally the computer uses little power even if the computer is turned off (+5VSB rail). I haven't measured it, but it's more than 1W. I believe the average for standby is around 8w for other PSU's, i think this is on top of the +5VSB rail. My meter measures 18w when my compute...

Love that animation, remote broadcasts to the receiver which in turn broadcasts to the fans?
It seems about as useful as remotes for car stereos.

I'm pretty tempted to get a 90nm Sempron to replace my Clawhammer which is a pretty bad undervolter. 1.4v is as low as i can go at 1800Mhz, although most of the time i run it at 1000Mhz @ 1v.

Sorry i was referring to xbitlabs tests not Techreport. Load Pentium 3.73Ghz EE = 155w Load Athlon 64 2.4Ghz 90nm = 56w Idle test Xbitlabs Idle (Just CPU) Pentium 3.73 GHz EE = 75.3w Pentium 560 3.6 Ghz = 42.2w Difference = 33.1w Anandtech Idle (Whole system) Pentium 3.73 GHz EE = 146w Pentium 560 3...

The thing that confuses me, why is the P4EE 3.73 idleing at nearly twice that of the other pentium 4's?
At load it uses THREE times more power than an Athlon 64 90nm @ 2.4Ghz!

I can see one (or two) * Maintenance: No fans = less dust buildup. Less Maintenance = a more legitimate home theatre "appliance" = more Wife friendly. * Safety/24 hour operation, whether or not this is legitimate, It's something I think about (or my wife does rather): If I have my file server on 24...

If the board supports cool n quiet then it supports undervolting / underclocking, well through windows atleast. I don't want to say 'buy this board' because i don't have first hand experience. What sort of speed do you want? Socket 939 only has one mATX board avaliable but there is a vast selection ...

Dell is pretty much the key, from a home use persctive there is no way i would buy a Dell. I hand pick parts and put it together myself, there is no way a business would do that because they wouldn't have the support which Dell provides. Big companies see Dell as a big, cheap supplier of PC's which ...

Even at full load? If we want throw in other factors, we can make the AMD selection look almost as limited. The selection of MATX boards maybe limited but they are around half the price of the two avaliable pentium M boards. I'm sure at full load with a 90nm CPU and a small underclock / undervolt y...

You're telling me that if your company has gone with Intel in the past and you were decided that they should go with AMD now, that some ignorant boss/executive won't blame you for every single crash that happens? Then you show him the massive savings that you have made for the company and the stati...