It seems we're all getting about the same results. I knew from the start that running this card passive would be a stretch. However even passive cooling needs airflow and a really slow fan can do wonders. I promised I would post pictures and results of my ducting. One thing I've noticed is while the...

The "gray stripes" problem in that link is the first time ive heard of it. It's got me a bit worried. Have you experienced anything like that Nova? Nope, not a single problem for me. Actually I've been trying a few things while I've been away. First I tried undervolting the card to 1.038V (1.088 st...

One thing I'm wondering is with the high VRM temps, the card might attempt to throttle the GPU. More info here: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3643&p=11 EDIT: More info - looks like 120C is the point where the VRMs start throttling on the 5970, so it's probably the same on the 5870 a...

Neat. Only thing I'd personally do would be to move the fan a little back so that it spills smoe more airflow over where the VRMs are. At least that's what I think needs all the cooling there is. Especially that the GPU is connected to the main part of the cooler, and the VRMs only have those tiny ...

Ok, S1 installed. time for pictures. :) Some of them are unfortunately out focus, sorry about that. I'm using the stock baseplate and some memory sinks from the S1 package on the exposed VRMs. The fan is a Scythe Slipstream 1600RPM, I meant to buy the 1200RPM but by mistake i bought the 1600RPM inst...

Update, I've run furmark stability test extreme burning mode for an hour. Max temp reached with standard cooler 87 degrees C. AC load power 282W. Load power and temperature was stable from a few minutes into the run. http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/tn_furmark.jpg http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/...

3DMark is heavy on the GPU, tru, but Furmark is even harder. You could try running LinX + Furmark for a truly heavy test. And there's still one thing I found to be even more demanding - OCCT power supply test. For my main setup (E8200 @ 3,2 stock V + 4770 @ 830/830 + stuff) the 3Dmark is up to 173W...

Nice pics. thanks for sharing BTW, i think you should do some serious load testing on your rig to see what the temps are and also to see if your psu is able to handle it. IMO, a 430watt psu might be stretching it a bit for the 5850. Maybe run some 3d benchmark loops or something before you swap out...

BTW, you and I have a similar setup. Even our PSU is the same 430 wattage. I recently bought a Seasonic x750 to run the 5850. Are you upgrading yours too, or are you going to try it with your 430w? I'm keeping my psu, it's the worlds quietest fan cooled psu after all. I switched from a HX520 and th...

I'm also getting a 5850 and a Accelero today. My idea is to use the baseplate along with the Accelero. I'm also running a E8400 and a 8800GT passive in a Solo with one exhaust fan and one intake fan. I'm going to try it with the stock cooler first to see that the card works ok and then I'm going to ...

This is just a test, nothing to see here, move along

To temporarily disable automatic restart on blue screen you can press f8 at startup and select disable automatic restart. Regarding the password, I've always used NT Password by P Nordahl available here http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/cd080802.zip With that program you can clear passwords and...

Ah, I seem to be one of the lucky few then... :) I was actually choosing between the AN8 ultra and A8N premium. The price of the premium and the fact that the Gb Ethernet, the second SATA controller and Firewire is connected to the pci bus made me go with the AN8 ultra. Yes I felt a bit silly blow d...

I did the same mistake using the Ninja backplate on my AN8 ultra but it's possible to get it off without destroying the motherboard. There are two ways to get it off. Heat up the glue gently with say a hairdryer and then use a flat screwdriver to pry it off. Use something to protect the motherboard ...

I actually found that the middle O-ring reduced the rumbling noise caused by the drive -- you could clearly feel the drive vibrating without it. The drive doesn't make contact with the felt/cork pads though, which I thought was strange. Perhaps I didn't put it together correctly. I wasn't expecting...

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Mats wrote: Keep me informed if you find any who sells them. To find stores:
buggy.no-ip.com (unfortunately no search function, but an easy way to get links to stores)

Buggy does have a search function right here http://buggy.no-ip.com/sok.php I use it all the time.

ascii wrote: Planning on replacing the stock heatsink with a Thermalright XP-120, but it isn't available for purchase in Sweden just yet.

I guess you're thinking of buying the A.C. Ryan Xilence at komplett.se if you look at their cpu coolers you'll find the xp-120.

Excellent review as always, good work on this one Ralf. It's seems we have a new top performer and silent champ. Great news as I'm about to buy one to cool my upcoming Athlon 64.

says about the K8V SE Deluxe: *caps mechanically obstruct pipe slightly, cap tilting necessary I missed the compatibility list. It's interesting that they would use a motherboard in their installation instructions that the heatsink doesn't completely fit on. Oh well, I now see that the xp120 will f...

No you do have to bend them, i found a post with someone else using the board i have and he had to bend a bunch of stuff. Also mentioned that it was quite hard to install. Strange I don't see any capacitors that needs to be bended in the instruction. Look at K8 installation on www.thermalright.com ...

I don't know for sure but the thermalright should cool better. About the installation, the ASUS K8V SE Deluxe is used in thermalrights installation instruction on their homepage. So you won't have to bend any capacitors.

You may want to try with the Zalman again. My experience has been that GPUs are a bit more heat tolerant than CPUs. I'm glad to hear that other people are having problems with the VGA silencer as well, mine has been a pain since I got it. I'll try it again tomorrow. What kind of problems have you h...

Well I'll try to wait and see what happens, it can't get any worse than it is right now... I've contacted the reseller to see if it's possible to RMA it, waiting for reply. I've looked at the card and I can't see any damage to it or thermal paste where it shouldn't be. If I left it alone it would be...

Sure the Matrox Technical Support Tweak Utility will do the trick. You can download it here ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/utils/tech ... u50204.zip

Well as the topic says I used to have a zalman hp80c and a 5 volted panaflo L1A on my radeon 9800 pro. I've run it like this for 6 months, then the other day I thought I'd try the vga silencer and I ordered one. It arrived today and I mounted it right away. First impression was that the fan was inde...

chylld wrote:i've always been wondering what cathar looks like

Me too

Thanks Jan Kivar for your very in-depth explenation. :) I'm guessing the S in S3 stands for "State" so S3 is State 3 of powersaving/shutdown or whatever. 8) I've just tried S3 on my NF7-S V2 it works perfectly. You can choose between S1 and S3 with the latest bios, I think you could choose between ...

oddly enough though the smallest capacity 7200.8 listed is 250GB, which must be dual-platter. for me 120gb single platter is enough. If you look at the announcement here http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1121,2170,00.html you will see this: Barracuda 7200.8 is extremel...

If you look closely at the pdf it states 2.0 bels for the single platter version. We'll have to wait and see how quiet it is, in my book I hope it is the best (quietest) drive.

Edit: If I read the other posts more carefully I might have noticed that this has already been mentioned...