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by bexx
Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:30 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Google's Secret Server
Replies: 14
Views: 6709

This isn't that uncommon. I know Tyan makes some 4way systems that run off coldwatt PSUs I think.... they're basically just 12V PSU and 5VSB... mobo does all further conversions. Really 12V and 5V is all modern motherboard designs really need, well and 5VSB. Getting rid of 3.3 would be trivial. So l...
by bexx
Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:14 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Anyone seen this yet? FusionIO flash drive...
Replies: 26
Views: 15689

http://www.fusionio.com/PressDetails.aspx?id=46

Look at that we're now down to $1000 for 80GB version :P Q1.

Still expensive vs Intel SSD but way better performance.
by bexx
Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:48 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: ZALMAN ZM850-HP 850W -- Best PSU to buy?
Replies: 6
Views: 4183

ZALMAN ZM850-HP 850W -- Best PSU to buy?

Ignore the capacity being a big number.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817379007 As long as this is similar to 1000W version, which it looks to be, at $159 its hard to pass up IMO. Unless your system is very low end but comparing 1000watt Zalman to 625watt Modu82 its not like...
by bexx
Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:15 pm
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: WD 1TB WD10EACS head park noise
Replies: 18
Views: 9932

For anyone concerned about head parking there is utility here to change idle time before park or disable it compeltely: http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=27269 On my new new 1TB GP drives, 371 on hours, 5 parks on both drives. On older drive 6340 hours and 214099 parks lol. The new...
by bexx
Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:25 am
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: P182 Bottom \ PSU chamber with fan issues
Replies: 6
Views: 4408

Googles real world data on 100s of thousands of drives show higher temps do not cause failures, lower temps actually increase failure rate.

40-45C had lowest AFR
50C and 30C had equal failure rates.
25C had over double the AFR of 45C

http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
by bexx
Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:16 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: In Search of Quiet EATX Case (dual quad-core Xeon system)
Replies: 19
Views: 9092

Perhaps just get a ATX board? Tyan S5376... or Supermicro makes an identical looking board but not sure of their model. With two 5410s it idles at 110Watts with 12GB RAM and one HD... onboard video/NICs, being used as ESX server. But no reason you couldn't add a video card. Plus has onboard LSI SAS ...
by bexx
Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:46 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: SATA Port Multiplier, does it work?
Replies: 4
Views: 3228

I haven't seen anyone use them successfully.

If you try it make 100% sure your controller lists port multipliers as supported.

How many drives do you want?
by bexx
Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:40 pm
Forum: Cases and Damping
Topic: Looking for matx case with good cooling for a gaming rig.
Replies: 12
Views: 7306

I like my SG03... its smaller than TJ08.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/img/data/ar ... sg03_5.jpg
by bexx
Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:19 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: will an external power brick damage my graphics card?
Replies: 9
Views: 4102

http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Power/PurePower/w0099/w0099.asp# ROFL I love Thermaltake... that PSU is only 21db! at 2000rpm! Yet then they show graph of rpm vs load and at no point on the graph could the PSU be at 2000rpm... it doesn't go below 3000rpm and goes all the way up to 6k. I guess may...
by bexx
Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:12 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: will an external power brick damage my graphics card?
Replies: 9
Views: 4102

Hmm, why would it go down in flames? Doesn't Thermaltake have VGA PSUs? Never actually seen one but how would they share common ground?
by bexx
Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:50 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: fan vibration dampener on cpu heatsink
Replies: 7
Views: 5680

For some reason I highly doubt any of them will melt in a computer. Who would make something that melts under 200F? Actually checking specs AcoustiFan rates theirs at "Operating Temperature: (-)20 - (+)70°C" -- 160F... which yeah is under 200F but I still doubt it'll melt at 200F. Anyways even usin...
by bexx
Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:20 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: WD guy on hard drive suspension: "It's horrible!"
Replies: 25
Views: 19330

LOL funny thing is pretty much any time I have a customer complaining about early HD failures it is due to too much vibration. Its usually the 40mm 15krpm fans in 1U rackmounts that due to case design are vibrating the crap outa the HD and its failing early. Usually we'll get it as a percentage of s...
by bexx
Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:42 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Please share your favorite fan/s- Yate loon... Scythe?
Replies: 29
Views: 14043

I only use SlipStream and Yateloon fans. I really cannot justify anything else. The SlipStream is IMO VERY impressive for its performance and even more so when considering cost. The Yateloon however is VERY cheap and very often it will get the job done... for $3. The thing I like best about SS is I ...
by bexx
Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:09 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: New fan blade design - owl like
Replies: 36
Views: 28611

Some of the 40mm fans in 1U racks have two counter rotating blades... whats really neat tho is the '2nd' one has a different blade shape. The fans are insanely loud (12k rpm lol) BUT they do create crazy amounts of pressure. No application for silent computing but neat fan design.
by bexx
Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:41 am
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Yate Loon -140mm- or Scythe Slipstream 120mm?
Replies: 24
Views: 9491

I think this is pretty valid question. Eg look at Coolmaster CM690, or there are a few actually from CM... also Antec 300?..... anyways seems like more cases are designed for either 120mm or 140mm fans. What I really wish is for Scythe to sell the fan they bundle iwth the Orochi seperately. Its 140m...
by bexx
Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:14 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: SilverStone Nightjar NJ45NF Passive PSU
Replies: 18
Views: 10441

Not yet listed on 80Plus website... I don't think I wanna spend $200 unless it gets a sliver rating.
by bexx
Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:03 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Old SG03 Build and Updated...
Replies: 5
Views: 4944

Hmm... I didn't actually check... I remember when I bought this thing some review said neither were live... and then when I saw all the pads I assumed it true. Next time I open it I'll check just to know but in any case I don't have any plans on grabbing them. My original plan was to get a passive P...
by bexx
Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:03 am
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Old SG03 Build and Updated...
Replies: 5
Views: 4944

"For an electrical layman like me this look ... dangerous. Aren't you afraid the PSU might fry your graphics card? " Well the heatsinks on the PSU arn't live, everything mounted on them are on non-conductive pads... so even if the GFX card touched them there wouldn't be a problem. Plus on top of tha...
by bexx
Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:56 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Old SG03 Build and Updated...
Replies: 5
Views: 4944

Old SG03 Build and Updated...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2283/2078089659_403b730403_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2165/2078088391_83d92cec8d_b.jpg So this was first build... X6800 CPU (3.0 c2duo), 4GB RAM, 8800GT w/Accelero S1, 500GB Samsung drive, SATA DVD, 2 120mm Yateloons, Silverstone NT05 or whatever heatsink an...
by bexx
Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:31 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Stock 2-slot Nvidia cooler...
Replies: 1
Views: 1676

Stock 2-slot Nvidia cooler...

How loud are these? SPRC ever have an article when they measured them? I've got an S1 I could install but not sure if it would be worth it to use over stock cooler. Its alot of annoying work to install an S1 in my case and redo airflow as the video card he would then be dumped in the case... want to...
by bexx
Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:17 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: [How] hot is too hot?! :)
Replies: 4
Views: 2967

Turns out this is working better than expected... I can't find anything over 40C on the PSU... one heatsink is 35C the other is 38C with system fully loaded.

Hmm... not sure which to cut down first, stock 8800GTS fan or the 800rpm slipstreams... HMM
by bexx
Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:33 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: [How] hot is too hot?! :)
Replies: 4
Views: 2967

[How] hot is too hot?! :)

So I got one of Seasonic's older 300watt units-- Super Tornado 300 or something-- and I'm not really using it properly.... open frame. Fully loaded my game system will draw ~233watts AC which is ~55watts of heat being generated by the PSU... and just for kicks it idles with 100watts AC which is ~21 ...
by bexx
Tue May 27, 2008 10:43 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Flash Drive for Silent Storage
Replies: 8
Views: 6630

Generally if you can get it to boot it'll work fine... many network devices need very little storage and hardly do any IO to wear out a device... CF cards have been being used in highend network devices for many many years without issue-- doubt you'll see any.
by bexx
Thu May 22, 2008 3:58 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Pico Psu PW-200-M and a lot of GP drives?
Replies: 11
Views: 7806

For anyone searching this topic WD GP drives do support staggered spinup and require pin11 to be float and not connected to ground. I have not verified here but this is straight from WD.

Janus check PM.
by bexx
Mon May 12, 2008 1:00 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: VGA card power dissipation
Replies: 136
Views: 340084

"For example, you can use a multimeter to measure the current and voltage at the 12V power input, that is relatively easy. However, this doesn't account for power usage through the PCI-e slot. " Its possible.. Tyan S5396 work station board has a seperate 12v power connector on it that only powers th...
by bexx
Fri May 02, 2008 8:31 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Pico Psu PW-200-M and a lot of GP drives?
Replies: 11
Views: 7806

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg ... _faqid=958

Don't know if this applies to GP drives, I don't have them here. Between that and setting 3ware to OOB I think it should work :/.
by bexx
Fri May 02, 2008 8:27 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Pico Psu PW-200-M and a lot of GP drives?
Replies: 11
Views: 7806

"That doesn't happen here as the drives can stay with power conncted and not spinning up at all. They only spin up when I connect data cable to them. I will call someone at WD distributour and try and see what they say. " Wait the usual problem I get reported is drives will spin up soon as power is ...
by bexx
Fri May 02, 2008 8:53 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Pico Psu PW-200-M and a lot of GP drives?
Replies: 11
Views: 7806

Those numbers seem real high... almost as though they were from a different drive. One of GP's selling features is low spinup power draw. "I have a 3ware 9650 Raid controller I managed to enable staggered spinup on drives but it only works from windows. BUT I can't get it to work that way on cold sy...
by bexx
Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:30 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Pico Psu PW-200-M and a lot of GP drives?
Replies: 11
Views: 7806

Well it really depends on what system you have connected. If you check the drive specs the 5V rail is likely to become the weak link. 12 VDC Read/Write 340 mA Idle 254 mA Standby 6 mA Sleep 6 mA 5 VDC Read/Write 675 mA Idle 195 mA Standby 180 mA Sleep 180 mA If you want to build for worst case: 12v ...
by bexx
Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:15 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: New CPU cooler from Scythe, "Orochi"
Replies: 51
Views: 34490

Not sure if a zalman wc setup would be able to beat a good air setup at these noise levels.. pump is going to be weak link.