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- Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:30 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Google's Secret Server
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6842
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...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:14 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Anyone seen this yet? FusionIO flash drive...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16165
http://www.fusionio.com/PressDetails.aspx?id=46
Look at that we're now down to $1000 for 80GB version Q1.
Still expensive vs Intel SSD but way better performance.
Look at that we're now down to $1000 for 80GB version Q1.
Still expensive vs Intel SSD but way better performance.
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:48 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: ZALMAN ZM850-HP 850W -- Best PSU to buy?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4246
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...
- Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:15 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD 1TB WD10EACS head park noise
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10062
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...
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:25 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: P182 Bottom \ PSU chamber with fan issues
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4457
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
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
- 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: 9257
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 ...
- Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:46 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: SATA Port Multiplier, does it work?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3269
- 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: 7399
- Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:19 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: will an external power brick damage my graphics card?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4163
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...
- Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:12 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: will an external power brick damage my graphics card?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4163
- Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:50 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: fan vibration dampener on cpu heatsink
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5741
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...
- Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:20 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD guy on hard drive suspension: "It's horrible!"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19729
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...
- Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:42 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Please share your favorite fan/s- Yate loon... Scythe?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14312
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 ...
- Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:09 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: New fan blade design - owl like
- Replies: 36
- Views: 28950
- Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:41 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Yate Loon -140mm- or Scythe Slipstream 120mm?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9610
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...
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:14 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: SilverStone Nightjar NJ45NF Passive PSU
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10571
- Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:03 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Old SG03 Build and Updated...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5010
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...
- Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:03 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Old SG03 Build and Updated...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5010
"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...
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:56 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Old SG03 Build and Updated...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5010
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...
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:31 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Stock 2-slot Nvidia cooler...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1703
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...
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:17 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: [How] hot is too hot?! :)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3001
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:33 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: [How] hot is too hot?! :)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3001
[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 ...
- Tue May 27, 2008 10:43 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Flash Drive for Silent Storage
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6961
- 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: 7912
- Mon May 12, 2008 1:00 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: VGA card power dissipation
- Replies: 136
- Views: 351085
"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...
- 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: 7912
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 :/.
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 :/.
- 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: 7912
"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 ...
- 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: 7912
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...
- 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: 7912
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 ...
- Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:15 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: New CPU cooler from Scythe, "Orochi"
- Replies: 51
- Views: 34980