Thank you for an excellent answer - I am getting closer to a final decision :) I will be cooling a Pentium G3420 on a MSI B85-G43, with high probability of changing the CPU to Core i5-4570 or similar Happy to help. The Pentium CPU you have now has a TDP of 35 W, and you can get a 35 W TDP version o...

[...]perhaps someone can explain the differences to me? I am wondering which one should I buy to a silent home rig... The differences in the degree/decibel tables are probably from two different test rigs. The "small" coolers take on the 1155 platform and the "large" ones the 1366, i.e. a 95 W TDP ...

Trivial perhaps not, but I've got a lot of trust in engineers. Perhaps too much.

Ain't that the truth. Too many pick the cheap(est) options - no UPS, cheap PSU etc. - but one can hope. The thing about cheap PSUs is that even if you have a UPS, the PSU cannot maintain stability during the UPS backup power switch and will cause a sudden shutdown. I base my assessment of "really si...

Or, you could buy a UPS and call it a day. I had a black-out and my APC with aged batteries keep the current for a very short period... anyway my system had a black-out due to the sudden break of the UPS and recovery the system was a true nightmare. I was very lucky and after a lot of attempts I ga...

What a shame. Hopefully a card donor will show up, as the $$$ donor list is falling short.

I was definitely interested in rackmounts a good while back, primarily due to their small form factor and standardised mounting. However, the fans were terrible at best, and unfortunately "almost tolerable" seems to be the case today as well. Good thing that today we've got smart NAS boxes that can ...

Considered this unit for a home NAS, the price hovers around the 300 EUR mark here. Ended up with a Synology DS214se instead, as it was half the price, and the fan just made sense - "better safe than sorry". Half price was enough to cover one 3 TB drive on its own, so it was really no contest. A 100...

If WD really did cock up the silence aspect then it's time to shoot for Seagate NAS HDDs instead, isn't it. Is the Seagate Nas at least at same noise level as the quiet ones WD Reds? And I don't meaon only in tests, but in reality when they are mounted in some small Nas..? I think they did this bec...

I tested 4TB made on february 2014 (I have no model number because I returned it), 3TB made also on 02/2014 has model WD30EFRX-68EUZN0. As I checked web about 4TB, they should be loud from beginning (25/28 dBA). Alright, my quiet drive is WD30EFRX-68AX9N0, so the three mid letters got changed. Some...

RomanD wrote:WD Red are no more quiet as before.

Would you be able to list model and serial or production numbers plus year of manufacture for reference so we can see what batch it is?

Well shoot. Thanks for confirming, ojg.

Sounds good! In "the 750 Ti thread" we've had a couple mini-reviews on other-than-MSI cards with initial results not as promising.

- The only minor disappointment: The card never shuts its fans off completely like Guru3D claimed. Not even when the monitor is off. I do wish that MSI will release a BIOS that allows a 0% minimum fan setting, that would make it the ultimate silentpcreview graphics card. Did you try the Silent Mode...

ojg wrote:Look for a new mini-review to appear here later today or tomorrow.

Woo!

Chances for passive are looking better and better, thanks for the reading material. Just need a better heatsink than that.

Hi, I got the Gigabyte GTX 750 TI (GV-N75TOC-2GI) because it had the connectors I wanted and heatsink with heatpipe. Have you meant PCIe connector or different fan connector? I read it as "video outputs", since the GB card has 2xDVI and 2xHDMI . MSI for example only has 1/1/1. The PCI-E power conne...

The usual recording equipment, e.g. phones and budget cameras, just isn't sensitive or clear enough to really bring out the differences. Anyone who has investigated fan RPMs and sound should know what you're talking about though. It's definitely noisy if it rises above a decent 120 mm fan going 1200...

The reference card is just that, a reference design (usually doesn't end up on sale as such). The increased consumption comes more or less directly from the retail manufacturers' desire to increase performance, if just by a bit, compared to the reference card and, more importantly, compared to their...

Dang... well, thanks for the warning. The only quiet EVGA I've ever heard fried on me, so I guess they're loud for a reason (because they suck at cooling ).

Kyno wrote:My little friend just arrived



Now I need to build the PC, not sure I'll have the time before a few days

Nice - do keep us posted, maybe in a full build thread?

Companies definitely seem avid at negating any gains achieved by diluting efficiency, be it via hardware or software. :twisted: 30 % does sound like a lot, but even if we got the full benefit, we're looking at desktop savings in the single digits and probably something like 15 W under hardcore 3D lo...

Nice! PayPal has worked well in the past, that's how I got the fancy text under my name anyway.

$15 is quite alright. At 30 we just need 5 donors, at 15 it's only 10 etc. We've got a community of hundreds with massive traffic going through SPCR, so this is just a matter of people willing to fight the good fight (i.e. open up their wallets and contribute more than their opinion). If we want ext...

The 20 nm low-power card will definitely be doubly delayed now, as the 750 Ti was rather delayed in the first place. I doubt they will raise its performance much from these figures though, and with power consumption this low, I'm not sure how much difference they can make with -8 nm.

Since this GPU is something of a milestone and a future benchmark in efficiency, I thought I'd try and rally up funds for a review. To quote Mike: So how much for a GPU? probably need different targets for fanned vs fanless -- the latter is always more complex to test. say... $150 & $200. So target ...

Maybe, noise wise, it's more rational buying the cheapest one available, and then slap an Accelero S1 Plus on it. While i dont disagree with you, i dont think its for everybody, voiding warranties, having sometimes coolers that dont fit 100%, etc, its something that not all do. Personally i love ti...

Does these mean it's possible to make a good gaming machine run on a picopsu? In terms of the total power envelope it looks doable. 70-ish watts for the card leaves some 80-90 W for the rest of the system, if we're talking the biggest "plug PSU", the picoPSU-160-XT. Surely a non-overclocked Haswell...

Speaking of coolers, a passive version should just be a matter of time... right? I may be forced to upgrade from my 650 Ti if one materialises.

Incredibly efficient and low power, and yet it has enough performance to run heavy 3D games at decent (or even good) levels of detail. Think we have a bit of a pinnacle on our hands now.