Ouch, that's pretty dusty. Has it been awhile since you cleaned it or do you have pets or just a dusty room? The problem with passive GPUs is that they generally do still need airflow. And that case really leaves the GPU sitting up there with none of it. Your exhaust only fans give you the good cool...

I too swapped the fan on my MT-350 PSU. I wrote about it here. Been going strong now for over 2 years.

I'm thinking along similar lines. Why not have a fan in there standing idle and ready for when ambient temps >30 degrees or you want/need more power draw? Well, if you stick a fan in there, then you have to make room for it. Which would mean cutting down on the size of the heat sinks. Which would m...

AFAIK in case of S1156 boards it depends on motherboard BIOS. If you can set lower voltage than 1.5V, then yes. If no, the no :). I have the G.Skill 1.35V memory. to get it running at a lower voltage, I just had to set the BIOS to XMP profile 1 or something. Then it ran just fine at 1.45V(*). I did...

Here's what I measured when I first got it with a barebones setup. MB/CPU, PicoPSU 150 (200W brick), and a 2.5" laptop drive... Voltage Idle Load ------- ---- ---- Stock 30 71 -0.15 30 60 -0.1875 30 58 Although I was sure I got more like 27W idle... Maybe that was with a different PSU. The brick for...

I too picked up the Gigabyte H55. Undervolting for me did nothing at idle power but did cut some off under load. If I were buying again, I'd probably just go for the Intel and save the hassle while getting lower power.

Well, that wouldn't be possible until they got to 750GB platters which they're only just getting to 667GB I believe. So in theory 1.33TB 2-platter drives could be coming at some point. But probably not until a little while after the bigger 2TB 3-platter drives arrive which sounds like it should be s...

RMClock unfortunately hasn't been updated in a LONG time. It was an awesome tool at it's time with nice graphs and stuff. The Core iX CPUs have a much more advanced clocking/voltage system and seem to run about as cool as possible out of the box at idle at least. I tried undervolting my Core i3 530 ...

klankymen wrote:Hopefully one more donation and we're good to go.

Donation sent... We should be at the $200 mark now. Wu-hooo!

My two most recent motherboards have been gigabyte. An AMD 785G and Intel H55. Both have relative voltage adjustments in the BIOS meaning I could set it to -0.2V or so to undervolt and not lose the C'n'Q or SpeedStep ability. With the AMD, I actually set a modest undervolt in the BIOS and then used ...

45nm was 2 years ago. Not suitable for silent PCs. Yeah, I noticed that when this topic was first posted. All AMD CPUs since the AII/PII are 45nm. The 125W -> 95W version is not from a change in manufacturing process but just a tweak to the existing process... Maybe even just a reduction in voltage...

You said multitouch at the beginning of the review then later refered to as touch screen. Multitouch implies it also works with stylus, and i mean the ones that hover, how the dumb piece of plastic kind of stylus. Can you confirm this? I take multi-touch to mean it recognizes you touching the scree...

There was no specific schema for wiring. I believe the Dell wire colors match normal PSU wires. So it's red-red, black-black, orange-orange, etc... As I mentioned, the only "issue" was that the orange wire count didn't match. So I had a couple of cases where two orange wires on one side connected to...

Well, their first comment under the combo deal is... Newegg.com cannot guarantee the compatibility of Combo items. Please contact the manufacturer(s) directly if you have issues or concerns regarding compatibility. I'd like to see someone call Gigabyte and ask why their Intel Core i3 CPU doesn't fit...

I've been using an NSK1480 for maybe 2 years now as my HTPC. No problems with it yet. Of course being an HTPC means I only turn it on every couple days and usually only for a little bit at a time. I never checked but always thought that the SeaSonic SS-300TFX would fit as a replacement. It looks sim...

Lastly, SPCR, are you sure the TDP you are quoting is actually TDP? AMD normally works with ACP (average cpu power) which is actually lower than the TDP (thermal design power) I think AMD only uses ACP when they're talking server CPUs like the opterons. And they usually specify both. TDP for engine...

Undervolting could help keep the CPU cooler and reduce the fan on/off cycle. But I doubt it would be able to completely stop it. RMClock was a great tool, but it's out of date. I did get it working in Win7 x64 once I think but it was a lot of work. And I didn't think it worked with the new ways the ...

Amazing how in the fast-paced world of consumer electronics, this story hasn't changed in 4 years. Who buys these AMD 'e' chips? The 'e' chips are nice for business and OEM type applications where you don't want to worry about instability or other possible issues from undervolting. Such as if a sof...

Actually the GPU I am running is still very competitive for GFLOPs per Watts, at least according to the figures at Wikipedia's Comparison of AMD graphics processing units (can't link). It also sucks in less power at idle (13-14W) than any comparable HD 4xxx or HD 5xxx. Of course for gaming it is no...

Good review. The video was a nice addition. Would K10stat work with the CPU to fix the voltage issues?

That keyboard looks really nice. Is there a model number for it? Is it available on it's own?

I want to cool this with one fan in back of case, either the Antec 120 Tri-Cool that came with the case or Nexus 120 which I have already. I could slow the Nexus down with a Zalman Fan Mate I've got or, and here's the question, hook it to the CPU fan header and let it's speed be controlled by mothe...

I'm guessing he's talking about the fact that there is a measureable change in power consumption between hot and cool VRMs. SPCR did an article about this I think. Can't seem to find it right now. The question posed seems to ask if that extends to the CPU temp as well... My thought is probably not a...

The 4000 is a decent case but nothing special. It's just your basic ATX standard case. Nothing specific about it make's it a quiet case. It has rubber grommets for the hard drives. But they're thin and stiff and really don't do anything to dampen the hard drive noise. I would probably do this case b...

I think there were some DFI Lanparty boards at one time that used heat pipes and a heatsink right at the back of the board with some vents in the IO plate for cooling. Not going out of the case but along the same idea. My thought is that it's not really needed. Most normal motherboards are fairly lo...

Thanks for the report RedAE102. I know that my picoPSU setup is not the most efficient. I have a couple of 65W or 90W bricks from old Inspiron laptops and I've been meaning to pick up an 80W or 120W picoPSU to see how good that works. Actually, I have a 17" Acer monitor that runs off of 19V. I want ...

I've got a triple-monitor setup at work by using an AMD 780G motherboard plus an HD3650 GPU. One DVI on the MB + 2 DVI on the GPU. The 3650 is a fanless model which is nice. But it sits very close to the mini-Ninja CPU cooler which doesn't leave much room for the chipset heatsink to get airflow so i...

Any news BillyBuerger, would be very interesting to hear your 2 cents on these PSUs. Oh yeah. I posted my results in a separate thread here . I also picked up a Dell H255E and posted the results of that one here . I've sent the modified RM112 to Mike for review. Check out the Donate for Review page...

The Vostros are basically just white-boxes except with a shinny black front. There's nothing special about them. Dell does do some things right from a quiet PC perspective, but even on their best PCs they're still not great. And the Vostros are not their best. So if the fans aren't outright loud, th...

I'm using one for the SSD that's mounted in the lower 5.25" bay and it fits fine. At work, I have a CD drive mounted and don't remember any problems with it. Maybe something changed in the newer ones they're shipping out or something? They got a bad batch of rails from their distributor?

The big thing to note here is to look at how they are being measured. The Atom is total system power in AC watts. This includes the entire board plus the efficiency of the power supply. The i5 is DC watts of just the CPU plus the VRM efficiency and doesn't include anything else on the board. Atom CP...