toki_c wrote:You can find real cheap sound damping material... So you will find 5m rolls and such... I get mine to a nearby DIY shop, ~200m yes I know I'm lucky D: fro 20€, 5mx0.5mx7mm

What did you buy? What is this stuff called?

For diagnosing error messages, Google is your best friend.

You should be able to run that system on 350W with 175W to spare.

I looked at the Lian Li PC-A05B but it was a little too deep for my needs as the comp wont fit in the metal tower holder without sticking out...I looked at more coolermasters after looking at the centurion and found this : Coolermaster CM-590 Case Plus CM eXtreme 500W PSU http://www.ebuyer.com/prod...

makes me wonder why Intel won't do 1GHz idle states? Is there a problem with a 3x multiplier? Maybe there's no power to be saved. Graphs I've seen of measured power usage of the processor alone show 45nm chips using low single digit wattage at idle. I can't even try a 3x multiplier, but at 6x the l...

rvb3n wrote:i think that this one is the best AMD for me: AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400, what do you think about it?

Don't the 4050E, 4450E and 4850E replace the BE-2300, BE-2350 and BE-2400?

While the power savings might not be impressive, undervolting is good for keeping the system silent. It shaved 5C of the idle temperatures on my CPU (E6550), and a good 10C at load. The numbers I listed *are* undervolted. My point is that the savings you can get with fancy power management (e.g. RM...

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That Lian Li is quite deep and not as short as you'd think. After seeing that I went looking for a similar design in microATX with fewer drive bays (that'd allow it to be shorter) and didn't find anything. Nothing with a 12cm fan, anyway.

A 16W spread between idle and load is perfectly reasonable for a low-power CPU. I can get that with an undervolted E8400. I missed the part about your swapping the CPU for an E8200. You'd have to have it undervolted and underclocked to see just 16W spread between load and idle. Scdr is right. Your ...

From my lowest-stable-voltage tests of my E8400: 333x6 = 2.0 GHz (min multiplier), 0.8125 V set in BIOS 333x9 = 3.0 GHz (max multiplier), 1.0125 V set in BIOS The difference in total system power draw from the wall between these two states at idle is 4W. 71W vs 75W. The best power management strateg...

A 16W spread between idle and load is perfectly reasonable for a low-power CPU. I can get that with an undervolted E8400. For a stable high-power load, run prime95. It won't exercise your disks but it'll tell you the spread between idle and load for your processor. Also, running something other than...

I have read that the Gigabyte P35 boards have very little to no drop in voltage while stressing the cpu. I've taken a lot of data at different voltages/frequencies with a GA-P35-DS3L and E8400 and I've found there is often no additional droop at load over idle. Some examples... 300x6=1.8 GHz, 0.775...

I have a Logisys cooler/quieter thingy and it's mounted in a 5.25" bay of a Sonata using rubber thingies like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817984001 The Sonata drive rail thingies screw onto the drive/cooler/rubberthingy assembly, then that slides in the case. If your ...

The processor you've selected has a 1066 FSB. DDR2 800 RAM allows you to overclock it to 1600 FSB. That's a 50% over-clock. If that's not enough, then get the 1066 RAM. Don't let "I'm going to over-clock" make you spend more money than is reasonable. Learn about the overclocking you can actually hop...

After reading the SPCR review on the Ninja Copper I'm leaning back towards the U120E. The lack of fitting security on such a heavy HS is a concern. A Thermalright bolt-thru kit fixes that. Is it not still accepted that the Ninja's wide fin spacing makes it better suited for fanless operation than t...

The maximum power consumption i read was 107W (during a stress test, burning a dvd on the fly and playng a 1080p mkv while running superpi 1M...), so what pico i have to buy? Pico 120W is enough? Your maximum power usage doing all those things was likely less than if you had just done the stress te...

That's a great idea, Lucas. Thanks for the links. I might do something similar if I build another one, but this machine will almost never need a DVD-ROM.

With respect to your proposed build, I would agree with the other posters in stepping up to a HD3850, or better yet, a 9600GT if the price difference is small. A 3450 doesn't make much sense to me as it won't do anything over and above the on-board video (HD video-wise and in everyday 'office'-type...

Watch the meter during start-up to see how much power is used to bring up all those drives. Do you need two DVD drives? Do you really need the floppy? Do you save any power at idle by removing them? Do you save any power at start-up? If you intend to run it at greater than 1GHz, get those power numb...

I'm using a Presonus Central Station as a preamp for a pair of Yamaha HS550M monitors and the matching Yamaha subwoofer. Into the central station I have plugged digital coax from my PC, balanced TRS from a POD XT Pro that's doubling as a USB audio interface on my Mac, and a stand-alone DVD player un...

I wish there was something interesting to put it into. I'd like to see a budget board with decent onboard graphics with low power requirements in an LGA 775 flavor. Something like a 780G or GeForce 8200 integrated graphics. If I understand correctly, a recent, modest card like an HD 2400 Pro or GeFo...

I installed the 500G version today. I'm disappointed with the seek noises. Perhaps it's because of lesser noise overall, and maybe because I've done a lot to quiet my system the last week or so, but this sounds like a chattery drive. Seek noises are sharp and very audible over the PSU and 1000 RPM N...

The application is as an exhaust fan in a Sonata 1 case, close to a fanless Ninja. The temperature I'm measuring is core temp.

800 v 1000 isn't really comparable rpm, so no surprise the Nexus wins with that comparison. According to the airflow specs and from people saying it moved more air than other 800 RPM fans I thought it would be a good comparison. I'm re-running the test today and the difference is about 5 degrees C.

I've read people who swear by the Slipstream 800 and say it moves more air than comparable speed fans of other designs, and according to the specs it does, but...I'm not convinced. By both the hand-in-the-exhaust and the coretemp-in-prime95 tests it moves less air than a Nexus at 1000 rpm. The latte...

smilingcrow wrote:Were the voltages at idle the same as given above?

6750 was at 1.325V and 8400 was at 1.05V, set in BIOS. I expected to see a difference at idle but didn't.

Do you know the specific model number of your old Antec? True 380S Where did you get your Sparkle? Provantage. It came without any retail packaging, spec sheet, instructions, etc. I don't know if that's how power supplies are typically sold, but that's what I got from provantage. buy.com also sells...

Here are the results of today's power supply swap. I replaced an old 380W Antec (from the first Sonata case) with a Sparkle 250W 80+. idle at windows desktop: 105W -> 82W prime95 max-power torture: 137W -> 112W gaming, low polygon, high framerate: 130W -> 108W gaming, high polygon, low framerate: 12...

It apparently needs some airflow, which your case fan provides. I wondered if it would work without any fan at all, and now I guess I know.

Google is great for answering these kinds of questions. Go to the advanced search http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en and type silentpcreview.com in the "site or domain" field and the case model number in the "all these words" field and you'll find discussions for what other people have cons...

Well, actually UBUNTU "is" Linux, in the sense that UBUNTU is a distribution based on a GNU/LINUX OS called "DEBIAN"... :roll: What I meant is that the numbers I've posted are for Windows and I haven't re-run the tests for Linux. And in answer to your question, the distro I'm using is Ubuntu. Clear...