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- Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:11 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Western Digital's single-platter 320GB Caviar SE16 WD3200AAK
- Replies: 46
- Views: 51617
thanks for the review, perplexing though it is. This was the one review I was looking forward to as it's 1st on the list of drives for a thorough upgrade, though now I'm not so sure. There's already the confusion over the 2 platter vs. 1 platter drives (none of the net shops in Oz distinguish betwee...
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:15 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Xigmatek HDT-S1283 & SD964 "heatpipe direct-touch&q
- Replies: 160
- Views: 112337
- Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:59 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Enermax Modu82+ Power Supply Giveaway Draw
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34785
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:22 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: X-bit labs reviews the 9600GT
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15204
AMD have big plans for their next generation GPUs which they predict/hope will hit 10W at idle even for the top end single chip cards. Combine that with the hybrid graphics (or whatever it’s called) which disables the external card when in 2D mode and uses the IGP and things are looking good. tha...
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:27 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Why a convicted murderer shouldn't die.....
- Replies: 120
- Views: 65887
Re: I'm Pro-Death!
The best part about state sponsored revenge killings is that it miraculously brings murder victims back to life while teaching that killing is wrong at the same time. awesome - that's the sound of a hammer hitting a nail on the head. I think the best way to prevent murders is to kill everyone - tha...
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:43 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Why a convicted murderer shouldn't die.....
- Replies: 120
- Views: 65887
tell you what, why not go to the extreme that Bluefront is advocating - murder (sorry, execute - murder isn't murder or is it?) everyone in prison. That'll clear out expensive overcrowded prisons, reduced recidivism (SP?) to zero and prevent almost every murder that might happen in the US. Then appl...
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:25 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Super Efficient Cars [very large pictures]
- Replies: 387
- Views: 903950
AFAIK the main problem with diesel hybrids (along with the additional weight of the often iron blocked engine) is that due to their high compression diesels are very hard to stop start, which is the main approach to petrol hybrids like the Prius. I think that diesels emit alot of particulates on sta...
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:16 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Why a convicted murderer shouldn't die.....
- Replies: 120
- Views: 65887
I have to agree with Neil - given the number of wrongful convictions in any criminal justice system, how can you really justify killing as a punishment, aside from any moral argument along the lines of "thou shalt not kill". The fact that capital punishment doesn't act as a deterent (the US and Chin...
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:59 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: How much Electricity do you use? How much can you REDUCE it?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22981
I think we're at around 7000kWh a year, so between 550 and 600kWh per month. That's for 2 1/2 people, 3 bedroom bungalow with gas ducted heating and stove (hot water's electric). Haven't been in Melbourne for a whole year yet, but we'll probably use the gas heating for ~3mths and aircon intermitentl...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:30 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Noctua NF-P12 ... vs ten other fans. Done.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 77247
just to add a note about the DS12SL-12 I have - the lowest I can get it idling using Speedfan is ~570rpm, which is inaudible at my ambient noise level (pretty quiet after 10pm). A DS12SM-12 set at it's lowest level using Speedfan was perhaps a smidgen noisier, but not a reliably detectable differenc...
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:00 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Underclocking Radeon 3780 or Nvidia 8800GT
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4695
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:58 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 VGA Cooler
- Replies: 33
- Views: 66397
Re: question on accelero
is S2 workin' on leadtek 7600 gt AGP.? i ask because i saw on their site that it supoused to have 3 bolts but, the card has only 2 houls that i measured and came close with the describtion (scuze my bad english). most aftermarket coolers aren't compatible with AGP cards because they have a second c...
- Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:58 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
- Replies: 394
- Views: 406600
yikes, it's only a hard drive guys, no need for such vitriol. Until all the current 1TB are tested and compared here or on another reputable site, there's really no need for such fanboyism. As for reliability data, however reliable forum posts may or may not be, the simple matter is that they're far...
- Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:21 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The Tata "Nano" -- the $2,500 People's Car
- Replies: 72
- Views: 25593
I wish they would publish pollution specs of 50cc 2 cycles engines used for weed whackers and chain saws. They really suck. Small engines in garden tools are a huge source of pollution relative to their use - most are 2 stroke and very few are maintained properly. My 2 stroke lawnmower (hand me dow...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:42 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 3870 - How many Amps is needed for it?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5833
if it's heat (card or PSU), just turn up your exhaust fan. If it stops freezing/ gittering then that's the problem. Happened to me recently when it hit 35C inside - my 7300GT only has a 80mm S1A @5V pointed at it, so it doesn't get alot of air. Upping the DS12SL exhaust from ~550 to 900rpm solved th...
- Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:03 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 VGA Cooler
- Replies: 48
- Views: 72777
I wonder if it's power regulation circuitry or RAM cooling that's caused the artifacts at 5+7V in the passive test? The VF900 comparison made me think this might be the case as at 7V the VF900 cooled card had a higher GPU temp but lower card temp (without artifacts) than the S1 passive/ case fan at ...
- Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:49 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Sweet spot system
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4938
I'm not sure about the E4600, but I've heard plenty of people getting a simple overclock out of the E4500 at stock voltage by simply changing the FSB from 200 to 266MHz - which'll give you more or less the equivalent of a E6550 (or whatever's around 2.6GHz now), but with a nice low idle. The E4600 s...
- Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:15 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Sweet spot system
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4938
I'd probably go with a Solo for the case, E4600 (or 4500) for the CPU and overclock it as and when you need to, Scythe Minja or whatever Thermalright EXXXtreme Ultra etc is top of the pile, a 3850 (plus S1) for graphics, a single Samsung F1 320GB drive (you could get 2, but I don't need that much sp...
- Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:07 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus P5E-VM HDMI: A microATX C2D board for gamers?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 86191
great review - I always like seeing the power consumption figures, especially when MBs tend to be very similar performance wise. Is there any kind of consensus as to whether mATX boards consume less power than full ATX boards of a similar spec? Eg. basic P35 vs. basic G33, without IGP enabled? I'm n...
- Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:58 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: D201gly2: product and SPCR review discussion
- Replies: 398
- Views: 588722
- Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:36 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Sweet spot system
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4938
hmm, looks pretty good. For personal preferences I'd go for a E4500 or similar and clock it up to what ever level you need - the extra cache of the E6750 isn't going to make a huge difference and the higher multiplier of the E4xxx chips means you'll have a lower idle speed and power draw. 8800GT - h...
- Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:39 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: HD3870 Initial impressions + S1 Swap and OC
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11287
Re: Power consumption
Do you have any power consumption details of your HD3870? I've just been using one of those mains plug in devices to measure my entire system draw. Idle 87W ATI tool 3D view on 195W (Seasonic S12 rev1A) beraring in mind that idle uses Cool'n'Quiet and that ATi tool causes CPU and GPU both to 100%; ...
- Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:34 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: What could have been the cheapest dual core ever.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11115
Re: The ever popular contrarian view
The most efficient way to do the computational work is to cram 64K Power5 derived processors in one location and skip the distributed circle jerk nonsense. From transmission line loss alone (energy waste) and considering the lack of published results accomplished, the folding at home project needs ...
- Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:50 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Intel DG33TL G33 Express chipset mATX motherboard
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16522
nice review, though "You could toss on a gaming graphics card and turn it " seems to be an orphan phrase in the Final Thoughts section. TBH, as soon as I saw the BIOS page I pretty much gave up any interest. Throw in lack of Speedfan support and I'm just not interested. However, it would make a good...
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:42 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus M2A-VM HDMI: Ideal AM2 mATX motherboard?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 41456
- Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:59 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung single-platter 250GB drive
- Replies: 51
- Views: 37022
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:30 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung single-platter 250GB drive
- Replies: 51
- Views: 37022
from the Samsung site spec sheet it's a 5400rpm drive, though the HD251+2HJ models are 7200rpm, one with double the rated power draw, 1 with the same as the HD250HJ. Confusing or what? Going through Samsung's HDD webpage with all the differet product codes made my head hurt
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:13 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Moneual MonCaso: Touchscreen Gadgetry & Solid Cooling?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15583
gotta say that, judged on looks (as it will be, being a lounge room item), I almost passed this review by. All the technical aspects may be fine, but it really does look like a PC maker trying to ape a stereo maker. Surely a neat clean elegant look shouldn't be that hard to achieve? Other than that,...
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:06 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus EN8600GT OC GEAR graphics card
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10971
This review is WAY TOO LATE. The newly released 8800GT obsoletes basically all the other nvidia cards by being fast, cheap, quiet and low power . Who in their right mind would choose any 8600* over the 8800GT now? It's worrying how you nowadays tend to review stuff only when it's totally obsoleted ...
- Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:27 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Antec NSK-3480: 80-Plus Case
- Replies: 65
- Views: 58184
a nice addition would be some kind of cats cradle suspension tray (there's a company that do them, just can't remember their name) to suspend a HDD in the upper chamber. DIY suspension would be a bit awkward due to space constraints. Otherwise, this is a pretty neat case, certainly one I'd consider ...