SPCR review showed that SilentDrive is prone to overheating 3.5", 7200rpm drives. In terms of acoustic reduction effectivity, the SilentDrive is completely effective in preventing the sound of these 2.5" drives from escaping, and costs much less than SmartDrive as well. As these are far cooler oper...

I know CrystalCPUID can do this - that's not the issue here. I want to get Cool'n'Quiet working. The AMD Powernow service sounds like it could be of help - where did you get it?

Asus supplies their own Cool&Quiet monitoring program, which is what I was basing my observations on. But now CrystalCPUID confirms it - the clock speed stays at max no matter how idle my system is. It doesn't seem to work exactly the way you describe though, because hovering the mouse over the icon...

indie!!!! wrote:The NF4 supposedly has a max of 80C.

Where did you hear this? Such a statement, especially when Asus claims a much higher max temp, really ought to be qualified.

who wants that temperature in their case anyways? Are you saying everyone should just stop using NF4 because it generates an untenable amount of heat? It's not like using a better cooling solution on the chipset is going to somehow lessen the amount of heat being generated - it's still going to be ...

My NF4 chipset runs at 65C idle and 75C load, and those temps are taken on the *top* of the heatpipe block of my A8N-SLI Premium. I was worried about this, but contacted Asus and they told me not to worry. According to them, the max operating temp of the chipset is around 100C. I can't give you any ...

It's probably a good idea, as long as you tape over any intake holes just above the PSU. Otherwise it would just draw air in from outside in a loop.

I have the exact same situation as you, philippz. The mobo is A8N-SLI Premium, but the Bios screens are exactly the same as yours, and I can't find anything about APIC anywhere. Funny thing is, it works perfectly in Linux.

From then on, I prefer to keep all the components as cool as possible. But... but... this is Silent PCReview, not Cool PCReview! ;) I guess the trick is finding a good balance... since I really can't hear my fan at anything below 6V, I'll run it at that and watch the temps for a bit. I may add a se...

Running all the components at high temperature might shorten their lifespan. That's something I've been wondering about. Why do components have a listed max operating temperature if it's a really bad idea to run it even close to that hot? Has there been any definitive testing on how temperature aff...

Oh, heh, yeah, I should've realized you guys wanted that :) The numbers when running fanless and idle I remember very clearly, because I was monitoring them very carefully ;). The CPU got up to 60C, the GPU 72C, the MB 52C, and my own sensor that was stuck to the metal block of the chipset heatpipe ...

The P180 is amazing, but it has the problem that the lower chamber relies on a fan (either in the PSU or mounted in the middle of the chamber) if you have hard drives generating heat down there. So I removed my hard drives from the case entirely, and voila - my system survives running entirely fanle...

But you're saying I *should* be ok with ripping off the big faceless corporation for those same $400+ by RMAing a card I obviously broke myself?

Well, you may be right, it is big and faceless after all...

As I said, I really do have a hard time believing that I damaged anything, but it appears I did... I'm going to try to borrow someone's video card to make sure it's not something else though - maybe I accidentally damaged something on the mobo while routing that cable. I know the heatsinks usually a...

JonV, you should sen a mail to asus to tell them about your worries as long as you didn't change anything of the motherboard i guess your temps should be ok, but better check with them. Thanks for the idea - I did, and they replied within the day, which is impressive. Even more impressive is the sp...

So a 30% drop in performance if you set AF to what it "should" be? Umm... not quite. Some germans messed with the driver until they prevented it from recognizing the card, which eliminated the AF problem but also lowered performance by 30%. Repeat after me: Correlation does not imply causation. Eve...

While I was reseating my 7800GT after routing a cable under it, one of the tiny heatsinks stuck to each memory chip fell off. This is underneath the big front heatsink of the Zalman ZM80D-HP heatpipe cooler I have mounted on the card, and I couldn't reach well enough to reattach it properly. I reall...

So watch out. I returned both of the disks. They did not have the FDB (Fluid Dynamic Bearing) stamp on the motor. Finding two that do have that stamp turns out to be very hard (if not impossible) I had thought that most drives these days use FDBs. You'd know it if it didn't. I second this... I real...

I've got the fan on the back of the P180 set up blowing in on Medium and the front intake fan (not over any HDDs) blowing in on Low toward the GC... Hold on... blowing in? Both of them? You want the rear fan blowing out. You *are* running with no exhaust fans whatsoever, which is not good - you wan...

My CnQ is off as well - Linux doesn't like it for dual cores yet.

My 4200+ Manchester (same as your 3800+ just 200Mhz slower cores) runs fine with a fanless Ninja, all airflow provided by just one 12V Nexus at the back of my P180. Die temperature never ever exceeds 50C. As addyngan says, your numbers really sound way high, and I doubt even terrible case airflow co...

Totally OT and I may be wrong, but I thought the 2 sticks of ram were supposed to be on the same color ram slot to give dual channel. :?: You are correct. Actually he is wrong... Not totally wrong, but wrong in this case. On my motherboard Dual Channel does not go by color. The memory actually has ...

Well I'm running a 7800GT passively with the ZM80D-HP, but the 7800GTX runs much much hotter, so I don't think there's any question you'd need a fan. And in that case, maybe you'd be better off with a VF700 instead? I haven't heard it in person, but people say it's pretty quiet. It certainly would b...

In case anyone's wondering, the Antec Phantom 350W will reach pretty much any connector on any motherboard. The ATX12V reaches my Asus A8N SLI Premium (plug at top left, like the other Asus boards) just fine - didn't even have to route it under the video card.

I'm no benchmarking guy so i don't know what applications to use, but i've understood that RTHDRIBL stresses the GPU. Search for it, it's free. :) Thanks. My GPU does hit 80 degrees after a long while of RTHDRIBL at max resolution, so I guess HL2 wasn't pushing it quite to the max. I'm still happy ...

peterson wrote:Actually, i had 6 holes.

Now that you mention it, maybe I did too... what I meant was, however many holes were on the backplate, two of them (almost) lined up with the two on the heatsink.

Did you also notice that the manual shows 4 holes in the backside heatsink to bolt it onto the plastic backside base plate, but it's actually only 2 holes in the heatsink? That makes an identical copy of the one that comes with the ZM80D that have to have in the first place and hence it's unnecessa...

Have you tried ASUS PC Probe? that litlle utility shows the Northbrodge and CPU temperature, also the voltages and fan rpms. My PC Probe shows CPU and MB temperature, says nothing about northbridge. Normally I might have interpreted the "MB temperature" as the northbridge temp, but not when my exte...

cotdt wrote:You can passively cool these things I'm 99% sure. They eat up 50W less power than nvidia 6800Ultra and Radeon 850XT.

I can confirm this - I'm running a passively cooled 7800GT right now. Read my other post about mounting the Zalman ZM80D-HP on it.

I just mounted the ZM80D-HP on my Gainward 7800GT using the ZM80D-IK1 kit. I'm running it without the fan, and with very little airflow in general, but it's a huge success. GPU temps never go above 65 C, even under extreme load. I had no major problems assembling the thing - I did notice what peters...