The cardboard doesn't touch any hot parts (it touches the upper part of the fan made of plastic and parts of the metal frame) and since paper needs about 220°C (think Fahrenheit 451) to ignite, I'm not afraid of the cardboard starting to burn. In case that any other component starts burning it is in...

Thanks for confirming my suspicion and your suggestion! Fortunately, just yesterday a new program to undervolt Trinity APUs was released. I hope it doesn't disable my wireless+Bluetooth like AMD Overdrive does and I can do some voltage testing. I'm not sure if I can reduce the multiplicator of the l...

Metro also has power consumption figures between 75 and 90 Watt on the wall, so gaming is probably safe. Nonetheless, I could reproduce my 126 Watt figure when starting the OCCT PSU test afterwards, so something isn't working as it should. CPU VCore is all the time at about 1.23V, Uncore hovers arou...

I wanted to build a system which is better than the PS3 slim - smaller, faster, quieter and more energy efficient. I succeeded only partially, but I will try again with Kaveri and in the mean time I'm happy with my little gaming machine. Comparing the size you can see that my system is smaller - des...

(SPCR has reviewed this processor already. I was surprised by some of the numbers I got, so I'll post them here.) I recently bought a FM2 mini-itx system. The goal was 720p gaming in a very small case. I'll post pictures later, for now I'll share my observations about the influence of Turbo Core (TC...

The SPCR review stated that the starting voltage of the fan is about 4.3V. Afaik, the LNA-adapter is nothing but a resistor which reduces the voltage going to the fan (and thereby limiting the maximum voltage to ~8V). So my guess is "no" or "maybe a little bit", but I do not know for sure.

The NH-L9i specification talks about 300 RPM minimum rotational speed with PWM. According to the SPCR review the cooler produces 15 dBa at ~1300 RPM. I guess that with your 55 Watt CPU the fan doesn't need to spin very fast, so you can use the LNA with a maximum speed of 1800 RPM (~22dBa). Voltage S...

I had a short look at alternate fans - there are not many I could find and none with better noise at similar cfm. Example: Papst 612 JH (11k rpm!, 41 cfm (70m³/h), 53dB; http://www.ebmpapst.com/en/products/compact-fans/axial-compact-fans/axial_compact_fans_detail.php?pID=53844) Could you please conf...

I'm afraid you might have problems starting the PC and entering the bios with a PSU rated so lowly. My Asus board would run the CPU at maximum (non-turbo) frequency in bios, but it would respect undervolting and -clocking. That means that at least for the initial set-up (power draw > 80W) you would ...

Hi Milli, I'll gladly do some more tests, but unfortunately it won't be possible before Easter. (I live in a different country than my family.) The power numbers porkchop posted suggest that the influence of the graphics is quite big and using a lower voltage is very much worth it. He was running it...

You can find some numbers and information on http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Technology-Primer-Low-Voltage-RAM-150 They say using low voltage RAM can reduce peak power consumption by 2-3 Watt per stick. As far as I know 8 GB sticks use memory chips produced at a newer process (30nm?) and m...

Please don't disregard the 7750 for performance reasons. Comparing the results in the Anandtech bench doesn't give a clear win to either card, even though when the Nvidia wins, the difference is sometimes significant. Considering that a 7750 costs 20% less in these parts and there are very quiet or ...

I don't own the Noctua, but according to what I read I think you should be fine from a thermal point of view in the well ventilated case you choose. The fan in the NH-L9i is the same as in the NH-L9a and if you're OK with 34dBA at 100% (listen to the recording from the NH-L9i review for the noise ch...

I've done some undervolting on the A10-5800k and I don't think the power consumption can be easily reduced to A10-5700 levels.

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Hello, I recently upgraded my family's PC and it is now running the following configuration: AMD A10-5800k Arctic Alpine 64 Plus cooler Asus F2A85-M LE 2x4GB 1866 RAM (Patriot viper 3 black mamba) Samsung 250GB HDD Cooler Master Elite 33x case Sharkoon SHA450-8P psu The PSU is not 80+ certified and ...

Thanks a lot for these numbers! I think they make clear that undervolting the GPU is definitely worth it. A reduction of 10W AC for the 192 graphics units version in the gpu test might translate to 20W AC for the 384 units APUs. (i.e. a max power reduction of about 16W using my naive efficiency calc...

(If you put the table inside code tags you can use a mono-spaced font for the table. I took the liberty to put your values in a table formatted this way.) x3 a6+ar350 a6+ar350 a6+ar350 a6+pico 3ghz@1 12v stock @2.8ghz 3.6@1.156v @2.8ghz idle 50w 28w 23w occt cpu 100w 64w 46w occt linpack 109w 67w 55...

I think you should be OK even with no or minimal case airflow for a 35 Watt T-CPU. In the SPCR review they tested an overclocked 95 Watt CPU at 7V (1710 RPM compared to 1800 RPM with the LNA according to Noctua; 22 dBA against 34 dBA at 2500 RPM) and while the CPU temperature was 8°C higher, it was ...

The Noctua NH-L9i might do the job. It's 95x95x37mm and despite its 65 Watt rating, it should be able to cool a 77 Watt CPU if you have good airflow in your case. According to one review, it is slightly louder at 12V than the Intel stock cooler when cooling a 65 Watt CPU with better cooling performa...

Any plans for reviewing this by SPCR? :) Or at least the fan. Yes I've read a review at Radeon 3d which puts it as thermally more efficient that the respective stock coolers while being slightly louder. Running the fan at 7V appears to have little impact on thermal efficiency in a comparatively hug...

To at least partly answer my own questions: The handbrake test show 100 Watt DC load power consumption. I want to build a mini itx system with Trinity and use it for gaming (i.e. high usage of both GPU and CPU unlike in a HTPC). Do you think a Pico PSU rated at 96 Watt (8A) at 12V would be problem s...

Thanks a lot for the review! The handbrake test show 100 Watt DC load power consumption. I want to build a mini itx system with Trinity and use it for gaming (i.e. high usage of both GPU and CPU unlike in a HTPC). Do you think a Pico PSU rated at 96 Watt (8A) at 12V would be problem since the power ...

Short version: 37mm cooler for 65 Watt CPUs which does not overhang RAM modules or the PCI-E slot on mini-itx boards. Press release Product page AMD version Product page Intel version --- I'm excited about having 3mm more compared to the Kozuti for my planned mini-itx build. This brings me closer to...