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- Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:14 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: AMD fan control at Techreport
- Replies: 15
- Views: 18598
Re: AMD fan control at Techreport
MikeC, thanks for blogging this on the front page. That might attract a little attention.
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:28 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: AMD fan control at Techreport
- Replies: 15
- Views: 18598
AMD fan control at Techreport
Techreport has an article about the AMD SB800's internal fan controls. The chip includes some excellent features that motherboards simply are not using. Let's make some noise about this.
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:31 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 98402
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
[quote="Taxcheat"]...I don't see why it's any harder to go with a unix distro than Windows home server...[/quote] You're probably correct when considering only the server setup, but don't forget that WHS offers simple setup of additional features. Making, e.g., automatic backup of client PCs & remot...
- Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:19 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 98402
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
spinkman asked, "What happens when your raid controller/P3 mobo/HP Media server/etc dies? what are your options then? "- Can another hp media server rebuild or another WHS device rebuild a drive extender array?" Each HD in a WHS uses a standard NTFS format & has similar folder structure. The server ...
- Sun Oct 17, 2010 4:01 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 98402
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
Good article. I've built a couple WHS boxes & installed an HP EX495, and I am a fan of the system. The price comparison with HP's servers is a little unfair, because it omits the cost of the WHS software. HP's boxes include that extra $100 from the factory, so you get a lot of value in the $400ish m...
- Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:10 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Antec Mini P180 $67
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1440
Antec Mini P180 $67
The white version is Newegg's Shellshocker. It won't last long.
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:47 am
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: Definitive Answer Needed: 2 pumps with a Resorator?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5235
Simply adding a pump in series should be okay, but I agree that it shouldn't be TOO mismatched (e.g. Reserator + 24V Iwaki). Series pumps boost the pressure ability without increasing open-loop flow, so restrictive systems will see more flow with this approach. You might want to measure your flow be...
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:58 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Antec 302-S Project
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21866
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:48 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Cougar GX-700: 80 Plus Gold from a new brand
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10080
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:55 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Zotac ZBOX HD-ND22: At Last a CULV Nettop
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8716
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:23 pm
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: 360 rad enough to cool OCed i7 920, 2 GTX 480s and MB?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 23764
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:16 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Zotac ZBOX HD-ND22: At Last a CULV Nettop
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8716
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:41 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Seasonic X-400 Fanless PSU
- Replies: 167
- Views: 171840
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:06 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Zotac H55-ITX-C-E: Stacked LGA1156 Mini-ITX Motherboard
- Replies: 23
- Views: 17475
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:38 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Seasonic X-400 Fanless PSU
- Replies: 167
- Views: 171840
I reported one example here. Remember this is wall power measured with a Kill-a-watt.mdrumt wrote:E.g. could you run a quad core a single high end gfx card (perhaps not a fermi) and a 2-3 drives with it?
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:33 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Seasonic X-400 Fanless PSU
- Replies: 167
- Views: 171840
- Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:11 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Seagate FreeAgent Go 1TB and 640GB portable USB drives
- Replies: 28
- Views: 20156
- Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:47 am
- Forum: Watercooling
- Topic: which radiator fans?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7271
- Fri Jul 02, 2010 6:50 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Using mass loaded vinyl for PC acoustic damping?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3567
I lined my Chenbro Genie with MLV in late 2003. Details here.
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:06 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Athlon II X4 610e & Phenom II X4 910e: 45W & 65W Qua
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23953
The correct way to make this measurement is to run a set of various application tasks, measure the total power used and time how long it took to run the test. Average power is total power used divided by total time. A Power Angle or KAW is no good because it measures the total power used by the com...
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:35 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Athlon II X4 610e & Phenom II X4 910e: 45W & 65W Qua
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23953
Looking at it a little more changes my opinion. The differences in idle power are so low, there simply won't be big changes. For example, the i5-750's idle is only 1W more than the 610e's. Balancing the benchmark energy would require 6.3 hours' idling. Certain combinations may show more difference, ...
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:25 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Athlon II X4 610e & Phenom II X4 910e: 45W & 65W Qua
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23953
If you want some sort of total energy consumption, then just assume some total amount of time the computer running CPU intensive tests, for example that might consume about 10-25% of the time for the (for the slowest PC) and then balance is idle time (the idle time will vary depending on how long e...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:49 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Athlon II X4 610e & Phenom II X4 910e: 45W & 65W Qua
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23953
Good benchmarks & analysis. However, I missed an important area regarding these low-power CPUs: are they worth the extra money for the tweaker? For example, could SPCR's X4 630 undervolt/clock to match the 610e? Running in spec is essential for a lot of users, but this forum has a lot of hobbyists w...
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:51 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building a domain server for backup...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1346
Double the size to MicroATX for a broader supply of products. There's a lot to be said for standard PSUs and so on. My first suggestion for a beefy CPU with low idle wattage is Clarkdale. However, the motherboard situation is a mess, because H55 doesn't do native RAID. Options are H55 with integrate...
- Wed May 19, 2010 8:59 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Fan Test System, 2010
- Replies: 89
- Views: 62519
- Fri May 07, 2010 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Coolermaster 690-II now Resorated
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11580
- Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:44 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Project: Hush!
- Replies: 67
- Views: 59682
- Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:40 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: HIS HD Radeon 5870 iCooler V Turbo
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14351
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:30 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Recco for good Data Drive w/ SSD
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4603
Mainly I was looking to minimize writes on the intel ssd, thus looking to move the windows temp, IE cache, FireFox Cache, etc... of off the SSD and onto a "data drive" with a small 300 or so GB partition. If you can afford it (and you are buying a 160GB SSD...), consider putting an extra 2-4GB RAM ...
- Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:20 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Post your power consumption
- Replies: 109
- Views: 95378
I'm sorry, but I don't think you were measuring idle correctly, your hard drive probably already spun down. The 5870 uses around 40W when idle, while the 5770 uses close to 22 W and the i7 870 uses about 3W more than the i5 750. Perhaps my Kill-a-watt is off, though it shows plausible numbers for 4...