That's an interesting idea. I'll ask. What do typical pc's that are not overclocked and not SLI draw? http://www.silentpcreview.com/article28-page4.html shows a few configurations with a low of 54W DC idle / and a high of 102W DC load ( 71W AC / 126W AC with the PSU used in that test). That's with ...

What about system draw? I use an undervolted c2duo 1.86ghz 65nm 1.18volt with passively cooled nvidia gsts 7600. 1 hd, msi 975x I don't know how much power that uses, check with your local library to see if they loan out a Kill-a-watt meter or equivalent. If not the library ask friends and coworker...

Is the HDD-market dwindeling though? i thought need for storage (perhaps somewhat surprisingly), is increasing at a steady rate, and that HDDs are selling more and more? Really small devices like phones, media players, hand held game machines, cameras use embedded flash and/or slot based removable ...

how much time do you have left of the warranty? At least 2 years, considering how recently the VX450 was released and how long the original warranty was (5 years). I don't think it's safe to chopstick the fan, though if you want it to be silent or close to it a fan swap is reasonable. You'll void t...

Some amusing quotes from /. How much did Seagate actually pay (Score:5, Funny) by Fireshadow (632041) on Tuesday April 19, @10:18AM (#35867658) after the mail in rebate ? by BSalita (1000791) on Tuesday April 19, @10:33AM (#35867810) $1.375 billion or $990 million formatted. and for the Monty Python...

Brian at Storagereview Seagate Acquires Samsung Hard Drive Storage Operations Seagate and Samsung are calling it a "Broad Strategic Alignment" but it more common terms, Samsung has more or less sold off their hard drive storage division to Seagate. The deal was rumored over the weekend by the Wall S...

I have seen tables on numerous sites comparing some of these cards but frustratingly they always leave out one or two that I want to see in the table so I merged a few into one of my own. Card Name SPs GPU ROP Textures Memory TDP speed p/c filter/c rate** Radeon HD 6850 960 775 MHz 32 48 128 GB/s 12...

You really will believe anything you read won't you? I don't know why you bother to spout this stuff. I'll just quote someone elses rebuttal to this as it covers it nicely Every Watt Counts: AMD E-350 vs. Intel Core i3-2100T One of the worst reviews on xbitlabs. comparing i3 2100T to an E-350 (Gigab...

I don't see any imediate competition for HDD as storage medium. That's what Kodak said about their film business not too many years ago. Even if HDD's are around for awhile, it is a very low margin business. The future of the Desktop PC is already in jeopardy, and and even laptops are loosing marke...

I don't see any immediate competition for HDD as storage medium. A duopoly maybe good for their profits, but I'm doubtful that it will be good for costumers... Yeah. Samsung has some of the best bang for buck HDDs. Something tells me Seagate might change that for the worse. Big capacity SSDs are st...

http://www.silentpcreview.com/news-2011-04-18.htm

And then there were 3.

jhhoffma wrote:Enjoy!

Sorry, It's just a bad pun...

I would have gone with I just

April 2011 SSD pricing update: The list sorted by Capacity then Gross Price is: Intel X25-V 40GB ~$ 91 ~$2.28/GB SSDSA2MP040G2K5 Intel 320 Series 40GB ~$102 ~$2.55/GB SSDSA2CT040G3K5 = 40GB = SSDSA2CT040G3B5 Samsung 470 64GB ~$123 ~$1.92/GB MZ-5PA064/US Crucial C300 64GB ~$124 ~$1.94/GB CTFDDAC064M...

Anand did a piece today about 20nm flash from IMFT (which just recently started selling 25nm flash). His comment is that we should expect 20 to 30% price drops on SSDs from each new process generation going forward (as opposed to the much higher drop we saw when 34nm replaced 50nm).

It doesn't have to be "as bad" as the Soviet nuclear disaster to be a '7'. The radiation released (so far) is about 10% as much as Chernobyl, which certainly is still a lot. The previous rating of 5 was suspect -- wasn't it already "serious" at that point? So, I think it should have been a 6 before...

Japan on Tuesday raised the severity rating at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to level 7, the most serious on the international scale and the same rating that was given 25 years ago to Chernobyl, as aftershocks close to the facility heighten safety concerns. Experts are not agre...

For some reason the links to all these threads are not working for me... what's going on? 90% of the threads linked here from before 2007 were purged in 2010. I might be off on the numbers but the concept is sound. You are looking for really old content that no longer exists. Some of them do still ...

6790 can actually draw more power than the 6850 if you go by the TDP listed at Comparison of AMD graphics processing units : Northern Islands (HD 6xxx) series . From what I read that table is out of date the original 6790 had a 150W TDP but the newer revision that was actually released came in with...

I just saw this today, pretty interesting to watch the Geiger counter numbers as they travel the 15+ km towards Fukushima. I was surprised they went in with no protective gear but at least they gave up at 1.5km from the plant when radiation levels got too high for their comfort. http://www.youtube.c...

andymcca wrote:

dhanson865 wrote:apparently it's only a safe purchase for Linux and Windows 7 as there is no manual trim utility.

Could always boot linux to run wiper.sh

I'd be willing to do that. It'd be nice to see some before/after benches on a XP SP3 system using C300 + wiper.sh

Video review for those not familiar with this laptop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsnSATGW8Wc

Just remember the reviewer didn't modify the fan settings so her comments about the fan aren't what you'd deal with if you took a couple of minutes to do something about it.

Have you tried the HP Thermal Wizard aka Cool Sense Wizard? Reviews I've read say you can slow down the fan using it. "It's quiet in "quiet mode" The fan always runs, but its not bad." If you did a clean install of windows you have to install the HP Support Assistant to get the wizard. another poste...

I know there is nothing funny in Japan right now but I'm going to quote the funniest post I've read since the disaster. 300px-New_radiation_symbol_ISO_21482.svg_1.png It either means "run away from this hazard", or that you are about to be beamed up by space aliens. Which is also pretty scary, I sup...

This NOVA program is the most information about the earthquake in Japan that I have seen: http://video.pbs.org/video/1863101157 I DVRed it last night and got the family together to watch it this afternoon. It was OK but not as good as the internet coverage I've seen. Definitely saw some new materia...

Maybe my PC isn't quiet enough to notice it but my monitor is set to 42% brightness just because it's the "Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything". I really couldn't tell much difference in brightness though 100% seemed just barely too bright for nighttime use. It's nothing special just a Acer...

The disjointed news flow from Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) continues to provide a confusing picture of the status of the 4 crippled nuclear power stations at Fukushima Dai-ichi on the East coast of Japan. This is leading to a very broad spectrum of opinion on the actual status and future co...

http://freevideocoding.com/flvplayer.sw ... start=true

Even if you want to consider the Nuclear situation a non issue. This video of the Tsunami is impressive.

those are some interesting numbers but I keep seeing quotes like this "Prime Minister Naoto Kan yesterday blamed inadequate tsunami defenses at the plant for the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986" So if the Prime Minister actually made that comparison he is either wrong or mayb...

Oh and for the record per the NRC there were 0 deaths directly attributed to 3 Mile Island. Chernobyl has a more complicated tally: Thirty one deaths are directly attributed to the accident, all among the reactor staff and emergency workers. Estimates of the number of deaths potentially resulting f...

The difference between this accident and Chernobyl, they say, is that at Chernobyl a huge fire released large amounts of many radioactive materials, including fuel particles, in smoke. At Fukushima Daiichi, only the volatile elements, such as iodine and caesium, are bubbling off the damaged fuel. B...