As Mats said, use speedfan, cut the power completely = no buzzing. Buzzing ONLY appear when there is power on the line but it is to low for the fan to actually spin. Now, this works for me, it might not work for you and you should be dead sure that you know what is happening in your case (airflow et...

Going from a system consuming 30W to a system consuming 3W... Somehow I'd wager that the manufactorers will use the added headroom to create parts that would consume 10 times more power instead... (that is, end up on todays power ratings, but try to get more performance/watt instead...)

Sure thing, Mike, but the 80+ program isn't about the number of watts a power supply exhausts into the surroundings. Even the name of the program is chosen such that it is easy to believe that it refers to efficiency and efficiency only. In such a case half a watt does matter:) Besides, If I run a 2...

Welcome to SPCR W3ird_N3rd :) That is an interesting point you make about fans. Does anyone know if these power supplies are tested with or without a fan? What I mean is that at 20% that Fortron PSU managed ~89% efficiency with a 115V current. Sure a fan doesn't use 6w, but it may well use 1w (I've ...

I obviously can't tell for each and all manufacturers, but I looked at the first best ASUS board I could find and the specifications say both 6 SATA ports as well as 6 connectors... http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=QtpKQuERkuYw6trc&templete=2 As for looking at it from the board level here is a ...

7 years, wow. Is it that long allready? I remember buying a Duron 900 and being appalled by the noice the boxed fan made. That was the beginning of my journey of rather specialized (and sometimes shady) hardware. The reviews are better than ever, nothing short of amazing. Going back to the beginning...

I agree, governments around the world should do things like this whenever they have lots of people unemployed. The US seems to be very concerned right now with Mexico (quite rightly), people have suggested in the past to build a huge wall. Great idea for a massive government project that will inclu...

Reading the article makes it clear that while cache might have something to do with it, the stuttering is caused by low random write speed and the latter firmwares sacrifice sequential write speeds for random write and thus fixing the stuttering. In the article, the first Vertex he had was maxed for...

Just add corporations and you got corporocracy again...

Actually, that would come very close to what some of the old anarchists thought of as utopia...

I was referring in the main to global finance and the unhindered rise of the corporation. Admittedly they're not really doing anything even as questionably (or should that be arguably?) altruistic as "engineering" a global cooperative society. My reference was more of a vehicle to get my point acro...

I'm a swede, bear with me but: This is not a rightwing film, nor is it leftist. It's American, it is by default right wing. Compared to our parties, when an American discuss left or right, a swede would think "more or less extreme" as the democrates are more right wing than our most right wing party:)

Xigmatek with crossbow bolt-thru will be hard to beat... Depends very much on the intended airflow. For a passive configuration Ninja2 really shines... If you look at this page from the last heatsink review you see that when the fan speed decrees from 12V to 5V the Ninja only increase 6 degrees, wh...

Room temp of 18C? Then 23 is perfectly believable, Specially as you have an Atom. Don't worry about it:)

PS. CPU's can't really get to cold:) well, as long as you are above -100 or so at least:)

As far as I'm aware no normal AMD CPUs ever used HT2.0 higher then 1ghz hence why most or all boards only support 1ghz for HT2.0 Also I'm resonably sure the board does support HT3.0 as it's needed if you want full deinterlacing from the 780G (from what I gather in AVSForum this applies to the MSI L...

JayT: Will there be any WXP driver support for this board? I have only found Vista drivers on the MSI webpage...

I have managed to build a computer without any fan at all (as in no heatsink fan, no case fan and no PSU fan), but it took plenty of space, plenty of undervolting (although only half a multiplier drop in speed) and a Ninja II. Unless you are rather experienced with computers, I don't think I would r...

Without changing the fsb, my dual core 4200 does any multiplier on 1.1V

Is quad core a good choice for a HTPC? The most demanding function for a media PC is probably to record and playback video/audio at the same time, so in our view, a quad core is not the best choice... unless recorded content is encoded on the fly with a threaded application that can utilize the pot...

A minor error is that the link of the AMD CPU on page 2 actually links to an Intel page:)

I'm sorry, AZ, but I kinda had to butt in. ONLY 25% of budget? Thats freaking huge! Inspired by you I looked at the Swedish 2009 numbers (as you mentioned Sweden) and the Swedish expenditure on military is about 0.5% of budget. The following areas receive more (or the same) spending than the militar...

Trandy, If you try to undervolt, how much are you able to decrease the voltage at stock frequency?

http://www.american.com/archive/2007/november-december-magazine-contents/guess-who-really-pays-the-taxes They’ve fallen. In the early 1960s, the highest marginal income tax rate was a stunning 91 percent. That top rate fell to 70 percent after the Kennedy-Johnson tax cuts and remained there until...

Nice find Neoterix, that would explain why I can't use the 4x multiplier:) Other than that I think you are about as low as you can go. You can change the RAM from 2*1GB to 1*2GB, which will save you a 2-3 watts, and use an SSD if you have storage somewhere else (for another 2-3watts, but you'd need ...

It is a very efficient cooler even without any airflow:) My Ninja2 gets toasty when my CPU gets upwards 60 degrees, but then I have no airflow what so ever in that case, only convection. If the fan is running it always feels cold to the touch and the temps of my (undervolted) CPU never leaves the lo...

With those idle/load numbers, you have non of the benefitts of the pico anyways. In fact, it is allready making your system more complex and seems like an awkward way of patching your systems power requirements together...

Probably correct then

Well, that mobo isn't the most power friendly mobo there is, I'd say. at least 6 phases it looks like, LEDs both left and right, lots of gadgets and extra gizmos. I've not found any review of that mobo, but here is a review of another 680i SLI mobo with a not so different setup (7900GT 25w idle, but...

i mean- on a cold enough day, anyone with a lowish powered system and big heatsinks could probably stop their fans without any worries That was generally the idea of this post :) To point out that it is possible, but also to point out that "cold enough" don't need to be so cold as everyone thinks. ...

I'm using a 3 wire fan connected to the 4 wire connector. This means that I can't adjust the voltage stepwise, but on/off works (a throttle above 50% = fan on, less than 50% = fan off)

"cool" :8 Got some temps for the cpu under a little stress for a comparison? Hows the HDD temps during heavy use ? Are you running this with the case open? In idle the core temp is 38-40 and with 2*Prime95 I flatten out at 61-62 degrees with 2100MHz@1.075V (the fan doesn't start with this setting) ...