I hope not. I still have headache when I try to identify the various (I guess seven) GF-9300 ITX boards they made...

Oh I see, that's very good indeed :mrgreen: You won't have the chance to use the rear crossbar as the included screws are too short, of course if you can find longer ones nothing will stop you from doing it, it surely will be better than the 4 screws alone. Just be careful to check the stock backpla...

Are you sure the cooler will fit on the stock 5850? Check if the DVI shield touches it before assemblying, if that's the case, you'll have to cut the lower left fins a bit.

I wouldn't touch the PSU, too much of an expense. If I'm not wrong, it uses the same fan as the Coolermaster Silent Pro, so it's not that noisy either. Can you turn it around so that it pulls air from the bottom? As you said you're already using some kind of rubber grommets, I think the hard drive s...

Why get that bunch of stuff when there's the Scythe Yasya?
For a cheaper alternative, Arctic Freezer 13, but the Hyper 212+ is also fine as is. All of them are very easy to install.

Damn English then... we're fine. But I still fail to understand why one has to call for another's personal studies on thermodynamic when talking about a damn heatsink and undervolting, so bear with me, I think you would feel mightily upset too.

As computer science is a totally different degree with reference to mechanical engineering, maybe you might not speak about thermodynamics with enough proficiency, as a simple undergraduated student. [...] (you know, those things such as enthropy and thermal fatigue, that sort of things belonging t...

I'll report on my "old" Samsung 2043MW. The first unit I used for two years had a noticeable high-pitched whine while in standby and a lower-pitched one while on with brightness set at less than 50%. It broke last month, the unit I got as a replacement has no such issue, so I guess I had bad luck wi...

The Q08 has a pretty good layout, heat coming from the video card won't be a problem. You have a few litres of slow moving air with at least ~220-240W heat power inside and it's not an issue to care about? I'm not going to be ironic: are you an engineer, or it's just a bit shallow answer the above ...

Too little, too late. Socket 1156 ITX boards have far more power for the cost, and the power consumption difference isn't enough to warrant any benefit. If low power has priority over speed, Atom is still the way to go.

I'd not go passive on a top-down heatsink, but check Rasetsu's height without a fan. It might fit, it has a higher mass compared to the Kabuto and might be better at passive cooling.

The Q08 has a pretty good layout, heat coming from the video card won't be a problem. And undervolting these CPUs reduces drastically the already low heat output: the stock heatsink might not be good in any way, but it surely can be run at a lower speed once tweaked, at no extra cost . That's a plus...

quest_for_silence wrote:

Parappaman wrote:Undervolting does a LOT actually, just adjust your fan speed accordingly so that you get the same temps as before but with reduced noise.

Haven't you read any of SPCR review of Intel stock coolers, have you?

What does that mean?

Don't forget the AXP comes without a fan, that's why the Samurai is a good value.

Undervolting does a LOT actually, just adjust your fan speed accordingly so that you get the same temps as before but with reduced noise.

Accelero L2 for the rescue, cheap and quiet. Unless you already have the S1, if that's the case, use it NOW!
Is the CPU cool enough with such low airflow on the heatsink?

Is it screwed directly on metal without any kind of decoupling (soft washers, rubber rails...)?

14 months and counting. I bought it a week after it was released in my country.

1450 RPM is way too fast if one values quietness. The 1150 RPM variant looks like a better balanced option.

The 210 is too slow to be of any use in those apps, he might as well pick an Ati card at that point.
If you can afford the cheapest GTS 450 available, then it will be a solid choice. Otherwise, if you value silence, a passive HD5670 will be perfect and cheap enough to recommend.

You use a lot of fans that move a lot of air, it's just that

I don't really care about startup noise. However, I was reading forums and I saw in F2 thread that F2 drives make the same sound during normal operation as well. It is kind of disconcerting to me. I have a 1.5tb Samsung HD154UI and it makes those noises. It's my secondary storage drive and i've not...

while here it looks like it's actually very good. It seems to me that TechPowerUp! and HT4U's findings should be consistent with SPCR ones. I don't want to argue with you any more :mrgreen: but TPU finds the cooler noisy, and in HT4U the two 6870 cards tested, while using the same reference layout,...

Weird... many other sites are citing a very high idle noise for the stock cooler, while here it looks like it's actually very good. Seems they tuned fan speed accordingly in the newer BIOSes. Good to hear about the VRM temps, with both the 5870 and 5850 they were an issue even with the stock cooler ...

Yep, and of very good quality for the price, very large and gold plated.

I had the basic T-Amp, it was rubbish compared to the Scythe SDA-1100 I have now. I know all the other implementations of the Tripath chip should be much better than the original one, but I would bet this little thing will sound great to your ears too. That SDA-2000 looks to me just a hyped SDA-1100...

Just because you're the best doesn't mean you can't do better. Did I mention another site doing better work? I wouldn't be posting this if you didn't care about low-power. But I think you could care more. A couple of examples: I mentionned the D510MO. This was kind of a breakthrough when it comes t...

according to this review: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1060-page8.html zalman is better...its easier to install, smaller, lighter , and to get back to the first thing doesnt require removal of am3 mbo for instalation... http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1037-page7.html tell me if i am wr...

It surely looks like ti could deliver! Only things that worry me are the usual Zalman quirks: price and fan quality. It also looks like it's a bit too fast to be considered silent (900 RPM on a 140mm fan is a LOT).

If the 10Wx2 claim doesn't scare you, there's the excellent Scythe Kama Bay Amp Kro on sale for a ridiculous price. Comes with everything you need to get started and mount it as a standalone unit or inside an ATX case. I use it paired with two very compact Audica CS-S1 speakers, gives the right amou...

Interesting... a 6850 clocked at 820/1100 MHz performs exactly the same as a stock 5850.

Anyway, looks like Powercolor did a nice job with this card's cooler.