Yeah those tiny little screws are so ... tiny...

Video card drivers is single most appalling facet of linux. That said, the proprietary drivers mostly work. Perhaps you ended up installing free "radeon" driver that has patchy support for new gpus? Theres no problem to set up "exotic" languages in any distro. Come on, finnish is not exotic :lol: On...

pretty interesting chart Shows two things that I suspected before 1. New intel cpus are quite efficient in idle and you can't do much to tweak power consumption significantly lower at idle 2. At reasonable voltages frequency ceiling is good without horrible tradeoff in power. Between your Low and Me...

Doesnt that Gigabyte have a custom PCB design? Could it be better in terms of power consumption or perhaps VRM cooling?

undervolting laptop cpus is very rewarding if just for prolonging battery life. As per usual manufacturers leave headroom for cpu specimen variation. I would look into lowering idle mode volt/freq as well, as its the mode that laptop usually spends most of the time. If the cooling system is capable ...

http://www.matbe.com/actualites/67941/g ... 477sl-1gi/
Gigabyte releases passive 4770

Crossing fingers so that it is optimized in power also

I was under impression that more phases is more efficient under load, but less phases lower the idle consumption.

Of course it all depends on quality of components

no word on Radeon?

anybody got radeon running GPU folding at least in WINE?

just confirming that V2400W is silent
near perfect monitor except for TN-film viewing angles

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from Left 4 dead trailer, haunts me

Arctic Cooling Silentium Eco 80 are good too
here is a review of an older version

Out of the box quiet and airflow is managed, hard drive is silenced comparable to Scythe Quiet Drive. PSU is efficient and quiet at light (under 200W) loads.

Looks like GPU socket on 4770 is so close to ports that a S1 won't fit at all.

http://images.people.overclockers.ru/180440.jpg

I have a soc.939 opteron with undervolt and a newer p45 c2d e8600 without. Reason1 - c2d has better power management already. There is room to undervolt idle state but watts and temperature difference is negligeable. Reason2 - software undervolt is near impossible on linux. BIOS undervolt is not acc...

I heard all 4770 seem to have working powerplay.
But did anyone notice from reviews what freq does it drop to? Is that 250 and 600 in SPCR review?

Linux has far better potential to go minimalistic and cause less load on cpu. But it can lack in other fields like using power saving features of your hardware, using standby/hibernate or even spinning down hard drives! These features work 100% only on few distros if any, and often you need to manua...

http://www.digital-daily.com/motherboar ... index5.htm
from this review looks like it only supports raising the voltage

Look at Gigabyte and Asus, maybe MSI 780G boards. More likely to find undervolting there

From my experience with AMD CPUS, they are good for low volt/low freq combo. Then newer 65nm ones are better yet. I believe 0.8-0.9V at 1GHz is quite common, if the motherboard supports it. So look at BIOS options before choosing one. How old linux kernel can it be, really? CnQ support was from I do...

Your problem is... Windows. There. But really, you wouldn't notice it unless it didn't freeze your system for a while every time. THAT is really annoying. Stone age programming does that. And my guess for reason of spin up - just polling the hardware before writing to see if its still attached. Or w...

http://www.dailytech.com/Worlds+Cheapes ... e14645.htm
600kg unloaded, 624cc 33 hp engine and no gizmos attached

If only it wasn't so damn ugly...

bentan77 wrote:A new 4670?
The GTS250
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16504/10
Only seen one review so far but the power consumption looks very good.

Looks to me like the new 4850. Power numbers barely lower, performance barely higher than 4850.

In case of 4670 there is no question - 512MB. 1GB version actually uses slower clocks, and for a task that would need 1GB, you will not have gpu power or bandwidth anyway.

4830 is an option, but it consumes more power.

China's largest independent carmaker Chery Automobile releasing their first plug-in electric car. Known as the S18, this electric car is able to travel up to 150 kilometres (93 miles) per charge with a top speed of 120 kilometres (72 miles) per hour. It takes around six hours to juice up the car fr...

AC S1 rev2 barely fits to clear motherboard components. I had to remove plastic edge and even so the heatpipe touches southbridge heatsink. Of course S1 is a bit overkill

QuietOC wrote:They list a lower TDP for the 4670 (59W) than I have seen elsewhere (70W). Maybe they are quoting the chip TDP instead of the card TDP?

My thoughts too.

http://fastskinz.com/drag-terminology-defined.html Basically a film on the car that reduces turbulence and drag and promotes laminar flow. The fuel eceonomy percentages they claim seem a bit unreal (albeit for a coffin-shaped Scion) But I can see future cars sporting dotted look. Poor mans carbon f...

Some more on my MSI 4670 I installed S1 rev2 on it from my previous 3870, now I can compare temps. 3870 idle 45 load 60-65 (60 with custom undervolted bios) 4670 idle 35 load 55 (I'd say this looks like under 10W idle) Squealing is less, but still present. After installing S1 gave me a bit of a scar...

10 years ago was when Yugoslavia was attacked. After that world is going down.

OK, received my MSI 4670
Stock cooling is very loud

The clocks drop to 165/249

But I have a strong feeling that voltage doesn't drop - temperture almost doesnt change.
Any way I can check it? If this is the case, I'll be returning it.

There is no denying, climate changes.
Whether it is caused (or just increased somewhat) by humans and whether it is a bad thing globally, thats not decided yet.

Think about it, you may get to see forests in Sahara!

some source said MSI had working powerplay too don't care about fan noise, replacing it anyhow. Not every game is loud and you wear headphones. Besides the whine is strongest on loadscreens, when fps goes 300+. Add to that a desently quiet PC, and coil whine becomes most annoying noise source. HIS i...