For that you need 400, up to 500 Watts. Not a PSU with such a rating, but real power. Look in SPCR articles such as this one and see how loud various PSUs are at these levels. Unfortunately SPCR didn't review your Silverstone PSU, but it did its little brother . If there is any family resemblance, i...

What are your components? (CPU and GPU(s) mostly)

Can semi-unstable underclocking result in corrupt files, like Windows installations?

Edit: ofc meant undervolting

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3382&p=10 - confirms power ~ voltage^3 etc. Seems like Nehalem will have large performance gains for "serious" applications but small to none for gaming; as a "tock" and having an integrated memory controller it will run hotter than C2Q, but ...

A very interesting webcast! Intel is in the lead with performance and energy efficiency and doesn't want to stop. I'm especially intrigued with them playing with voltages, since, as they explain, energy efficiency is performance/power, performance is linear with voltage, power rises with the cube of...

Now those from two links are better!

Yeah, everything liquid cooled and three tiny whiny fans on RAM...

Speculation and common sence (they don't want to release something that's significantly less reliable). By the way, I think there was a thread on this matter here... Or did even you start it?

No, just more modern 333 GB platters instead of older 250 GB ones. Certainly not less reliable, remember the 30 MB per platter drives .

For GPU acceleration to work, you need specific codecs/players. For instance, I don't know how I managed to set things up to decode H264 in MKV container on the GPU after the Nth try, or is it a trick of Task Manager :). That all applies to "custom" stuff like rips and trailers from the Internet enc...

Is this for real, for a small chip??? Even mainstream dual cores don't have HT. Besides, unless you have some very specific applications that can take advantage the little gains from HT, in general you'd be better off turning it off even if it's available. HT only disappeared in Core 2 processors (...

On topic: like the strategic heatpipe placement. I wonder if this cooler is more effective than Accelero S1.

Off topic:

Fred wrote:halves the temperature (80C -> ~40-44C idle). Wow.

You can't halve a Celsius or Fahrenheit temperature as the 0 is arbitrary .

Derek Baker wrote:Are any of them quieter than any other?

Aside from watercooling, non-overclocked ones probably are. Others are the same.

Derek Baker wrote:Any aftermarket coolers that are compatible?

Even if there were already, I'd advise to try stock cooling first.

http://www.coolermaster.com/products/pr ... il&id=5363
Front, side (exhaust AFAIK), top 230x30 mm, 700rpm
Rear 140x25, 1200 rpm

Should have named it "1 KW GPUs ready"...
Any idea of the big fans' noise, jugding by their size and rpm?

P.S. Not an advertisement .

dCrypt wrote:The problem is that PCI-e x16@x4 in this mb seems to be electrically routed to the southbridge (PCI-e v1.0) instead of the northbridge (PCI-e v2.0).

Ouch then!!

AFAIK PCI-E 1.0 x8 bandwidth is enough for cards like 8800 GT (x4 setting them back like 20%). PCI-E 2.0 x4 is equal to 1.0 x8, so if your graphics card supports 2.0, you should be OK.
Too bad that it still feels like Giga cheated.

I do not understand this, what do you mean by "either side" There is only one option to install front intake fan in top chamber , or is this not true ?br If you don't have any hard drives there, you can take out the rails and use the metal clips (from the small box at the back side) to attach a fan...

Bar81 wrote:as recommended to increase life expectancy I've moved the XP swap file from the Core to my RAID1

Life expectancy is one thing, but what about performance?

One more question, is it better to install new fans as intake or exaust fan. The top and back fans (near the CPU) should both be exhaust. There go your two Scythe fans. The fan in the bottom chamber is needed only if you have many hard drives. Also you can install a third fan as intake at the front...

Antec fans are controlled with switch (low, medium, high). Now I assume that if I attach scythe fans I can not control the fan speed anymore. Not by this switch. By Speedfan (check up your motherboard's capabilities as for which fan plugs can be controlled and to what extent) or some hardware fan c...

but that extra wattage wont be seen on the electric bill, right?:) Nope :). PSU watts rating is the maximum it can transform from AC to DC. How much is does actually transform depends on your hardware. PSU efficiency may affect your electric bill. For example, if your hardware needs 160 W, a 80% ef...

Depends on the "smartness" of its fan control system. For example, the units reviewed by SPCR: Enermax Galaxy 1000 W: 29 dBA at minimum load, 50 dBA at 500 W and upwards. Zalman 1000 W (850W is the same): 20 dBA up to 400 W, 26 at 500 W, 40 at 1000 W. If your system pulls 500 W while gaming (GTX280 ...

Took me by surprise with Akasa .
However, it has only 2 heat pipes. Not that it's the only measure of effectiveness, but...

System in the sig built this spring, works perfectly.

There aren't anymore, sadly.

It's the same drive, but with supposedly better performance in RAID and/or reliability.

Yeah, of course RAM doesn't have any of them silly rotating disks .

From the description, it's not really an SSD, just a RAM-based device (like Gigabyte I-RAM) with 512 GB of DDR2 + some fancy controller + backup battery + RAID'ed SSD's for backup...

Try HDTune Pro (15-day trial though).

According to the specs on the site, it uses a 135 mm fan that stays at about 600-650 rpm at 0-300W (what ambient temperature?). Looking at recent SPCR reviews, the reference 120 mm sleeve bearing fan measures 16 dBA@1m at 780 rpm. Considering that it's probably a ball bearing fan and that 135 mm is ...