Why are you so incompetent?

You could also try a Silverstone PSU cover. For me it worked well in making my former buzzing Seasonic PSU quiet.

Too much text to read. So I'll sum up my PowerColor ATI HD4830 512MB GDDR3. Modded bios, have not changed voltages: 160/200 2d mode. Gives idle temp about 30C. O/C to 700/900 (ie nothing on memory). Temp about 60C Use a AC S1 rev 2 with 1x Scythe Slipstream 800rpm. I get artifacts with 600rpm fan. 2...

Yes, it does indeed help with the idle noise. The problem is that these Quiet Drivers are so big so they're difficult to place in many computer cases.
I have now three of them, but could max use 6...but that might be difficult.

My 6400AAKS is now at 36C in a Quiet Drive in the lower chamber of a modified p182 sitting on foam. I've never seen it go above 40C...but that might happen during the summer...in that case I'll use a slow fan to cool it below 40C

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I think suspending drivers might be better since it can separate it from other vibrations in the case.

When my optical drive spins a disc very rapidly it creates tons of vibration which I doubt is good for harddrives.

Any chance of a Cooler Master V8/10/12 tests?

Bah
Forget everything I said previously.

WinXP32, sp3: 3.25GB available
Windows7 beta 7000 64bit 4GB available.

One Powercolor 4830 with 512 mB vram. Modified bios to lower 2d clocks.
I only keep WinXP 32 for legacy support.

4GB memory according to Windows 7 but it gets the CPU speed completely wrong..says its 4.25Ghz but its at 3.8Ghz actually. 512MB gfx RAM. Couple days ago I filled the entire RAM space. System locked for like 2 minutes.. probably messing around with swapfile. I may go for 8GB again...RAM is cheap. Bt...

shleepy wrote: EDIT: By the way, it looks like E8xxx's with E0 stepping are more power efficient than their C0 counterparts... correct?

Somewhat:
http://www.nordichardware.com/Articles/ ... ivelse=547
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Which plugin is needed to check power usage for intel c2d's through Rivatuner?

Here's a review:
http://www.overclockersonline.net/?page ... 411&pnum=1

I think the greenpower 640GB Western Digital is much quieter than the blue version.

This list has to include Pioneer 216. I've never had anything remotely as quiet as this.

I tried four different graphiccards (x1900xt, hd3870 and two hd4850) and they all whined with the faulty 850w unit. Once it was replaced the graphic card that I'm using now, a Sapphire HD4850 Toxic stopped whining pretty much completely. Haven't tried the x1900xt and 3870 again but I assume that the...

I had that "high frequency chirping/squeaking noise" at least during two conditions with my former 850w unit which I have now replaced. 1. During heavy HDD activity 2. All graphic cards whined. Not when idle but when loading heavier websites with flash and similar plus in 3d-mode when the graphic ca...

I use Scythe Slipstream 500rpm. 3 hours of prime95 takes the full load to 70C, a temperature which will never be reached IRL usage.

I had similar problems with my Zalman 850w. I RMA'd it and haven't had the problem since.

FuturePastNow wrote:Does a 4850 really need a fan with the S1?

Mine certainly does. And its probably not needed for the GPU but both the RAM and the VRM get too hot without any airflow. This was the same with my 3870. I would at least recommend a 500rpm Scythe Slip Stream with the S1.

Sylph-DS What you just wrote is very familiar to me. Many websites automatically started the whining from the GFX so I didn't even bother to read them while I had that problem. I tried several other graphic cards (like a x300 and x1900xt) and that didn't solve the problem at all... So it could very ...

I have the Toxic and simply changed the noisy Zalman cooler to a S1 + Scythe Slipstream 120mm 800rpm fan. I didn't even try out the Zalman VGA cooler since those easily get dusty very quickly and are not quiet enough even at 5v. As for coil whine. Had that too, but turned out to be the fault of a fa...

A small update from me too. RE: coil whine.

Seems the fault lay on the Zalman 850w unit which whined when loading harddrives heavily. I replaced it and after that the Sapphire HD4850 stopped whining as well. It is now as quiet as my old and now sold Gecube 3870.

I have both the 640GB AAKS and AACS and the latter has by far lower idle noise level. And its true that read/writes are loud but I have solved that by placing my drives in softmounted quietdrives.

Yeah I know, but perhaps I was not clear enough.
The card doesn't seem to downclock the RAM at all when in 2d mode. It always runs at 1100Mhz according to CCC. Lots of energy wasted I think.

I have the toxic plus rev 1 Accelero S1 and I can confirm that it works. I had to slightly bend the cooler so that it did not have contact with the VRM.

The RAM seems to be running at 1100Mhz (x2) all the time. So that seems to be the only downside of this card.

Actually I don't think that its the park noise anymore. It happens all too often and seems to only happen when there is heavy activity at the end of the disk where the performance is lowest. I can live with it, especially after I placed the GP in a softmounted quiet drive. For comparison the GP vers...

I think I may have the park noise with my 640GB GP. Neither of the two WD 640GB "blue" drives makes this noise and neither does my sisters WD 500GB GP.

I may have to sell this one and purchase a faster drive without the park noise and place it in a softmounted quietdrive.

X-fi card if you game (excluding xtreme audio which is a software card) I had a Xonar XD a while back but had to sell it because the game support was too bad, especially for legacy games. Game engines can crash if the drivers don't fully support the application. This has happens in: Thief 1, Thief 2...

Need to be soft mounted without a doubt, which can be quite tricky in many cases if not even impossible. Does wonders to the idle sound but changes read and write to something thicker and not quite muted enough.