WSGF is a good place to discuss Eyefinity. Lots of people there running 3 or 6 monitors who could answer questions in more detail. http://widescreengamingforum.com/article/amd-eyefinity-faq and http://widescreengamingforum.com/forums/multi-monitor-gaming/amd-eyefinity-discussions\ would be a good st...

Another inexpensive SLM is the Polarich Smart Sensor AR-834 datalogging (ANSI 1.4 Type 2) meter for about $100 (Canadian - from NCIX) that measures from 30 - 130 dB. When rebranded by Extech it can cost several times as much. Without memory but also 30-130 dB, the AR-824 is $10 less. On Ebay by ano...

Good reading, thanks for the links. It sounds like my limitation at measuring things will relate to my access (or lack thereof) to an anechoic chamber. Wonder if my alma mater has one available... An inner room in a house with no windows (maybe a basement room, large bathroom, etc) could get you do...

Took a few minutes this morning to look for cheap meters again. some new additions to consider Min dBA Price Brand/Model 30? 40 GSI Quality Handheld Digital A/C Frequencies Sound Level Meter (couldn't find official specs so I don't trust this one) 30 75 Pyle PSPL05R 30 100 Sinometer JTS1357 Still no...

Hm. I really wish I had the right low-sound environment and tools to measure sound, so I could do exactly this. Taking several components, running them while operational with and without a case, in a few different cases with and without noise-absorbing foam, would provide a wealth of information ab...

http://forums.storagereview.com/index.p ... iscussion/

Apparently the new version is in the works and will be called Momentus XT 2.

I won't hold my breath but I'd welcome the proposed improvements.

Time has moved on, the SSD caching on the Z68 chipset removes the need for hybrid drives. It functions better and removes several of the downsides e.g. you can defrag. Not true unless you can somehow magically replace the millions upon millions of existing motherboards in use in business and home P...

fwiw I've checked in on this drive from time to time. Today's retrospective kicked off by http://www.techpowerup.com/150349/Seagate-Ships-1-Million-Momentus-XT-Solid-State-Hybrid-Drives.html : 1. The 250GB and 320GB models are in short supply or deliberately priced out of contention (no stock of eit...

Hello I'd like to check how much power my work PC uses, and am thinking of getting a voltmeter . However, I was told that voltmeters aren't reliable with PCs because their PSU is more complex than basic power supplies like those for a fridge. I don't have the technical knowledge to tell: For those ...

littlebigman -- I just noticed that the article you linked actually refers to a Kill-a-Watt as a Voltmeter, which is a total misnomer. It is a power meter. Voltmeter usually refers to a multimeter -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimeter -- which is not useful for power measurements. Another oddi...

Scythe Kama Cabinet Pro is USB 2 for about $15 and has a nifty hidden storage feature.

Bitfenix USB 3.0 Front Panel - 70721 is about $25 and has four USB 3 ports.

As soon as I get a MB that has USB 3 I'll probably get a USB3 front panel.

anybody know of a cheaper front panel for USB 2 or USB 3?

A slightly different list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_AMD_microprocessors#.22Zambezi.22_.2832_nm.2C_8-core.29 The link you gave has the oddity of saying that B2 stepping won't be released until 2012 but C0 will be released in 2011. Definitely something wrong with those steppings. ...

No, the issue is not Speedfan, that's clear to me now but thanks for the explanation. I'd change the subject to "WD10EALX vibrating like mad" if I would post now. But on a side note, I wonder how many people use Speedfan without knowing the hdd temp reading never allows their drives to idle...or HW...

Followup to power supply orientation. I sent an email to SilverStone about it and got this response: You can mounted in both directions, if you mounted upward the fan will intake air and exhaust through the rear and will run cooler but if you mounted inward then you can take advantage of the fan in...

Yeah, I don't think this will work with the X4 630, as it's multiplier locked so the only way to overclock it is to increase the FSB. If you are multiplier locked the FID won't change but you can change the DID and voltage. It can be useful for over or undervolting but it won't help you in most ove...

fwiw without a fan my HIS 5570 will do bad things if Furmark is run indefinitely (I don't know how bad it gets as I stopped testing somewhere above 100c). Putting a 120mm fan at 5V near it took that problem away. I can run Furmark indefinitely now and not worry about temps. If you gave me a 6850 tha...

You can do the old fashion BIOS overclocking but if you do you lose out on Cool n Quiet. You literally have a hotter system, and you'll likely be dealing with more noise for little or no gain vs other methods. Myself I left the BIOS options at normal/reliable settings (no overclock during boot) then...

I just got mine and installed it with a Slipstream zip-tied to it (requires long zip-ties, I had to use two in 3 corners). First impressions aren't so good, it runs about 5C hotter in games than a 4850 with AC S1 and a Slipstream at the same rpm. I wouldn't dare to use it fanless, I believe it woul...

About 2 yrs ago I arranged for my new PC to be supplied with a Corsair 400CX PSU (http://www.silentpcreview.com/Corsair_CX400W) thanks to the reviews available here (which was by far the best resource on PSU's I could find). I've happened to get into the fad(?) of bitcoin mining, which involves run...

There are several ways to stress the lowest P state. My method was to change the power settings in Windows XP is to change windows power settings to "Home/Office Desk" to disable Cool N Quiet. Once it is disabled any mode you select in K10STAT will stay indefinitely. See lock Pstate for how to do it...

These seem to be in stock at numerous retailers now.

$213.89 SuperBiiz.com
$225.00 EWorldSale.com
$279.94 1st Choice Memory

and a few others, funny how some retailers will try to jack up the price.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850/26.html shows a typical (reference design) 6850 draws more power than a 5770. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850/28.html shows the 6850 as about 30% faster in gaming than a 5770. But given that a quick check of newegg shows the...

capoeira wrote:

capoeira wrote:what about drywall?

come on....no comments on this?

Did you realize that you replied to a thread from 5 years ago? It takes time for people still here to realize if it's even worth bothering to reply to a thread this old.

If they do it'll be over days, weeks or months not hours or minutes.

30 in stock at

http://www.priceguidenetwork.com/powerc ... -s3dh.html

What specifically do you dislike about the Seagate? Whatever it is he'll have to adjust in a few months when Samsung is no more and the Samsung drives get a Seagate label slapped on them and/or those drives stop being made. Western Digital : ~28% + Hitachi: ~11% = ~39% Seagate : ~27% + Maxtor: ~3% ...

OK, here is one more idea that is totally a WAG (wild guess) The whole llano series implements what is effectively variable TDP. To do this they throttle the CPU and/or GPU based on available headroom in the total TDP for the APU combo. What if the APU is slowing down the GPU to match the bandwidth ...

The thing that is bothering me is that we are getting a better-than-ideal performance increase. I do find this general talk interesting but I'm not going to do the math or research to give specific stats on the cores involved to the level to explain the scaling. You'd be better served to go to semi...

The CPU and GPU are sharing that ram so if a program were using both close to equally contention could slow both down more than 20% each. Any time waiting on data means zero work. Think traffic jam vs smoothly traveling cars on a highway. The number of cars doesn't change anywhere near the ratio of...

It's surprising that "Alien vs Predator" increased more than the 20% the RAM speed would imply (timings were the same, yes?). IANA graphics engine expert. Any theories? The CPU and GPU are sharing that ram so if a program were using both close to equally contention could slow both down more than 20...

My thinking was that I should increase the clock speeds on lower power states to reduce the need to switch to higher power states. And since I could do it and still use lower voltages I figured that is a win-win. I'm thinking if I have any steady background tasks that keep me bouncing out of the 16...