I'm rather disappointed by the lack of connectors on the 425W model. Only 3 SATA connectors on one cord. Seasonic M12II-430 for the win.

It was rather obvious that you're not that big on GPUs :P You pointed out that you couldn't make the HD 3850 ramp up it's fan. Well I have a similar thing, the fan won't ramp up at least before 90C but I have chosen to manually adjust the fanspeed with Rivatuner so the card keeps cool. Artifacting r...

'to keep it from sucking the hot air' ... You do realize that hot air goes up? It's not a very good idea to place a PSU upside down, and even more so when it's on top of the case. Where is it going to get cool air from then? The only spot in my case that feels warm, is the upper rear corner (PSU is ...

I have the Zerotherm BTF-90 on my Abit IP35-E and I've set a target temp of 60C in BIOS and so far the fan has only been running on it's minimun speed of ~1200RPM as I have not hit that temp yet on my OC. I'm running about 52C currently. It looks to be a great cooler even with this RPM and it's very...

Death sentence isn't even a punishment, it's the easy way out. Life in prison is what it should be, with death penalty you're only hurting people that don't deserve it; friends, family, whatever. Someone will always cry when someone dies.

Sparkle also has a passively cooled 8800GT 512

Fans on the bottom of the PSU are intake. Fans next to the power switch are exhaust.

Mariner wrote:Bearing in mind Scythe's Japanese origins, I'm surprised they haven't called it the "Godzilla".

Maybe you should find out what 'orochi' means before saying such things

'Temps in a cool room (15C)'

Dude, that's not 'cool', that's freezing

'Temps with house heating on full tilt (22C)'

That's 'cool'

dragmor wrote:Human habitation is probably the biggest problem, we move them out of their traditional areas, change the local environment and remove/compete for their food source.

How many people actually live on the Northpole again?

I learned it from the X-files. Trust No One.

There is no way in the world that Nvidia would allow quad-sli support on intel chipset, not now, not as long as they're trying to sell their own chipset motherboards.

Tom's Hardware just did a recap on AMD power consumption and had the following results. http://images.tomshardware.com/2008/01/29/processor_efficiency_compared/image012.png The system had a HD3850 (little difference to 3870), AMD 790FX board, one 500GB WD HDD (you have an additional laptop drive whi...

I was wondering about what they said about DES at Anandtech: "Intel's own power saving features known as C1E and EIST must be set to disabled before DES gains full control of altering processor core voltage on-the-fly. It is also important to point out that full operational use of DES is limited to ...

Soterius wrote:I might OC the Q6600 a bit (probably 2.7 GHz or 3.0 GHz at the most) and perhaps OC the 8800GT a little (or buy one that's already OC'ed)

Those OC'd GPUs are just a waste of cash. There's nothing miraculous about them, you can just as well OC it yourself.

Why would they put five fan headers on the board if it couldn't handle them?

The wattage depends on if you OC or not. If you're running it stock, it consumes around 90-100W idle, 210-220W fully loaded (even these numbers are a bit high). If I were you, I'd take a Seasonic S12II-330 for that system, S12II-430/VX450 if you're overclocking, but since you've already made your mi...

Using Win XP you're well off with the 2GB. It's faster and you can use it in dual channel setup (I would assume). In Vista you might want to go with 3GB and give up some speed.

If you don't OC, you don't even need a fan for it. I guess that would top the list of most quiet solution. I assume that your case has an exhaust fan in it.

The calculator in that link is so way off that it's ridiculous. Your system draws maybe 150-200W under full load from the wall depending on the level of OC.

What do you call this? http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3146&p=5 http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3146&p=6 http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3146&p=7 http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3146&p=15 After looking a...

merlin wrote:

MikeC wrote:I found it interesting that two of AnandTech's top 4 PSU picks of 2007 are made by Seasonic.

I'm finding it a little wierd that there is no mention of corsair. They had such a huge splash this year in the psu market.

They didn't test any Corsair PSUs during 2007 so it's no wonder.

Here's at least one test of a HD Cooler

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3144

The results seem pretty good but I don't know if it's available and for what price, but I was sort of interested.

Okay, it sounds to me from reading that article that dual, triple, quad rails were all designed for safety reasons, but aren't actually any safer and suffer from less efficiency. Single rail is the way. The VX450 is a single-rail, rated at 33amps, and according to the SPCR review, makes it's max ef...

Well, looking good, though 520W PSU is a total overkill for that system, 450W is more than enough, I'd suggest S12II-430 or the M12II-430 should be out by then if it already isn't, or if you love Corsair, the VX450 will handle your system without breaking a sweat, as will your current PSU, but I'd s...

ryboto wrote:Now we just need them to do this with the 3870, we know it can be done based on other users actually doing it. The high end card with passive cooling!

You mean 8800GT? Sparkle has one. And it works

I have a question related to this subject that's been bugging me for some time. I'm picking pieces for my first build and I'm a little scared because I've been reading something good about the Abit IP35-E and it's at a very nice price, but the BIOS seemed to be a prick when it released. So my questi...

I can't give you hard figures, but I can tell you I'm running an E6600 overclocked to 3.4Ghz, two 8800GTs overclocked to 675/975, two 75Gb Raptors, 4x120mm fans, 2Gb of DDR2, a Soundblaster Audigy and an optical drive quite happily off a Corsair HX520 It isn't really a wonder when you can run a sys...

Eventually I'd like to see the discrete GPU reinvented as an on-demand accelerator that shares video outputs with the low-power integrated GPU. I'm not sure if I understood correctly, but that sounded like you wanted to go back in time like 10 years when 3Dfx came out with the 3D-accelerator Voodoo...

I don't know about the Samsung HD but Anandtech recently reviewed the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB along with Western Digital 1TB Caviar GP. Also in the results there is Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 which they had reviewed earlier. So you might want to check it out unless you've already done that. htt...