It's getting to be well established that a decrease in process architecture is inversely proportional to temps. If you pick and choose your data maybe. It would be interesting to see a plot of average CPU temperature (ha ha ha!) for 90nm, 65nm, 45nm, 32nm and 22nm. :) I for one remember some dogs o...

I own one. It's in one of my HTPCs I think, with a Sandy Bridge i3. Seems to work fine, no problems with instability or anything like that. What memory are you using? Not sure off the top of my head. Crucial, Corsair or Kingston Value by all likelihoods. To be honest I rarely pay much attention to ...

I own one. It's in one of my HTPCs I think, with a Sandy Bridge i3. Seems to work fine, no problems with instability or anything like that.

Sure, it's possible. But USB isn't designed for networking, Ethernet is. In any non-trivial networked application you'll be running an Ethernet cable right up to this box - then going the last couple of inches with a dongle to plug it into a socket that's not really designed for networking. Which se...

ces wrote:

nutball wrote: I see no mention of Ethernet.

That's what USB is for.

No it isn't.

>>$100 vs $25. Not really an answer. More of a different solution to a different problem/application space. Seems more Dell Zino/Mac Mini than Raspberry Pi to me. Indeed. It looks quite interesting, particularly from an HTPC perspective. I'd be slightly worried about networking though, I see no men...

I agree, this looks like massive overkill for (my definition of) an HTPC, and it does look like a portable gaming rig :) I would have the Intel SSD over the ADATA, or I'd have a Crucial M4 equally happily if available wherever you are. Regarding self-encrypting drives, why would you need those? If y...

ces wrote: At idle the Sandy Bridge only draws about 4 or 5 watts. It's pretty hard to get below that.

Erm... I left that bit out deliberately, because I regard it as The Bleedin' Obvious!

From the article I can read that the decrease in power consumption which I had hoped for sadly seems to be rather insignificant. Huh? It looks pretty good to me compared to the 2600K under load. The idle figures are silly - they're figures for the whole system including a discrete GPU I think. Typi...

Been waiting for Ivy Bridge for an HTPC but decided on AMD Llano mainy because they seem better at 24p. And now this. Good for AMD, perhaps good for us all in the long run. Which Llano did you go for? What's the power consumption like? I have a passing interest in the A4 but I'm struggling to find ...

Grrr. This is irritating. I'm waiting for an Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro, and I want to refresh my HTPCs (IVB is rumoured to correct the 23.976fps bug, and if it does they'll go from near-perfect to perfect). Ah well, a little bit of patience won't kill me. I just hope they turn up cool, working and late...

Powerline networking would be such a convenient way of avoiding clutter, but the speeds so far are not really suitable for NAS use - or even broadband, as 100 Mbps is the kind of speed I go for now. Hopefully AV2 will have a fighting chance! It's really very situation dependent, in my view. Where I...

I know that there are 8-16 that are directly accessible to the compiler but due to register renaming there are nearly 100 in the CPU. So not miles off from any of the relevant competition then, at either end of the performance spectrum. I'm kinda disappointed that AMD/intel did not tinker with enco...

I have a question then -- if IBM had chosen Motorola 68000 rather than 8088 for its first PC, resulting in R&D behind 68k comparable to x86, would it be possible to develop the 68k to as fast if not faster than what Intel has today? Maybe as fast. Possibly not noticeably faster. Who knows. Honestly...

I'm surprised given margins and process lead that Intel or AMD doesn't create a x64 to compete with Power 7 Intel will do this eventually once Itanium runs out of steam. AMD don't have the capability (technical or financial) to do it at all. But it's not just something you do at a drop of a hat, th...

why is Atom having such a hard time competing with ARM then? sure the decorder logic has something to do with it. Atom isn't really competing with ARM - Atoms job is to run Windows, ARM is useless for this as has been pointed out already. If you want to take the cynical view, Intel carefully bounde...

Is this similar in spirit to VLIW Itanium EPIC, only compatible with x86 Not really, no. VLIW is more about instruction encoding than anything else. I know that it will be 3-operand, so does this mean AVX2 will essentially be RISC Not really, no. RISC means a whole pile of things, and it's not obvi...

Update for anyone interested: - bought a second ISK100 recently, and the fit-and-finish hasn't improved. The misalignment issues aren't first-batch-we'll-fix-it-later issues, they're we-don't-give-a-crap issues. Antec, what happened? - tried an Arctic Cooling F9 92mm (25mm width) fan on my previous ...

The Silverstone TJ08-E can fit 5x 3.5 hdds + a single 1x 2.5 hdds, using all slots available, has a 2x 5.25 slots, can fit really big video cards, and has a 180mm frontal fan. And it's still ridiculously large, relatively speaking. If 1x3.5 HDD + 1x2.5 SSD + large GPU is an optimal setup (which in ...

Something makes me a little sad/rant-at-the-pigeons-about-the-youth-of-today when I see these so-called uATX cases which are the same size my ATX-sized P150 and Solo. uATX is supposed to be smaller. Where's the up-to-date NSK3480-sized enclosure? No criticism of the review by the way, the market is ...

By the way, this is excluding anything to do with the on-chip graphics. I'd be using a PCIe video card. Doesn't this rather negate the point of worrying about a few watts here and there consumed by the chipset/motherboard and RAM? What's a discrete card going to pull, 20W+ idle? To my mind it's onl...

A small addition : I've received a Nexus basic 80mm yesterday, a good fan, but in my opinion not as good as its 120mm brother, and not as good as the BeQuiet Silentwings USC. The Nexus 80mm used to be my insta-buy quiet 80mm fan, but the more recent ones I've used haven't been good at all (those wi...

I seem to have confused 1155 and 1156 in the post above (why did they release the one with the higher number first?). God knows. Same reason they're releasing LGA2011 in 2012 I suppose. It's the only thing that keeps us on our toes since AMD decided to wander off into the distance to look at the pr...

Zustiur wrote:Does it only happen when they're on? Only when they're off?

It happens both when the speakers are switched on and switched off (using the on/off/volume knob on the back of the amped speaker). I've not seen it mentioned in eg. the SPCR review of them so I assume I've got a dodgy unit.

I've now read numerous reviews of the Audioengine A2. I give in :P These are what I'll be buying. No matter that there's only two stores in Aus that sell them. Both on the other side of the country to me. I bought a second-hand pair off e-Bay... the bloomin' power supply ticks. Not silent speakers....

What I'm unsure of is this 560W PSU really needed? Not really, you could probably run that setup on a <100W PSU but then again decent, modular PSUs all seem to be around the 500W+ range. I do hope that it will run passive in idle and when watching 1080p and that fan will only start up when doing so...

A couple of my Intel X25-M SSDs do tend to squeal under load. Not something you'd notice if the drive is in a PC, but in a laptop it might be noticeable.

To be clear, my point about the optical drive was that a PC needs one, a NAS doesn't (in my opinion). If this case wants to be a PC, it needs an optical drive, and I said slot-loading because it's more elegant (personal taste). If it doesn't want to be a PC, and wants to be a NAS, then it doesn't ne...

It looks nice. Like many of Lian-Li's cases it seems to be something of a lost opportunity. I'm not sure it can make up its mind what it wants to be. The Q08 has one more hard-drive slot, so arguably is more flexible for a NAS. This one might be better for a general PC, but it lacks an optical drive...

As an alternative you could try a laptop drive, the I read good things about the WD Black Scorpio , the new one is 7200rpm 750gb 2.5 drive As QfS said above, this drive is far from silent and in all honesty it's borderline whether you could even call it quiet. So now you've read some bad things abo...