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- Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:09 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Mini P180, 6850, Be quiet, Intel Core 2 Duo ...
- Replies: 50
- Views: 32716
Re: Re:
Sure, it's pretty big. Actually had a G5 once myself, great machine. I must say the E6750 runs pretty cool (for an old 65nm chip). I only have the 20cm top fan connected in low mode too. My old E1200 was much hotter. I wish my G5 didn't have an X800 in it. I'd be able to use it with something else....
- Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:19 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Mini P180, 6850, Be quiet, Intel Core 2 Duo ...
- Replies: 50
- Views: 32716
Re: Re:
Ahh, ok.Wilhelm-Tell wrote:No I didn't. Back then I had the Celeron E1200, now replaced by a second hand E6750 (for less than a new E5500)
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/2522/dsc0466q.jpg
That thing looks like it's been stolen out of my G5!
- Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:46 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Mini P180, 6850, Be quiet, Intel Core 2 Duo ...
- Replies: 50
- Views: 32716
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I really hope you didn't do that, the E5300 is slower and no cooler than an E6750..Wilhelm-Tell wrote:I think so too, but I will replace it with a E5300, 45nm, should run cooler and faster, at a fair price aswell.danimal wrote:prime95 at 55 degrees at 2ghz, with no fan on the cpu, sounds very functional to me.
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:10 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: HTPC high power usage when OFF
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9780
Re: HTPC high power usage when OFF
When I say standby I'm referring to the PSU, not the PC. You cannot completely turn an ATX supply off short of physically disconnecting the supply. Try disabling that EuP 2013 thing. It may well increase power consumption enough to increase the power factor and reduce the apparent power. Yes, I know...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:01 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: HTPC high power usage when OFF
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9780
Re: HTPC high power usage when OFF
Sounds like a pointless exercise in discovering a low power factor on standby to me.
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:38 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: HTPC high power usage when OFF
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9780
Re: HTPC high power usage when OFF
Perhaps your new PSU has a low power factor in standby.
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:27 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: HTPC high power usage when OFF
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9780
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 4:57 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: HTPC high power usage when OFF
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9780
Re: HTPC high power usage when OFF
Are you sure your meter isn't displaying apparent power?
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:42 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus GPU Cooler
- Replies: 46
- Views: 31573
Re: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus GPU Cooler
Ok, so they can put a long cable tie and an HSS bit in the box.. There's no reasonable way to stiffen the card itself due to the lack of a standard pattern. And yes, you are building something. You're building a system out of a multitude of mixed parts, it's not a standard assembly and as such is no...
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:21 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus GPU Cooler
- Replies: 46
- Views: 31573
Re: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus GPU Cooler
Monkeh16: Perhaps, but truthfully, things like that should not be necessary. How else would you suggest supporting cards in an ATX case when using entirely non-standard heatsinks? Such modifications are a necessary part of building your own PC. Would you complain about needing to cut timber to size...
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:00 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus GPU Cooler
- Replies: 46
- Views: 31573
Re: Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus GPU Cooler
I agree that the weight/length is still cumbersome, and perhaps in a tower style case, could prove bad for the card in the long term. I'm all for some kind of mechanical support to prevent the sag at the back end of the card. My guess is that until this gets written into the PCIe spec (probably unl...
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:03 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: ECC Support (offshoot of Silent Server Build)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 55163
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
You can certainly halt the drives, but if you expect any Windows based OS to allow you to do it in a sane matter, you're out of luck. There are ways of getting drives to spin down . Just not very convenient. I assume you'd leave a drive connected to a computer because you access it semi-frequently,...
- Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:26 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 97045
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
I have a question: does this Box turn on and off with the pc ? No, how would it? I don't really know, perhaps through the s-ata protocol. I mean, besides the power switch, if the unit can "soft switch" off and turn off the drives. There's another product that claims to be able to operate in that wa...
- Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:20 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 97045
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
No, how would it?GioF_71 wrote:I have a question: does this Box turn on and off with the pc?
- Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:13 pm
- Forum: Site Feedback
- Topic: Ooooooh, shiny new forum!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 40378
Re: Ooooooh, shiny new forum!
There's nothing wrong with the contrast on this theme..
On another note: Can we lose the listing of bots as active users?
On another note: Can we lose the listing of bots as active users?
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:53 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 97045
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
[quote="MikeC"][quote="Mr. Perfect"]Oh, and why is it only Mike's phpBB tags work? :([/quote] And a few others'.... dunno , mystery... looking in to that right now.[/quote] As I said before, looks like a permissions issue. I've only seen BBCode working in this section for admins and mods. In other s...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:07 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 97045
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
[quote="Ninjackn"]A multiport external eSATA enclosure such as the icydock seems like overkill when a single harddrive dock can be had from ~20-40 USD. Plus the individual drives are easier to store in something like a fireproof safe. Is there some benefit i'm not aware of when using the much more e...
- Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:08 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 97045
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
[quote="Taxcheat"]If you can assemble a PC from scratch, I don't see why it's any harder to go with a unix distro than Windows home server, as long as the hardware is compatible.[/quote]
It's not, it's just that some people don't know how to use a non-Windows OS.
It's not, it's just that some people don't know how to use a non-Windows OS.
- Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:56 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: ECC Support (offshoot of Silent Server Build)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 55163
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
[quote="andymcca"][quote="Monkeh16"]It's a mystery to me, because that makes no sense whatsoever. ECC does not make things compress better! Data is data, ECC doesn't change that.[/quote] I think his point was that bit errors are much more noticeable in information-dense (compressed) formats. A singl...
- Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:14 am
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: Successful phpbb upgrade
- Replies: 35
- Views: 73397
Re: Successful phpbb upgrade
[quote="KayDat"][quote="Monkeh16"]Having a selection of styles isn't going to increase server load.[/quote] No, but it's generally a bad idea to take down a service when lots of people are using it, if something goes wrong.[/quote] It's also a bad idea to make a transition to new forum software usin...
- Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:45 am
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: Successful phpbb upgrade
- Replies: 35
- Views: 73397
Re: Successful phpbb upgrade
Having a selection of styles isn't going to increase server load.
- Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:46 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: ECC Support (offshoot of Silent Server Build)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 55163
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
[quote="colm"]a good point about ecc. I am just regular user with photos, and video... As the routine goes, ecc is nothing to notice at first... but then the same vids in experimenting in compression get WAY smaller for the same compression routine. It is no mystery to me.. there is a pile of crap w...
- Sun Oct 17, 2010 7:09 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silent Home Server Build Guide
- Replies: 137
- Views: 97045
Re: Silent Home Server Build Guide
I'll dig out my box of 8P8Cs and my camera tomorrow and see if I can get a decent picure of the difference between solid and stranded connectors.
- Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:32 am
- Forum: Site Feedback
- Topic: Ooooooh, shiny new forum!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 40378
Re: Ooooooh, shiny new forum!
Yes, can we please get the old style theme back? phpBB3's default theme is offensive and really awkward to use.
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:46 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Two Big Top-downers: Big Typhoon VX & Xigmatek HDT-D1284
- Replies: 30
- Views: 25864
Oh dear. It seems to have totally gone over my head that the testing was done on an Intel board! Now I have another question however. What is the point/benefit of the adapter over the hardware supplied with the heatsink? The adapter will allow you to rotate the heatsink (not really that important w...
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:10 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Two Big Top-downers: Big Typhoon VX & Xigmatek HDT-D1284
- Replies: 30
- Views: 25864
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:11 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Two Big Top-downers: Big Typhoon VX & Xigmatek HDT-D1284
- Replies: 30
- Views: 25864
As is fairly clearly stated, that adapter is for bolting down to AMD boards.
This is the bolt down adapter for LGA775/1156/1366 sockets: http://www.xigmatek.com/product.php?productid=93
They should be easily available.
This is the bolt down adapter for LGA775/1156/1366 sockets: http://www.xigmatek.com/product.php?productid=93
They should be easily available.
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:11 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: News: Sandybridge, Bulldozer and UEFI
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11269
Re: hmm
Or, alternatively, they're using a large hardware RAID array which makes an SSD a pointless expense. ;) Afaik you would need something like a 6+ disk RAID1 array to match the random access times of a good SSD. Talk about a pointless expense :D The SSD is probably the less expensive option if all yo...
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:41 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: News: Sandybridge, Bulldozer and UEFI
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11269
- Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:45 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Lian Li PC-Q08 Mini-ITX Mini Tower Case
- Replies: 53
- Views: 73557
(Also I worry about the heat of a heat gun on the soft material of most SATA ribbons. Anyone have any insights on this?) If you're fast it's fine. It's like soldering something with plastic inserts, be quick . I know I'm getting off topic here, but what would one solder with "plastic inserts" ? Any...