Just an update... Firstly thanks to all those who offered help, especially Jaganath, it's encouraging sometimes just to know that there are other people out there who can empathise with the sorts of traumas we encounter, especially when it all seems to be going wrong. Anyway - I decided to go back t...

Want a laugh (it's either that or I start to cry ...) I came to the conclusion that the safest thing to do was to change my motherboard, so I got an Asus A8V-E SE yesterday, and spent the evening swapping all the bits over. So I booted up, and since it was the same chipset (that is the reason I went...

As it is (ie with CPUID working as a substitute for C N Q) I am fairly happy, but, I am starting to worry about the motherboard. I had a problem about 10 days ago, when it wouldn't boot, and went through the take one bit off at a time rigmarole, until I changed the graphic card and all was well agai...

Thanks jaganath. I tried resetting BIOS to fail safe - funny thing is that it rebooted, my wireless kb & mouse wouldn't work, so I couldn't get into windows (need to pick a user), so I powered off with the button on the case, and then it wouldn't boot at all - just got fans etc starting, beeping, fa...

Thanks QuietOC - I had already tried that, but decided it was worth another go, but still nothing no change in speed at all. I read the instructions on SPCR regarding CPUID, and this now works. It may take a lot of time to get it working to its optimum state, but it does at least prove (as I type th...

Thanks Jaganath, since I am in the UK, I have just woken up, and the first thing that I thought of (yes, I know it's sad) is that I've got a 3500 single core that I could swap over to. Alternately, I could go out and buy the Asus equivalent of this motherboard (only costs about £50) and transplant a...

Sadly for me, it does it whether of not C n Q is enabled in BIOS

Thanks QuietOC, I tried looking at CPU useage, and it's 98-99% idle, so I don't think that's the problem. Funny thin - with the AMD power monitor is a Dashboard demo, I tried loading this and it says 'failed initializing, make sure the AMD tools driver is installed and that this system has a PSS or ...

I tried the one stick of RAM approach, but it doesn't make any difference. I also tried loading the AMD power monitor utility, and the funny thing is that I have a 3800 X2, which is supposed to have a clock speed of 2ghz, and that is what the power monitor shows most of the time, however under a bit...

Thanks - I'll try the one stick of RAM approach and see if that makes a difference.

Has anyone got the t-balancer to work with speedfan, if so would you mind telling me how you did it.

I sent an email to mcubed tech support, but they told me that there is no information available yet! I find that hard to believe, but that's what they tell me.

Hi, I've got a Sapphire X1300 which comes passive 'out of the box'. No problems with it. You must remember there's a X1300 pro, and I assume this runs hotter, because I haven't been able to find one for sale that is passive as standard.

Thanks, but that's not the answer - some places say to use minimum power management, others portable/laptop - I've tried both and neither works for me.

I've spent hours googling all over the place, sent a request to Abit tech support (about a week ago!) asked the question on Abit forums (over a week ago) but no answers so far, so over to you ... I've recently built a new PC, Abit AX8 ver 2 motherboard, latest BIOS (infact there is only one to choos...

I know there are other threads about the paranoia side of silencing, but the more you get everything else below the hearing threshold, the more the whine of the hard drive starts to annoy. I could go for 2.5" drives, but that does seem to be a compromise on both the size and the performance side, an...

To me, the most iritating noise is the constant whine type, ie hard drive and fans. I don't mind the clicking of the hard drive when it's doing something, but I don't want to hear it when it's just idling. I would have thought that we have everything we need in the PC to try noise cancelling - perha...

I know that I can try this out for myself, but I just want to know if anyone else has tried it. I think that I must be really fussy, because with a Nexus 120 running at around 500rpm, I am happy with the lack of noise, but by the time it gets to 700, I find it intrusive. So I thought about putting 2...

Yes, between the knees is the only way - I've got a pair of old black cord trousers, and these give excellent grip, and even then for a while I thought I wouldn't be able to get it apart, but come apart it did (eventually). It's easy to complain and say it should be easier, but then I suspect we wou...

I know this may be a stupid question, and if that is the case, then I am sorry. What I am interested in finding out is whether or not this board would have a lower or higher power consumption than the one it is replacing. I am one of those who purchased the Asus A8N32-sli, having been taken in by th...

Yes, thank you, I had seen that board. The thing that appealed to me about the crossfire boards is that nearly all of them are passive, so presumably this is how the chipset is designed to be run - implies low power useage, whereas the nforce boards nearly all run with fans, and it seems that when p...

I've become I bit despondent of late with all the talk of the power requirements of the nforce motherboards, especially the Asus A8N32-sli. I purchased one of these, and then read that they do not like to be upside down (and yes I plan to use a Lian-Li case) and then no sooner had I got over that sh...

Thanks for the update. I've got something as close to silent as is necessary - sometimes I find the noise of my Samsung disk a bit of an annoyance, but mostly (when there is even the slightest amount of background noise, I would call it silent.) I am currently using the Aopen 855 motherboard with a ...

Heh, I bought one of those about a year ago - thought it was the answer to my 'silent goal' - planned to use it with a reserator. But I found the pump much noisier than I had been led to believe. So it's spent the last year in the ever-growing box of 'that sounded promising, but actually sounded too...

I've got a micro ATX board in a Lian-Li case it fitted without any modification. The board is an Aopen, and gives the impression of being identical with a normal ATX board with just a few centimetres cut off the left hand side. I also once had a Shuttle motherboard (which I am sure was micro ATX), a...

I cut the pads, so that I completely covered the electronics on the drive (as per instructions). I am not saying that the heatlane did not get warm - it did; it just did not get as warm as I would have expected, and gave the impression that it was not conducting the drive heat away from the drive in...

I tried one of these boxes about a month ago, and because I am using a SATA drive (Samsung) on an embedded Promise SATA controller, I cannot monitor the temperature using software (if anyone knows of some software that would enable me to do this please let me know.) Anyway, I got a thermometer for m...

If there's on thing I've learned over the last few years it's that noise is subjective. I give some of my users at work PCs and at the same time feel guilty that they are so noisy whilst the users say they can hardly hear them. I purchased a Zalman reserator last year purely because one review I rea...

Hi I haven't removed the grill as yet, but I have been tempted before, and this thread is moving me in the right direction! The only thing is it would have been so much easier if I had done it before installing the motherboard etc. I know I could try masking the area (as someone mentioned above) tro...

Aracu is talking about a fanless PSU. This is something I had been thinking about for some time - I really cannot think of a thermal/noise downside with taking it out of the box. Since the PSU has no fans, it cannot provide any cooling in the case - only extra heat. With the PSU out of the box, it s...

Thanks for the tips, and for the welcome!