lloyd case's extremetech article on a silent pc
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lloyd case's extremetech article on a silent pc
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2 ... 8%2C00.asp
...$2500?
...well at least it's more competent than the garbage in maximumpc/cpu magazines.
...$2500?
...well at least it's more competent than the garbage in maximumpc/cpu magazines.
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Re: lloyd case's extremetech article on a silent pc
Half of it comes from CPU and videocard alone.rei wrote:...$2500?
I didn't think it was that bad. The 600W is overkill but he did give his reason - the ability to run SLI in the future. I think he succeeded in his objectives, to build a quiet killer gaming system without extensive modding using readily available parts. I doubt if we can improve much on the system without radical changes. Replacing the CPU HSF will not yield very much noise reduction. Other mods - replacing the HSF on the GPU, water cooling, cutting cases, suspending HDDs are probably not considered mainstream enough. That's why we come here, and not ExtremeTech, for our silencing needs.
As a silent computing guide, the article is blah. But as an indication of where we stand in quiet computing, it's excellent.
Fact is, it just ain't that hard to build a quiet PC these days. If he'd pulled the same results with components three years ago, I'd be standing on my chair clapping. Raise your hand if you remember the 5800 Ultra. Silencing THAT would be a trip, but now that every chip worth anything underclocks itself and reduces power dynamically, it's just a matter of cherry-picking modern components.
DI
Fact is, it just ain't that hard to build a quiet PC these days. If he'd pulled the same results with components three years ago, I'd be standing on my chair clapping. Raise your hand if you remember the 5800 Ultra. Silencing THAT would be a trip, but now that every chip worth anything underclocks itself and reduces power dynamically, it's just a matter of cherry-picking modern components.
DI
Sites that TRY to write about silencing PCs should just put a blantant mention to SPCR and just concentrate on the stuff that matters more to them. eg, "extreme" bleeding edge hardware that apparently some people have lots of dough to blow on.
It constantly amuses me to see sites like that just REPEAT alot of the mantra that is readily available here long before they write about it, and with articles with much better attention to detail. Why waste the time and rewrite the wheel?
It constantly amuses me to see sites like that just REPEAT alot of the mantra that is readily available here long before they write about it, and with articles with much better attention to detail. Why waste the time and rewrite the wheel?
Current graphics cards produce just as much (or more) heat as the 5800U did (which btw also underclocked itself in 2D). The thing about the Dustbuster was that the heatsink simply sucked ass, something you could easily remedy with an aftermarket HS. Similarly, those screamer Deltas weren't actually used because the Athlons of the time drew more power than, say, a Prescott but because the heatsinks were smaller and terribly ineffective compared to what we have now.KnightRT wrote:If he'd pulled the same results with components three years ago, I'd be standing on my chair clapping. Raise your hand if you remember the 5800 Ultra. Silencing THAT would be a trip
( edit : gaaah... look at me, replying to a post two months old :\ )
If this is a recent article, I am not very impressed with the autors choice of several old "silencing" components. The Sonata and 7700 are simply just outdated.
But it showed that his gaming rig was more quiet than the P150 and P180? Running the intel stock 775 HSF with all case fans on max, surely!
But it showed that his gaming rig was more quiet than the P150 and P180? Running the intel stock 775 HSF with all case fans on max, surely!