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- Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:41 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: SilverStone Fortress FT02 Revisited
- Replies: 39
- Views: 30956
Re: SilverStone Fortress FT02 Revisited
I've had one of these since it was first released, and I have no complaints whatsoever. My old P180, the door hinges lasted about a month before breaking; this has stood up to a couple of years as a combination PC/footrest. I have the intake fans on the stock low setting and a Noctua D14 cooler with...
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:04 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: New study of DRAM errors and ECC memory
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11079
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:39 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: New study of DRAM errors and ECC memory
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11079
Memory errors could lead to a crash or corrupt data - depends on whether the data being read from memory is code or data. If its code it is likely to crash, or at least execute wrong instructions changing data in some way. If it is data it may still crash depending on what it does to the program log...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:52 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: New study of DRAM errors and ECC memory
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11079
I've just built a new box with 12gb of ECC ram and I noticed that while finding the limits of the overclocking and testing with Prime 95, at no point did I ever see a calculation error in Prime; the limits were always caused a blue screen or lock up suggesting something else failed before the RAM st...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:37 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD green - really quieter then WD blue?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5419
Theoretically the WD Green drives with the 64mb cache should be quieter for a different reason. They are the first of a new generation of drives that have 4kb sectors instead of the traditional 512 byte sectors that were a hangover from floppy disks! (this needs vista or newer). Larger sectors = red...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:32 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel x25-M SSD - Need to be FORMATTED? How turn off defrag?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6120
Windows 7 does disable defrag for SSDs but not by the method of turning off the scheule that is often advised in articles for Vista. Instead if you look at the details of the scheduled task under Windows 7, you'll find in the list of disks to defragment, the SSD disks are unticked by default. This m...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:24 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Silverstone Fortress FT02 (P182 killer?)
- Replies: 173
- Views: 145066
I got the X650 and I fitted it facing outwards as I thought there would be enough cooling in the CPU area already so by pointing out outwards I had a good chance of the fan not spinning up most of the time. As I mentioned in my previous post, the peak wattage I measured was 334w even with an overclo...
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:45 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Silverstone Fortress FT02 (P182 killer?)
- Replies: 173
- Views: 145066
Finally my processor turned up and I got things built. From my original worries: 1. The top 5.25 being above the motherboard turned out to be very bad thing rather than a good thing, as there isn't enough room behind it to afix a SATA power cable, unless you can find one that had a right angle twist...
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:00 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: CPU idle consumption chart
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22998
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:42 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: SSD and HDD Recomendations for daw
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3709
If your drive supports the TRIM command Windows 7 will not suffer from decreased write performance as it gets full. The only additional recommendation I would make is buy enough RAM that you can switch off the page file. See the article linkede above on Anandtech.com and its successors for more deta...
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:18 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Active Noise Cancellation For Computers?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19409
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:55 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Silverstone Fortress FT02 (P182 killer?)
- Replies: 173
- Views: 145066
- Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:05 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Silverstone Fortress FT02 (P182 killer?)
- Replies: 173
- Views: 145066
Mine is non-windowed. Unfortunately some of the parts I ordered are still on backorder so I can't tell about performance yet, apart from the Intel X-25M which I slung in my old machine to see what difference it makes, and that I can confirm absolutely rocks. I installed Windows 2008 on a virtual mac...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:11 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Silverstone Fortress FT02 (P182 killer?)
- Replies: 173
- Views: 145066
Just unpacked mine and while I wait for the rest of my components to arrive, some first impressions that I hadn't gleamed from the reviews: Good: The top 5.25" drive bay is entirely above the top edge of motherboard so if you only use this bay then you have room for a custom cooler on a 2nd GPU card...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:08 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: SATA SSD for PATA motherboard?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12604
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:58 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: understanding power requirements - multi-core CPUs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2170
A TDP of 65W means the chip is designed to withstand a maximum draw of 65 watts accross the whole chip, and it is normally just below the point at which the designers expect thermal protection to kick in if the chip is being cooled to design specifications. In real world use, especially when not ove...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:33 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New to SPCR, help appreciated, quiet PC for HOT environment
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12541
In the 256-bit VGA card category, the Radeon 5850 seemed like "right" one to get. I really don't play games much (although having the hardware capability would be nice), I'm just trying to get whatever will be easiest on my eyes over long hours of screen-time. If I'm wrong about the need for a 256-...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:42 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New to SPCR, help appreciated, quiet PC for HOT environment
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12541
n addition, AFAIK the current 1366 chips don't have turbo mode (which auto-overclocks for single-threaded apps). They do, they just don't have as big a margin of increase as the Lynnfield models. Given you plan on using a resolution of 1680x1050, an HD5850 may be overkill and a quieter, cooler & ch...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:17 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Your suggestions please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2390
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:11 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Your suggestions please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2390
Your suggestions please
for suitable forms of torture to inflict on the online UK computer component retailers, none of whom have the CPU I want (Xeon W3520) in stock. Grrrr.
Is there anything more annoying than having an almost complete new system sat in boxes on living room carpet?
Is there anything more annoying than having an almost complete new system sat in boxes on living room carpet?
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:45 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Seeking advice on Desktop vs Laptop
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6841
I can't see an argument for buying a desktop these days unless you want to play games, have specialist requirements for storage/memory, or, like many here, enjoy building computers as a hobby - a mid-range laptop suffices for anything else. As others have said, don't buy an SSD from dell. I was also...
- Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:47 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: how much could i run with a 400w power supply
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3922
I just bought myself a power meter and found my machine draws from the wall 180W when idle and 275W during game play - and as you can see, there are an above average number of components: Core 2 duo E6600 overclocked to 3Ghz 4 x 2Gb DDR 800 RAM Nvidia GTX8800 with 2 displays 1 x 500Gb Hard disks Sou...
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:15 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: HD 5750 cards
- Replies: 39
- Views: 27635
- Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:14 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Silverstone Raven Two
- Replies: 31
- Views: 28074
- Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:57 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Silent PC for Web Development
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3027
- Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:22 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit)?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 39027
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:22 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Silverstone Fortress FT02 (P182 killer?)
- Replies: 173
- Views: 145066
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:59 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: NH-D14 : New Noctua CPU Cooler
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6695
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:47 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Flight Simulator X hardware recommendation request
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3576
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:48 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit)?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 39027
Microsoft have already abandoned 32-bit for their server OS. Windows Server 2008 R2 has no 32-bit version and neither do any of the future releases of their server applications - SQL 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010 etc. The desktop is sure to follow soon, especially as most 32-bit software runs ok under 64...