Would you think the space between my CPU cooler and the case fan is too much to take enough effect on a passively cooled Sapphire Ultimate with most fins on top of the card? Yeah, they'd both had to handle hotter air then... but then again, the only fan that's temperature controlled atm is the Corsa...

Would be interesting how low onboard graphics devices with DVI support would go... AMD's 740/780G IGPs idle <1W. Intel's IGPs are power hogs, and they actually consume more power when not being used (i.e., it takes more power to support a PCIe card). The G33/Q3x is the lowest power Intel desktop IG...

I also lean towards saving money... on a 2-year term calculation that includes power costs... so I guess the 4670 may be it, maybe with CPU cooler... but that's still a fan more... I'd first test it with case fans @12V and then come down as far as I could to have still acceptable temperatures. Do yo...

Would be interesting how low onboard graphics devices with DVI support would go...

This GDDR4 card cooler looks intriguing... There seems no other card with this cooling solution around... though I read somewhere that the cooler is not temperature controlled, which makes it less interesting. I don't think we'll see a 46xx GDDR5 version anytime soon if ever, the price difference is...

You seem to avoid the heat question like the plague... if you don't want to suggest anything it's fine for me, please just say so. :D Well, all 4650 GDDR3 models seem to come with VGA and DVI, plus they're all actively cooled. Any passively cooled and all other are DDR2 only, which I wouldn't really...

Thanks... I won't gain much with playing at 1280x1024 then choosing the 3870 over the 4670... so what's your opinion on a possible heat problem with the given circumstances?

I just also edited in the 9600 GSO plus Accelero S1 in the above listing. Well, yes, I'd think having the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 12cm fan right above the passive cooler and a 12cm Noiseblocker NB-UltraSilentFan SX1 @7V (also the same as intake in the front) right next to that blowing out the of the case...

Thanks guys for your helpful answers! There is no passively cooled 4830 availible? The only passively cooled 4670 with 2x DVI availible is the HIS iSilence 4... So you think I should choose between: - HIS Radeon HD 4670 iSilence 4 (1024MB DDR3(!), 2x DVI, €100), passively cooled - Sapphire Ultimat...

dhanson865 wrote: 2. Never put a swap file on an SSD (Turn off virtual memory or move the pagefile/swapfile to another drive (a traditional hard drive) )

Hmm... so what would you do in a notebook application where you can't live without a swap file? Not use SSD at all?

Hey guys... Well... I'm looking for some update... currently I'm using a Asus EAX 1950 Pro, which has a fan that bothers me slightly. So... I had a look out for DirectX 10.1 enabled cards (well, just be future safe a bit, you see how long I endured with the 1950 Pro). So my choices came down to thes...

Hmm... there are many products and self-made solutions out in the field that are not listed in the sticky. And some grommet using products are better than others even when the same design is used. I'd really love to see an update of this sticky!

Thank you both, this helps a lot!

Thanks Miguel. The number 2 occured more often in the first post than the number 4 ;) Anyway, don't want to sound ignorant here, in fact I thought that 2 extra drives and a slightly bigger case wouldn't change the price to costs-me-arm-and-half-a-leg. So even if it was about 4 drives, why did nobody...

Hey there, my other topic about NAS raised me with this question as an option for me would be to hook the drives intended for NAS up internally in my main case... Is there any way of having drives not spinning and working for a deliberate time but when you would chose to turn on the NAS you could si...

Well guys. You help a lot! Now you got me thinking if it wasn't just easier to clamp two HDDs into my main tower. Hmm. I thought the market was a bit further since I last checked a year ago... damn. I don't wanna build a new PC around it. Maybe if I'm not doing internally I'd hook it up with an eSAT...

Hi... There surely are some hot topics about this, but I just need a basic direction with my special needs, where I think quickly asking the experienced is a lot simpler than research everything in that enourmus product field... My requirements are: - NAS storage device - can hold from 2 to 4 HDDs (...

Finally someone reading what is in the list... actually I'm still undecided about which CPU-cooler I'll take, if the price difference is justifiable. The price difference is also, why I'm not leaning towards an Antec Solo solution because that's double the price of the Rebel. SO with the Rebel being...

Hey... any opinions on that? Would the 5000+ BE be better than a 5200+ EE or a 5200+ Brisbane? The EE having with 2x1024MB 2 times more cache than the others. How would a 4800+ Brisbane compare to these? I'm interested in performance values, wattage values and temperature at stock speed vs. all of t...

Well actually... is the 5000+ BE better than 5200+ EE or 5200+ Brisbane (even when slightly OCed to about the same level above them performance wise)? I don't know, and you do not seem to either... I asked not to question the RAM decision, it's for a special application you folks most probably don't...

Hey there... I'd be very grateful if you knowledgable folks would have a look at my shopping list and tell me where I could get a bit more for the money on the performance side without comprimising too much on the energy/silent side... I'm especially concerned a bit about the coice of mobo... I do n...

Hey folks,

I'm looking for low budget cases that allow for aroudn 4 harddrives... anyone having opinions on these, like e.g. a Sharkoon Rebel9 Economy in black is not that bad looking at all to me?

Thanks in advance!
Mohan

Surely I like your more scientific approach than just some oversimplified statements, but your post also makes it look like an ice age would come around in somewhat like 10 or 30 years (like suddenly). That's not the case, not at all, an ice age is calculated in million years. But the recent changes...

From my perspective the threat of me dying from Alzheimer’s is a lot higher than the threat of my dying from climate change phenomena so I fold year round…. but I do it with a bit of a guilty conscience in the summer. Very short sighted. VERY very short sighted. Puts the rest of your post in qu...

Wouldn't it be cool to have something like a product tag, that indicates wheter a special phrase is a certain product? Maybe one could use these to do searches for like what products are named more often than others and so on... or offer a quickly accessible list of mentioned products when posting i...

What....... We give them free stuff, of course we get to choose what we give them, thats what charity is all about. You maybe jsut forgot a bit about how you got lucky to be born into a rich family... who or what got you those things you give from? And don't tell me most poor people wouldn't work o...

Copper wrote:It's one part of 'give an apple or teach how to grow an apple tree."

Yeah, like give a laptop or teach how to manufacture one...

My DX4/100 ran cooler

That article is basically saying "we just screw our world and don't give a shit about performance per watt because we can achieve a better peak if we do so". There was already a similar short sighted comment in this thread. How much energy does a PS3 need when calculating a FAH task? How much is tha...

In that vein, I researched the list of the Top500 supercomputers (and FAH is IMHO a typical supercomuter task) where a system with 128 processors is ranked 72nd. And that amongst systems with usually more than 20 times more processors. Now let's talk FAH (statistics taken from FAH webpage ): In tota...