Short story: I powered on one of my computers, heard a muffled popping sound ("pffffff"), went to investigate, and saw a little bit of smoke coming from either the motherboard near the VRM circuits, or the PSU. Doing the simple PSU test, where I connect a green wire to a black wire on the ATX connec...

Does anyone know if the AMD Sempron LE-1250 supports ECC RAM? I can't seem to find a definitive answer. The datasheet explicitly says that the socket 754 and 939 Semprons support ECC memory, but doesn't say that for the AM2 parts. All the info I could find via google was inconclusive.

What do ya'll think about the Biostar A760G motherboard? It appears to have the low-power CPU-friendly 3-phase power (further supported by the newegg reviews which suggest it doesn't support the high-wattage processors). I can't find any info on whether or not it supports CPU undervolting. (I had a...

What do ya'll think about the Biostar A760G motherboard? It appears to have the low-power CPU-friendly 3-phase power (further supported by the newegg reviews which suggest it doesn't support the high-wattage processors). I can't find any info on whether or not it supports CPU undervolting. (I had a ...

I'm curious how much power that would consume at idle if as many components as possible were replaced with SPCR's standard Intel testing: PC3-8500 (1066 MHz FSB) -> PC2-6400 (800 MHz FSB) 3.5" 5400 RPM drive -> 2.5" 5400 drive E8400 CPU -> E7200 Maybe about five watts total? Closer to 10W. The 3.5"...

I was a little disappointed to see 41 Watts for idle power consumption. If TDP numbers have any relation to power consumption, the Q 45 chipset should be one of the best. I'm curious how much power that would consume at idle if as many components as possible were replaced with SPCR's standard Intel ...

Hello,

I am selling my Antec P182 case. It's in great condition, used about 1.5 years in a non-smoking home.

I don't have any box for shipping this, so it's local pickup only.

I'm in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Asking: $90.

PM me if interested, or you want pictures, etc.

Thanks,
Matt

1. a GPU for my server - 2d only. cheap, low power and most impotently lowest temp possible. I would suggest going to ebay and doing a search for "pci video card", and just look for something without any heatsink or fan. Examples would be the old Riva, ATI Rage, Matrox cards. You should be able to ...

The butyl rubber (at least on McMaster) is still fairly expensive. I finally remembered what I've used in the past: mass-loaded vinyl. See McMaster page 3467 or search for "mass-loaded vinyl". I used to have some of part number 9709T39 and also part number 54665T32 , but threw it away to save space ...

I just moved my main system from an Antec P182 to an Antec NSK6580B . Some might call this a downgrade, but I was getting tired of the door on the P182. Plus I caught the NSK6580 on sale at Newegg. I would have gone with the Solo, but (1) I wanted all black and (2) I think the hard drive cage in the...

Maybe I missed it, but what was the state of the WiFi when you took the idle power reading? Just wondering how many watts the wireless circuit needs.

One idea I'll throw out that I didn't see in my quick skimming of this thread: get a third drive (a smaller/faster one, like a VelociRaptor or SSD) to use as your system drive, and use the two big drives in a RAID1 (mirrored) configuration. Your motherboard might support RAID1, or maybe Windows can ...

But was it quiet? :) In my experience, rackmount systems are loud, loud, loud. Especially 1U systems, they usually have an array of tiny (60mm I think) fans that run at full speed. Note that file streaming generally doesn't tax the CPU too much, particularly on "server grade" hardware (they usually ...

A couple of questions pop to mind tho: 1) Specs?! :lol: ... 1) I don't understand wath you meen, but no, theres no space anyware in this case ;) I believe he meant "specifications", i.e. what brand/model of all the components? At least, that's the question I have. Everything looks really nice and c...

The integrated video circuits are still present in the P versions and still use current. Adding a external PCIe video card additionally loads the Northbridge. So, the TDP is actually higher for the G33/P35 with a video card than when using the IGP. G35 is not the same chip as G33/P35, it is more li...

One more that may be of interest: Q45: 17 W Max TDP, Idle (C1/C2): 6 W, Idle (C3/C4): 4.7 W. I'm confused about the discrepancies between the P , Q , and G series (other than the P not having integrated video). Intel's power numbers are meaningless without their notes. The P35 numbers are higher tha...

I posed this question to Gigabyte's tech support. They just got back to me: The PCIE x16 slot are design for video, not for other cards Just test with single card onto the x1 slot, any issue when using onto that slot? Emphasis mine. What's with these motherboard vendors restricting the use of PCIe s...

PCIe slots arent designated 'video' or 'data'. They just transmit data from one place to another. It shouldnt have any issues. Its difficult to say weather or not its a board issue or the SATA card itself at fault at this point. I agree, but look at this thread (scroll down towards the bottom, whic...

I recently changed the motherboard/CPU of my fileserver to a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 (with newest F3 BIOS) and AMD 4850e. I have four drives attached to the on-board SATA ports. I also have two 2-port PCIe x1 SATA cards ( this, I think ). There are four drives on these two cards; the four drives make ...

Bump on my previous question: is it worth it to get heatsinks for the VRM modules on this board? If so, any recommendations? But more importantly: I got this board, and paired it with a 4850e CPU to use as a fileserver. My fileserver has eight total drives: four are connected to the onboard SATA por...

Regarding the "high temperature" VRM mosfets... I'm thinking about getting one of these boards for a fileserver. I'll use a low-wattage dual core CPU (e.g. 4850e), and either run at stock settings or undervolt/underclock. Under these conditions, with zero/very low CPU load practically all the time, ...

There's been a handful of good threads here recently about hardware for home fileservers/NAS. Obviously we want silent and low power. One thing I've been thinking about, though, is the quality and performance of the SATA implementation across the more popular consumer southbridges. I haven't been ab...

FYI, I sent an email to WD asking for details on this matter. What I get out of their response is that the SMART attribute Load_Cycle_Count is indeed reflective of full head parks. But they also say that the drives operating specs (300k/600k parks) are guidelines, and "should" function well beyond t...

Does anyone know if there exists an AC power meter (like the Kill-A-Watt) with some kind of interface that can be read with a computer (e.g. serial port, usb)? I've noticed that the readings on my Kill-A-Watt fluctuate. Obviously, adding various kinds of load will cause a fluctuation, but I've notic...

I have four of the "RE2" version of the 1 TB WD GreenPower drives (model WD1000FYPS). I'm using them in a software RAID5 NAS. Until yesterday, I was quite happy with their cool and quiet operation. And then I found this thread . It's from the Linux Kernel Mailing List; you can find many archived ver...

I have two of the exact same enclosure, and replaced the stock fans with Delta AFB0912L Rev. A fans. The fans are reasonably quiet in my opinion. They definitely don't fit the "delta = obscenely loud" stereotype. You might also be interested in the details of my build that used the same Supermicro h...

Here is an interesting article: "How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media" . It doesn't talk about offline hard drives though. :) I too have started down the road of using lots of offline HDs with a dock as a backup storage solution. Assuming this isn't bad for the hard drive, it seems like a no-brainer,...

This is exactly what I have in mind. But the price! Too rich for my blood.

I did find a box like I showed in the picture above on ebay.

I poached a couple pics from another forum. This is what I have in mind: http://raw-sewage.net/images/bulk_hard_drive_storage_02.png Here is another example (the image is too big to post on the forums, so I linked it). I actually prefer the looks of the first pic (the one actually shown here). I don...

I recently purchased one of those USB hard drive docking stations (e.g. Thermaltake BlacX). This is perfect for backups. The problem is, I now have a handful of internal hard drives that I need to store somewhat safely. I have them all in anti-static bags. But what I'd like is some kind of fitted co...