That just means it will cope better with a vibrating drive cage (for example if it's sharing a rack case with half a dozen other drives). It doesn't imply that it would produce any less vibration.
The difference is in testing and features, not mechanical design.
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- Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:50 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB: Big Low Noise Champ?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 122879
- Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:12 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Western Digital Scorpio: Another Quiet Notebook Drive
- Replies: 20
- Views: 19040
Theoretically, the single platter version should make 3 dB less noise than the dual platter version, Only if all the noise came from the platters. The motor, actuator* and elements of the noise due to vibration of the chassis would remain the same. *The actuator noise and vibration might be slightl...
- Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:10 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New system build for hot climate
- Replies: 42
- Views: 19914
- Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:23 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Advice for building a relatively quiet superfast system
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5405
I'll echo the suggestion that RAID 0 won't help you much. If you're a highly competitive multiplayer gamer, maybe the ~5% improvment in level load times could give you an advantage, but otherwise you won't see a noticeable improvement in general performance. You might do better to run them separatel...
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:05 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: esata = sata?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2940
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:08 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Cheap(er) & Quiet AMD X2 939 Mobo Solution
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4526
Only that it's statistically rare to read/write the same <8MB over and over again. Otherwise, you get that benefit for maybe 1/20th of a second before you're back to the platters. Generally, it's the saving on seek time, not the faster transfer rate, that makes the biggest difference when using the ...
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:42 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Cheap(er) & Quiet AMD X2 939 Mobo Solution
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4526
If they think a 40mm fan is silent, the rest of the system/room must be so noisy it's drowning it out. ASrock and Gigabyte both do passive lower end boards, like my 939Dual-SATA2 based on the ULI M1695 chipset. See the link in my sig for my experience with the board. Gigabyte do a passive nForce 4 U...
- Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:02 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help me choose some components [mid-range; P150?; dual-core]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5354
- Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:33 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help me choose some components [mid-range; P150?; dual-core]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5354
Tay : Asus do a passive 7600GT, and even a passive 7900GT. Those are the ones with "Silent" in the model name. For once, it's not just marketing! You still need some airflow, but at least it doesn't have to come from a tiny fan on the graphics card. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable running a 7900GT ...
- Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:10 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Help me choose some components [mid-range; P150?; dual-core]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5354
Though the AMD (presumably X2 3800+) is €80 more, it's more than €80-worth faster, especially in games. If your budget isn't that flexible, then I'd pick a single core Athlon 64 over the Pentium D - most games still don't use dual cores effectively anyway. And the Athlon 64 would run a lot coole...
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:34 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: AMD Athlon 64 X2 +4400 or + 4800
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4260
I'd definitely suggest a Raptor 150 for the boot drive on a high end system like that. If you need more storage, add a good 7200 RPM drive, put the pagefile on that and keep OS, apps and games on the Raptor. Given that a Raptor 150 is faster than two or four Raptor WD740GDs in RAID 0, it's likely to...
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:45 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 74gb Raptor Temps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2406
- Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:23 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Raptors WD74/WD36 now upgraded w/ 16MB cache!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4247
Re: Raptors WD74/WD36 now upgraded w/ 16MB cache!
Supposedly, the WD74A0DFD is single-plattered. This may be ideal for our silent purposes, as well as performance purposes. I haven't seen this confirmed though, so for now it's just a highly plausible rumour (rumour also has it the WD740ADFD slightly outperforms its larger-capacity brother WD1500AD...
- Thu May 25, 2006 9:32 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Tiny, Silent and Efficient: The picoPSU
- Replies: 142
- Views: 272586
- Thu May 25, 2006 3:36 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: BQE, Asrock 939Dual-Sata, XP-90, VGA silencer build
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45038
No, but I always seem to have lots of first aid supplies around the house. Something to do with being in the St. John Ambulance, I'm sure.
- Wed May 24, 2006 9:32 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Info on Seasonic M12 (and more: V8 and new S12 models)
- Replies: 173
- Views: 160182
- Mon May 22, 2006 7:47 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Ninja K8 bracket, supposed to bend?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3723
If the amount of bending shown in the photograph is typical, I wouldn't worry about the risk of snapping. Maybe it would be worth a touch more caution when it comes to removing the heatsink before shipping the machine anywhere, but that's a good idea anyway. Of course, judging the risk of cracking/s...
- Mon May 22, 2006 12:08 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Ninja K8 bracket, supposed to bend?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3723
The retainer is bound to bend to counter the pulling force of the Ninja clips. The important thing to remember is that it will be resisting that bending, and pulling the Ninja down hard against the CPU, which won't be affected directly by the bending of the retainer. Now, if it was bending more on o...
- Sat May 20, 2006 11:11 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe
- Replies: 26
- Views: 21272
Nice to see this board reviewed, i've been looking to go s939 with a x2 3800+ for a while, don't have the money right now so it will be a while until i can buy the complete set. [...] Fast glance tells me the Asus has the 3200, Abit the 580, Asus has 2 Gbit Lan and eSATA, Abit has 1 Gbit LAN no eSA...
- Sat May 20, 2006 12:22 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: RD580 boards: Abit AT8 32X vs. Asus A8R32-MVP (with ninja)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15834
I've been helping someone with a build using the Ninja on an A8R32-MVP with 4 sticks of RAM. He made it work by installing the Ninja before the RAM, then bending the tab upwards to make room to insert the RAM. He also had to bend the lowest fin very slightly to make it fit. http://petersarah.f2s.com...
- Thu May 18, 2006 9:30 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: BQE, Asrock 939Dual-Sata, XP-90, VGA silencer build
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45038
Actually, I eventually gave up on the x64 beta - no drivers for my scanner or Lego Mindstorms, 1 or 2 games wouldn't recognise the OS as XP and refused to install, and I wondered if it was responsible for the instability. I was wrong on the last count, but when XP Home "just worked", and all my soft...
- Thu May 18, 2006 4:13 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: BQE, Asrock 939Dual-Sata, XP-90, VGA silencer build
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45038
Been away for a while, but since someone had posted, I thought I'd give a quick update. I've had to replace the RAM - got Ballistix Tracer PC4000, and it was much better. More recently, I've kept getting hard disk corruption. RMA'd the hard disk, but still had problems, so I've replaced the motherbo...
- Thu May 18, 2006 3:31 am
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Poll: Best UK online tech stores
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15486
I voted for KustomPCs based on them giving a more personal service. Kool'n'Quiet are also good for that. Places like Dabs and ebuyer are fine if nothing goes wrong, but they'll make you pay to ship returns back to them (even though they're legally obliged to pay for all shipping if it turns out to b...
- Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:09 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: New system...please review and advise
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3325
I've read elsewhere on SPCR that the VF-700 works on a 7800GTX. The poster didn't specify whether that was at 5V or 12V, but even at 12V, the VF700 isn't as noisy as a stock cooler, and it might help cool your chipset. Speaking of which... The chipset cooler on the DFI is right under the primary gra...
- Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:40 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: P180 and Asus P5WD2 - which PSU, and which CPU cooler?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3339
Sorry if this response is too late, at least others may benefit from it if so. Fans: all the fan mounts in the P180 are 120mm, and it comes with two quiet 25mm fans already mounted at the top and rear exhausts, and a somewhat less quiet 38mm fan in the HDD/PSU tunnel, which you may prefer to remove,...
- Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:49 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: HP NVIDIA Quadro FX540 fanless ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1534
- Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:13 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: l1a ok for trupower 380w single fan
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3208
I guess no-one who read the thread had done that on that PSU before. As a rule, if the new fan produces the same or better airflow with less noise, then you're fine. You could reduce the voltage until it matches the airflow you were getting before, but that's only worth it if it's still the noisiest...
- Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:00 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: 120->92mm xp-90 mod help!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1411
I'm currently running a 120mm Antec case fan on my XP-90, because my memory ws overheating, and this gives it plenty of ventilation because it overhangs the heatsink directly above the RAM slots. The CPU was already cool enough with an undervolted Nexus 92mm, which was effictively silent. I'd sugges...
- Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:44 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: What power supply for my p180?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4134
SPCR's Recommended PSUs may help you here. The S12-380 will be more than enough, it's acoustically identical to the S12-430. And the cables are long enough. You don't need a 500+ Watt PSU for one single core, 90nm AMD CPU, one graphics card (and not even the hottest model), and the rest of a normal...
- Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:58 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Urgent help needed. New system won't work :(
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3919