Dothan appears to have slightly reduced performance compared to A64 alongside with much reduced heat*. When you bring undervolting into play both chips produce very little heat. I really don't see Dothan as an option, it's expensive and offers little choice in the way of motherboards. No one got fi...

Once the Celeron has 64bit, AMD will probably unlock it for the Semprons.

The removing of cool n quiet destorys my plans of getting a 90nm Sempron on the cheap to replace my Athlon 64 2800+ (clawhammer). 64 bit i could live without but if i can't underclock from windows then it's not happening.

It's been reported on here and lots of other places on the internet that Athlon 64 90nm chips are some of the lowest power consuming desktop chips. With the introduction of the Sempron 3000+, 2800+ and 2600+ Socket 754 we will finally have an alterative to the aging mobile Barton Athlon XP in the lo...

I guess LCDs' manufacturing is totally different in this sense? You are correct, they take alot less to make and consume around half to two-third's the power less than an equivalent CRT during there life time of use. The only bad thing about them is the mercury used in the backlight which makes rec...

I noticed these on the site a few weeks ago, it certainly makes an interesting start for a quiet PSU. 'Green' is the theme at the moment for me, what with my dissertation / thesis being titled. How are computers impacting on the environment from their creation to their obsolescence? After my inital ...

It would be nice to have a bit more choice. Surely if Samsung could be bothered to put the R&D to get good quiet technology, then the others should be able to? I realise that the others tend to concentrate on speed and capacity above acoustics but still. Barracuda IV ........ that’s steam powered is...

Before i suspended mine the vibration from the hard drive went through the case and made vibration noise. The fix: £1.50 worth of elastic from John Lewis. The vibrations disappeared completely and now i can't hear the seek noise at all. That's not an exaggeration either. I have AVG come on at 8:00 i...

Nice to know i'm not only one with this issue. Why do Asus put a chassis fan control section in Q fan when it can't change the speed of the fan that's connected?

Still its a solid board for the most part although i'm having fun getting the network drivers on Suse 9.1.

As it seems with everything in life, nothing is perfect....
The Seasonic S12 does look very interesting and if i was in the market for a new PSU, i would be holding out for that.

Well i wish i had your ears because buzzing grates on me.....
When all you can hear is buzzzzzzzzzz like a bee flying round your head it becomes pretty annoying, though not as annoying as Maxtor whine....

Nice fix luminous!
Coil buzz is probably one of the most annoying noises a computer can make. It's certainly not easy to fix.

My CRT monitor buzzed when my computer was quite quiet and it drove me to the point where i turned up the fans to drown it out!

Now i have an LCD, problem solved!

It's difficult to track what the turnon power surge is w/o a logging device of some kind, but just carefully watching a Seasonic Power Angel or Kill-a-Watt, it never seems as high as the max power I could obtain from a system. It's close to what folding @ home demands of a system, which is about 10...

A psu with 15 amps of available 12v power will have difficulty starting an A64 system with a standard configuration. Can you quantify a 'standard configuration'? I have no problem with only a tiny 15a on the 12v rail running an Athlon 64 2800+, Radeon 9800pro...... The maths: 15 x 12 = 180 180w jus...

Here is a UK Source, PC Next Day
I have not tried them myself but at about half the price of Nexus fans, there not a bad buy....

I tested the power draw again with the underclocking and it doesn't seem as high as i used to.

Idle
110w - 112w Stock
94w - 96w 190Mhz Clock, 300MHz Memory

So about a 16w difference which is still better than nothing.

Games sure look good on it though Smile I wonder how much power the X800 110nm draws... I too was going to get a 9600XT but i saw the 9800pro on offer, it was only £30 more than the 9600XT. I'm only human so the 9800pro went in the shopping cart. I regret it until i load up a game and then all is f...

Lenny i noticed you have a 9800pro, it's amazing how much those things need just sitting there idling. I use rivatuner to underclock it once in windows, then when i need it for games i clock it back up. On the power meter, underclocking to 190Mhz saves nearly 20w from the plug! All that wasted power...

Don't worry alexander, that PSU will be fine. Never built a PC before? Be glad you started with an Athlon 64 and not an Athlon XP. The heatsink clip on the old XP's needed a screw driver to push the clip down, which was ok with small heatsinks but a nightmare with big ones. The Athlon 64 uses a clip...

People who post that a motherboard calls for 24A on the 12V line have no clue what they are talking about. Ignore such BS nonsense! I was just thinking that exact same thing! I don't know much about electronics but 24a x 12v = 288w just on the 12v? Who needs all that power? As MikeC pointed out the...

There much the same, different hard drive bay, thats it i think?

Come on Alexander, a little PSU won't hurt you (Unless you take it apart and stick hands inside when its on! :wink: ). If your going to put your motherboard in then a power supply will be a piece of cake. If you still don't want to then you'll be limiting your options down quite a bit and they tend ...

Here to help. :D My guess is that it will replace the current Fortrons in time but it could be months. When they do become avaliable i think i might pick one up and swap out the fan for a Nexus 120mm (if the original is too loud). As for price, fortron are pretty good value normally and lots of plac...

'Quiet cooling on a budget'
This heatsink certainly fits that description!
Maybe that would be a handy section to have in the recommended list?

Is there a review for the Freezer 64 in the pipes?

Ideally i would say Seasonic but the only place you can buy them from is Xcase and they want over £50 for 350w. :shock: The reason is because they must import them rather than buy them from a local distributor. XCase have the Rev A3 (Super Tornadoes?). Other places like coolnquiet have the Rev A2s....

I understand your concern over the 12v rail issue. Without testing these things myself it seems a little foolish of me to go and say that it will 100% work, when i know that i simply can't prove it. If i needed to upgrade my graphic card i would happily test the water and report back, but i'm happy ...

There i was typing a nice 'you'll be fine' message when i noticed you want to add a 6800GT. The wattage the PSU can cope with but maybe that’s asking too much of the 12v rail. Its only 15A, might be best go for the fortron after all. I don't want to say you'll be fine then you findout that your not....

Just to offer up another option, Novatech have Nexus 300w PSU's for £25, they are probably quieter than the Fortron.

That Antec SLK3000B looks like a good case, nice price at £30 too.

Just for you BigDonut......

WELCOME TO SPCR!!

I'm sure there might be some floating about, but if you can't find one, why not do something devilish.

GO AMD.....

I had come across this site before, they seem to sell a big selection of fans. Those figures are WAY TOO OPTIMISTIC! Nexus claim 22db running at 1000rpm. How would this fan get the same airflow at 7v with 100rpm less and run 12db quieter? These fans from PC Next Day seem more realistic. But they are...

Pete, this reminds me. One additional benefit is that you can quickly move between tabs by hitting CTRL-<1-9 depending on number of tabs>. This is better than ALT-TABing between windows. WOW! i didn't know you could do that! Now i'm even more productive, the question is what to do with all that ext...