Its model code is HD321KJ where according to Samsung's scheme the meaning of "K" is 5-heads. So is it really a 3-platter drive? Why? Although it is also claimed to use 167GB platters... Interesting. I couldn't find the model numbering scheme samsung uses, but it could well be true. It would mean sa...

I have the T series HD300LJ model and is noisy, imo...Lots of vibrations and loud seeks. Is HD321KJ different? :? You got T133 series hd. The newer T166 series could be quite different in terms of performance or noise. Not to mention your model uses 3 platters, whereas the HD321KJ has only 2 (which...

Very high rpm. But how about the platter size? Well, it's no different from the platter size used in 3.5" 15krpm drives. 3.5" SCSIs use smaller platters that what could be physically fitted into that size of HDD casing. Not true. It's true that 3.5" 15k rpm drives use platters with roughly 2.5" dia...

I'm still battled to to why its says "1.525V" on the Intel box, though? Is that referring to something else and not what the VCore should be set to? It probably means this is the highest voltage the cpu in the box will ask for. Remember, all current intel cpus are "multi-VID" parts, meaning they no...

Is the die size of the PIII near the same of the 90nm A64? If not, I don't think that it is a valid assumption that a Winchester using 20W can be passively cooled. Although I have no experience with this. Die size doesn't make that much of a difference if you're willing to accept high temperatures ...

Drax7 wrote:Has anyone else experienced a noisy CPU before? Any suggestions on what to do?

I rather doubt it's the cpu itself. I suspect parts of the voltage regulation circuitry makes the noise (coils are known to be noisy sometimes).

I don't have any other source than a swedish hardware newssite and this time they do not link to their source (which they usually do), however, take a look at the numbers presented here. It is Intels new 600-series Pentium 4 with 2MB L2 cache that is on the table... http://forum.sweclockers.com/sho...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20197 According the the article, new Pentium-Ms are coming out next month including a 2.13ghz model. According to what I read before, these 533mhz bus chips will push the FPU performance up around 25-30% in the SPEC tests and will push power consumption to 27W. I...

Prahella wrote: So, no undervolting... well, at least no ordinary undervolting.

Well it DOES support Cool 'n' Quiet - so that there are no ordinary underclocking/undervolting options is IMHO no big loss.

3) Is the CPU temp monitoring in the board not working? No, I am running Linux on it, but I will test it under windows soon. Tried lm_sensors? [edit: a quick search reveals lm_sensors doesn't support it: Abit uguru: (2004-09-14) Actually a Winbond W83L950D in disguise (despite Abit claiming it is "...

In theory there is nothing stopping you from using Cool 'n' Quiet together with undervolting. It won't work with the standard Cool 'n' Quiet tool however. For Cool 'n' Quiet to work, the bios supplies the OS a table with the valid multiplier / voltage settings, and the OS uses these values to switch...

Tricking the board to lower FSB shouldn't be too difficult in theory, look at the P4 datasheet and watch out for the BSEL pins. As Ralf said, it should work just the same as if you try to increase FSB. You can also lower voltage that way, which was already said to be much more effective, watch out f...

Wait a minute! Where did the Mobile Athlon 64 go? I've been looking at this document a lot of times, and lately just to see the numbers for the 90 nm mobile ones (they never showed up). It says in the revision history that they have removed three chapters... :? Yes, they are gone. A real pity. AMD ...

Those Athlon64's are starting to look very enticing. Think it'd be possible to run one of these guys with just a good heatsink and decent case airflow if they were undervolted/underclocked sufficiently? Even at 1 ghz, these chips should be quite fast.... That's no problem even with the 130nm parts ...

I believe by specs you can get both the XP-M or AMD 64-M to comparable levels of power consumption/heat consumption, by fiddling with your motherboard bios. Ok, fair enough. but I'd go with an XP-M for a couple of reasons (I run an HTPC with a Mobile Xp running at 1.2ghz) * Been around longer and h...

Actually, the new FX-55's specification exceeds 89watts. That's true, but it's a boutique part which only exists because AMD could not get 2.6Ghz 90nm parts out in time (or they didn't even try, I don't think 1MB 90nm parts exist yet). It does not invalidate that the 89W figure was higher than what...

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/30430.pdf Max TDP is 67W for all of them, if this is the same 67W as the 89W for the 130nm parts was (i.e. it has some headroom for future processors) this is very good news! Min P-state at 1000Mhz didn't really improve much (fr...

Which of the desktop Athlon 64's are 90nm? I had a quick look on the AMD site but couldn't find specs. AMD hasn't updated the tech docs yet for the 90nm parts. The 3000+, 3200+ for socket 939 are 90nm parts, and a 3500+ for socket 939 exists both as 90nm and 130nm part. mczak edit: actually they ha...

The original question included which 'uses up the least electricity'. According to CPUpower at 300MHz the CPU is using 4.7W in my setup http://www.silentpcreview.com/article164-page1.html a figure which MikeC seems happy with. This compares favourably to 13W. Sorry, but just because CPUpower says t...

It appears that AthlonXPs will idle lower than A64s. Search for pod03 as the author and you will find the reasosns. Basically XPs can go down to 300MHz (5x60) at 1.1v (4.7W) whereas it appears that A64s dont go as low MHz with current BIOSs. True, XP will go to a lower freqency more easily than A64...

The 90nm A64 are probably the chips to get for low power consumption. There still aren't that many numbers out there regarding power consumption of these chips, but the numbers so far are truly impressive. For instance http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2249&p=13 a 2.2Ghz 90nm 3500+...

Elixer wrote:I have an HP Laserjet 1012 that I bought off newegg. It is totally fanless, quiet while printing, and totally silent while not.

So my theory about instant-on-fusers seems to be correct. In fact, most HP/Canon printers seem to use that nowadays.

1.1V is some sort of a "natural limit", since the voltages defined by the VID signals range from 1.1V to 1.85V for Athlon XP cpus (they go down to less iirc on mobile cpus, too lazy to check). So typical voltage regulators on boards will only be able to provide voltages from 1.1V to 1.85V for simple...

I have a Brother HL-1440 laser printer. It's noisy when printing (I guess as can be expected; maybe I'm too easy?). What disappoints me is that when it's done printing my few pages and waiting to go back to standby mode (which is silent), the fan and other associated machinery is really really loud...

Yes, I quoted the maximum noise figures (highest rotational speed). Many if not most drives are very quiet at 1x dvd playback speeds. I don't doubt that they are quiet at 1x dvd speed. The question though is, do all of these dvd burners actually support limiting playback speed (I've no idea)? Becau...

As best as I recall, the Low-voltage and ULV are pretty much OEM-only. To be perfectly honest, if you think about it, why "would" (should) Intel bother with the hassles of selling these to a channel? Just to satisfy a distinctly low % of geeks (us)? Hardly :). Well, I suppose end-users would have s...

From c't magazine 14/2004: Drive maker and model / dbA / sone (lower is better) sorted based on lowest noise (burning max speed): BTC DRW-1108 / 37,3 / 2,2 LG GSA-4120B / 47 / 5,0 AOpen DRW-8800 / 50,6 / 6,2 Nec ND-2510A / 50,7 / 6,2 BenQ DW-1600A / 50,7 / 6,6 Sony DRU-700A / 50,3 / 6,7 Plextor PX-...