smilingcrow wrote: With the right chipset they are capable of reducing the FSB to 400MHz at idle which gives a speed of 600MHz, which should allow a lower VCore.

Can the 965M chipset do this or is this long into the future?

I'm waiting for the new motherboards as well, but it seems like it can be a long wait.

It's pretty hard to understand since Intel had clearly stated that they intended to push those new mobile chips for desktop use like mar2k wrote.

Jeez .. that "HD 2400 - TDP 25 W" is DAMN SEXY.

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The Nvidia MCP68 chip should be released within a weeks time or so.

It's an updated MCP61, named MCP68/GeForce 7050-630A based on the 7xxx series.

Personally, I'm really looking forward to checking out some test on this as soon as it comes out.

Techno Pride wrote:Does the Nidec/JVC motor issue still apply to recent Samsung drives?

I would like to know this too.. My HD501LJ has a Nidec and it's nice and very silent.

jedster wrote:i do know that if you log on it spins all the drives up by default. i'm trying to see if there's a way of stopping it from doing that...

Nice, let us know what you find out!

jojo4u wrote: 4. don't use windows file explorer since it tries to access all devices when started

Thanks for the heads up jojo4u!

Any idear if Vista file explorer also access all drives when startet?

Thanks for the link but I'm not after a mobile CPU because of the limited motherboards. That why I wrote G965 as an option. My E4300-based build with a full-sized hard drive and 7600GT idles at 75 Watts, tops out around 130 Watts, for comparison. Your setup minus the hdd would be about 10watts less....

I would love to run a Core 2 Duo system with a PicoPSU. In order to do that the complete system would have to draw less than about 100W max. The only requirement I got, is the ability to run Vista AERO. I don't care about games. I was thinking about using a NAND disk as system drive. That should low...

The Watts Up? meter is around 100 Watts so power consumption looks okay. I assume it will be lower when I am done with the install and EIST can kick in. Thanks alot for the infomation but but it's really useless to us without knowing the specs of your setup. That with a 8800GTS GFX? 3 SATA drives? ...

Where in europe are you located? They are avaible here in Denmark... Hi Thomas, I'm in Denmark too, but i need the SATA version because my Merom motherboard only supports RAID 1 with SATA drives. If you know where they have the SATA model in stock you would make me a happy man :P Thanks in advance.

eitheta wrote: Today they have both flavors in stock.
Seems a no-brainer, now that E is E-Z to get.

I'm not as lucky as you might think.
I live in Europe and we don't have Newegg or any E7K100's here.

Mike tested this drive and found it to be exellent. Since the E model, made for servers and such, is extremely hard to find i was wondering if the non-E model would work just as good for me. I will be using the 2 drives with mirror 1 in a server, and therefor it will be on 24/7. I would greatly appr...

Thanks alot for the great post!

I was wondering, you post power consumption for motherboards, but how can you mesure the power consumption of the motherboard without including the CPU usage? Am i reading it wrong and is the CPU poweruse included?

thanks in advance.

Hi guys, I'm getting an T7200 Merom now its in stock here and i need a motherboard for it. Digging in it seems like there are two options for me right now. They are priced identically so its all about quality and features. Asus N4L-VM DH Gigabyte GA-8I945GMMFY-RH Do any of you have any experience wi...

Great read.

Any idear how many W the Gigabyte GF6200TC is eating compared to a 845/965G (onboard gfx) ?

I would love to run a system powered by a picoPsu 120W and i was wondering if it would be possible to run a system like this:

CPU E6300/E6400/E6000
Intel 965G Asus P5B-VM (onboard gfx)
2Gb DDR2 RAM
2.5" HDD

That's it.. pretty "light" system, but will 110-120W be enough?

Thanks in advance.

david25 wrote: Usual bits

Whats that? 1, 2 or 3 drives? 2.5"?

david25 wrote: Idle 80watts, compared to 77watts for Yonah 2.0

Very nice, but how about under heavy load?

I was thinking about making me a setup like this but using a Pico-PSU. I was wondering if it could pull the system under load.

Very good review and i'll proberly pick one up tomorrow.

Just one thing, why are there no pictures of the front with the "gate" open??