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by wwenze
Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:03 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: AMD Wraith: Upgraded Stock Cooler
Replies: 26
Views: 51657

Re: AMD Wraith: Upgraded Stock Cooler

Stock heatsinks similar to the right can be spotted in many lower-end Phenom II and newer products. I say "similar" because there are many slight variants of the fan and heatsink, just like Intel's. http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/amd-wraith/00.jpg I find the design pretty good for the si...
by wwenze
Wed Dec 30, 2015 8:56 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Lian Li PC-Q10 Mini-ITX Case
Replies: 14
Views: 18792

Re: Lian Li PC-Q10 Mini-ITX Case

Am I the only one here who feels that this case could have easily fitted in a mATX mobo if not for the position of the PCI-E 16x slot on most mATX mobos?
by wwenze
Fri Aug 15, 2014 6:21 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
Replies: 15
Views: 21175

Re: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting

Dug out my power meter, measured values are from wall System is Antec TP-550 (Bronze) and GTX 460 (hence the high idle power) Prime 95 Large FFT 1.0V (stock) @ 3GHz: ~78W 0.8V @ 3GHz: ~68W Idle 0.8V @ 800MHz (same value whether undervolting or not): ~52.5W Worth it? Yea my stock heatsink seems to th...
by wwenze
Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:23 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
Replies: 15
Views: 21175

Re: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting

My asrock has voltage override alongside voltage offset. If using override according to cpuz (and bios) it stays at that 0.8V regardless of frequency. I would reckon while VR is integrated much of the control would still remain external, otherwise overclockers would either have a high chance of dest...
by wwenze
Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:13 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
Replies: 15
Views: 21175

Re: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting

HFat wrote:
wwenze wrote:surely that is worth something
Not necessarily. Have you measured the effect?
In terms of? At this stage in technological development it is mostly enthusiasm that creates market for over price and minimal power saving.
by wwenze
Mon Aug 11, 2014 9:11 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting
Replies: 15
Views: 21175

Why the lack of talk on Haswell undervolting

One year passed and nobody's talking about owning and tweaking them... My G3220 has been running at 0.800V at 3GHz without any CPU-caused errors since day one, workload including overnight x264 and overnight gaming, surely that is worth something. 0.8 because that is the minimum my motherboard allow...
by wwenze
Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:25 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Rosewill Silent Night 500 Platinum 80 Plus
Replies: 18
Views: 16207

Re: Rosewill Silent Night 500 Platinum 80 Plus

8. NOISE, PART 1
What is PART 2? :D
by wwenze
Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:22 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Seagate Barracuda 3TB: 1TB Platter Behemoth
Replies: 20
Views: 20773

Re: Seagate Barracuda 3TB: 1TB Platter Behemoth

I bought the 2TB version of this (ST2000DM001) after reading this review. The noise (which is apparently due to head parking) is very obvious, as pointed out by numerous others on the internet. This thing does not make it as a silent PC drive. A warning needs to be placed at the end of the review in...
by wwenze
Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:14 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Zotac ZBOX HD-ND22: At Last a CULV Nettop
Replies: 9
Views: 8583

No undervolting done? Where's the love. :D
by wwenze
Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:11 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: 80Plus Platinum (115v) finally exists
Replies: 20
Views: 12046

Even if you run your computer 24/7, simply using energy-efficient parts or undervolting you will achieve better performance-per-watt than trying to squeeze another 2% out of the PSU's efficiency.
by wwenze
Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:52 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: is there a pin mod to undervolt on socket 775
Replies: 2
Views: 2828

I don't know the default voltage of your Celeron so can't give the exact pins, Page 45 of this pdf shows the location of the VID pins (when looking at the mainboard), page 15 shows how to get the voltages. http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/316963.pdf Connecting the VID pin to groun...
by wwenze
Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:50 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Nightjar is silent & operates at 100.00% efficiency - Re
Replies: 8
Views: 4417

After factoring in some losses that definitely exist, say for example at the transformer (unless 100% efficient transformers exist), to get overall 100% efficiency the other parts have to be 101% efficient. :P
by wwenze
Fri Jul 02, 2010 5:58 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Efficiency measurements, then vs now, comparable?
Replies: 4
Views: 2820

I just realized, Bronze would need 82% efficiency @ 20% load, meaning 110W for a 550W Truepower New. Which makes it more efficient than all the abovementioned PSUs already. But this is not what I'm asking - for example, a PSU was measured to be 80% @ 100W in a 2006 review, another PSU was also measu...
by wwenze
Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:59 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Efficiency measurements, then vs now, comparable?
Replies: 4
Views: 2820

Efficiency measurements, then vs now, comparable?

I would like to ask, the measured efficiencies in long-ago SPCR PSU reviews, can they be used for comparison against those of the more recent reviews, say, those within the past year or two. Reason I'm asking - I got an Antec Truepower New which I can either sell or replace a Seasonic S12. I'm guess...
by wwenze
Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:40 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Athlon II X4 610e & Phenom II X4 910e: 45W & 65W Qua
Replies: 41
Views: 22935

From what we can gather, the only real selling point of these CPUs is the lower operating temperature... but then again, most standard AMD processors undervolt fairly well. I read this, but... Do these CPUs undervolt better than normal ones, or are they just the same with lower starting voltage and...
by wwenze
Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:24 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: What is the best fanless/extreme low airflow cooler now?
Replies: 8
Views: 4410

What is the best fanless/extreme low airflow cooler now?

Still Scythe Ninja? Or Orochi? Or other tower coolers?

Extreme low airflow meaning no fan mounted on the cooler, some chassis exhaust fan if the CPU's lucky, else only airflow from the PSU's fan.
by wwenze
Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:20 pm
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: My 5V fan mod with kitchen shears: ok to do?
Replies: 9
Views: 5419

Best part of trick - ability to switch between 12V and 5V without removing the pins (again) or through a 12-5V-swap adapter cable. That's a great trick that nobody's mentioned till now. However it could be dangerous if you forget and use the extended molex for something that needs 12V. For my 12-5V ...
by wwenze
Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:08 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermal Pad vs. Thermal Grease?
Replies: 10
Views: 6749

Pentium 4 heatsinks also came with pads using some unknown black material. Pads are still found on some GPUs also. Pads are common also on Southbridge heatsinks. I recently removed one on a Gigabyte board. It looked desperately cheap and inefficient at best. Something to also keep in mind is that re...
by wwenze
Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:05 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Passive CPU cooling not necessarily the quietest solution
Replies: 18
Views: 10611

Well, the 3dB assumption is true only for fully constructive interference between two point sources. Think somewhere in mid-high education w'all have been taught about waves. From that we know that the doubling of loudness will only occur at specific points, and at other points destructive interfere...
by wwenze
Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:10 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: VIA Artigo: A Pico-ITX System
Replies: 27
Views: 16293

Long time haven't visited this forum.

Is this C7 still the same C7 that came out in... late 2005?

Man I had the 2GHz C7-M on a notebook and it couldn't handle SD H.264 perfectly. To play SD XviD it clocks itself to 1.4GHz.

So upon seeing HD H.264 being used as benchmark on a 1Ghz C7 I was 0.o
by wwenze
Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:23 pm
Forum: The Silent Front
Topic: Solid State Fan, Ionic Cooling Hits The Big Time!
Replies: 24
Views: 15973

We learnt in physics lessons:

Neutral and charged objects

Neutral object gets attracted to charged object

Dust is neutral, the device is not

Hello dust heap.
by wwenze
Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:16 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Passive or near-silent AT PSU for my old school DOS Box?
Replies: 10
Views: 5365

Not to pour cold water, but the money you're paying for that new PSU may be more than what your rig is worth currently. Unless your MIDI card is really important, which I doubt it is, considering how much computer sound technology has improved. You would get much better sound by moving onto a new hi...
by wwenze
Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:50 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Quiet, cool CPU == toasty northbridge?
Replies: 10
Views: 5896

Yeah.. on my first PC with the toasty chipset, I bought a Zalmann heatsink which, while much larger than the factory one, still got to the same temperature (it took longer to do so). If it hits the same temperature eventually it suggests something else is bottlenecking the heat transfer rate; it to...
by wwenze
Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:30 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Enermax MODU and PRO 82+ series, Seasonic's new challenger
Replies: 4
Views: 5395

Enermax MODU and PRO 82+ series, Seasonic's new challenger

Source: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1872004 Thank the distro for making the documents available. :) Enermax MODU82+ Confidential Product Info Enermax MODU82+ Confidential vs Competitive Brands Enermax PRO82+ Confidential Product Info Enermax PRO82+ Confidential vs Competitive ...
by wwenze
Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:14 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: New CPU cooler from Scythe, "Orochi"
Replies: 51
Views: 34499

Ninja's 10 is effectively 12. :lol:

Talk about equilibrium, it may not happen with 10 heatpipes. Ultra 120 has 4 (times 2 = 8) heatpipes while TRUE has 6 (or 12), and we see... 6 degrees difference and higher overclockability.

http://anandtech.com/casecooling/showdo ... i=2943&p=4
by wwenze
Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:14 pm
Forum: Fans and Control
Topic: Blower fan vs conventional fan on a video card heatsink ...
Replies: 2
Views: 3775

One problem with blowers is that in computers and many other applications including air-cons and some notebooks, is that the fins are very very small relative to the bearing if you compare it against a axial fan. Hence it has to spin much faster to get the same airflow/pressure. But it's the lack of...
by wwenze
Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:39 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Replacement 60mm CPU fan for Ultra heatsink - Socket A
Replies: 10
Views: 5632

by wwenze
Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:18 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: What's up with thermal pastes?
Replies: 8
Views: 5316

Regarding the resistance of TIM, continuing from my previous post, the 0.01 value, of course, is just an optimistic guess. Lets guess how bad the variables need to be for e.g. 0.05C/W which will result in 5 degrees difference. The die of a Brisbane is ~0.19 square inch. If we use that as the useful ...
by wwenze
Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:17 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: What's up with thermal pastes?
Replies: 8
Views: 5316

No Sendorm, you can't look at it like that, temperature difference comes about as a result of thermal resistance, not the other way round. And Arctic Siler's claim of <0.0045°C-in2/Watt (0.001 inch layer) is not insignificant, well not as insignificant as you may think. That value, you see, has the...