How do you measure the temp of the chipset ? You have an IR therm ? Or by using some internal mobo sensor (which can be terribly inaccurate) ? Have you tried the finger probe (touching the chipset HS and seeing how hot it seems to you) ?

Assuming you have the mobo from your description (ASUS A8V-E) you are actually overdoing it; there was no real reason to install a HR-05 on that chipset; a fanless HR-05 can keep at decent temps a nforce4 (a lot hotter than your kt890), so there is no reason to install a fan on it; I never used ZM-S...

RivaTuner can show you the amount of memory that a game uses; the idea behind having more memory is that games begin to use more and more memory; 256MB is already at the limit (and while most of the current games run just fine with that much, some already begin to show improvements (in some cases hu...

Yeah ... get an adapter from a MOLEX to a 3pin connector

If you'll look at the updated bench, the roles are reversed .. the Ninja gets better temps than the Ultra-120 (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article46-page5.html) .. I voted the Ninja, because I used it in 5 systems until now and it performed on all of them (from A64 3000+ to C2D E6600)

Wow ... you are daring ... my E6600 after 8 hours of TAT gets to 58C (the hottest core; the cooler one is ~2C lower); with Orthos it gets to max. 55C; 69C is really walking on edge - the C2Ds are less heat tolerant than the old P4s;

60 - 70 for a 3700+ ? That's quite extreme (if we are talking celsius) and a reason to worry; and I guess they aren't fahrenheit, since that would mean ~15C - 21C; first of all try the latest version of speedfan (the lastes stable is 4.31; the latest beta is 4.32 beta 17); it is possible that SpeedF...

If you are referring to WinXP than disabling the swap is a very bad idea; XP does not begin using the swap when it runs out of memory (read some guides such as "tweaking companion"), so disabling it will only give you tons of trouble If you are referring to a UNIX based system (don't know what you r...

While coil noise is certainly annoying, it is not a sign of a "weaker" component or of component run beyond its specs; the cards will most likely work flawlesly

I would also chose the SilverStone ST30NF (if not available the Fortron ZEN);

I doubt that the OC raised the temps significantly; the fact is that the G80 consumes quite a lot and a quiet cooling solution was one of the main things keeping me from getting one ... I now have the HR-03 and I'm quite happy with its performance; I wonder how they plan to cool the NVIO chip & the ...

The PCB looks to be the same as the one for 7900GT / 7950GT so any HS that fits those should fit your quadro as well; you can go with Zalman CF900Cu or with Thermalright HR-03 (the HR-03 should be able to make it passive, but you can always mount a Nexus 92mm and undervolt it at 7 or 5v)

I'll do the same thing, as soon as I find the invoice ... after 2-3 days the temps improved a bit; in an ambient of 22C, the GPU got to 69C after 2 hours of rthdribl (again 1280 full-screen);

When I got the passive Gainward 7600GT it was going for +$2 vs. the normal version with a fan; I don't think that it's a very good deal to buy a standard 7600GT and fit it with a ZM80D (which is a real pain in the a** to mount), in order to get pretty much the same results as you would get out of th...

Not directly related, but anyways; the ZM80D doesn't seem to do a very good job; I have a Gainward 7600GT SFX (the fanless version), clocked standard; the airflow is provided by a Nexus 120mm @ 500RPM and by the fan of the Seasonic S12-430; it's idle temps are 45C and load 60C (the ambient was kept ...

I use the HR-03 with an OCed 7900GT (no volt mods, 540 / 1550); the temps are ~44C at idle and 73C at load (obtained after 7h:30m with rthdribl on full-screen 1280x1204); the ambient temp was kept at a constant 20C http://pc.synbiant.com/img/thumbs/C2D%20V2.jpg The Nexus in the upper chamber runs at...

From BIOS; that's the lowest value I can set from the BIOS (only tested with 711 and 804); from RMClock I think that the lowest value I can select is 1.160 or something like that

My P5B Deluxe allows me to go down to 1.100v (that is the voltage at which I keep my e6600 @ 2.4ghz); according to soft readings the voltage is in fact 1.050v - 1.070v

In Romania a lot of e-tailers seem to have HD160HJ on stock (at least so they clame), so I guess that it should be easy to find one for you (Romania isn't exactly a hot-spot on the map for new hardware of any kind); haven't seen one until now, but it should be pretty good if it's a single-platter dr...

In my experience WD 1200JS / 1600JS / 3200KS are louder than any of the P80 I tested (2 original SP1614C and 3 HD160JJ); if by Caviar you are referring to 500KS, that's a different story; it seems that the 500KS is different from the rest of the line and is significantly quieter; I would advise you ...

My HD401LJ started acting up after about 2 weeks since I bought it; in the meanwhile the realocated sector count has increased to 40 and the sectors pending realocation are somewhere aroun 140; RMAed it and keeping my fingers crossed :( .. retailers around here have a tendecy on not really carying a...

Thanks scorp, if you can post a few pics please? i'll greatly appreciate. I was in a hurry when I did the swap so I have only a few pics and even those are bad quality; - the heatsing without the stock fan : http://www.synbiant.com/vf900cu/DSC04475_resize.JPG - the stock fan (the pic is badly taken...

Hello, i finally build my new conroe system, but i am having noise problems with this vf900, even at 1500 rpm it has a humming sound, similar at the hd when seeking, its really disturbing... I have a 7900GS what heatsink i can get so it stays lower (19-20db)? is there a guide to mod vf900? Thanks! ...

The reviewed drive is a HD401LJ (SATA / 16MB) not a HD400LD (ATA/133 / 8MB);

Just received my HD401LJ; it vibrates more than the SP2504C, but it's not that bad; it's seeks are a lot quieter than the seeks of the P120, but louder than the seeks of the SP1614C;

As far as I know only Rev. >E has the 1.1v limit; on 3 different CPUs (Venice E3, Manchester E4, Venice E6) I can confirm that 1.1v is the lowest possible voltage. The mobos I used are ASUS A8V Deluxe, Abit KN8 Ultra, DFI NF4 SLI-DR, DFI nF3 250. The only CPUs that I've seen with less than 1.1v are ...

Had a case with screwless rails as well; they had plastic pins in place of holes for the screws and those pins kept the drive in place

A Ninja with a Nexus 120mm exhaust fan at 7v managed to keep my 3000+ (undervolted at 1.15v) under 55C (using S&M); The HR-01 should give very close results for a "fanless" config. If he gets the newer version with the duct he will obtain even better results (~3-6C less in load)

It depends on the TDP of the X2; the lowest TDP for X2s that I have seens is 53.1W; I previously used a 3000+ Venice with a TDP of 38.2; it was undervolted to 1.15v and with a Ninja and an exhaust Nexus 120mm @ 700RPM the load temperature was about 50C (ambient of 28C); the X2 3800+ with 53.1W TDP, ...

Apparently, only the X2s with 1MB L2 / core come with the new cooler with heat-pipes; and the difference between a 3800+ and 4200+; you can expect a small increase in FPS, but nothing spectacular (maybe 3-6%, depending on the game); pretty much the same goes for 4200+ vs 4600+, althrough here the di...

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