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- Fri May 09, 2014 3:01 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GTX 750Ti sips power
- Replies: 153
- Views: 189834
Re: GTX 750Ti sips power
The Accelero S1 is not compatible with GTX 750. Are there any passive heatsinks out there which are? (Maybe the next version of S1 will have mounting hardware for 750, but I'm just guessing at that. I asked Arctic Cooling about this by e-mail, all they did was send me a list of compatible coolers, n...
- Tue Feb 18, 2014 5:22 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GTX 750Ti sips power
- Replies: 153
- Views: 189834
Re: GTX 750Ti sips power
This page has a list of manufacturers who will produce GTX 750 cards: http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/NVIDIA-Leads-Performance-Per-Watt-Revolution-With-Maxwell-Graphics-Architecture-ab5.aspx I went looking for the cards on the manufacturer's websites. I found: http://www.galaxytech.com/__EN_GB...
- Mon Feb 17, 2014 3:15 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Looking for advice on a new mid-range build
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4158
Re: Looking for advice on a new mid-range build
Interestingly, I've found that Tom's Hardware have a fanless(!) test build which is very similar to what I have in mind: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/silent-pc-gaming-performance,3435.html That is one big heatsink they use. I think I'll still plan for a fan, but try disconnecting it to see ho...
- Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:36 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Looking for advice on a new mid-range build
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4158
Re: Looking for advice on a new mid-range build
You don't mention the most important bit of information: - what's your monitor resolution? - how important is image quality? Do you want to max out the eye candy or will dial it back in order to go with a lesser gfx card? I have a single 1920x1080 monitor, and I'm happy to dial back the eye candy t...
- Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:28 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Looking for advice on a new mid-range build
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4158
Looking for advice on a new mid-range build
Elder Scrolls Online is coming soon, so that looks like a good excuse to replace my current ~4 year old PC. I'm looking to build something mid-range with gaming potential but very quiet. To give you the general idea, my current PC cost about $1600 new, of which probably $300 was attributable to sile...
- Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:42 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: DIAMOND-based heat transfer compound
- Replies: 48
- Views: 55513
How much of the thermal resistance between CPU and ambient air is typically accounted for by the TIM? If, for example it is 1%, then reducing this by a factor of three is only going to decrease your total thermal resistance by 0.7%, which is unlikely to be worth while. On the other hand, if it is (s...
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:53 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Anyone here seen the Gigabyte 9600GT Model GV-NX96T512HP yet
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10908
I've had two duds on the Gigabyte passive 9600GT. With two 120mm fans (system and power supply) it would overheat in about 20 minutes. (large case, little airflow impediment.) Adding a 90mm fan on the front didn't help - I had to shift the 90mm fan right next to it. Even so, it often crashed (possib...
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:45 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Passive 9600GT, will it be too hot?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6377
I recently got the Gigabyte fanless 9600GT and it is hopeless - I had to buy a fan to point at it, and it kept malfunctioning and crashing even so. (Perhaps it had got damaged before I got the fan?) Before I got the internal fan, I could only game by opening the side of the computer and pointing a r...
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:24 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Updated VGA Card/Cooler Test Platform
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14987
- Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:30 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: New Nvidia open standard for PC hardware monitoring
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4545
Re: New Nvidia open standard for PC hardware monitoring
[quote="Ryan Norton"]For this to do much for me, though, it'd have to out-perform Speedfan, which having finally added support for monitoring VGA card sensors is now my one-stop shop.[/quote] SpeedFan still can't monitor your PSU or control its fan. If it catches on, SpeedFan will be modified to hoo...
- Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Nvidia's ESA: "Enthusiast System Architecture"
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2319
Nvidia's ESA: "Enthusiast System Architecture"
"The Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) is the industry’s first open-standard PC monitoring and control protocol for real-time communication and control of system thermal, electrical, acoustic and operating characteristics." With this, it looks like SpeedFan-like software will be able to monitor...
- Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:22 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Time for a picoPSU-style sticky thread?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6485
Here's more, from A-Tech Fabrication. There are a couple of variants of the 120W PicoPSU, and a couple of 200W PSU (are these just reselling another company's product?) They also have a couple of plates you can use to block the ATX PSU mounting hole. One has a fan, the other doesn't. http://atechfab...
- Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:49 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Time for a picoPSU-style sticky thread?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6485
- Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:45 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Time for a picoPSU-style sticky thread?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6485
Time for a picoPSU-style sticky thread?
First came the picoPSU. Now there are bunch of similar PSUs - external power brick plus a small DC-DC board which goes inside the case. Perhaps it is time to have a sticky thread to keep track of them? (Even better would be a SPCR article.) Here are some: mini-box (http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/...
- Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:19 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Nexus Psile: Its about time someone did this
- Replies: 25
- Views: 36020
The reason I'm keenly interested in the Psile is its PSU: it doesn't have one. Generally SFF cases either use an ATX PSU, which makes the case much larger than it needs to be, or uses some smaller PSU which is impossible or impractical to replace, if it is noisy. The Psile uses no PSU (if the m/b ha...
- Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:22 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: NEW! Corsair VX450W (reviewed by SPCR)
- Replies: 94
- Views: 87947
Welcome, stapper. See the sticky "How much will a 300w power supply run?" discussion in the PSU forum. Here's an example quote: "Regardless, this is a beautiful machine, and now we know that a 300W single-fan PSU can power a rig with an nVidia GeForce 8800GTS, Intel E6600 CPU, Seagate 7200.10 HDD, P...
- Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:24 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: NEW! Corsair VX450W (reviewed by SPCR)
- Replies: 94
- Views: 87947
- Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:40 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Nexus NX-8060 - original & improved
- Replies: 58
- Views: 60452
I'd just like to add another vote to the "should have reviewed a different PSU in the series" movement. Any of the 8040, 8050, 8060 are sufficient to power any sane system, yet alone a quiet one. The 8040 is the cheapest, the 8050 is (according to Nexus) the quietest. Given these facts, no matter wh...
- Tue May 22, 2007 2:36 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: SPCR's Fan Roundup #4: 120mm Fans II
- Replies: 49
- Views: 54045
When I first came to SPCR, the only fans at the Quiet PC shop were Acoustifan. (http://www.quietpc.com/nz/casefans.html) This web page lists two Acoustifan product lines, the transparent 'C' series (tested by SPCR) and the opaque 'Dustproof' series. From the specs on this page, a silencer would be m...
- Sun May 06, 2007 1:45 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: A New Way of Testing Fan Airflow
- Replies: 100
- Views: 92644
Given that there is such a strong correlation between RPM and CFM, I suggest that SPCR run a large number of fan 'microreviews': decide a set of RPMs (perhaps 2000, 1500, 1000, 700, 500) and for each fan record the sound level in open air at each of those RPMs which it is capable of running at. With...
- Thu May 03, 2007 9:29 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: A New Way of Testing Fan Airflow
- Replies: 100
- Views: 92644
Thanks for that - I'd been feeling deprived by no new SPCR article for so long, but clearly you've been busy. Here's another view on the "no improvement with faster fans beyond a certain point" phenominon. The short version is that it is diminishing returns - if the heatsink fins are only a little w...
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:41 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Quiet Media PC made from Junk
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15887
3. A fan with a given output will completely change the air in a small compartment much more quickly than in a large one, especially one with lots of nooks and crannies. However, a large compartment will take longer to heat up. Independent of the compartment size, every second the circuitry is dump...
- Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:41 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Upcoming Reviews & Articles
- Replies: 193
- Views: 460117
I see Nexus has some exciting looking new stuff. What are the chances of a review of the following? NX-8040/8050/8060 PSU. 80+, 120mm fan, modular cables, 17.6 dBA in idle, 400/500/600W. Curiously, their noise graph shows the 500W model as quieter than the 400 at all loads. This looks very close to ...
- Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:52 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Which SATA DVD drive?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10280
I've now bought the Pioneer drive (DVR-212 ). It didn't work correctly (crashed to reboot) until after I'd upgraded its firmware and the drivers for my motherboard. It is quiter than my IDE combo drive (a LiteOn from a couple of years ago.) I couldn't really say how well it compares with anything el...
- Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:22 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Antec MX-1: Actively Cooled External HDD Enclosure
- Replies: 98
- Views: 106205
An air-cooled hard-drive enclosure anecdote. (Not really relevant.) I was part of a small team implementing a new source control system for a medium sized company (~100 developers.) Due to a miscommunication, about a week before go-live the hardware guys had to hurredly buy us a couple of disk drive...
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:46 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Enermax Galaxy: A KiloWatt power supply
- Replies: 47
- Views: 47019
Looking back at the most recent PSU reviews, I see: Enermax 1kW Lian-Li 600W Tagan 700W Antec 550W Ulltra X-pro 600W Corsair 520W and 620W Antec 430W (from a series which also included 380W, 500W supplies) Dark Power Pro 430W Seasonic M12 700W (from a series including 500W, 600W) Seasonic S12 550W, ...
- Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:53 pm
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Acer Veriton VT2800 anyone ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4696
The Register says Acer are producing a home version of the Veriton 1000, under the "Aspire" brand. TV tuner, CF card reader, Intel GMA3000 GPU (I have no idea how this rates.) 3 litre size, "whisper quiet" (they say.)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/16 ... nces_l320/
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/16 ... nces_l320/
- Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:45 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Which SATA DVD drive?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10280
- Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:40 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Which SATA DVD drive?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10280
Which SATA DVD drive?
Finally a decent selection of SATA DVD drives is available in New Zealand. The current options are: Pioneer DVR-212 LG GSA-H30N Asustek DRW-1814BLT Plextor PX-760SA (not really an option, as I can buy four of the other drives for the price of one of these.) Does anyone have experience of the noise o...
- Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:36 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung SH-S183 DVD-burner
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9109
See also this recent forum thread:
viewtopic.php?t=36690
Summary: some Samsungs are excellent, some are lousy. There is one report of the same person buying two of the same drive (183A) and getting one loud, one quiet.
viewtopic.php?t=36690
Summary: some Samsungs are excellent, some are lousy. There is one report of the same person buying two of the same drive (183A) and getting one loud, one quiet.