as all newer mainboards do only have one(!) connector for pata devices (which is probably used for optical drives),
pata for harddisks is really outdated

€: steve was faster

Hi,

has anybody tried to undervolt one of nvidia's 8600 graphic cards
via nibitor ?

Regards,
Flo

They are right with the performance of 8600GT. It is barely better any better than 7600gt. I personally am going for a 7900gs and throwing on an HR 03 onto it. In Canada, 7900gs with hr 03 is roughly $20 more than gigabyte 8600gt and is a more powerful and more silent option. I have heard that the ...

my two 1200 U/min s-flex fans are inaudible at around 600 U/min,
spinning faster the fans get relatively loud

Ah, very good news

Hi,

as this one is imo the best cpu review in terms of silencing,
I was wondering if there's a new review planned?

Would be interesting to see Core (2) Duo and AM2 (EE/SFF/65nm) competing against each other.

Regards
Flo

thanks alfred

I hat the same trouble,
I finally went back to a plextor drive,
with the plextor software plextools you can adjust the read speed to your needs

no problem

just a little complement:

my statement concerning the access time was not quite correct,
both drive have an access time of about 17ms (hdtach)

I've owned that drive for two weeks, it replaced my 80gb ide seagate momentus 5400.3 the samsungs idle noise is very similiar to the seagate's one seeks are very hard to identify, the best thing is that there's no head reloading/resetting sound, this was very annoying with the seagate transferrate i...

I have to completely disagree with your comment on no one needing a 600w PSU. Dual core + CF/SLI + 3-4 HDs will require 600w pretty quickly. Thats not a rare setup either. Just an expensive one. In german magazine c't they tested "high power" psus and measured they power usage with dual cores cpu a...

Why the hell do they test efficiency at full load? None of our computers needs 600 Watts, what is the use of 80plus for the home user when efficiency always stays under 80% (or even 70%) at typically low loads (<50Watts DC). Instead of working on the problem with efficiency on low loads simply bigge...

On my fid I recently installed a zalman nb47 (very tight-mounted, nbf47 was way to big).
I did not care that much about the temp of the 6150 chip
but about the capacitors next to it as they got very hot either.

With the zalman cooler gpu und capacitor temps dropped considerably.

I've been searching a short drive as well,
the mininmal depth I found was 165mm,
I will go for the Lg GSA-H10N as it is also pretty cheap.

Hi,

Has anyone anywhere seen a momentus 5400.3 with sata interface?

I was planning to use one of these in my htpc setup
but it seems that seagate only delivers it with ata interface

Mfg
Flo

Nevertheless it's (E6) running very cool even with min. 1,1Vcore

I dont have a laptop so I was never really interested in saving power. I'm much more interested in reducing heat and noise. Saving power needs should also mean reduced heat and noise ;) So if there's no "easy" method to implement vcore settings along with c'n'q, is there a programm that can simply ...

Thx for the info bogus.

I'm using the Msi K8ngm2 as well,
planning to switch to ubuntu 6.06.

Like frostedflakes I was a little bit worried about linux c'n'q software.

Can you change multiplier and vcore with powernowd like with rmclock?

Mfg
Flo

@winguy

thx, the ati board looks really interesting

@smilingcrow

I'm highly pleased with my MSI K8ngm2-fid,
as autoboy already mentioned the asus simply sucks.

Has anyone seen AM2 boards based on nforce 430/6150?

Can you put it in another working pc und check it with seatools?

Hi,

there's still some potential

Try to open the slot (how is it called in english?) under the graphics card.
As a result fresh air can move in and cool the heatsink below the chip.

Just like this:

Hi,

i'm currently using a seagate sataII drive with my asus a8v (VT8237),
the promise sata controller detects it whilst the onboard one needs the drive to be set to sataI via jumper.

Hi, I've bought a Seagate 7200.9 160Gb SataII that replaced my Samsung SVN802N. What can I say? I'm completely fascinated by this drive, put in a bitumenbox( http://www.silenthardware.de/forum/index.php?showtopic=4827 ) I can't hear it (by now :wink: ). Rest of the system is inaudible as well (dista...

Elitegroup Rs482-M754

Socket 754 mAtx board with integrated graphics (ati x300)
can get down to 0,8V