All good and valid points. I guess I just wish it was easier to find a consensus on power consumption for various components across reviews. Pipe dream I know but it sure would be nice.

I did say "somewhat" but I take your point. I have to say that I find power consumption the hardest thing to get good, reliable and consistent results for when looking at reviews from various tech review sites. Everyone seems to measure it differently and have different test setups as well as using ...

Perhaps using DDR3 vs DDR2 contributes somewhat to the discrepancy?

It does exhibit high power consumption when paired with an AM3 chip, but that seems to be a universal problem with all AM2+ motherboards Forgive me if I've missed something but if the high power consumption is with high TDP chips due to the VRMs getting too hot and therefore losing efficiency then ...

I've been reading in to this topic quite a bit and would like to know whether or not all the manufacturer diagnostic utilities that have a "Zero Fill" option are in fact executing the built in "Secure Erase" function just like the app here http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml ? Basic...

I think you mean the "Puma" platform from AMD and not "Panther"?

Renoir

I think that it is actually to be expected that the dedicated Graphic card lower the load of the CPU and the memory bus, enough to lower the temperature of the CPU a few degrees, and that countered by the overall increase in ambient temps balanced out with a slightly cooler CPU. just my general imp...

Ooops I forgot to mention that speedfan is purely used as a temperature monitor. I have not enabled it to control the fans (couldn't get it to work). As proof the ramping problems exist even when speedfan is not running.

Given this info any other ideas?

The fan in my HP NC6000 laptop ramps up dramatically as soon as the cpu usage starts to go above idle. I have speedfan running and noticed that when the cpu usage goes up from idle to say 80-100% the cpu temp can rise by about 20 degrees celsius (45-65) in 1-2 secs and then when the cpu goes back to...

smilingcrow you must be reading my mind! I was thinking the exact same thing. I seemed to remember xbit labs measuring the x2 3800 at 65w and so thought why pay the premium for the 65w EE version but then I thought well if the 5000 EE is rated at 65w then the 3800 is most likely substantially lower ...

Rumoured AMD July price cuts

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3361

Can't vouch for the accuracy but thought it might be interesting to post the link and perhaps provoke some discussion. The future looks bright for consumers.

smilingcrow I agree totally with your last comments. So far the problem seems to be that power consumption numbers across various websites appear to be all over the place mainly due to not having like for like chipsets/mobos to compare core 2 duo with am2 x2s. Obviously a temporary problem that shou...

You mean the 4-pin molex to 3x3-pin fan connector? Yes they're the ones. The yellow wire is 12V, the red wires are 5V (and the black ones are ground). So I take that as the 2 "L" connectors are 5v. In Speedfan under the Advanced -tab of the Configure -screen you can make different settings for the ...

Hey guys! Apologies if this has been asked before but I couldn't find the answer after a quick search so thought it'd be easier just to ask. I was wandering what voltages the case fan connectors provide from this psu. The connector labeled "H" I assume is full speed (12v) but don't know about the 2 ...

Received my s12 330 yesterday and so far everything seems to be perfectly stable although I haven't purposefully tried to test it yet so that's still on my to do list. On a side note the fan seems to be very quiet as when i had the psu hooked up outside of the case I could only hear it when I put my...

Thanks for the fast replies guys! I'm sold, will order the 330w s12. Like I said I'm well aware that a 330w atx12v 2.x based psu is more than enough for most systems based on new p4 or athlon 64 based systems but was unsure if it was enough for an older system which favours the 3/5 volt rails more t...

Hi, been lurking round here a bit for the past few weeks and would like to say hi to all and to congratulate Mike and the team on a fantastic site that really sets the record straight on all things quiet computing related (particularly with regards to psu's)! As for my question, It seems my current ...