rpsgc wrote:Then the review should really be edited.

... I can't believe that there was no picture of the inside of a case with the GELID VGA cooler installed! Does it really use a third PCI slot? Completely or mostly?

That's the kind of quality control you'd expect from Maxtor but Seagate?? ... Oh, that's right Seagate bought Maxtor a few years ago.

I've just enabled C1E on my undervolted Athlon II x2 240. Power consumption of my rig dropped only 1w idle, from 30-31w to 29-30w. For the moment, no errors or strange behavior. My power consumption at idle went down from around 100W to 84W in Windows AND Linux (proprietary drivers). Phenom II 810 ...

I used to use Brita but got tired of having to fill the jugs. I've been happily using Aquasana for a few years. I found a place in Europe, too.

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Good luck!

... in power management i have enabled minimum power consumption scheme. OS is 32-bit XP sp3. Are you sure it's "minimum power consumption"? I don't have XP anymore (replaced it with Windows 7) but it seems that the setting was actually "minimum power management" not "consumption". My Cool 'n Quiet...

I have owned two 550W Corsairs. One of them had a loud annoying fan. Instead of RMAing it I just did a fan swap and gave it away. It's still ticking though. The other Corsair stopped working. I called my nephew funny names because he opened it thus voiding the warranty. I just recently bought an Ene...

Cov... I sharply delineate science as a body of knowledge and science as a method of inquiry. Science as a method of inquiry would have us beginning with a question to which we use all our tools available to come up with a conclusion. That conclusion need not even be an answer - it could also be "th...

If there wasn't any God, then good or bad things just happened by random and always as a reaction of something what happened before. Isn't "random" incompatibile with "as a reaction of something what happened before"? You seem to have a very narrow view of religions. What worked for me was complete...

I stopped believing in a creator god a long time ago when I realized: 1. I don't like Christian/Jewish/Islamic teachings. They're inconsistent, logically flawed and point to a God with serious personality issues. 2. I realized if I went to hell when I died, well... I wouldn't be too happy. 3. I real...

What might have been the motive for the suspect Mrs Huckaby? Perhaps the Sunday school teacher decided that the eight year old girl was so angelic that she deserved to be in heaven. Religion might be the most dangerous form of insanity! You reminded me of a quote I read not too long ago. It went so...

Hi Thanks for reply. My pin from the Ninja has 3 pins but on the motherboard it has 4 pins. In the BIOS I have set SMART FAN to enabled. The issue is that my friend has the same setup as mine and his fan is going to 1500RPM. Maybe when I go home I will check and modify Power Management to Minimal P...

I am currently using a 2.5" 80GB Hitachi SATA drive and can hardly ever hear it which I like. I need more storage space though, but I don't need anything more than 300, anything more is nice. Can anyone recommend something that is going to very quiet like this 2.5" drive for around $50-60? My sugge...

The Earthwatts 380 was unacceptably loud. Is your rig low enough wattage not to speed it up much? http://www.silentpcreview.com/article763-page5.html http://www.silentpcreview.com/article684-page4.html Hmmm. Maybe not. Currently I'm idling at 114 W, according to Kill-A-Watt. NeoHE 430, 3850 VGA, 75...

I have owned a Silverstone ST30NF, two Antec 430 NeoHEs, a couple of Seasonic 430s, a Corsair 520 HX, an Antec Earthwatts 380, and a few other PSUs. The 430 NeoHEs have been the least efficient of the bunch I mentioned (I have a Kill A Watt) but I find it (the one I'm currently using, anyway) to be ...

I am not entirely sure what you try to do here. Are you changing the resolution of the screen and you want the fonts to be the same size? Or are you thinking about difference in font size between two monitors with different resolutions? The important part there is really the DPI setting. Fonts are ...

I just bought a Dell 24" LCD and I gotta tell you one thing: Windows XP (and earlier, I don't know about Vista) is completely "retarted" when it comes to font size. In Linux if I choose to go 800x600 or 1920x1200 the font size can stay pretty much the same (although I can change the font size in dif...

(Well, except for the really big ones) I was quite happy with my Silverstone TJ08 until I decided that I wanted to upgrade and that there was no microATX motherboard that quite fit my needs/wants. An ATX version of the TJ08 would have been perfect - but there isn't one. I liked that the front is not...

I think it's a matter of watts or amps (since Watts = Volts X Amps, and the fans are 12 V then there is a direct relationship there) and not size. Check out your manual and see if there's a maximum amperage or wattage on the fan. Like the next poster I've been running 120mm fans on mobo headers for ...

My favorites are S-Flex fans (D and E) for the following reason: they are a nearly perfect match to the CPU fan speed controller in my Gigabyte motherboards, GA-K8N51GMF-9 and now a GA-MA770-DS3. With the former motherboad and a 44.1 W Opteron 152 I was able to run the system without a CPU fan, but ...

Very nice!

I loved my Silverstone TJ08 case but I had to go ATX. The computer sits really close to my face so depth was an important factor in determining my replacement case. I really wanted a Lian Li but over at Newegg they all spec'ed out at 19.3" deep. Is that what yours is?

I've got a PRO82+ 425W and it's quiet. When i turn on the psu only, i can hear a tickling sound : i guess it's from the motor of the fan? Is this normal ? Not that it bothers me because my hdd covers it up... Hi, I bought PRO82+ 525W and I hear a ticling (clicking) sound when only psu is on. When I...

And the pocket protectors are off! Nerd fight! :D I wouldn't put all the blame on Huang, sounds like Intel has been throwing plenty of punches as well. Maybe they're a bit more discrete about it, but I wouldn't say Intel's innocent either. One thing that may have induced this was (so I've read) Int...

most likely both Neil and the Corsair rep are right; note the rep does not explicitly state that the fan speed is load-based, merely that it will speed up around the ~300W mark, which is indeed exactly what SPCR found when they tested the HX range. of course to really find out one must take a Corsa...

Jorge Luis Borges was one of my favorites authors and people (although I never met him) of all time. Thus I always name my main workstation after him. I do tech support and was asked how I got to know so much by one of our clients. By messing around at home! So I decided to build a system mostly fro...

No Text. Same kind of drive? - Tim Yeah, don't know what happened... Anyway, my drive has been making noises that I guessed were due to what I've read as overly aggressive built-in power saving firmware on the drive. These would be the Travelstar 7K200 drives. Their other similar drives, E7K200, do...

Hello, The fan speed is controlled by the temperature -- not a particular output level. The fan will speed up if the PSU starts to get hot. If it doesn't speed up, then it doesn't need to. It sounds like you used the perfect fan -- it spins some, but not too fast. :twisted: Schwang!! I'll post some...

Well I did the install and If I had to do it over i would get the 1,600 rpm sleapstream..its spinning slipstream 1,200 VERY slowly. The 1,600 would move a bit more air and probably be just as silent at this low 4V. It did get rid of the stupid tic noise. The ADDA fan was garbage. I cant feel much a...

Unless something is broken or D: is too small for the Windows directory, does it need to be changed? Do you simply want Windows on C: because you're used to seeing it that way? I recently build a system for a friend. The computer has one of those card readers. For some reason, it saw each "drive" o...

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