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- Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:07 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Confused - Looking for the quietest drive available
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3975
Re: Confused - Looking for the quietest drive available
What is puzzling me now is that 5400 RPM drives are not discussed here much - what's wrong with them, aren't they made any longer? Not made any longer. I read a lot of good things about the SE16 5000AAKS drive by WD here on the forums, but i understand that it uses some sort of combined interface w...
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:14 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Upper Midrange Gaming-Rig
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8366
Tom's Hardware did an article on it fairly recently http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/09/12/pentium_dual_core/index.html They had the E2160 running stable @ 3.2 GHz on air by raising the FSB to 335 MHz. They used DDR2-800 but ran it at DDR2-880. Board they used was the popular Gigabyte P35-DS3P. Sinc...
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:54 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Problem installing XP on WD 500 GB SATA2
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2018
Thanks for the response. So far we're leaning toward the board/bios/controller. He was using one of the 500s as a non-boot drive before getting the 2nd WD with no problems, and can use either drive without problems provided he boots off a something other than either of these two drives. They also te...
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:54 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Problem installing XP on WD 500 GB SATA2
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2018
Problem installing XP on WD 500 GB SATA2
Tossing this out here to pick the brains of any SPCRers that might have either come across this, or have an idea as to where the issue is: A friend has 2 WD 500 GB SATA2 HDs, both are visible and accessible from within Windows XP, however whenever he tries to install XP on either of them it stalls a...
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:34 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: Need quick heatsink advice.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5296
I'll second the recommendation for the Scythe Katana 2, its what I'm using on my 3.2 GHz P4 641. The HSF is relatively small (compared to other heat pipe sinks), light, quiet, and inexpensive. I likewise bought it to replace the stock Intel HSF, and it is truly night and day... that thing was up the...
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:18 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: The last power supply you will ever need!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10461
It would have to have an awful weird curve to be more efficient at real-world loads than a more realistic PSU. I'm all for erring a little on the side of too much power than too little (mainly because I upgrade components often, and don't want to replace my PSU everytime I add say a new video card) ...
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:06 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Upper Midrange Gaming-Rig
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8366
Re: Upper Mid-End Gaming-Rig
A.On the CPU side my impression is that AMD gives me better value. Depends. On the upper end of the processing ladder Intel wins by default, simply because AMD has yet to offer anything that competes. On the lower tiers, it depends, in part, on whether or not you're willing to overclock. If you are...
- Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:08 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Good and lower power usage Video Card
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3234
- Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:17 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Case Fans Necessary?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2479
Stepping is D0. I ran it over night w/ no case fans and temps were 53C CPU and 40C case. Those were from the bios though, I've yet to find any software that reads the sensors on this board. This morning I put a fanmate I had kicking around on the 80 mm exhaust fan below the PSU and ambient noise lev...
- Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:36 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Tom's a bad source for info...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12751
Tom's isn't as good as it used to be, but its still one of the tech sites I regularly skim. As with others here, it was the first site I began to visit regularly. In response to the previous post, some of the other tech sites I visit at least now and then (YMMV): Xtreme Systems, [H]ardOCP, and Anand...
- Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:16 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Case Fans Necessary?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2479
Case Fans Necessary?
My PC specs: P4 641 (3.2 GHz HT) w/ Scythe Katana 2 HSF Intel 945GZ MB Evga 7800 GT OC w/ AC Silencer 2x1GB Mushkin EM DDR2 w/ heat spreaders Silverstone Element 500W PSU Seagate 7200.9 160GB SATA2 HD WD 250 GB SATA2 HD Phillips DVD-RW Modified full tower case Why no case fans? Transferred the inter...
- Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:35 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Quiet Internet [Storage] Low Budget PC
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6960
Having just purchased a freezer pro 64, keep in mind it is not the best cooler, although it is a good deal. The real problem is that the stock fan at full speed produces a lot of turbulance noise, mostly due to the fins being too close to the fan and also too close together? Don't know what you mea...
- Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:33 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Rebuild old machine into silent download box
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5078
- Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:22 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Recent Samsung drive failure rates?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 35334
You have one Samsung drive fail on you and that causes you to dismiss Samsung drives forever? This thinking is just crazy, IMHO. Not just because the drive failed, but because my experience with it was nothing special to justify trying another. At the time the drive failed I was given the option of...
- Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:42 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Recent Samsung drive failure rates?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 35334
After buying a Spinpoint 1614N 160gb, manufactured in Feb 2005, because it was reviewed to be very quiet and then later have it die (bad sectors) a bit more than a year later and just out of warranty, I now make it a point to only purchase Seagate drives with their 5 year warranties. Had the same m...
- Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:40 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Any recomendations? LGA775
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8243
Given your criteria, my recommendation would be the Scythe Katana2. This is a very lightweight heat pipe cooler w/ a quiet, 100 mm 1600 rpm Scythe fan. Its also inexpensive: I picked mine up to go on my P4 641 for $28 w/ included fan. Much cheaper than the Thermalright XP90, taking into account that...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:49 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: HSF install gone horribly awry
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2646
I'm still amazed that it survived the beating it took. After about an hour or so of gaming all seems well and the only thing I'm really concerned about at this point, still, are the drives. The one that crashed into the motherboard is a few week old replacement for one that went bad on me with bad s...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:42 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: HSF install gone horribly awry
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2646
HSF install gone horribly awry
My AC Freezer Pro 64 arrived today and midway into installing it had the stuff of nightmares occur. I'd just removed the stock hsf and cleaned gunk off the cpu when I realized that the height & position of the northbridge HS prevented the AC Freezer from clipping on one side of the cpu bracket. Sinc...
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Lowest power consumption for DivX encoding
- Replies: 35
- Views: 37704
I think you'd get more efficiency out of a Sempron64 than you would out of a mobile Barton. the onboard mem controller on the S754 would outperform the Barton-M, clock for clock, and particularly shine in memory intensive apps like encoding, while the Sempron64 is also desktop friendly (giving it an...
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:13 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: high temps for wd2000js?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6405
so i can connect a SATA2 on a SATA1 cable? Yes. This hard drive also has a jumper on back (near the SATA connectors and labeled on the sticker on top of the drive) to force SATA1 compatability (because some hd/mb combinations have problems with the "autosensing" and without the jumper you can have ...
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:09 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: PIII 550 with a VGA cooler?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3618
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:03 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Upgrade from Athlon Xp-M 2500+ to 64 world
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5921
Re: Upgrade from Athlon Xp-M 2500+ to 64 world
Socket 939 prices are going to go up not down. They have been going up the past few months. [/b] I've noticed they've gone up as well, though here in Canada its only this month that they suddenly began to surge upward (at least on the CPUs we were following: I'd ordered new board/cpu in Dec and a f...
- Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:54 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Upgrade from Athlon Xp-M 2500+ to 64 world
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5921
Re: Upgrade from Athlon Xp-M 2500+ to 64 world
Each has their advantages & drawbacks: Athlon64 (single core): often the best bang for the buck for raw cpu power and processor speed. Dual cores are not yet that widely supported application/game wise (since few apps/games have been multithreading recoded/developed). Opteron (single core): double t...
- Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:44 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 3x Samsung sp2504c vs WD raptor 150gb
- Replies: 53
- Views: 24691
- Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:32 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: MSI Radeon X1300Pro 256mb, questions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3571
- Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:27 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Please help a video card idiot!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5191
In my purely subjective opinion I find ATI provides better 2D & video quality than nvidia. The 9xxx cards are beginning to show some age (and I don't think any of them have HD support in hardware) so I wouldn't bother with a 9250, 9600 etc when you can get the newer x1xxx equivalents for roughly the...
- Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:48 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: high temps for wd2000js?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6405
but hey...here's a question, SATA2 hard-disks are compatible with SATA1 too? they use the same type of connection? Yes, as well there's also a jumper on the back of the 2000JS to force SATA1 mode. Regarding the temps: based on my experience and that of others in this thread I don't think these temp...
- Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:26 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Will Swapping out the HSF Make a Big Difference?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2172
- Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:37 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: CnQ with OC?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9090
Re: CnQ with OC?
... if theres no point in having CnQ then i'll get a 2500+ for more cache, and cheaper.. rather than a 3000+ That was my thinking when I chose the 2500+. In retrospect, and after doing more research on the effect of L2 cache on Sempron64, I might have been slightly better off with the $8 Cdn more a...
- Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:53 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Some more info about AM2 processors
- Replies: 53
- Views: 20235
Just looking at the numbers makes me consider postponing my upgrade from Socket A. Not sure how many people are in the same boat I am, but if I waited this long to upgrade, I might as well wait a little longer for more details to come out. unfortunately I already decided on the parts that I want fo...