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by martdj
Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:33 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F1 series hard drives w/1TB model
Replies: 394
Views: 397374

I have a Samsung F1 1TB drive and it seems to have some detection problems when starting the PC from cold boot, either it detects the drive 30seconds after or fails to detect it at all, rebooting the system again makes detection work normally, is this a known issue with samsung drives? This seems r...
by martdj
Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:46 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Gigabyte DES - motherboard power supply management
Replies: 37
Views: 23022

DES on my GA-EP35C-DS3R does almost nothing. i'm measuring at the wall, and even with the highest level of voltage cut and speed throttle , it can only save 1 or 2 watt i put this down to E8400 already being a pretty power efficient cpu. this DES technology seems to have missed the boat, would have...
by martdj
Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:15 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Low Power, Low Noise, High Performance
Replies: 15
Views: 8933

Any success with DES

I've bought nearly the same system (still waiting for all parts to arrive), but I'm wondering if any of you already played with Gigabyte Dynamic Energy Saving feature of their new Rev 2.1 boards? I already received my mainboard and it's a rev 2.0 without DES, so I'm disappointed about that but I'm n...
by martdj
Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:21 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 VGA Cooler
Replies: 48
Views: 72337

Looks like 3

Judging from the pics in the review it looks like 3 slots, which is a lot. I was thinking of using a 92mm fan on the had drive bay of my Antec Solo blowing sideways on the Accelero to provide proper airflow without wasting another slot. What do you guys think. Would that work? I want to cool a Ati H...
by martdj
Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:05 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: AM2 boards with integrated graphics tested by C't
Replies: 19
Views: 18478

AMD seems to be lesser power consuming cpu then

I'm looking for a cpu for my new server. The server will sometimes be very busy (reason I need a dual core), but mostly idle. It seems the AMD will be the more cost consious choice with these specs. Sounds like an interesting article.