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- Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:15 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Recommended Motherboards: From a Silence Perspective 1.1
- Replies: 163
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I can report on the ASUS P5B (non deluxe), which isn't too different from the P5B-E. The NB is passively cooled, although the small heatsink gets finger burning hot even at stock speeds, so I have replaced it with a larger heatsink. The heatsink has hoop clips and no holes through the board making D...
- Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:07 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: ASUS EN7600GS in Small Case?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3382
I don't know about the 9800 since I've never owned one but I have an ASUS 7600GS and it gets pretty hot if there is no airflow around it (hot in my mind is not being able to touch the heatsink - finger burning hot!). Mine is in a Zalman HT160 case with a full size ATX case - I removed the PCI blanki...
- Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:55 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: PECI - some practical questions....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3930
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:05 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: PECI - some practical questions....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3930
PECI - some practical questions....
So my P5B motherboard has an "Enable PECI" option in the BIOS which I did not recognise. I subsequently found a description of PECI to be: "PECI is a new digital interface that enables communication of the temperature reading of a systems’ host processor, enabling efficient platform thermal contro...
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:50 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Additional quiet HDD recommendation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4084
Additional quiet HDD recommendation
I currently have two hard drives in my HTPC - a WD 4000KS which is fine but I also have an older Hitachi 160GB 180GXP series drive that has quite a bit of idle hum/resonance which I would like to replace. The hum is not there with the WD drive only. I'm looking at a mid-range drive - doesn't have to...