Nice review! I'm currently running a passively-cooled i7-4770S. At a glance, it looks like the i7-6700, despite the same 65W TDP, would be generating more heat. I guess I will just have to try and see.

I have a Seasonic Platinum Fanless 460W that has been great for the last year, but now has an intermittent coil whine (louder than my video card fans). I'm hesitant to RMA it because they won't do an advance replacement, and in previous experiences, hardware manufacturers will send noisy parts back ...

Here is a summary of all reviews of the three GTX 970 video cards with semi-passive operation Thanks bbalex! Over the years, I've found TechPowerUp to be trustworthy with noise and power measurements. The Palit card is clocked a bit higher and puts out higher performance (~3%), but at the expense o...

CA_Steve wrote:Kitguru reviews the Palit Jetstream

At idle, a 290/290X with a fan running was hotter than a 970 with no fan running? Really?

This is a dream come true. I knew Maxwell was efficient, but this is huge. nVidia had been insisting that card manufacturers disable the ability to do 0 RPM, even when using third-party utilities and firmware. I'm glad they ditched this policy. ASUS has a good implementation here, but it's a bit of ...

i7-4770S, copper version, fins oriented vertically, open-air chassis, Shin-Etsu X23-7783D thermal material idle at desktop: 35 C peak Prime95-maximum heat for 35 minutes: 83 C peak Despite my "disappointing" results, I've been very happy with this setup. I've been using it for a few months and it's ...

60C with Prime95 and a i7-3770S. nice. He says, "I ran Prime95 on the pure CPU stress ... settled at 60". He's getting way better results than me, but I think he's also a bit confused. The small FFT torture test is an FPU (floating point unit) stress test. It just tests one part of the processor fo...

I looked at these three cases. The SG07 and Node 304 are pretty nice. They both have room for a larger CPU heatsink and a nice big side vent for the GPU. Unfortunately the Node 304 has no top vents and the SG07 blocks the PSU from top venting with the drive bays. The solution would be simple: raise ...

I just noticed FrostyTech has a very unique test platform . They basically just apply heat to the heatsink; no enclosure, no other fans or components messing with things. They haven't reviewed the FX100 either, but they did make an important observation about the orientation of the heatsink fins wit...

Great list, but not many are available here. BitFenix Outlaw - available Gigabyte Luxo - X10 is discontinued, M10/M30 has some availability Intertek - Europe only Linkworld - Europe only Lian Li PC-D600 - not rotated? Lian Li PC-A05 - discontinued Silverstone TJ06 - discontinued The PC-A05 is freaki...

I've found a few examples of this from Silverstone: PS07, TJ08, and FT04. They all have a top-mounted PSU, and I was looking for a bottom-mounted one. Any other cases out there like this?

I found two comparison reviews for these that seem to contradict each other. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2013/03/08/zalman-fx100-cube-review/2 http://www.cooln.kr/bbs/boardc.php?id=review&no=12422&p=3 Bit-Tech says the FX100 is better, the Korean review says the CR-95C is better. Any ot...

Hey guys I just installed this in my fanless setup (Cooler Master HAF XB), reminds me of the 1st time the Zalman flower heatsink came out. Cpu thermals are great but I'll have to do something about the hdd temps, but that's a separate issue. Is the entire system fanless? I looked at using this case...

After seeing how great nVidia Optimus is on a laptop, I want the same for the my next desktop build. I looked at Virtu, but it's not very clear whether you can completely switch between integrated and dedicated. They also don't support Haswell.

Any solutions out there?

When I first read about Virtu i-Mode, I thought, "finally my silent PC prayers have been answered!". I thought SPCR would be all over it. Using i-Mode I want two things: dual displays and my GPU fan off out-of-game. I did find this: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/lucidlogix-virtu-mvp-virtualize-gp...

I want to run two PWM fans at the exact same speed. I notice there are "PWM splitters", but I wonder what that does to the RPM and PWM signals. Obviously it can't give both RPMs, so is the result whichever is higher? An average of the two? And what happens with the PWM signal?

I have a mobile barton and my biggest problem was getting a low enough vcore. Asus is all big on higher vcores for overclocking, so I had about 20 higher vcore selections available, but only 2 that were lower than default. It still runs, but it's actually higher than the cpu's spec, which undoubtedl...

I was going for a Bad Axe 2 with Q6600 myself if the new DX38BT hadn't arrived yet. The DX38BT is DDR3 only, which last I checked costs a small fortune compared to DDR2. No thanks for me. You know what's even stranger is that it says for the 1333MHz processors a BIOS version of 2692 or higher is re...

In almost any P35 review, they point out how it introduces 1333MHz processor support, something that 975X does not support it. Recently ASUS announced they would support 1333MHz processors on three of their 975X boards, even thought Intel didn't officially support it. http://event.asus.com/mb/fsb133...

If you want a G0 from ncix you have two choices: 1) go in the store, ask for one, and then just look at the sn on the box before handing them your plastic. 2) buy online, look at your invoice after it's processed, it will contain the sn, and if it's not right, refuse the parcel from the courier and ...

At work we're an Intel channel partner. They send us product roadmaps that have NDAs but anything exciting gets out on the internet the same day. As far as I can remember, Intel has never released a desktop motherboard themselves for mobile processors. I guess what's really important is how much the...

I'm having trouble finding an article with a comparison of the Q6600 with G0-stepping against other Core 2's in terms of power consumption. Here's the best comparisons I've found so far... http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2extreme-qx6850_12.html#sect0 http://www.hexus.net/content/ite...

Here you are: http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/hardware/grafikkarten/2007/test_ati_radeon_hd_2400_xt_hd_2600_xt/27/#abschnitt_leistungsaufnahme Whole system, (3) = GDDR3, (4) = GDDR4. Voltage/frequency reduction is defective on the GDDR4 version. Thanks for the link. I assume "Last" means some ki...

Also, the X-bit link doesn't go to a specific article for me. Yeah, it's because I used several of them - each gives you pwr consumption figures for various cards. Just click away and look for sections marked as "power consumption" etc. Call me dense, but i'm still not finding them. :p Even used th...

or 2600XT is one strange card, idling at 33W and topping at some 41W. I have noticed that the 2600's differ little between idle and load compared to other cards. Unfortunately, the idle figures aren't very low for it's class. - for some reason the site opens once in 10 times and shows pics v unwill...

yeah, and it did it with total system power draw, so its completely useless data if you find an 8600 someplace else with that information. i hate when reviewers do that. As long as the testbed is the same it's fine with me. It's actually more accurate comparing total system since the video cards ma...

These cards are obviously marketed as direct competitors. They benchmark in the same ballpark for DX10, but I've been unable to find a direct comparison for power consumption. The best article I've found so far compares the 2600 XT to seemingly every card except its direct competitors, go figure. ht...

jmak124,

If you read the user experiences at newegg, it would seem the power handling is very limited (scythe lists no power ratings). I'm sure if you stick to one low/moderate flow fan per channel you'll be ok, but anything beyond that is a guessing game.

Too bad really, it is so pretty...

Bluefront, you and I obviously think alike. I also bought some nice little 12V relays for the same purpose, but never got around to tearing it all apart to make it happen before the DD5 died. The DD5+ was discontinued two years ago, and I haven't found any remaining stock at any of the Canadian onli...

My beloved Digital Doc 5 just died, so I started looking for a replacement. I bought the Digital Doc back when P3's were new, when such an item was very unique. Now there's tons of similar products, but I can't believe that none of them offer the same level of features and style. I like the look of ...