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by lobuni
Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:38 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: AMD Radeon HD 6570 & 6670 Budget GPUs
Replies: 29
Views: 27761

Re: AMD Radeon HD 6570 & 6670 Budget GPUs

I find the differences in video quality interesting.

Did you compare it to a software rendered frame?

btw Ati drivers have a "smooth video" check-box that disables post-processing features according to load.
by lobuni
Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:29 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Corsair PSUs squealing noise?
Replies: 6
Views: 3515

My 620HX also makes this noise when running the Ati tray tools benchmark. Before with a x800 it didn't make this noise (or maybe it did when i zoomed out in Civilization IV). I upgraded to a hd4850 and wham I started hearing that noise. At first I thought it was the card of course, but after switchi...
by lobuni
Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:44 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: 100 Movie Quotes in 200 seconds
Replies: 5
Views: 4440

Imho in Forrest Gump they should have chosen "Run Forrest run!"
by lobuni
Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:16 am
Forum: The Silent Front
Topic: Non-optical USB mouse?
Replies: 78
Views: 143525

Are you meaning perhaps encasing the mouse chips in metal foil and then grounding that? I would say more like open the mouse and line the casing with metal foil. Of course this all will be on your responsibility and you would have to see that you won't short anything (you should probably add a laye...
by lobuni
Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:24 am
Forum: The Silent Front
Topic: Non-optical USB mouse?
Replies: 78
Views: 143525

Optical mice probably have more complicated, advanced and powerful chips inside, so they can process the image. Ball mice on the other hand only need to process the "yes" and "no" coming from the sensor behind the wheel. So I think the "majority" of the EMF is coming from the chips. You could try to...
by lobuni
Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:36 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
Replies: 296
Views: 457593

2) Is auto-park, auto-sleep and auto-spindown the same thing? ... No, these are not the same things. When the WD green parks its heads, the disks continue spinning. Head parking is not a feature that all drives support, so not every OS can manage it and I'm not even sure that the drives let the OS ...
by lobuni
Mon May 24, 2010 3:09 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
Replies: 296
Views: 457593

I'm considering buying the WD10EARS. How audible is the sound it makes when it parks its heads? I'm looking for a quiet drive but I've seen some people say these drives can make an annoying clicking sound during parking. I read through most of this thread but I didn't get an answer. Well I have a W...
by lobuni
Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:01 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Using a hardware switch to disable a hard drive
Replies: 17
Views: 8822

I'll admit I didn't read the whole thread but I'll post anyway :) Have you tried to spin them down using hdparm in Linux( In Windows you would have to use revoSleep) Googling "hdparm spin-down unmount" will get you posts with mixed results. You might also want to try searching hdparm here in the for...
by lobuni
Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:07 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: The CRT
Replies: 15
Views: 13475

Hi Guy's, Actually I like the screen space/resolution ratio of the LCD but if it only had the colour saturation, contrast and overall sharpness of the CRT.I like the Colour Contrast of the CRT and the clarity of CRT. The last CRT monitor I saw had a black screen that was easily noticeable in a dark...
by lobuni
Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:37 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: 3450, 5450 upgrade?
Replies: 5
Views: 4950

Re: 3450, 5450 upgrade?

... The reason for the upgrade was Windows 7 complaining that the 3450 was not quite being powerful enough for Aero, with some visual features such as 'show window contents while moving' needing to be disabled. ... So Windows 7 still complains about it not being powerful enough? You could try forci...
by lobuni
Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:10 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: what is next increase after 500gb/platter & 4200rpm?
Replies: 15
Views: 5699

An article at Hexus hints at 640GB platters.
by lobuni
Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:08 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: What tool to fix bad sectors/full scan on larger SATA drive?
Replies: 4
Views: 9403

I don't know of any specific tests of HDD Regenerator, but it certainly sounds like snake oil. I had one Samsung that made the system hang when trying to read one specific sector on the HDD. The HDD made noises like it was spinning up or reloading the heads. The Samsung utility I tried recognized t...
by lobuni
Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:13 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Dell RM112 235W 80+ Gold PSU
Replies: 43
Views: 50720

Thank you for posting the results.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article286-page4.html
At 106W to 180W AC the seasonic seems to be 84.5% efficient.
So this PSU could be working at 120*84.5/111=91.4%. Too many unknown variables to be sure though.
by lobuni
Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:04 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: Dell RM112 235W 80+ Gold PSU
Replies: 43
Views: 50720

Thanks for the pics! I too am looking forward. I have some questions, I hope to get answers for ::) Pic1 Is the bigger one a standard ATX connector? According to specs they should have 1 purple wire but on the picture I can see at least 4 or they are using this color instead of red/orange? Pic2 Thos...
by lobuni
Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:03 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: How do you interpret Seagate's SMART data? Signs of failure?
Replies: 6
Views: 16911

Re: How do you interpret Seagate's SMART data? Signs of fail

With Western Digital, the SMART seems to be intuitive and if the read error rate is non zero, then it could indicate you are having a problem. With Seagate however, the read error and hardware ECC recovered values are always high and always increasing. But from my understanding this is normal. Im g...
by lobuni
Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:15 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: 255W power supply in the 80 Plus "Gold" category
Replies: 71
Views: 58906

I just noticed that in some of the ebay descriptions there is the logo for "80 plus silver", while on the 80plus website it is clearly gold. The DELL R225M seems to also be available on ebay, but I can't make out the rating on the PSU sticker.
by lobuni
Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:12 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
Replies: 296
Views: 457593

... I supposed I was thinking some sort of firmware change... The wdidle utility is supposed to do exactly just that. I read somewhere that it voids the warranty because it modifies the firmware by replacing a module. I don't know if its true or not though. You only need to run it once if it works....
by lobuni
Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:02 am
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: 255W power supply in the 80 Plus "Gold" category
Replies: 71
Views: 58906

Just for your information, quite a few ebay listings have appeared for the DELL RM112 which has a interesting efficiency curve.
I wonder if it is the same in real life.
by lobuni
Fri Jan 15, 2010 1:48 pm
Forum: Power Supplies
Topic: High-efficiency, low-power PSU (Delta or HiPro)
Replies: 10
Views: 7700

I stumbled across this ebay listing http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Dell-RM112-Optiplex-760-SFF-235W-Power-Supply_W0QQitemZ120515592699QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20100109?IMSfp=TL100109221005r16763 I wonder if it really has the same efficiency curve as shown in the 80plus tests. edit: oops I didn't notice this th...
by lobuni
Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:59 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
Replies: 296
Views: 457593

I just bought a WD10EADS-00M2B0 and am having trouble with AHCI. It's giving me a "port reset error," when I do a cold boot. During booting I think can hear the drive spin up twice. Do any of your drives do the same? That would explain the high Spin Up Time SMART values many of you have been report...
by lobuni
Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:52 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: SATA SSD for PATA motherboard?
Replies: 17
Views: 12231

The (40gb boot-drive) reviews I have seen say that the Intel utility does not work on Kingston drives, Kingston drives do not have Trim support yet and you can't flash an Intel firmware on them but kingston plans to add support for TRIM in the future.
by lobuni
Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:05 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
Replies: 296
Views: 457593

I just bought a WD10EADS-00M2B0 and am having trouble with AHCI. It's giving me a "port reset error," when I do a cold boot. During booting I think can hear the drive spin up twice. Do any of your drives do the same? That would explain the high Spin Up Time SMART values many of you have been reporti...
by lobuni
Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:58 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Intel X25-M
Replies: 29
Views: 14546

Intel Intel has released an updated firmware (that had an issue with the updating tool) that includes native TRIM support. I have not followed the situation very closely but are you talking about an update for the data corruption issue that came with the TRIM firmware? I thought a new firmware was ...
by lobuni
Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:57 pm
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: AMD New Radeon 5870, 5850
Replies: 194
Views: 137615

Anandtech is the best tech site out there but their power consumption numbers are always way off. They say 5850 uses 86W less power than 5870 under load. I really doubt that. That would be about 1/2 of a 5870. We will have to wait for xbitlabs to measure the 5850 before we can compare power usage. ...
by lobuni
Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:34 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
Replies: 169
Views: 304714

Isn't a higher platter density supposed to get you not only higher throughput but also shorter seeks? (these are just random google results, from different sources) The platter size remains the same. So the head has to move the same distance to use the whole platter. With the increase of density th...
by lobuni
Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:02 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Quad Q8400S undervolt 0.925V 24W one fan need to be removed
Replies: 99
Views: 84658

Wow the efficiency looks surprisingly high. Even too high. :) Any idea how efficient are these things (AC-DC adapter and DC-DC psu) separately? Specs for the DD-24AX V220-1 state 88%, couldn't find the ones for DD-24AX V220-2. Did you also measure the AC voltage? At these current levels the accuracy...
by lobuni
Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:37 am
Forum: Silent Storage
Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
Replies: 169
Views: 304714

marius7 wrote:Here are my results
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How noisy is it?
by lobuni
Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:46 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: Running up against a wall?
Replies: 10
Views: 4788

Yes I'm sure my monitor DOES have a DC PSU inside it. I never said there wasn't. Just that my monitor runs off mains voltage instead of a DC power brick. I believe the CCFL is not being powered by an inverter, but instead by using the mains AC with a transformer. Why do you believe so? A computer m...
by lobuni
Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:34 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Samsung F2 EcoGreen HD502HI: Silent 500GB 3.5" HDD
Replies: 77
Views: 73367

oranges and apples

It would be great if we could now get a review of the possibly signle platter WD equivalent Caviar Green drive WD5000AADS. They list the idle noise 1 db higher than for the wd5000aacs
by lobuni
Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:59 am
Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
Topic: ATI HD 4770: 40 nm, RV740 -- SPCR reviewed
Replies: 285
Views: 221939

ryboto wrote:I don't know if anyone has done this, or could do this, but I'm curious about total system power draw at idle with the 4770 vs a 3870. I'd be curious also to see how reduction in RAM clocks change things.
W1zzard posted some numbers at xtremesystems.org