How do you clean the old TIM off?
ETA: Never mind. You apparently just wipe it off.
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- Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:37 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: 3770K IHS removal and results
- Replies: 66
- Views: 147109
- Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:08 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Intel Core i5-661: A 32nm CPU with Integrated Graphics
- Replies: 86
- Views: 56682
Intel H55 Mobo Shootout - Integrated HD Graphics Showdown http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=6&id=3119 I wonder if the power difference between the Intel and the other boards can be made up undervolting an i3, which you apparently can't do on the intel board. Edit: I found a few post...
- Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:58 am
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: 2008 SPCR facility/equipment upgrades: hemi-anechoic chamber
- Replies: 151
- Views: 363052
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:43 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Scythe announces "Ninja 2"
- Replies: 43
- Views: 30074
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:00 am
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus M3N78 Pro: Geforce 8300 & HybridPower Explored
- Replies: 33
- Views: 29256
Does that mean that the cool &quiet technology is so power efficient that at idle the system consumes less than a undervolted and underclocked CPU with cool and quiet disabled? CnQ drops the CPU to 1 GHz. Underclocking disables CnQ, so the underclocked system is running faster at idle than the the ...
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:34 am
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: 2008 SPCR facility/equipment upgrades: hemi-anechoic chamber
- Replies: 151
- Views: 363052
- Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:32 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Post your "Ghetto mods" and other quick/cheap tips
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9048
I didn't have any soft mounts for a fan, so I cut a broccoli rubber band in two, folded each piece in three, poked a hole through it and used a twist-tie to mount the fan, with the rubber band piece between the fan and case. The twist-tie goes through the hole you poked in the rubber band. One at ea...
- Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:45 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: from push pin to bolt-thru -- how to get pushpins out?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5394
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:08 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: power consumption 8600GT vs 9600GT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5991
- Sat May 31, 2008 11:24 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: P182 fan mounting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3686
P182 fan mounting
There doesn't seem to be an easy way to soft-mount the top fan or a fan near the graphics card in the P182. How have people solved this, or does it not make a lot of difference?
I intend to use the top fan rather than block it.
Thanks,
Amy
I intend to use the top fan rather than block it.
Thanks,
Amy
- Fri May 30, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec Skeleton... and P183 & Sonata Elite
- Replies: 161
- Views: 130216
- Fri May 30, 2008 1:44 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: power consumption 8600GT vs 9600GT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5991
power consumption 8600GT vs 9600GT
I just replaced a fanless 512M 8600GT (MSI, DDR2 version) with a fanless 512M 9600GT (ECS w/Accelero2). Here's the power usage comparison, as measured full-system at the wall by Kill-a-watt. Idle at Windows desktop: 76W -> 92W Gaming, high poly count, low framerate: 96W -> 125W Gaming, low poly coun...
- Fri May 30, 2008 11:01 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Fans on a P182
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3607
Just starting my P182 build and I have the following concerns... 1. There's no easy way to soft-mount the top fan (I had planned to use the top rather than block it). 2. There's no easy way to soft-mount a fan close to the graphics card. How are people solving this, or does it make little difference?
- Fri May 30, 2008 10:31 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Spin down one drive of two?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2550
Spin down one drive of two?
Is there a way to spin down one drive (of two or more) in WinXP? Will the "turn off hard disks" power option do this automatically, or does that spin all drives together? I have one drive that I want to spin up only perhaps once per week, so ideally any scheme to spin it down during non-use would be...
- Wed May 28, 2008 10:26 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: how many watts do I need?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5383
Its damn shame that Spakles 250W 80+ PSU is so hard to find... That would have been very good choice. Another good is Fortron Green 300W. The OP is in the US and so has several choices. Last I checked buy.com had the Sparkle 250W, and had the lowest price. I bought mine after reading the spcr revie...
- Tue May 27, 2008 9:37 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: CPU and mobo considerations... AMD or ?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16762
I have both 4450E and E8400 systems and the processors are comparable in power usage. Undervolted they both have about a 30W spread between idle and load. The 45nm Intel chips use far less than their rated TDP. That said, I still love my 4450/780G system. It was cheap, runs on a silent picoPSU, didn...
- Fri May 23, 2008 12:42 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Intel D945GCLF - Intel Atom is Here
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8695
what would be the point of HDMI (or DVI even) with such feeble onboard GFX and no PCI-e slot? Automatic recognition of display resolution? Sounds like not a big deal until a DVI monitor saves you from having to figure out why Ubuntu won't display on a VGA monitor after installing video drivers. In ...
- Wed May 21, 2008 4:45 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Tom's Hardware: "Shuttle's New $99 KPC Review"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 19761
I think a small form factor is worth a price premium. You put $100 into it and got a motherboard and case. Not bad, IMO. If it was mine I'd spring for a pico PSU and a 2.5" drive (to soft mount in place of 3.5"). If you thought this'd be a cheap, quiet computer, cut your losses and shelve it or retu...
- Fri May 16, 2008 1:22 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Two OS's in one box, or two boxes (for DAW)?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6270
As long as your non-audio applications are not running they won't cause any problems. Well, that's the problem. If you've installed Creative Suite and iTunes, there are apps running even when you aren't using those products. Just about everything these days wants to leave a task running, install in...
- Fri May 16, 2008 1:01 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Two OS's in one box, or two boxes (for DAW)?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6270
the Audio Latency is problem if you will use intgrated sound system in Gigabyte boards. However is it still present if you have discrete soundcard? The only people who are likely to notice will all be using sound cards, PCI or external. I don't think there is ASIO support for on-board audio. You wo...
- Thu May 15, 2008 12:46 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Anyone have a preferred internal HD Enclosure?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4056
I'm using the Logisys thingy with a WD GP drive. With that quiet, cool drive it reduces seek noises by perhaps half and reduces whine to about zero, and temperature is reduced 4C. So it seems to work okay with an already silent drive. You'd have better luck isolating vibration, though, by suspending...
- Tue May 13, 2008 2:43 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Two OS's in one box, or two boxes (for DAW)?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6270
Three drives is part of my plan to go triple boot with Kubuntu 8.04 at some point I have Windows and Ubuntu on one disk already. So I'd have three operating systems on two disks. Oh there definitely is an issue with P35 gigabyte boards with low latency audio People have had some success with older ...
- Tue May 13, 2008 2:35 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Two OS's in one box, or two boxes (for DAW)?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6270
The second and third machine will not have their own monitors. The unmentioned fourth machine (a Mac Mini) uses a 27" LCD TV. The two or three PCs need to share a monitor.Licaon wrote:more machines using http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ and not KVMs
- Tue May 13, 2008 1:36 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Performance m-ATX system in Lian Li PC-A01B
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16299
I think the best would to add wto 60mm fans to the back where the cpu is. if I can get some screws or something through the air-holes to stick a fan there it would be perfect. To mount a fan once I used twist ties and rubber bands :) I save the twist ties that come wrapped around cables in electron...
- Tue May 13, 2008 1:12 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Two OS's in one box, or two boxes (for DAW)?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6270
Two OS's in one box, or two boxes (for DAW)?
I can't decide if I want to build one machine with two operating systems (two copies of WinXP) or build two separate machines. Here's the situation... I've never been able to get low-latency audio working on any machine I've built. Part of the current problem may be my motherboard (Gigabyte P35 boar...
- Tue May 13, 2008 12:01 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Performance m-ATX system in Lian Li PC-A01B
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16299
- Tue May 13, 2008 11:05 am
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: Make SPCR Even Better... and Win Great Prizes!
- Replies: 209
- Views: 556885
- Tue May 13, 2008 11:00 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Need comments on components. Project: DEAD SILENT computer.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 26369
I haven't opened any speakers built this century, but at least once upon a time speakers were lined or completely filled with fiberglass batting.Big SturL wrote:Type 3:
For sound-dampening in speaker cases. With 5 pieces of 40x60x2 cm, this seems as the best option.
- Mon May 12, 2008 8:29 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Need comments on components. Project: DEAD SILENT computer.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 26369
E7200 ... still 65W TDP. Too bad its not 45W CPU. Lower TDP is easier its to cool passively without tricks. I am planning to change my 65W X2 into 45W X2 4x50e-series. I wonder when Intel gets fully into 45W CPU's. I've seen graphs that say the E7200 consumes about 21W at load and the E8500 consume...
- Sun May 11, 2008 12:37 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Buy 780G mobo now, or wait for 790GX (or something else)?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8154
That system will work well with a pico PSU and will idle in the low 30's if you undervolt. Full load will be at most mid 60's. How do I know? I built that system without a hard drive. See "undervolted, stock speed" in this post: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47842 I didn't bot...