DC is converted to AC. Not to radio waves. Let's take a rectifier, followed by a capacitor. An input spike would appear on the capacitor. Would appear on the AC. Perhaps would appear on the "rock stable" DC output. AC is not dirty. AC with a 100V spike on top of it is dirty. Might kill the switcher ...

Olaf van der Spek wrote: Is this the lowest it'll go?
I guess the CPU temp is wrong, but why?

1. Probably yes. PWM fans usually have some min speed. Search spcr for more info.
2. Because the manufacturer has not given all the technical information to the author of Speedfan.

SebRad wrote:Hi, you could get a 512MB Geforce 210...

Why would anybody suggest 210 ? Weaker than some integrated, with more power draw.
8600GT is a hot old card, should not be passive.
Check HD4670, GT240 (both 2x faster than 8600GT) or newer and cooler.

You really don't know what you are talking about. Radio waves are a "type of electromagnetic radiation", waves in wires are not radio waves. 100kHz equals to a wavelength of about 3km, how would you place that inside a PSU? Pure and stable 300V 100kHz power is not dirty. Power is dirty, if it contai...

...Line conditioners - electronics takes the cleanest or 'dirtiest' electricity. Converts 120 volts to well over 300 volts DC. Then converts that to the dirtiest electricity in the building - high voltage radio waves. Eventually converts all that to rock solid and cleanest DC... Written cryptically...

A MOV costs half a dollar. All the rest is marketing. The best bet is to buy just a MOV. Yes, your MOV may be dead after one big surge (or several not so big surges). Replacing after 3 years, whatewer, seems stupid. Just buy a bigger MOV (or connect 2 or more in parallel).The voltage at which the MO...

PWM is a good thing. 90°C is not a good thing (power draw is bigger, stable frequencies are lower, card's lifetime is less).

Not one, two, and bigger. I put 12cm+10cm on S1 yesterday. VRMs are still 90°C max (the GPU 50°C max). HD4870.

The tick may go away if you put a resistor in the 12V wire. Some 24Ω.

Fire-Flare wrote:Yes, they can.

I'm not so sure. I'm afraid not all of them. The materials are different.

It's better not to take the task away from the PSU. The PSU knows, how much airflow it needs.

S1 is big. I don't think you can use it with any of those VRM coolers. I'm not sure; even if you can, the card would be a monster.
S1 comes with a VRM cooler, which fits under the S1.

williamn6133 wrote:It won't start spinning

The unit will get hotter, the fan will start. Don't worry. Your system does not draw 500W, any fan will do. If you wanted to take max power from the PSU, then the fan should be similar to the original (rpm, amps).

I've tried slowing it down in the cards software but its louder than automatic control even on the lowest manual setting. My first guess was you did not slow it down, but then it could not be louder than automatic. I had a Gigabyte 4670, which did not control the fan. I wrote on SPCR, how I made it...

lodestar wrote:...to get 7V with an rpm reading.

This cable will not get rpm reading. It does exactly what the OP has done already (apparently).

A resistor is the cheapest, but you might have to try several. Some 56Ω 0.5W. I used one recently, got a strange effect: after some time the rpm reading was a half of what it should be, and remained that after a restart. Then I put there 24Ω, was good for my needs. And the fan's switching noise, rat...

You can not go wrong with 2105. It is probably more than you need. Your 1600 RAM will run at 1333. You don't need 1600.

Have you tried to unplug power to your other HDD?
But I agree, Seagate makes strange disks.

These CPUs draw little power. No reason to "need stock".

You know? Then ground the computer.
Do you have ground in the socket?
The relevant part here is the AC adaapter. Not the pico.
Btw, pico is a smps.

You can not explain the rise. You should find out if there is a rise... PSU? No.

Of course. The fan was already at max.
Must be a change in what the CPU is doing. I would measure the temperature of the heatsink. And the power draw.

The hypothesis is wrong.

Some employers are happy if they can hire two for the price of one... You can not really blame them, can you? Higher price must be justified, which is not easy... You can learn at home, but you can not know what to learn... Not spending is a good thing. You probably don't need that new car.

For it to work What do you want it to do? Give some numbers. A bad thing for your economics. For me a DH makes sense only a couple of weeks in autumn, before the heating season. Noise like from a fridge + noise from the fan. The latter can be almost inaudible, if you reduce rpm; efficiency may even...

Apparently the socket is not grounded. You should get shocked.

Kurso wrote:World class support for sure!

I think their readiness to swap the unit for no reason is a minus.

Interesting.

"The measuring range is from 5 to 3500 Watt, the meter measures in 10 mA steps, which at 230 V corresponds to 2.3 Watt (at Ohmic load).
When the load is below 5 Watt, the meter indicates "zero"."
My meter is better. Seems to be defective, still better.

The last digit (after the decimal point) is not to be trusted. I connected a 62kΩ resistor and paralel 68nF capacitor. Got 1.2W 45% PF (should be 0.8W). Then I added paralel 217k and got less power - 1.0W 45%. Which means something is wrong in the digital domain. Perhaps one digit of the ADC is dead...

It would be weird if 4 sticks run at the same speed as 2.
Officially only 2 are supported at 1066.