Search found 21 matches
- Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:10 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Need to pick a PSU for Antec P183 / 200W system
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2393
Need to pick a PSU for Antec P183 / 200W system
Buggar it! Fed up looking anymore for cases so bought an Antec P183. Among other things I like the way the PSU has it's own compartment and is at the bottom. Just need to buy a PSU but not sure which. I'm thinking of getting a Nexus Value 430 but need some reassurances. 1) Standard ATX PSU's with 12...
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 2:21 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Is an HR-01 over the top for a 65W CPU?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4362
Thanks all for the posts. I'm leaning towards the HR-01 but doesn't seem to be that much available due to it being superceeded by newer Thermalright designs, so I'll probably end up with the Mini Ninja. Either way I won't notice the difference unless in lab conditions. Is one easier to fit than the ...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:44 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Is an HR-01 over the top for a 65W CPU?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4362
Is an HR-01 over the top for a 65W CPU?
There is good information on this site but as a newbie in the accustic area of PC's I'm still struggling to decide on parts. I suppose I am trying to get it right first time. At the moment I was planning on cooling a 65W Phenom II with something like a fanless HR-01 ducted to a 120mm case fan (typic...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:28 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Has anyone tried the Thermalright fan duct for HR01 PLUS?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6643
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:22 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Noob asking for memory advice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2571
Thanks for your replies andymcca and Vicotnik. This confirms what I suspected. The RAM can't take up too much power as they would have big heatsinks and pipes etc. As for the latency issue my good old 2-2-2-5 DDR wasn't really noticable except for benchmarks and possible UT 2004. It might have squee...
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:42 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Noob asking for memory advice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2571
Noob asking for memory advice
Hi, I've decided to buy a ASUS M4A78T-E for a low power Phenom II (good reviews, like the manufacturer, reasonable price, IGP may be handy). But I'm having trouble picking some DDR memory for it. I can't find the memory I pick in the ASUS memory qualified vendor lists and suspect the list is a tad o...
- Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:01 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my first quiet PC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3454
The AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition will be the way to go for most people but it has taken me so long to get around to speccing up a PC that now I just want something that works to my spec out of the box. Don't fancy the experimentation and uncertainency of gradually changing settings (unlike mos...
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:45 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my first quiet PC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3454
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:08 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my first quiet PC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3454
Thanks for the link. From what I have read so far it is an interesting article. It's funny that you said file compression as I was going to include that above but left it out to keep down the waffle in my post. File compression is one of the more lengthy tasks I do. I could slightly overclock the At...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:10 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my first quiet PC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3454
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:09 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Building my first quiet PC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3454
Building my first quiet PC
Hi, finally got round to starting to build my new PC! I want to build a quiet PC for HPC studying (multi-threaded and OpenCL programming), and some gaming (mostly 2+ year old games). I want it to be my first PC that is on 24/7 and will be based in my study (bedroom!) so needs to be quiet as possible...
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:08 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Stupid laptop doesn't see second (identical) memory stick
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2559
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:56 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Stupid laptop doesn't see second (identical) memory stick
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2559
Thanks for replying, I'll look again on the website but these coperate websites fill me with dread because they are so lousy. I originally was suspecting the BIOS. It really is quite poor. It will let you fiddle with the system time, boot order and hard disk settings and thats about it! It quite lik...
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:52 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New member [spec'ing] out new build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4590
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:36 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New member [spec'ing] out new build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4590
I have just spent the past 3 hours reading some rather interesting posts here on various builds and people asking similar questions to me. It seems for the spec I want I would need at least 2 fans. If I can get them at 500rpm it might be tolerable. When my netbook is two foot away from me I can bare...
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:13 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Stupid laptop doesn't see second (identical) memory stick
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2559
Stupid laptop doesn't see second (identical) memory stick
Hi, My brothers laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L30 10V. It was running Vista Home Basic with 512MB ram (minus 64MB taken for integrated graphics) and ran like a pig. So I put it 2 1GB SODIMM's in and the BIOS and OS only sees 1GB (the first stick). I swapped them around but still the same. I have als...
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:32 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New member [spec'ing] out new build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4590
Nah!! The geek in me wants fast computers but I don't like spending $2000 on equipment only to leave it idle for at least 7 hours a day. I want to use that time as a distributed computing client like folding or rendering or on my own experimental stuff. There is nowhere I can move the PC to unless s...
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:59 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: P55 motherboards and Core i5 CPUs launch
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3266
AMD will have to drop their prices again because the Core i5 looks to be generally faster than the Phenom II 955. AMD can drop to a more competive price but still has a TDP of 30W more. P55 platform still pricy but much cheaper than the X58 platform. Not sure on P55 v Dragon platform power consumpti...
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:38 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New member [spec'ing] out new build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4590
Hmm, never really paid much attention to the Athon II's. Noticed the upcomming Propus core 2.2GHz X4 has a TDP of 45W. I bet the performance sucks quite badly though without any L3 cache. What has really caught my eye is a Core i 5 750. It's better than I thought it be. TDP of 95W, possibly undervol...
- Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:24 pm
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New member [spec'ing] out new build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4590
Whoops! Number 5, I mean't to say PSU not CPU! Thanks for the swift replies. I have to admit, when I doze off (sometimes drunk) with the Atom based netbook on my bed (2 feet away) I can barely hear the netbook (when the sheets don't cover the air outtake. It is quieter than the extraction fan. Can I...
- Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:49 am
- Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
- Topic: New member [spec'ing] out new build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4590
New member [spec'ing] out new build
Hi to everyone. I'm new to this forum and silent PC techniques in general. I doubt I will have the time I want to regulary visit this site due to other personal circumstances, but I hope this forum becomes my home for all things PC and geeky. I want to build a quad core machine that is quiet as poss...