AOpen AX4R Plus is a new Dual-DDR (Granite Bay/Intel i7205) P4 motherboard with VCore down to 1.1V and FSB all the way down to 66mhz (266QDR).

(According to TomsHardware.com review, http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/2 ... 05-29.html)

Asus A7V133 supports low voltages, all the way to 1.1V. (I successfully ran 1700XP at 1GHz @ 1.15V for a while, as described in my article). Too bad Asus completely screwed everyone over with their new products. I contacted them about P4B533's lack of undervolting, and they passed my request to thei...

Actually, at least one person (Technonut on Anandtech) got lower voltages working by using a motherboard that supports it. Also, if my calculations are correct, the P4M uses ~15% less power than a desktop P4 when both are at the same MHz and voltage . When you take the 12X multiplier into account, y...

Very nice Mike. I wonder if these results are applicable with a decoupled fan in a hood (like Ausone and my system). Probably so, because I tested both configurations and my temperatures were very similar. Have you considered using BURNK7 (for Athlon) or BURNP6 (for Pentium4) instead of Prime95? The...

Using a refurb Sony G500 (21" flat .24mm) CRT for close to two years. Refurb Sonys are luck of the draw, but mine is a winner--1600x1200 vibrant and clean at 85hz (max 98hz at that rez). No high-pitch whine, but a very faint buzz that would only be audible with everything else completely off. I can ...

Mike, I don't suggest that people should sacrifice quietness for stability. However, if you don't intend to use your CPU 100%, then why not clock it down? When you overclock a 1.6A Northwood to 2ghz, the implication is that you actually need the extra speed, which means that at some point you expect...

Willy, Two points, first one is you meant 7.4% larger. I wasn't talking about vendors' chips. I was talking about people building their own quiet systems, but not testing them properly. Any OEM computer you buy will easily survive even a run of BURN?.EXE because they are designed quite carefully. Ho...

This is certainly bad, but an even worse problem is that the person who reported it didn't "stress test" his system, as I bet many other quiet enthusiasts don't. If it cannot survive 100% CPU usage for long, that's a hardware issue, not software! Not to mention, thermal throttling kicks in around 80...

When I destroyed my first GeForce4, I tried to remove the PAL6035 that I glued on w/ Arctic Epoxy. I put it into the freezer, but the epoxy was still very hard to undo. What happened was, the GPU itself came off along with the heatsink! I was able to pry off the GPU with a knife (to salvage the heat...

shunx, Alpha unfortunately discontinued the PAL15 heatsink. Check out my thread, where knowledgeable folks suggested some alternatives.

My HDD is a 40gb Barracuda IV, so it has reasonable spinning noise. The seeks are loud and clear, of course. Unfortunately, the Cuda runs hotter than my previous drive (2-platter IBM 75GXP)--the Cuda outputs 8W on idle compared to 5.6W for IBM, to my memory. So I cannot have it as quiet as my IBM wa...

My HDD is a 40gb Barracuda IV, so it has reasonable spinning noise. The seeks are loud and clear, of course. Unfortunately, the Cuda runs hotter than my previous drive (2-platter IBM 75GXP)--the Cuda outputs 8W on idle compared to 5.6W for IBM, to my memory. So I cannot have it as quiet as my IBM wa...

What's the capacity of your Sea Sonic, BTW? It's the 300Watt unit that Mike reviewed (in fact, it's one of Mike's PSU :D ) Did you have to actually 5-volt a Panaflo? Yes, I connected esp. to 5V. In my experience, the Adda seemed to become noisier under stress. And variable-speed fans make me doubt ...

No offense, but I'm not sure if it's literally "totally silent", given that you are using a Panaflo that tends to emit motor-friction noise at 5v and that a fan directly mounted on heatsink could cause slight vibration of the heatsink. The fan isn't quite directly "on" the heatsink, I rolled some t...

But seriously.....have you considered thermal-epoxying the HS to the GPU? That would be both more secure and improve the heat tranfer. I have Arctic epoxy (as previously used on GF4 in my article here on SPCR), and I didn't use it this time for 2 reasons: 1) It's irreversible--the headaches of sell...

Just made it in about an hour! Using Gainward "Golden Sample" ti4200 128MB. (Pictures below:) Barely consumes 2 PCI slots. I won't be spending $47 on that Zalman fanless cooler, especially since it requires lower case temps. EDIT: Almost silent using 80mm Panaflo L1A undervolted to 5V, plus Alpha PA...

Nice, I'll propose another one:

"Absence of the Fans"

I just came back from Home Depot. They didn't have small vinyl ducts like the one Mike shows. Instead, I ended up buying one similar to this: http://deflecto.com/images/products/product/SK5WFglam.gif It's something between vinyl and aluminum. If you guys think it's a bad idea, tell me and I'll get m...

Good point Mike, I was thinking about efficiency and didn't consider quietness enough...

...what about having a front intake fan, at all? Will it help keep temps down? (So far, both CPU and PSU fans are blowing outward, nothing inward).

(continued from discussion in this thread .) My new idea was to buy two ready-made fan ducts here , and to install them as demonstrated in this simple diagram I scratched together: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~leov/ductplan1.gif Provided I find a place to machine the holes, I think this may provide highl...

"Do you have any other option with your case?" Yes, I think putting the fan in its "normal" place atop the PAL8942 may work better (with a duct) for these reasons: 1) The fan is deeper inside the case--so it generates less noise. 2) It is positioned right next to the heat source (CPU), so it should...

Very good idea... I am convinced. Just bought a PAL6035 with ArticSilver3 for $42.50 shipped together. I'll buy better fans once my pocketbook recovers from all this :) Question about the duct: since the fan sucks air, the duct has lower pressure than outside air. Won't this cause the soft Ziploc ma...

I have just run BURNP6.EXE on my computer in High priority. This site mentions how this program squeezes the most power out of a CPU--around 88% of max theoretical power! My results speak for themselves: CPU temperature rose to 61C , a whole 7C higher than HotCPU Tester was able to manage! If the 88...

If Zalman's reviews don't justify the $47 cost, I will probably make a Panaflo cooler and devise some reversible way to attach it. I could try constructing another fanless cooler, but I am afraid it will spoil my overclock. While the GPU may be cooled sufficiently by a heatsink, the rest of the card...

Ahhh finally... although still out of stock... The price for me is $47.24 shipped ... ..if I buy the Zalman 6500B CPU cooler, I'll be paying $98.63 for the bunch. Is that worth it? I guess I better wait for reviews! Considering that both my CPU and videocard are overclocked by 15-25% (default voltag...

Link please? AND MY CARD IS HERE... ...and it's an exceptional overclocker! Without modification, my Gainward ti4200 128mb with Samsung 4ns chips easily handles: core: 250-->320mhz mem: 444-->595mhz (no artifacts) Some 3dmark2001se scores For a safety margin, I have set 3% below max values, hence 31...

Mike, a major question you may want to ask them: does P4 make thermal throttling decisions based its thermal diode? If yes, at least we don't have to worry about unexpected throttling (even if the central part gets hot). BTW it's great that you're pulling for us quiet people! Eagerly awating your wr...

Well, I have just finished torture testing my 2.26B chip. At first I thought I could get 2.72GHz stable @1.50V, then I ran tests known to stress Pentium4B CPU's with high FSB the worst. AMDWorld admittedly did not run these benchmarks , and probably had a false impression of stability at 2.89ghz, ju...

That sounds encouraging... maybe it's worthwhile to wait. The biggest problem with cooling videocards is their inverted position (hot air gets trapped under the card). Maybe Zalman's cooler will help bring about natural convection... and their design is reversible, so the cooler could be reused on a...

Well $2 is not much to spend, but once I glue it to my $170 GeForce4 there will be no going back. Even a large heatsink might have less effective surface area than a good heatsink. That's why I am asking whether you guys are sure this will work better than my pal6035. I still have the option of cons...