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- Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:50 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Low profile 80mm fans for an Antec Minuet fan swap
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9074
How high-power a system are you considering running in your Minuet? I ask, because if the power draw is pretty low, you could get away with a quiet standard-sized 80mm exhaust fan in place of the stock Tri-Cool, and just take the lid off the PSU. That is exactly what I have done in one system of min...
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:46 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love
- Replies: 142
- Views: 191266
Let me start by saying that I hate advertising. Be it fools shouting on the TV, politicians whining on the radio, ugly billboards trashing the roadsides, blinking and bobbing internet boobies, or fraudulent fliers festering on city walls. Almost nothing truly good ever comes one's way via advertisin...
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:49 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Intel X25-V G2 40GB SSD
- Replies: 96
- Views: 71231
Some effort is required to run Windows 7 on a drive of this size, but it is at least possible. I really don't think it requires effort to run Win7 on a 30GB drive. I have one system running Win7 off a 16GB CF card. Installed, with page file and hibernation files turned off, Win7 x64 is only about 8...
- Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:15 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Biostar A760G-M2+ - 30W barrier broken
- Replies: 119
- Views: 146262
Thanks to everyone for all the great info in this thread. I just got a new server up and running using this motherboard. AMD Sempron 140 2GB Kingston DDR2-800 ECC non-registered Antec NSK6580 Antec Earthwatts 430W OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD 3x WD15EADS With the hard drives not powered up, the system is idl...
- Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:11 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 466979
- Run hdparm from a command line (as administrator) like this: hdparm -B 254 hda Trouble is, this doesn't seem to work on the WD Green series: drdaz@el-mahico:~$ sudo hdparm -B254 /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error Whic...
- Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:04 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Hybrid Drive (SSD + HDD)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4250
Yuck. What's the point of that? You instantly lose one of the biggest benefits of an SSD, specifically the benefit most important to this site, namely silence! SSD's have allowed me to keep all my big, slow, noisy (relatively speaking) hard drives away in a closet where they belong. And there they s...
- Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:17 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is 2.5" Scorpio Blue quieter than 3.5" Caviar Gree
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3206
- Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:54 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Where to buy SQD2.5?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1963
- Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:50 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Silverstone passively cooled PSUs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5751
- Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:30 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD 1TB WD10EACS head park noise
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10039
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:17 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: help needed to turn AAM off for the single platter WD 320GB
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4017
This is what you need, winaam: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/ind ... post&id=80
Works right in windows. I used it on one of those very same WD 320's yesterday.
Works right in windows. I used it on one of those very same WD 320's yesterday.
- Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:44 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Corsair 550vx Fan noise - Rattling
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8862
I wouldn't say my fan made a loud rattle, it was more like soft chattering sound. The problem was that it was not smooth sounding, and even though the volume of the chatter was not overly loud, it was annoying because it stood out from all the rest of my system. FWIW I had the same problem with a Se...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:05 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Antec Skeleton... and P183 & Sonata Elite
- Replies: 161
- Views: 130934
The only way that the P183 looks better to me, is the more open intake vents. Everything else, from the holes in the front, to the vented 5.25" bays, to the new front panel arrangement and power button, and the racing-stripe-esque top vent are all downgrades in my book. The only things I'd want to s...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:01 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Corsair 550vx Fan noise - Rattling
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8862
I just said screw it, and replaced the fan with an S-Flex, and 'tis all quiet now. I've only had one PSU fail on me (ironically a $200 PC P&C with a 5-year warranty), and considering that I only paid $40 for the 550vx, and shipping it in for an RMA would probably cost $10 at least, the potential los...
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:19 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: WD6400AAKS released
- Replies: 89
- Views: 83633
Anyone who has used both this drive and the Samsung HD501LJ care to chime in about how the noise levels compare? I'd like to drop my system noise even further (basically limited by HDD's at this point), but dropping $120 on a pair of quiet drive enclosures just doesn't seem very cost-effective to me.
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:15 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: The Slipstream800 really *IS* the sweet spot!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22439
Couple of possibilities.....your ambient temps are higher than when the S-Flex was in there. Or more likely.... your Slip-Stream cannot handle the airflow resistance in that particular location as well as the S-Flex. Well, it turns out the performance discrepancy I noticed was due to user error! I ...
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:12 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Best silent 9600GT!
- Replies: 103
- Views: 65018
The ECS 9600GT w/Accelero S2 is doing very well for me. In a 21C room the card idles at 45C and stabilizes at 70C after a half-hour of ATItool artifact scanning. This is in the upper half of a P182 with no intake fans, and a single exhaust fan, S-Flex @ 600RPM. There is no coil whine or other electr...
- Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:09 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: The Slipstream800 really *IS* the sweet spot!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22439
- Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:22 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: The Slipstream800 really *IS* the sweet spot!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22439
After getting my hands on a pair of slipstreams today, I've come to wonder why these fans get quite the amount of praise that they do around here. Both have some intermittent bearing noise, whereas all of the S-Flex fans I've used (all three speed grades, numerous of each) have had no bearing noise ...
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:02 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Return rates of power supplies
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3076
- Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:28 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Cosair vx450 and vx550...any efficiency differences?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4383
The 450 is built by Seasonic whereas the 550 is built by Channelwell. If you look at the respective reviews at jonnyguru.com you can see that there is significant difference in the internal components. In my personal experience, the 450 is quite a bit quieter under low to medium loads than the 550, ...
- Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:55 am
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: IP35 + TRUE + Solo - Will it fit?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5388
- Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:32 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: IP35 + TRUE + Solo - Will it fit?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5388
I set up an IP35pro w/TRUE in a a Solo, and it was a very tight fit, we had to pull out on the horizontal bar underneath the PSU in order to clear the heatsink while positioning the motherboard in the case. It definitely fits, but it is quite snug between the HS and PSU area, and getting the fan cli...
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:38 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: IP35 Pro fan control
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3034
I had no trouble getting it to control two S-Flex fans (3-pin) on two different fan headers. In fact I'd say it has the best BIOS-based fan control of any motherboard I've used. I did not even mess around with the uGuru utility or speedfan, since the motherboard itself did such a good job of control...
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:36 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Corsair 550W clicking... 2 in a row.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8184
Buy.com has the VX550 for $60ish after MIR, I was really tempted to sell my HX520 and get the VX instead (would make money after the sell, don't really need the modular cables). I was counting on the VX being near identical in the noise department (since they use the same Adda fan), but now that I'...
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:47 pm
- Forum: Consumer Advocacy
- Topic: Antec Neo HE PSU Users Poll
- Replies: 355
- Views: 660479
I have a system fired up right now with a Neo HE 550, acquired through a fry's sale for about $40. Before connecting the PS to the system, I started it up all by its lonesome, and since it seemed to work fine, putting out normal voltages, I went ahead and hooked it up. Thus far, it has run very very...
- Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:06 pm
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: P182 $45 shipped
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3274
- Sat May 12, 2007 10:23 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Core2Duo motherboards with Speedfan controllable fan headers
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10187
Gigabyte 965P-DS3 - Speedfan can control the CPU and chassis fans separately, must set PWM to "software controlled" in advanced settings, and disable fan control in the BIOS. Asus P5B Deluxe - Speedfan can control the two chassis fans, tied to one speed setting, Q-fan must be disabled in BIOS. CPU f...
- Wed May 09, 2007 9:03 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: E6420 or E6600
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7701
It uses an Ultra 120 (not the extreme version). Load temps only get to about 50C with an S-Flex at 600RPM, or 60C fanless. Since the fan doesn't add any appreciable amount of noise to the system, I kept it on for peace of mind's sake. I was getting 58C load (Orthos, small FFT, after 1+hour) at 3.2GH...
- Wed May 09, 2007 10:07 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Core 2 mobo recommendation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4641
the DS3 is a hunk of junk, IMO. Odd. Mine has none of the problems you've encountered but then I'm not trying to o/c anywhere near as far as you. I'd say that you must have been overheating the n/b and s/b to get such high o/c and it's the heat pipes on the P5B Deluxe that is keeping things stable....