Hi All, want to know if anyone knows anything about this PSU? doodddoo posted the following in the Seasonic S12-430: Beyond the Super Tornado thread, thats about all I've found on it in this site (and the entire net for that matter) I was just wondering if you guys could shed some light on this. I'm...

Have you thought about getting a PCI video card and running both? That is what I did in my old P3, but that was two years ago, it was a GF2 mx that was passively cooled.

I notice that your p4C is running at 3.3GHz. At this speed under load this is drawing anywhere up to 80 to 100W DC. The zalman is what 70-75% efficent, means that anywhere up to 35 watts or so is being generated in the psu just to power the processor. Its all a matter of adequate cooling. If you thi...

I fried my motherboard last weekend :( I was measuring voltages of my new fan controller with my multimeter and shorted something. My computer turned off straight away and wouldn't turn back on. I hope I didn't damage anything more than just my mobo - the PSU smelt a bit strange after too (its an an...

What would happen to the LEDs if they were to be fed off 12V ?? Reason is i've connected them to my new fan controller's three way 12V / OFF / 5V switch - but i don't want some little brother coming in and playing with the controller and hitting the LEDs onto 12V and doing anything bad!

look in the recommended fans section. you'd be best to realise that no fan is 'quiet' at 12v and you have to trade off speed for silence and undervolt the fan to 7v or 5v etc

By the way, rpm monitoring does not mean you have any ability to change the speed of the fan - it is just to read the current speed of the fan.

I am sure there have been other threads like this however could only find this one: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=4298&highlight=hard+disk+drive+power+management However the question really hasn't been answered - if there is someone out there who knows if it is possible then your ...

thought i'd add www.arc.com.au for zalman and antec products - they have the lowest prices and 5 stores in sydney!

I've been doing it for a few months now 24/7, I don't think it is dangerous, i'm pretty sure i remember reading somewhere (here?) that it was fine. I think its just as good as using elastic (which i do in my old system) and less fiddling around when you want to change drives. You need to have a fan ...

A P4 becomes very efficient when slightly underclocked and then undervolted as low as it can and still be stable. May or may not be as good as the AMD mobiles, but still very good. Even the Prescott can be tamed in this way, though not as good as a northwood. I have my p4 2.6C underclocked slightly...

I have folding@home running on my linux box as well as on two winxp computers, all are on my local network. I run emIII on one my windows computer and can monitor the progress of the folding on the other winxp machine remotely. Can i monitor the folding on the linux box remotely too? It is running m...

I have my 80GB Baccacuda V suspended in the 5 inch drive bays with some elastic cord that cost me $1 from the climbing shop. I have a 80mm case fan at 5v running over it and it is cooled enough. I think this is possibly the quietest you are ever going to get your hdd.

I have a Gigabyte 8IPE1000 Pro2 - its got this feature called qfan that varies the speed of the cpu fan - using speed fan I can control the speed of the cpu fan which was something I was not expecting to be able to do. It measures all the temps including HDD temps. You can even control the speed of ...

Straight from the antec web site http://www.antec-inc.com/us/support_pro ... odID=15138

Sonata

Fan Specs:
- RPM 2000
- CFM 79.06
- dB(A) 29.8. With Fan Only connectors 20.4


Lets not get any more confused!

I have a P3800EB too - on an Aopen AX64 Pro motherboard. I have it completely stable, undervolted to 1.4Vcore and the stock intel HSF with the tiny 40mm fan running at 5v is enough to keep it cool - idle CPU temp is about 35 here in summer. My CPU is in the strange orientation with the PSU very clos...

Thanks for the info

I had a strange crash the other day when strange things appeared on the screen. I turned my comptuer off and let it cool down and hasn't happened since. Will see how stable my computer is over next few weeks, I think it will be fine though.

I have recently built my first silent PC - chose all components from the ground up: Sonata Case P4 2.6C (which i have undervolted to 1.3Vcore and tested stable for 12 hours with Prime95!) stock cooler Gigabyte 8IPE1000 Pro 2 MB Powercolor 9600 Pro 2 x GEIL 512mb PC3200 Seagate 7200.7 120GB SATA The ...

I have a PIII 800EB that is undervolted from 1.65 to 1.4V and is perfectly stable for 9 months, 35C idle and 48C load. I'm using the stock intel HSF but at 5V and it is very quiet. Underclocked and 5V this equates to a 10C drop in temperature compared to stock vcore and 5V. Undervolting is fantastic.

If the case includes the 'smart' fan 2s, don't be fooled. They are the loudest fans ever, with loud clicking noises even at low voltages. For cooling they are fantastic ~70 cfm! - but not for low noise.

http://eelab.usyd.edu.au/~jrun4117/computer/Suspended%20Barracuda%20V.JPG Basically if you havn't suspended your HDD try it because it makes a hugh difference! I used standard screws to attatch the hdd to the cord compared to the garden Plastic Cable Clamps as used by Scott Aphonos in his article i...

I have been reading silentpcreview articles for months and finally decided to try suspending my hard drive. The things making noise in my computer making noise are: Pentium 3 800EB undervolted at 1.45V (rated 1.65V) with standard intel heatsink and fan, fan running at 5V Seagate Barracuda V 80GB ST3...