Im running a ABIT AN-M2HD (7050pv) with a X2 4800.

Working perfectly with 1080p mkv's.
HDMI works out of the box.

No issues at all!

well since it's 3.3,5,12 and gnd missing... it isn't a problem..
Esp since the 12V should be used from the same line as the other 12 in the connector.
Aka lots of adapters 20->24 avail.

Intresting post.... True yeah kinda.. What the author forgets is that a normal appartment/house isn't just that PSU and nothing else... its alot more, including your neibours The more crap each component feeds back into the powergrid the higher will the powerdraw be in total due to lost effectivity....

Well... the normal checks works quite ok..

aka

* Does it smell strange?
* Is the heat coming out really hot?
* Is the sides of the PSU hot?

If it's a no to all of those then I wouldn't be to worried.

Schlotkins wrote:If I'm not mistaken, sorts, merges, regressions, etc would probably be more random access oriented than sequential read speed... no?

Anand test of 2 drives in RAID0 :http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101

Actually RAID 0 is exactly what you should use if you have random IO.

Well the normal way to do this is to get more drives and RAID them.

So what I would suggest is getting 2 or 4 more Samsung drives and run them in a RAID 0 set.
Either from the MB or PCI card.

That should give you a very nice boost without raising the noise too much.

ohhhhhh red leds...

I wouldn't see a a anti-air searchlight in my case for all the stuffing/padding I have in it :p

nah this board isn't for us thats for sure.

What was a tad unclear is how the air get into the box... not out

Otherwise it was a nice desc.

60C is just fine if the comp is stable and fine.

But yeah a big nice air intake prolly would lower your temps alot.

Well since you can adjust the fanmate... turn it down until you get a load temp thats comfortably high for you...
Me personally wouldn't hesitate to raise it to 55C (at least)...

As long as you are stable you shouldn't worry too much about the temp itself.

One solution Ive seen id to take a 80mm->120mm adapter and stick it on the backside(outside) of the PSU. Then bolt a 120mm fan onto that. Worked very nicely, esp with the increased space from the companents reducing the turbulence.

Hummmm intresting....

A shroud on it to funnel the air through the PSU (aka using it's fan) should be intresting.
(If your using a 120mm that is)

Well I wouldn't worry about noise from a res. The only thing one would do is drop the flow rate some.. thats about it. Normally nothing to worry about. The noise you heard is just the air in the system.. as soon as it's out it quiets down alot! And yes, if your going to water cool your GPU, you shou...

Well with that much headroom in temp, almost 30 C, you should be able to really dial down the rad fan alot.

Well... Im quite sure we'll see something like BTX in the near future.. Why? Well the current ATX doesn't have any airflow management at all. And this will become important if we'll going to see an increase in heat. Also, it more def eases the handling of cooling from a noise view since it's not any...

/me applies abit babelfish on it...

Babelfish translation


There... better? :p

Well there are water cooled PSUs out the with the correct certs..

http://www.com-tra.de/shop/de_DE/produk ... _Watt.html

Sooo, now that we have seen some horrible Grills... it's time for cases

Sorry for the horrible quality



This setup I discovered at my brothers house last time I was there...
What can I say... everything bolted to the wall as is...

Well... I would say longevity of the components in the PSU would benefit from this...

BUT if it does any real diff? no idea, prob not. But it's a nice feature.. I would love it on all my fans actually.

Otherwise... do like me.... use the old stuff as experiment subjects...

Aka, true swapping/drilling and what not without bothering what happens with it!

Everything under 50ish and you are totaly safe I would say, I personally prefere 46ish in temp.

Yupp a fan for the disks is a good idea... it can be a really really tiny one with very low speed.. so you don't have to worry about noise levels.

Def sounds like something strange is going on in there...
Im using L20's any I have NO clicking whatsoever with them.

Im on my 3d L20 and I havn't noticed any run in period so far.

chylld wrote: edit: another noise source! i can hear my laptop battery charging.

Same here.... found another one also... a warning diode on my printer buzzes when it blinks...

Well... say like this... at full blast on the fan I get around 45ish load temp.. BUT thats so loud I almost fall off my chain :D Aka... Ive adjusted the fan so I hold that temp (55C) and Im using SpeedFan to raise fan speed if needed due to load. (Same temp on the CPU on both idle and load, just a c...

Just for info... Yeah a single 120mm rad would be enough... The real question is how high temps you want at what temp and how loud! .) Im running a 120mm with a XP@2400 + GF5950U and at idle its quieter then my pan 120mm modded Foltron. (But yeah Im pushing the temps at idle at 55C) For silence your...

If you want local power I suggest you search around for "NFS root" and PXE.
Those two are needed to get linux up and running without a local disc.

Running my PVR that way

IsaacKuo wrote:So...the short answer so far is, no, no one here is using a diskless workstation?

Actualy... yes I do.

I got a lab with 6 fanless/diskless mini-itx machines network booting and running X against a bigger server.
(totaly quiet since there is NO moving parts in them)

VERY cheap xterminal setup

Ohhh


Sweeeeet!

Well if your going for linux you can start out with http://www.freevix.org/ and rip out the Freevo part of it.
Should give out a total size around 7-8M for a boot image and filesystem.
Booted either from USB/CF or PXE network

If I understand you correctly...

Your getting a whine with only mb+psu, no harddisks or anything else..
Odd.. def odd!

Well, PSU would be my first guess. after that I would say the coils on the mb (if you have any)