Isn’t there a big difference between expecting a socket A board to support an Athlon XP-M and a socket 754 board to support a Turion? After all, socket A boards didn’t usually support PowerNow at all, whereas socket 754 boards usually support Cool ‘n’ Quiet. Well any half decent one should. This poi...

Thanks,

I have been using Speedswitch already and have been pleased with it. It's the fan speed control is the main issue currently. Also, I'm wondering if it's possible to undervolt a Celeron-M, as Speedswitch only works with Speedstep enabled CPUs; Pentium M & Pentium 3-M

Regards

Crow

Is there software to control laptop fan speed and cpu voltage? I assume that most laptops have a variable speed CPU fan that is controlled by the BIOS and that these settings are not user configurable. Is there any software that allows you to take control of the CPU fan speed in the way that Speedfa...

Kie, I had the same issue with Motherboard Monitor and Speedfan not detecting voltage changes when using Cool ‘n’ Quiet. Clockgen did detect changes though. Mats, As per the Strained Silicon thang, am I to deduce from you comment that you believe the whole thing to be hogwash? My BS meter blipped a ...

EBuyer are cheap but unreliable and their customer service is awful. Last time I ordered something from them, it didn't turn up and they refused to chase it up for 15days. I was not happy. I would recommend ebuyer to people who don’t mind a mediocre delivery time with fairly poor customer service b...

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=343167&highlight=winchester The above link is to a forum thread that suggests that early batches of Winchesters didn’t use Strained Silicon. It also suggests that has implications for overclockers (& likely also under-volters). Any UK buyers might be interest...

Thanks Mat,

It's hard to consolidate AMD’s figures with some of the power and temp readings that are being reported. Strange!

Crow

Does anyone know AMD’s plans for 90 nm? Are they going to put out S754 Athlons and Semprons? Sempron makes more sense to me, judging from their current chip line-up. I have a 3000+ Newcastle (CG revision) and can’t see myself moving over to S939 at this point, even though Winchester sounds excellent...

Hi Halcyon, I read somewhere the maximum total power output (or whatever AMD call it) of the forthcoming dual core chip range @ 90 nm will be around 95 watts. I may well be out here by 10% but this is a fair ball park figure. Using that as a base, it’s seems possible that a single core chip at 2000 ...

Thanks Josti, Sounds good to me. What voltage are you using? The thing that surprises me about the Winchester is that the voltage is only slightly less than the Newcastle. I think it’s 1.4 versus 1.5! Which means that all the gains are from the process change. This implies AMD are doing something ve...

Hi Josti,

Good to have someone here who owns one of these critters. What are you using to cool your Winchester and system in general and what sort of CPU and System temps are you getting?

Crow

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2275&p=13 The link above is a recent article on Anandtech which is a review of the P4 570. It also shows a staggering fall in power consumption for Athlon 64, when moving from 130 to 90 nm. It shows System Power Consumption at idle and under load. ...

There’s a link at the URL below to a version of Clockgen for the DFI board: http://forum.x86-secret.com/viewtopic.php?t=2598&sid=926b60533ccbeee98216cec93173d12a If Clockgen works with the board it bodes well for Speedstep working, provided you load the driver. Speedswitch might be a good solution h...

Reading the machine translation of the X-86 review of the DFI board, which I’ve copied below, I’m not clear on whether the BIOS supports Speedstep fully. i.e. will it dynamically alter frequency and voltage. It’s great to see desktop boards arriving, but it’ll be a shame if they don’t support Speeds...

Read this post for further details about my dampening attempts. Thanks again. I had read that post quite a while ago, but that was before the Samsung’s noise had me foaming at the mouth and reaching for the erm… foam :) I’ll keep things as they are and if the noise returns, it probably means that t...

Thanks for sharing your findings Ralf. One way around this would be to attach the foam strips to the underside of the drive in such a way that they stick out slightly either side of the drive. That way it will be impossible for the drive to touch the sides. If the foam does touch the side of the cag...

After getting off my arse and doing a more thorough search of the site, I was inspired to make the following modification. I took the foam from the box that the Samsung was shipped in and used it to rest the drives on. I used two strips per drive, about 2.5 cm wide, 2 cm deep and 15 cm long. This fo...

Oops
I missed that big time. Thanks for taking the time to put me straight.
I seem to have had a bee in my bonnet over the site's search engine and lost the plot when using it. Hmm! I'll know better next time.

Crow

I'd give a bit of a search to the PSU forums to see what threads have already been posted about this subject. I usually do a lot of research before posting, but, (the famous but) I think I was feeling a bit frustrated with the scope of the search facility on the site early this morning, so took the...

Ralf Hutter wrote:Please use the forum search. This topic has been covered many times.

I did a search for sorbothane and not much came up, certainly not a direct answer to my question!!!

I want to remove the droning sound that the drive produces and I read here that Sorbothane has been used successfully to remove this sound, by MikeC I believe. Anyone now of a source for Sorbothane in the UK, or of an alternative material that is more readily available that can produce the same resu...

Has anyone changed the fan in the stock power supply in the 3700QBE? I’m comfortable in replacing PS fans and have done it before. However, I’ve only done this in the past with relatively low power systems and I’m not sure how much leeway I have with my current higher performance system. Also, I’ve ...

Try changing the Vcore to something so low you are fairly sure your system should stop working. If it doesn't stop working the Vcore isn't changed. I’m wary of doing that intentionally, as there’s always the possibility of corrupting a system install with an unstable overclock. I did do this uninte...

¨As I’m writing this I notice that the CPU fan is ramping between 2 speeds again quite quickly. I guess that’s because the temp is close to a value set for a fan speed change, in this case 55C. Is this typical behaviour for Silentek?¨ I have not seen this happen. On my stepsons´s computer the fan s...

Thanks for all the input. I confirmed that Clockgen is working by running Sisoft Sandra. This is with CnQ enabled in the BIOS & Windows. Speedfan and MBM always report the VCore as being 1.54, which is the max Pstate value, plus 0.04 that the BIOS must add! I decided to accept that there may be an i...

I guess you could check your heatsink mounting - it should be getting reasonably warm. You could also compare the heatsink temperature when running at full speed and underclocked/volted. It would be worth using motherboard monitor to check you are getting temperature readings from the chips own sen...

I have a newly built quiet PC project and I was generally pleased with it until the idle temps started going crazy. So now the temp controlled fans are on too frequently and it’s no longer a quiet PC. It’s an Athlon 64 3000+ (CG stepping) in an Aopen AK89 Max, with a Zalman 7000B Cu/Al. Cool ‘n’ Qui...

Oops, I did search the forum before posting, but didn't browse which is why I missed the posting I guess.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Now where did I put that 3 pin header…

Crow

I’d like to control the speed of the Antec SLK3700BQE's 120 mm case fan with Speedfan. To do that I’ll need to replace the molex power header with a 2/3 pin connector, which I think I have somewhere. Before I do that I’m wondering whether the motherboard can provide enough juice to drive this unit. ...

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