Ick. Maybe I can stick a ZM80-D on and side-vent the case... Edit: Actually... how much space (in mm, preferably) is there between the top of the card itself (not the NV Silencer 5) and the drive bay? Not a lot of room. There is about 3mm at the minimum point between the top of the 6800 PCB board a...

Hmmm... How much space is between the end of the expansion slots (i.e., the external ports for cards) and the drive bay? A 6600 GT may still fit... The end of the AGP slot (the locking slot) extends ~1.4" under the drive bay enclosure. Here's a new photo that might help -- it's taken perpindicular ...

shelt, in the picture, it looks like your NV Silencer 5 is hitting the drive bays. Am I right? I was thinking of using the Thermaltake fanless VGA cooler, but it looks like it may not fit... The NV5 just touches the bottom of the drive bay. When I compress the lid, it does put a little pressure on ...

shelt, in the picture, it looks like your NV Silencer 5 is hitting the drive bays. Am I right? I was thinking of using the Thermaltake fanless VGA cooler, but it looks like it may not fit... The NV5 just touches the bottom of the drive bay. When I compress the lid, it does put a little pressure on ...

I overclocked to 2.3Ghz (144x16). Here are the results: 21287/79W = 270 ints/sec! That's pretty good value... SiSoftware Sandra Benchmark Results Integer x4 iSSE : 21287 it/s Float x4 iSSE2 : 23487 it/s Performance Test Status Run ID : DOTHAN on Thursday, December 02, 2004 at 5:09:06 PM NUMA Support...

I overclocked to 2.3Ghz (144x16). Here are the results: 21287/79W = 270 ints/sec! That's pretty good value... SiSoftware Sandra Benchmark Results Integer x4 iSSE : 21287 it/s Float x4 iSSE2 : 23487 it/s Performance Test Status Run ID : DOTHAN on Thursday, December 02, 2004 at 5:09:06 PM NUMA Support...

Any chance you could run some SiSoft Sandra benchmarks and post the Multi-Media Integer result? I'd be interested in comparing to other results in this thread: Lowest power consumption for DivX encoding . Here you go (I posted this in the other thread as well): Per a request, here are the benchmark...

Per a request, here are the benchmarks for my Pentium M 1.8 Dothan running in an Aria case with a BFG 6800 OC graphics card. Wattage is during the cpu intensive ppart of the test. It spikes 10W during the Mandelbrots, which is purely a graphics card load so I ignored it for the purposes of these tes...

shelt wrote: My next experiment will be to hook it up to a fanmate and see what that does. I have to cut off the GPU connector wires, so I've held off on that so far. Just for info but on my Aopen 6800GT with NV5 + fanmate 1 it is possible to simply connect the NV5 fan cable directly to the fanmate...

Nice indeed except for the added the holes in the PSU. I think they reduce the airflow through the factory placed openings which is where the air needs to go. in any case it looks like it would be easy to test since you already did the hard part. That is something I thought about before I did it, a...

Just wondering the logic here of some of these systems... If you are going to put in a 6800 or like 3 fans or something, why not save a bunch of cake and get a AMD 3500+ 90nm chip?? Certainly the power consumption of the chip is a bit more and all, but it's not that bad. The P-M is nice and may be ...

Thanks! The overall system is very quiet, but not silent. The sound profile boils down to one thing -- the NV5 GPU cooler. I put a very hot & fast graphics card in because I wanted good gaming performance. So... I have to live with a bit of air there! The NV5 is very loud compared to everything else...

Hi All, I just finished running some power usage tests on my Antec Aria Pentium-M system. For those who missed the earlier posts, here are the system specs: Antec Aria case and modded PSU. Nexus 120mm fan on thermistor. Aopen i855 Pentium M MB with 1.8Ghz Dothan CPU BFG 6800 OC (350Mhz) Graphics car...

Review at Hardwarezone . Sort of an odd review. He used an older Banias 1.6 Ghz cpu with 1MB L2 cache instead of one of several newer 1.6-2.1 Ghz 2MB L2 Dothan cpus. The main benefit of this board for a performance-minded user (IMO) is to get one of the newer Dothan CPUs with the large L2 caches. T...

The utility doesen't work well for me: - My computer hangs when I go higher than 121 MHz (regardless of bios settings) - My external soundcard (Dio Delta 24/96) makes clicking noise when I've overclocked using the utility. So I stick to BIOS overclocking for now. I'm of course aware of the fact tha...

Palled, Regarding your overclocking, did you remember to decrease your memory speed:FSB ratio in the BIOS? My 1.8 runs fine at 145x16 = 2.32 Ghz, but I set the base memory speed to 266Mhz. At a 145 bus speed, my DDR400 is running at 386 Mhz... Rich Thanks, that did the trick! But I have quite a str...

At a 145 bus speed, my DDR400 is running at 386 Mhz... Rich What's wrong with running your DDR400 at 386MHz? Nothing... I'm happy at 386Mhz. My comment was based on a guess that Palley seemed to have his memory overclocked along with his CPU, so I suggested backing the MEM/FSB ratio down in BIOS pr...

Palled,

Looking very nice!

Regarding your overclocking, did you remember to decrease your memory speed:FSB ratio in the BIOS? My 1.8 runs fine at 145x16 = 2.32 Ghz, but I set the base memory speed to 266Mhz. At a 145 bus speed, my DDR400 is running at 386 Mhz...

Rich

I just added a Nexus 120mm to my Aria Pentium-M rig (see http://www.sheltons.net/aria ). I soldered it in exactly as the original, so the thermal control circuit on the PSU is operational. Interestingly, the fan only runs at 550-700 rpm (vs 1000rpm max), so it's inaudible. When the PSU was totally c...

That is REALLY cool. I just built a Pentium M rig using the AOpen MB and Antec Aria case. It works VERY nicely. I was wonderingg when AOpen would marry their P-M board and their SFF line!

I think a good P4 sink could run passively, as long as you don't push the CPU too far, and you get the heat out of the box. BTW, I am fully set up now with my DVI KVM and Cinema Display -- very cool! I'm running with a 4:3 memory ratio at 2.32 Ghz (145x16). My only remaining frustration is this: Wit...

Looks like Ralf is about to have some fun!

Well, my 1.8 Dothan has been stable in Prime95 for 2.5 hours at 145x16 = 2.32Ghz. My RAM is running at 1.45*266=386Mhz, so I can't push it much more, and the multiplier is flaky at 17. My 1M SuperPi calc time is 37-38sec -- not too bad for a 1.8 laptop CPU at 20W! I'll run some UT2004 tests tomorrow...

In those shots at 178x15, he has a Vcore approaching 1.5V. It appears that he did a mod to the board enabling him to go above 1.34V. Not sure what it was, because the threads discussing it are in Japanese. It's worth noting that the DFI board may have overvolting built in.... Meanwhile, it seems I h...

I'm still using VGA, and you may be right! The driver has been corrupted twice, and when I run Prime95 in a stable O/C mode, the video crashes as soon as I try to reboot. It definitely seems that it is OK on Prime 95, but not VGA I/O... I think something in the video system is unhappy with O/C. My N...

Well, my first overclocking results. I got my 1.8 Dothan fairly stable at 17x133 or 2.4 Ghz (and 40C with the OEM cooler!). At 140Mhz FSB, I had a corrupted driver crash! The following was stable for 15 minutes in Prime95, then had a rounding error. Going to back off a bit more. I kept my DDR400 run...

Well the odd thing is that I did use a slipstreamed version of SP2, but it didn't have the Promise SATA driver in the package ("cannot find a suitable installation device...."). I also thought I had added all of these drivers seprately to my slipstream disc. Oh well... Anyway, back to the constructi...

One more installation note... If you use a SATA drive and WinXP, you need to press F6 and add the SATA drivers via the included AOpen floppy disc. That's great, except the Aria case has no provision for a floppy drive, nor a power connector for a floppy. I ended up fusing the Aria to my basement ser...

It's worth noting that my photos make the airflow look much worse than it really is. in actuality, there is very good airflow from the front of the case, over the RAM and Northbridge, over the CPU fan, and out the PSU. In parallel, the 6800 OC + NV5 will exhaust graphis heat out the back slots.... R...

Due to popular demand, I threw together a few pics of the Aopen/Aria combo. I'll do a better photography job, with more perspective, once I get it at or near final condition. The Aria case is quite crowded and small, and it's tough to route the PSU cables without some congestion. I should have a lot...