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- Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:02 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: low cost quiet PSU
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6370
Re: low cost quiet PSU
well, I said low-cost in a way that I don't need top-performance top-quality PSU that cost more then 100 euro, but price range of 40 to 60 euro is OK for me. current locale is Vienna, so SS-350ET-F3 could be found: http://geizhals.at/539915 BQT E7-400W is not so widely available, and a little bit mo...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:18 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: low cost quiet PSU
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6370
low cost quiet PSU
hello. I'm planning to make a low-budget HTPC. as I already sad in other topic, it should be quiet, but it doesn't have to be completely silent. so, I guess any PSU with 300W or more would be enough. culrently, options are something like: Antec EarthWatts EA-380D Green 380W ~ 42 euro PC Power & Cool...
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:35 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: low-budget HTPC
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11572
Re: low-budget HTPC
thx, matt! a lot of info! considering software-based decode and looking on Intel's current low-end line-up, we can see: Celeron 530 : 2.4GHz, 2 cores, no-HT, no-Turbo, 2MB L2 cache, ESS http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron_Dual-Core/Intel-Celeron%20Dual-Core%20G530.html Pentium 620 would bring 2.6G...
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:06 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: low-budget HTPC
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11572
Re: low-budget HTPC
so, if I don't need anything more then just plain HTPC with some low-performance storage in it, I'm good with G530 and even H61 board.
should I take care of sound card type/connectors if I'll use low (or maaaaaaybe mid) range sound system, or that is good on all these boards?
should I take care of sound card type/connectors if I'll use low (or maaaaaaybe mid) range sound system, or that is good on all these boards?
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:17 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: low-budget HTPC
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11572
Re: low-budget HTPC
I don't need something too powerfull, but if the expense is small, why not?
what would be more powerfull with small price difference?
what would be more powerfull with small price difference?
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:53 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: low-budget HTPC
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11572
low-budget HTPC
hello. I'm considering some low-budget HTPC. it will be used as HD/SD media player and storage. it should be quiet, but it doesn't have to be silent. if I choose to power it by: (1) Celeron G530 & some H67 / Z68 board or maybe (2) A4-3300 & some A55 / A75 board would it be enough CPU power for CPU-b...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:28 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F2 reliability :(
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3208
Re: Samsung F2 reliability :(
very interesting reading.
thx a lot!
thx a lot!
- Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:34 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung 3.5: number of platters and heads?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2277
Re: Samsung 3.5: number of platters and heads?
just keep away from Samsung
- Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:25 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F2 reliability :(
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3208
Samsung F2 reliability :(
Just wanted to infrom everybody to keep away from Samsung F2 . This advice is based on my personal experiance. All other experiances with Samsung F2 are welcome. I have 32 of them in 3 different boxes on (different hardware, different locations etc.) and reliability statistics are very very bad: - 5...
- Sun May 23, 2010 8:47 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 469300
4. The desktop WD drives should not be used in any other RAID configs other than 0 and 1 (read: not 0 + 1, only to be used in RAID 0 or RAID 1) as they have the crucial TLER feature disabled. TLER is apparently required for RAID configs to function properly. Given the potentially massive amounts of...
- Thu May 20, 2010 1:28 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: GIGABYTE 9800GT Silent Cell - anybody using this card?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 17683
- Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:08 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Is there a problem with head parks on WD Green HDDs?
- Replies: 296
- Views: 469300
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:03 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Was 3.7TB - then 2.7TB, now 19.1TB "quiet" server
- Replies: 121
- Views: 112239
Seems like it :) http://bilder.wibla.net/albums/pcstuff/DSC_8216pp.sized.jpg Tagan PSU that was in this box for 2 years, damn nasty... my Corasir HX620W worked for 2 and a half years and had almost no dust at all. to achive that, I just used some custom (home) made air filters in front of fans and ...
- Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:06 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: my not-so-loud file server
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11618
I'm using couple of arrays made by linux software raid1 and raid5. raid arrays are non-uniform and they cover about 60% of disk space. everything else is not protected by redundancy. cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md4 : active raid5 sdf1[0] sdo2[9] sdn2[8] ...
- Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:10 am
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: my not-so-loud file server
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11618
I've done a small upgrade: - mobo is Asus P5Q Premium - 2 x Digitus PCI-E x4 SATA controllers - Chieftec BA - 16 x Samsung F2 1.5TB http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/8173/photo048.jpg http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/48/photo050s.jpg http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6052/photo054q.jpg http://im...
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:43 am
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Are 3 pin Fan Y Splitters ever a problem?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14672
I have Asus P5Q Premium with 5 fan headers, but I can control only 3 of them. I want to connect more (2 or 3) fans to every of these 3 controlable headers. fans are Noctuas ranging from 1.1 to 1.44W (factory specification). xbit labs state it's more probable about 1.0 to 1.1W each. so, is there some...
- Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Fairly quiet workstation (P182 ++) - Updated 21.09.08
- Replies: 76
- Views: 90989
- Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:13 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Fairly quiet workstation (P182 ++) - Updated 21.09.08
- Replies: 76
- Views: 90989
- Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:05 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: 1.5 TB Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD154UI Slow Access Times
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16621
seems like they turned around those AAM settings. btw, does anyone have experiance with catastrophically low multithreaded read performance described here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/15-2tb-hdd-roundup_12.html#sect0 xbitlabs guys guessed that it's something about firmware. any ...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:45 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Quiet UPS ?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17585
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:45 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Quiet UPS ?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17585
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:57 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Quiet UPS ?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17585
- Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:18 pm
- Forum: Fans and Control
- Topic: Scythe SFF12G 120mm noise?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5554
- Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:30 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Quiet UPS ?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17585
Quiet UPS ?
I've tested 2 of APC BackUPS 500VA and they were quiet.
I've tested 4 of APC BackUPS 650VA and everyone of them was "squiling/buzzing" while it was 20 - 60% loaded.
I need more then 500VA (300W), so I cannot use fist type.
Is there any suggestion for quiet UPS 650VA - 1000VA ?
I've tested 4 of APC BackUPS 650VA and everyone of them was "squiling/buzzing" while it was 20 - 60% loaded.
I need more then 500VA (300W), so I cannot use fist type.
Is there any suggestion for quiet UPS 650VA - 1000VA ?
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:04 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Thermalright TRUE & HR-01 & others on LGA1156
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5310
Thermalright TRUE & HR-01 & others on LGA1156
will there be some mounting kits available ?
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:38 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5 TB - Have anyone tried it?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 43933
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:37 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 500GB / platter is out!
- Replies: 110
- Views: 95407
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:59 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 500GB / platter is out!
- Replies: 110
- Views: 95407
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 those two are important. it wold be even better to check them after smartctl -t long /dev/sdx (be sure to let the disk finish its' testing) you don't have to reboot in win...
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:25 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 500GB / platter is out!
- Replies: 110
- Views: 95407
- Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:35 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5 TB - Have anyone tried it?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 43933