Since you've already done it...USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
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I'll wait at least one more year since the prices are absurd.

AC S1 rev B doesn't seem to work with most 5770's.

I use Thermalright HR 03 rev A and it works well enough with a 120mm 500rpm fan. Full load temp is 65C.

Samsung F2 1tb and if you don't mind spending a bit extra then also purchase a Scythe Quiet Drive but it needs to be softmounted, preferably on foam.

I agree, as it seems to me that the quiet drive is perfect for 5400-5900 rpm drives (but doesn't work quite as well for 7200rpm plus drives because of added vibration...which often amplifies reads and writes).

I recommend foam to get rid of vibrations..

Between these drives: Samsung F3 Samsung F2 Seagate 5900.12 LP all 1TB the F2 is easily the quietest of them all. And it works very well inside a Scythe Quietdrive unlike the F3 which vibrates too much making the quiet drive actually amplifying the read and writes. Terrible. Soft mounted of course. ...

It probably can but it seems that people want more silent coolers these days.

A thermalright HR03 rev A is not single slot but you should be able have the cooler 'on top' of the graphic card instead of under.

I'll know next week (my 5770 is at RMA atm)

Seagate will likely make a 5900RPM version of it... the platter size is not known yet but I hope for a 2x750GB platter drive.

1. A flat surface
2. Some foam
3. A hot glue gun

I cannot recommend the S1 rev B to 5770. As the core will not have contact with the heatsink surface area, at least not without modding.

As I expected with the way too many transistors for 40nm plus the 384bit memory bus.

Edit; Listen to the cards:
http://hardocp.com/article/2010/03/26/n ... i_review/7

A roundup can be read here:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cooler ... undup.html

I only skimmed it through swiftly and I seems they didn't softmount, but it still can be interesting to many SPCR readers.

Intel H55 Mobo Shootout - Integrated HD Graphics Showdown

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/vi ... =6&id=3119

Power consumption numbers are on page 12

A review is also posted at Legion Hardware. As for availability, Frozen CPU is the only place I've seen it listed and they don't have an ETA. I am very excited for this to finally become available. What do you think are the chances of this cooling an HD5850 passively with decent surrounding airflow...

I'm opting to get the xfx 5770 w/ stock egg cooler and then retrofit with an Accelero L2 Pro ... ATI's built-in over-clocking tool also means that you usually can easily get a noticeable bump in performance simply by using a higher-quality cooler. 1. I'd also like to recommend the S1 rev B. Dremel ...

Lawrence: ... From What I have seen, you can take the DVI cover off and you won't need to modify the S1. Let's see, I either cut off some aluminium fins on a €15 heatsink , and pretty much nothing can go wrong as long as I don't touch the heatpipes or the base with some tool. Or, I remove the cov...

Both Scythe Quiet Drive and Himuru needs to be softmounted.
I use foam under them and make sure they stay in one place with help from a hot glue gun.

As for transcoding of movies, I just can't see that many people doing it. How do you think all those movies being illegally shared are produced? :shock: Aren't most group releases? Anyway.. wonder if the h57 chipset can have as low idle watt usage as Intel's motherboard? That would make a great sec...

I changed motherboard from Biostar to Gigabyte and the idle temps went up about 10-20C. So I don't really think many combos show accurate temps.

In fact it looks rather similar:
http://vr-zone.com/forums/521275/ati-ra ... oming.html

From what I've experienced clock speeds are much more important in 2d than voltage. This with 4850, 4770 and 4830 cards...power draw has been measured from the wall.

If it downclocks to 157/300 then it should save power.

This seems to work as well:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/HDDScan_for_W ... d6321.html

But like winaam it probably doesn't work with Seagate

What does your hdtune look like? Here's mine: http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9995/5900.jpg The only thing that looks odd is the low burst speed. As for that locking, are you sure it doesn't have anything to do with windows power-saving functions? Default in Win7 is for instance to shut it down a...

The one I use in win7 x64 is called Winaam.

If you check the bioses on this page: http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/index.php?page=1&architecture=&manufacturer=&model=HD+5750&interface=&memSize=0 Download them, and open them up in RBE you can see whether they'll downclock or not. I checked a few, and the one's that should be avoided are: Gig...

Haven't noticed that. What is your firmware? Mine has: CC32

My subjective impression on the Himuru and quietdrive is that the latter is better at damping the idle noise but at least with the F2 1tB is not as great in damping the read, write and seek noise. The himuru doesn't tend to vibrate as much (it's stiffer) so it doesn't amplify reads and writes. It is...

"I'm looking for 1 TB of storage; it must be QUIET; performance is not important"

I doubt F3 is as quiet as F2. So..

Samsung F2 1tB. Place it in a softmounted Scythe quiet drive or Scythe Himuru. I prefer the latter in this case since it makes drive read and writes quieter than the quiet drive.

Well, it works well so I cannot complain. There probably is no VGA cooler which is as good as AC S1. Well, there's the the AC Extreme 4870X2 which is one hell of a piece of engineering :lol: Anyway, Prolimatech's first VGA cooler looks truly good, it may be the best fanned cooler ever made. Possibl...