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- Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:54 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: OCZ Core series -- Affordable, high-performance SSDs
- Replies: 128
- Views: 71822
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:11 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: hard drives via fedex/ups OK?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4202
Thanks for all of the replies. I received all of the boxes from Fedex. (I sent one USPS in case of a "cast away" problem.) I should get my PC from the movers today so I'm keeping my figures crossed. I did ship myself blu-rays of the data as well so I *should* be covered... I hope. :) I'll let you kn...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:06 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: hard drives via fedex/ups OK?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4202
Well, I do have cloned drives (RAID1) and I backed everything up to BD-REs. The movers are long gone so I can't do that now. I guess I'll send the BD-REs and one drive to myself via FedEx and take one with me on the plane. I assume nothing at the security checkpoint will wipe out my data. Thanks, Ch...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:13 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: hard drives via fedex/ups OK?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4202
hard drives via fedex/ups OK?
I'm moving across the country and decided to send my hard drives to myself rather than let them rattle around in a moving truck for a week. Is safe to send this via Fedex or UPS? I assume they don't take magnets to them or anything.
Thanks,
Chris
Thanks,
Chris
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:06 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Where to buy a GIGABYTE GA-G33M-S2H?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1853
Where to buy a GIGABYTE GA-G33M-S2H?
Does anyone know if these are in stock anywhere? I'm looking for a G33 board with HDMI if possible. if not, DVI w/ HDCP will have to do I guess.
Thanks,
Chris
Thanks,
Chris
- Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:02 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: E8400(E3110) vs Q9300 vs Q9450 Power Consumption, Temps, etc
- Replies: 27
- Views: 35878
ST- Thanks for posting these numbers. I'm in the process of choicing either the Q9300 or the Q9450. I'm doing a lot of modeling in Excel 2007 now and it appears the cache does make a difference as the Q6600 is faster than the Q9300 even with the higher clock and FSB. http://www.legitreviews.com/arti...
- Tue May 27, 2008 12:26 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Atom scores vs Celeron vs C2D posted
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10326
Here's some information from Tom's:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/int ... ,1938.html
It looks like a savings of about 19w but a pretty large performance hit. Not sure why they put a Raptor drive on a power conscience CPU...
Chris
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/int ... ,1938.html
It looks like a savings of about 19w but a pretty large performance hit. Not sure why they put a Raptor drive on a power conscience CPU...
Chris
- Tue May 27, 2008 6:44 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
- Mon May 19, 2008 6:04 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm going to sit tight for a couple of weeks and see what happens with the Atom. It seems like it is shipping now. One last question for now: I just got 2 750gig Samsung F1 drives to run in a RAID1. I can add a 1TB WD GP drive to make a 1.5 usable TB RAID5 setup corr...
- Sun May 18, 2008 9:01 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: VGA card power dissipation
- Replies: 136
- Views: 351573
Thanks for the reply. My guess is most of the 2400XT cards are just 'reference' boards and that the "best" memory in terms of power consumption on the 2400 is GDDR3. (The review @ xbit mentions GDDR4 in the title but my guess is that's only for the 2600.) http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/displ...
- Sun May 18, 2008 8:38 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
- Sun May 18, 2008 7:08 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: VGA card power dissipation
- Replies: 136
- Views: 351573
- Sun May 18, 2008 5:37 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
Everyone - Thanks for the replies once again! How much power would a RAID controller card take? I see the system takes about 40W total under load, but that is probably a bit high because that was the Celeron 215 and not a 220. The AN-M2 option is interesting. Can I take one of the AMD e parts and ha...
- Fri May 16, 2008 12:22 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
First thanks to everyone for the replies. I did some more digging and here's what I've found. 1) The "best" NAS I can find that seems to give some fan flexibility, does the things I want it to (hold 4 drives, can be a media server for my PS3, etc) is probably the Synology CS407. It also is one of th...
- Thu May 15, 2008 12:19 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
These are my thoughts as well. I don't need all the functionality of the NAS boxes out there. I have a case to use, power supply, RAM and everything else. I just need a motherboard/processor combination that I can get down to a low wattage level. My question is what undervolted gets me to around 35 ...
- Wed May 14, 2008 5:36 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
- Wed May 14, 2008 5:06 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
Why not get a NAS? I use DLink DNS-323's and they work great. Totally silent, small, cool, bulletproof. http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=509 I have seen them at Fry's for $139 USD recently. They have a new model coming out with 4 drive bays: http://www.dlink.com.au/Products.aspx?Sec=1&Sub1=...
- Wed May 14, 2008 1:00 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
Thanks for the reply. My goal would be to keep the total system power under 60W under 'load.' Mind you, load here wouldn't be prime 95 or something like that. I do have an 80+ power supply already, although I could go with your solution if that helps a lot. For my drives, I'm probably going to start...
- Wed May 14, 2008 9:58 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: lowest power setup for NAS like computer
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16376
lowest power setup for NAS like computer
OK, after looking around at NAS boxes, I think I can probably put together one that works for me that ends up using less power and makes less noise. The box will do the following only: 1) Hold no more than 4 7200 rpm 3.5" drives (RAID 5 please) and share them over a network 2) Share a printer 3) Be ...
- Wed May 14, 2008 5:11 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Anyone try the Netgear ReadyNAS Duo?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1816
Anyone try the Netgear ReadyNAS Duo?
I'm in the market for a NAS device that does RAID 1 and as a bonus would USB print share my LaserJet 1000. However, I'd also like it to be quiet and I'm not having a lot of luck. The Duo is getting very good reviews, but that fan on the back does not look quiet. Anyone use this? Any suggestions for ...
- Thu May 08, 2008 11:40 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: network 2.5" drive?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1031
network 2.5" drive?
OK, so I have a desktop machine here that does 3 things: TV tuner, shared network drive and shared printer. it's making a lot of noise and is sucking down 160 watts... Yikes. Rather than upgrade it, since my laptop is good enough for now, I am thinking about just shutting it down. 1 and 3 are easy t...
- Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:24 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: How much power does your system draw at idle (Poll)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 60224
Manufacture of the new components has a high environmental cost too. Not to mention the environmental cost of the old components perhaps ending up as scrap. This is a huge and very valid issue that's often ignored or not clearly understood by those who would replace a 60W gizmo with a 50W one... or...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:42 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: How good is the intergrated sound on todays MB's?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11442
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:22 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: PCI Wireless card that supports wake up on lan?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2372
PCI Wireless card that supports wake up on lan?
the title says it all. I have a machine that is the file/print server. It probably needs to be on able 2 hours of the day, but I had to go wireless a couple months ago. Now, it's idling all day long and I'd like to put it back to wake-up on lan. However, I heard this is a problem with wireless cards...
- Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:33 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: X-bit labs reviews the 9600GT
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15201
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:14 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Recommend a Silent Mouse and Keyboard?
- Replies: 481
- Views: 845549
- Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:46 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: Silverstone SG03
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7795
- Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:19 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Idle power consumption - E8400 vs Q9450?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8756
Not an exact comparison but...
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 00_13.html
I was surprised to see these results.
Chris
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 00_13.html
I was surprised to see these results.
Chris
- Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:16 am
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: need reliable motherboard with ECC support
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9748
I guess this may be slightly off topic at this point, but has anyone put together a board with the FB-DIMMs? I remember seeing a review that compared the Xeon/FB-DIMM solution with the Core2Duo solution but I can't find it anywhere. I guess my question is what does FB-DIMM do on the error correction...
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:01 pm
- Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
- Topic: Motherboard recommendation for new 45nm Intel CPUs
- Replies: 28
- Views: 20894