These machines have been shipping for a while and I'm hopeful one of you has one!

i might be getting one in a couple of weeks, if so will report on noise, features, etc.

a silent PSU with 5-year warranty for only $40 (£20)!!! you USians get the most unbelievable deals!

Comparing apples & oranges? hmm... Shuttle X27: Intel Atom processor, gigabit Ethernet, DVI video output, a 2.5-inch hard drive bay Eee box: Intel Atom processor, gigabit Ethernet, DVI video output, a 2.5-inch hard drive bay more like comparing an apple with another apple from the very same tree. I...

pricing will be key. competition is basically the Eee box. 38W not that good, Eee box is about 20W at load.

read the friendly sticky: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30289 It turns out that high efficiency power supplies -- such as those that meet 80 Plus standards but also many others that don't -- typically need a higher minimum load on the 12V line(s) than older or less efficient p...

VIA has been making a fantastic tiny CPU product for years now.

'fantastic' is not the adjective i would choose. "overpriced" and "slow" spring to mind energetically. what exactly are you using your 533Mhz Eden for? file serving?

The bigger one pulls an EXACT 102CFM at EXACTLY 39Dba

since I doubt you have access to an AMCA 210 chamber, these are the manufacturer' specs, yes?

a Core 2 will use at least 10W more power than a 45W X2 when idle.

source/ref? unlikely as E4500 etc only use ~8W at idle.

have a look at posts by Felger Carbon in the User Review forum. he has rigorously compared the magnetic fans (Enermax Marathon etc) with the current favourite Scythe Slipstream, the Slipstream wins (and not by a small margin).

you do not need 400W. well that's what the psu calculator says. With a capacitor aging of 30%... Two hard drives. I can hardly believe that my system draw only 200W... :P capacitor ageing is a bogus concern. any quality PSU (seasonic/corsair) has caps which continue to perform at a high level as lo...

Anything that claims it is over 100% efficient is a lie. That kind of BS is perpetual motion machine make-believe sea2stars just expressed himself in a confusing way. heat pumps are over 100% efficient in the sense that for a given input X of work, they can move 4X of heat (for example). to avoid t...

you do not need 400W. your current components draw 200W maximum. I would recommend Corsair VX450. if you will upgrade graphics, maybe Corsair HX520W. this is quiet up til 300W, even if your next graphics draws 2x more power than 8800GT, still less than 300W.

All countries with high standards of living have greatly reduced birthrates there is still some debate as to whether this is a chicken-and-egg situation, ie did the reduced birthrates cause the prosperity or vice versa? it's certainly true that most developed countries have birthrates that are belo...

We could implement such programs right here...... mandatory abortion mandatory abortion? are you kidding?! where do you think we live, Khmer Rouge-era Cambodia??? you might want to ask yourself why the idea of inviolable human rights is so abhorrent to you. Yes, I do agree that population growth re...

QuietOC, everyone knows AMD are still competitive in the budget segment; so what exactly are you trying to prove? yes, AMD's chips are slightly faster at stock, but Intel's chips overclock better; purely on a value proposition, AMD still wins at the low-end. Besides, at this end of the market, who c...

so ATI magically came up with a solution to electromigration and interconnect degradation due to high temperatures? amazing, why doesn't everyone else in the industry use it? you cling to that hard drive study like a sailor clinging to a bit of flotsam, you bang on about the "facts" but choose only ...

I guess I was really trying to ascertain what drawbacks having a needlessly overpowered psu would bring. there aren't really any, apart from the extra noise (the fan in a 1000W unit will be a higher-speed model to deal with the huge amount of heat at full load; that's rarely good for silence). IMO,...

Does an intel board + celeron consume less power than a nvidia board + sempron? no is my guess. in theory TDP of Celeron 4X0 is lower, but intel chipsets tend to be power-hungry, so it evens out. when we're talking about idle below 50W, you get diminishing returns, so in any case it's only a handfu...

The question is, if one invested in such a formidable (but expensive!) PSU, for how long would this investment last? personally, i find the "investment" argument much more persuasive when the warranty is 5 years, not 3 years like on the ZM850HP (because you are amortising the cost over a longer tim...

you don't need anywhere near an 850W PSU. your maximum draw is ~200W, at that DC output Corsair VX450W is still at lowest noise level.

it really shouldn't be mounted horizontally as I need, since much faster wear. the durability problems of horizontal sleeve bearing fans are not as bad as people think. given the relatively short (<5 years) lifetime between upgrades of most systems, sleeve fans provide perfectly acceptable lifetime...

Can I go lower than 110W with this setup?: MB: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R CPU: Core 2 Duo, E8200 RAM: 2x1GB STORAGE: WD Scorpio WD1200BEVS 2.5" FAN: 1x120mm ~ 800rpm yes, probably. your idle wattage should be <50W, maybe a lot less. I know that there are 80W AC-DC's -are they too low wattage for my setu...

Nuclear power is: 1 clean, producing ZERO "greenhouse" emissions 2 Can provide 100% of our power needs 3 Can provide power 100% of the time, not just when we are using AC 4 Nuclear plants can be built anywhere 1. not true. the production of the huge amounts of concrete required for the reactor and ...

surprised no-one mentioned the Sennheiser CX500. noise isolation is very good, they are small, comfortable and you don't have to jam them all the way down your ear canal to get good isolation and sound.

they're probably not using propane because the bottle would take up too much internal space; the Typ-1e is not exactly cavernous in its internal dimensions. What about winter? An all electric vehicle? How does one purpose to stay warm? Have you noticed how much power is required for an electric spac...

http://www.physorg.com/news136815757.html Hitachi, Ltd. announced today that it has demonstrated the technical feasibility of magnetic recording at 610 Gbit/in2. This considerably exceeds the previously demonstrated capabilities of current perpendicular recording technology found in mass-production ...

you know, I had a bizarre idea where you could store energy from an intermittent source by lifting up big rocks on a conveyor belt, and then using the "down" conveyor belt to turn a generator etc. of course it's a bit hard to find thousands of big rocks that are uniform in size and weight, but still...

Kobayashi Maru? What's that? Wasn't Kobayashi name of the Japanese commander of the Iwo Jima garrison?

It's a Star Trek reference. I don't get the name of this fan tho; "The Windy Ship"?

And yeah, I'd put filters underneath. With 2cm clearance however, I'm not sure if there would be turbulence

you're gonna filter it and have only 2cm clearance? the PSU is going to struggle to "breathe", IMO. too much restriction.

yes, I realise that last comment may have seemed hypocritical, however all I meant to show by that was that each side has accusations that they can level at each other until the cows come home, to no obvious or productive end. I can't exactly forbid people from bringing up politics, but rarely does ...