The standard dual slot blower on my eVGA 9600GSO is much quieter than the 2 slot axial fan heatpipe heatsink on my MSI 9600GT OC. The former is almost quiet, but GPUs really need CPU-sized heatsinks,120mm fans, and multiple slot ducts.

Let me rephrase my original question again, what is the quietest hard drive that has moving parts and uses magnetic disks and not a laser, and has a form factor of either 2.5" or 3.5". I'd say a single platter 5400rpm 2.5" hard drive should be the quietest. Probably the 250GB Western Digital Scorpi...

I've had a Scythe Ninja for over three years so it doesn't seem big anymore--even in my micro ATX cases. Now that my main system is LGA775, I wish I had kept my original SCNJ-1000 instead of the SCNJ-1100P (rev.B). But I have a Coolink BAT1VS for that system which is actually taller and wider than t...

It took bush 6 years to bring the usa down, and ppl seem to expect obama to fix the economy in 6 weeks or so. wtf? Obama is continuing what was done or not done before. I don't think even he thinks these actions will fix the economy. He has said as much. Politicians can however establish power for ...

SPCR review of the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 & SD964

Sure, I can mount a 92mm 120cfm fan to a lot of smaller heatsinks and outperform larger heatsinks with slower fans. The small Xigmateks do seem very good for their size.

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Please recommend any Intel LGA 775 CPU that can run with the lowest power. Thanks in advance. All the LGA 775 CPUs share a minimum 6x clock multiplier, so the minimum power differences are only due to die and cache differences. I recommend a 45nm Wolfdale--there's no big difference between the E5x0...

I should point out, that unlike all you "evil" rich people, I am well below the poverty line and have never had to pay federal income tax and most years don't have to pay state income tax. But I am all for not giving us "poor" people some remnants of your money after most of it has gone through the ...

I have a $55 X2 5800+ coming.

The whole power supply conventional wisdom is so useless. You can't really both complain about needing to use adapters and also want a modular power supply! I prefer power supplies with fewer and shorter cables. One nice thing about custom barebone systems is they can have just the wires they need a...

aristide1 wrote:Well I e-filed and it's been a whole week.

They have been very slow this year. I guess they need to print the money first.

I e-filed federal and state on 1/24. State came 2/3; Federal not until 2/20.

I like HIS, that it exhasts the heat Sapphire passive I like that it is passive (duh) Sapphire with gdd4, heard it is very quiet Dumping the heat out of the case is the best idea. The best way to do it is put a large CPU heatink on the video card and duct it with a low rpm 120mm fan. That said, I t...

As a qualifier, I have no experience with photoshop or the sort of colour fidelity or image quality you may require. The one thing I would suggest is to make sure you get a digital output if your monitor will support it. Some cheap mobo's with integrated graphics may only have a VGA (analog?) video...

Did you read my original post? No way 4850 is what I need. Im sorry but that is not even close to what I was asking for. And I know about the new gpus but I cant wait (currently dont even have a video card-sold old one about a week ago) The 4830 basically is a 4850, so if you're not considering the...

Some basic specs: Fill Rate (Gpixel/s) 4670 -- 6.0 4830 -- 9.2 Bilinear Texel Filtering (Gtexels/s) 4670 -- 24.0 4830 -- 18.4 Bilinear FP16 Texel Filtering (Gtexels/s) 4670 -- 12.0 4830 -- 9.2 Memory Bandwidth (GB/s) 4670 -- 32.0 4830 -- 57.6 Shader Arithmetic (GFLOPS) 4670 -- 480 4830 -- 736 4830 i...

Well, I'm told that that particular ASUS MB does not have onboard video, so I'll get the 9600GT or one of those that you suggested. If I go with the 9600GT, will I need an additional fan or heatsink for it? Why the 9600GT? I had a $10 Geforce 7300GT which is more than plenty. You won't get anything...

Do you think the built in video of the ASUS board that I have selected is adequate for now? Yeah, any 2D video output is fine for Photoshop. If you're motherboard doesn't have built-in video just get a cheap and/or low wattage card. I'd get a Radeon HD 2400/4350/4550/4650. An nVidia 9500GT wouldn't...

3. Intel i7 Processor (he suggested a mild overclock to 3.2 GHz, but I can't decide. Would the speed increase be significant in actual use? How much extra heat would there be-enough to make my fans substantially noisier? For Photoshop you're best served by the fastest clockspeed + IPC core you can ...

Mohan wrote:What about Hitachi drives? Significantly more noise? Samsung and Seagate for sure...

Probably quietest: WD Green, Samsung EcoGreen, Hitachi 7K1000.B, Samsung F2/F1. The 2-platter 1TB Seagate might be good.

The note reads: "Does not restart when blocked". So it ran at 5V but didn't start (or at least restart). The 92mm version might be nothing like the 120mm version other than the bearing. There's also a 120mm Global Win NCB review here . Not mention a few forum topics about it. Oh, yeah, I see they li...

Maybe because the PCI (and PCIe) standard says that components must be on the other side of the cards. I don't think that's the reason,... So, there happen to be a few passive video cards that violate the standard. I don't think you'll see AMD or nVidia release a reference design that uses that spa...

Anybody got some experience on this issue? I ran a VIA miniITX system for a while off an old 235W PSU with the 80mm fan removed. It worked okay. I currently use a couple of 300W In Wins w/ Global Win NCBs swapped in. Those are very quiet and can power nearly any reasonable system. Also the stock In...

They dont have to change ATX at all. If GPU makers put the componants on the other side of the board (facing up) it would make things much better. I have no idea why they dont already, especially if your cooling passively it would be better. Move the x16 slot down a bit to make sure the big coolers...

nyonya wrote:Also, does anyone know what voltage the 120mm and 92mm Globalwin NCB fans start at?

There's the Madshrimps review of the 120mm. Yes at 7v; no at 5V. I haven't tested the 3 I own.

Semiconductors do increase resistance with temperature so it will increase power consumption, but it might not be a large factor. Actually, the resistivity of semiconductors decreases with increasing temperature. At least according to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistivity. I am talki...

spookmineer wrote:An 80+ gold PSU of 200W will dissipate 230W of heat, not 30W.

No. That would mean no energy was going out of the power supply except heat. A 100% efficient PS produces NO waste heat.

Also, temperature has little to to with the heat released into the case. If you think about it I'm sure you will realize that a better cooler doesn't affect the power consumption (=heat output) of the card. Semiconductors do increase resistance with temperature so it will increase power consumption...

Here's a very favorable review of the WD10EADS: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/green-terabyte-1tb,2078-2.html The 5400rpm WD actually beats the 7200rpm Hitachi in a few tests, and is close enough in the rest. The P7K500 is an older drive, and it is nearly as quiet as the original Green Powers....

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QuietOC wrote: Just a minute how efficient is 80+ Gold?

Gold rating is for 87/90/87% efficiency at 20/50/100% load in their own (unrealistically cool) test methods.

So a 200W 80+ Gold would have only 30W of waste heat at 100% load. It looks like it would hardly even need a fan.

You may only NEED 200w, but if you got a 200w psu your fan would be running at max speed all the time and wouldnt be quiet. Just a minute how efficient is 80+ Gold? Let's say 80% so 200W load is 50W of waste energy--hardly needs much in the way of fan speed. It is not % of rated load that needs fan...