Those write numbers are somewhat scary...

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...

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...

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.

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Chris

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.

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Chris

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...

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...

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Thanks for the additional replies. I'll ponder over everything and let you know what I end up doing!

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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...

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...

That's very nice- thanks for the information.

On a completely unrelated topic, how much power savings would one see at idle/load going from a 805D to a E1200 or E2140 (I think that's it.) I'm having a hard time estimating it...

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Chris

Does the Radeon 2400 XT still have the lowest idel power consumption? I have a x1300 now and would love to save 10 watts at idle.

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Chris

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...

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...

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 ...

austinbike wrote:The 323's are really quiet.

Hm, thanks. I'll have to see if I can find any 4 bay units that are quiet...

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Chris

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=...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Wow - I'm surprised a sound card eats up 14W at idle.

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...

Stupid question: Doesn't Vista use the 3D portion of the chip for it's 'standard' graphics?

Can you use the Apple Keyboard on XP?

What's the biggest heatsink that will fit?

Not an exact comparison but...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 00_13.html

I was surprised to see these results.
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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...

Thanks for the info - that's not bad at all. I have an original Bad Axe and I guess the G0 stepping Q6600s work. I keep debating to go with one of those or wait for the 45nm and do a motherboard update...