Push-pins are gone for 775, they use the "universal retention kit". See here . About the performance: About as good as the Mugen when fan is used (500 - 1200 upm tested) and top of the list when passive . Have a look at the charts here and here. Conroe 6700 used, Kühlercharts mean cooler charts, VW...

This statement was made in the quite respected german written magazine C't. To proof it, have a look at this test about CPU consumption: ... Maybe I'm missing something. But I thought that the 2400 and 2600 had the on-board decoding processing that the 2900 series didn't. Very obviously the HD2900 ...

For those who experience spin-ups, you might want to check sysinternal's Process Monitor and Disk Monitor.

Using a ICH7DH and a 2,5" SATA Fujitsu disk with/without AHCI, I can use hdparm to spin down in Windows w/o problems.

Btw, review list:
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin ... p?t=390882

Tzupy wrote: But the idle power is so low, that if the fan speed is adjustable, it could be almost silent when idling.

Manual tweaking shouldn't be necessary. Hardtecs4u.de reports temperatures of 80-87 °C at idle and around 1000 rpm. I bet you don't want higher temperatures.

Schlotkins wrote:I wonder how the 3850 compares...

Anandtech measurements are quite extreme (only Pc Games Hardware showed such a HUDGE saving compared to the 8800 GT).
Drawing a conclusion from my two posts here, it should draw some watts more than a HD 2600 pro.

EDIT: link added

Power consumption summarized here.

You mean like the "Standard 2D", "Low power 3D" and "Performance 3D" states nvidia has had for years? :lol: No, something much more cool. The card measured load and adjusts clocks for it. This means in theory several steps and independence from 3D driver detection. (source anandtech ) Power consump...

About HD 3870 and HD 3850 : German magazine C't measured the following card-only watts idle/load: 3870: 31/81 - 3850: 16/51 - 8800 GT: 35/80 - 2900 XT: 58/152 IAX-Tech measured with no GPU and saw +19 W for a HD3850 and +25 W for a HD 3870. Anandtech says 40 - 42 W less on idle and comparable at loa...

Compared to the HD 2600 the HD 2400 does not have MPEG-2 bitstream processing, frequency transform and pixel prediction or it is not activated. I'm pretty sure this is not true. It has the full UVD block as the HD2600 . This statement was made in the quite respected german written magazine C't. To ...

smilingcrow wrote:Who makes a fanless HD 2600 Pro then?
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MSI does and it was tested with 11/27 W. MSI TX2600Pro-T2D256EZ.

In issue 21/07 the german printed magazin C't tested some suspensions: idle noise of the WD5000AAJS dropped from 0.3 sone to 0.2 sone. Access noise with bolts: 1.6 sone, I list the access noise after the product name. With same performance, cheapest comes first: Coolink Disk Silencer: 0.34 sone mCub...

German printed magazine testet HD 2400 and HD 2600 cards in issue 22/07. Products here . Power consumption was very good: idle / 3DMark 06, in Watt HD 2400 pro: 10-12/16 W HD 2400 XT: 11-13/21 W HD 2600 pro: 11/26 W (HIS stands out with 16/29 W) HD 2600 XT (DDR3): 19-23/36-50 W (Sapphire Ultimate is...

It supports decoding of all the codecs that Blu-ray and HD-DVD use and is better than the Nvidia solutions in this area. Compared to the HD 2600 the HD 2400 does not have MPEG-2 bitstream processing, frequency transform and pixel prediction or it is not activated. Also, deinterlacing is not as good...

Recent issue (22/07) of the german printed magazine c't tested the following P35 mainboards: Asus P5K: relatively slow LAN, no AHCI Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R: EIST defective Intel DP35DP: flow BIOS post (25 s), no overclocking MSI P35 Neo2-FIR: automatic fan control down to 50 %, no automatic case fan c...

_MarcoM_ wrote:ATI Powerplay... uhm, interesting

Very interesting. I hope this is the beginning for some serious power savings during idle. We waited a long time for this.

Sorry, I didn't read your first post in the thread. Regarding the performance of the HD 2400, we have a saying in Germany: "Among blind people, the one-eyed is king."

smilingcrow wrote: The idle power consumption of the entry level DX10 cards has been disappointing so it would be good to see this proved a non issue.

What is so disappointing about the HD 2400?

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Hdparm is available for Windows, too.

viewtopic.php?t=37678&highlight=hdparm

Just stopping by: from: http://www.bboard.de/board/ftopic-84104086nx10681-6-30.html "Die neue Version (0.2.4) unterstützt ATA- und -IDE-PASS_THROUGH. Mit dem XP Standard Treiber dürfte das Problem dann behoben sein! " translation: New version 0.2.4 supports ATA- und IDE-PASS_THROUGH. Using the sta...

Do you have any idea how long it might take them to include AMD procs in linux-phc? Well, it's basically ready and needs testing. It's not in SVN yet because they are changing the website. The homepage also says it: "There is a Patch for AMD "k8" processors available, but yet not well tested. Volun...

I can conform that linux-phc is working for a Core 2 Duo. My BIOS is probably buggy, so I had to change the source a tiny bit. If you get a "not such device" error, just ask me. About AMD support: I asked the developer and they are on it. At the moment, they move to a new server. Howto: Download the...

Well half of the way has already been done: http://www.meisterkuehler.de/forum/energie-stromspar-pc-systeme/13558-kleiner-schicker-noiseless-pc-mit-heatpipe-kuehlung-und-verstecktem-mega-kuehlkoerper.html 14,5 W in idle with hdd stopped (he's using a CF RAID now). Load 25 W with a CoreDuo U2500 ULV....

Have a look, third figure. This is fanless with very slow PSU and case fans. The IFX-14 wins

http://www.silenthardware.de/reviews/cp ... index.html

Some more specs: I got a Gigabyte GA-8I945GMMFY (945GM) and a Viewsonic VP930. Also works under Linux.

Vendor ID: Silicon Image
Device ID: 170
Device Revision: 2
Major Version: 1
Minor Version: 0

One of the fastest I know of is the Firestix-R by Buffalo. Some simple tests by me here.

ZMAJ wrote: -Fujitsu 120gb

The MAIN is silence (in idle... motor sound).

I own a 120 GB Fujitsu MHV2120BH and wouldn't recommend it. It's louder than a Barracuda ATA IV and there must be more silent drives. I put it in a Scythe Silent Drive 2,5" and it's perfect now

I've got one for my Gigabyte 945GM board. Dont't have the manufacturer at hand. I only use them for 1280x1024. Wikipedia says, they are interoperable. Btw, it's 15 EUR incl. tax plus shipping here in Germany. And it adds ~1 W to the setup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDVO and from wikipedia: http:/...

Did you consider athcool?