Sure, it's pretty big. Actually had a G5 once myself, great machine. I must say the E6750 runs pretty cool (for an old 65nm chip). I only have the 20cm top fan connected in low mode too. My old E1200 was much hotter. I wish my G5 didn't have an X800 in it. I'd be able to use it with something else....

Wilhelm-Tell wrote:No I didn't. Back then I had the Celeron E1200, now replaced by a second hand E6750 (for less than a new E5500)


http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/2522/dsc0466q.jpg

Ahh, ok.

That thing looks like it's been stolen out of my G5!

Wilhelm-Tell wrote:

danimal wrote:prime95 at 55 degrees at 2ghz, with no fan on the cpu, sounds very functional to me.

I think so too, but I will replace it with a E5300, 45nm, should run cooler and faster, at a fair price aswell.

I really hope you didn't do that, the E5300 is slower and no cooler than an E6750..

When I say standby I'm referring to the PSU, not the PC. You cannot completely turn an ATX supply off short of physically disconnecting the supply. Try disabling that EuP 2013 thing. It may well increase power consumption enough to increase the power factor and reduce the apparent power. Yes, I know...

Sounds like a pointless exercise in discovering a low power factor on standby to me.

Perhaps your new PSU has a low power factor in standby.

Are you sure your meter isn't displaying apparent power?

Ok, so they can put a long cable tie and an HSS bit in the box.. There's no reasonable way to stiffen the card itself due to the lack of a standard pattern. And yes, you are building something. You're building a system out of a multitude of mixed parts, it's not a standard assembly and as such is no...

Monkeh16: Perhaps, but truthfully, things like that should not be necessary. How else would you suggest supporting cards in an ATX case when using entirely non-standard heatsinks? Such modifications are a necessary part of building your own PC. Would you complain about needing to cut timber to size...

I agree that the weight/length is still cumbersome, and perhaps in a tower style case, could prove bad for the card in the long term. I'm all for some kind of mechanical support to prevent the sag at the back end of the card. My guess is that until this gets written into the PCIe spec (probably unl...

You can certainly halt the drives, but if you expect any Windows based OS to allow you to do it in a sane matter, you're out of luck. There are ways of getting drives to spin down . Just not very convenient. I assume you'd leave a drive connected to a computer because you access it semi-frequently,...

I have a question: does this Box turn on and off with the pc ? No, how would it? I don't really know, perhaps through the s-ata protocol. I mean, besides the power switch, if the unit can "soft switch" off and turn off the drives. There's another product that claims to be able to operate in that wa...

GioF_71 wrote:I have a question: does this Box turn on and off with the pc?

No, how would it?

There's nothing wrong with the contrast on this theme..

On another note: Can we lose the listing of bots as active users?

[quote="MikeC"][quote="Mr. Perfect"]Oh, and why is it only Mike's phpBB tags work? :([/quote] And a few others'.... dunno , mystery... looking in to that right now.[/quote] As I said before, looks like a permissions issue. I've only seen BBCode working in this section for admins and mods. In other s...

[quote="Ninjackn"]A multiport external eSATA enclosure such as the icydock seems like overkill when a single harddrive dock can be had from ~20-40 USD. Plus the individual drives are easier to store in something like a fireproof safe. Is there some benefit i'm not aware of when using the much more e...

[quote="Taxcheat"]If you can assemble a PC from scratch, I don't see why it's any harder to go with a unix distro than Windows home server, as long as the hardware is compatible.[/quote]
It's not, it's just that some people don't know how to use a non-Windows OS.

[quote="andymcca"][quote="Monkeh16"]It's a mystery to me, because that makes no sense whatsoever. ECC does not make things compress better! Data is data, ECC doesn't change that.[/quote] I think his point was that bit errors are much more noticeable in information-dense (compressed) formats. A singl...

[quote="KayDat"][quote="Monkeh16"]Having a selection of styles isn't going to increase server load.[/quote] No, but it's generally a bad idea to take down a service when lots of people are using it, if something goes wrong.[/quote] It's also a bad idea to make a transition to new forum software usin...

Having a selection of styles isn't going to increase server load.

[quote="colm"]a good point about ecc. I am just regular user with photos, and video... As the routine goes, ecc is nothing to notice at first... but then the same vids in experimenting in compression get WAY smaller for the same compression routine. It is no mystery to me.. there is a pile of crap w...

I'll dig out my box of 8P8Cs and my camera tomorrow and see if I can get a decent picure of the difference between solid and stranded connectors.

Yes, can we please get the old style theme back? phpBB3's default theme is offensive and really awkward to use.

Oh dear. It seems to have totally gone over my head that the testing was done on an Intel board! Now I have another question however. What is the point/benefit of the adapter over the hardware supplied with the heatsink? The adapter will allow you to rotate the heatsink (not really that important w...

doveman wrote:Sorry, I didn't state but I actually want something for securing it to an AMD board.

Then the adapter you linked to is appropriate. AMD boards do not use pushpins however. The heatsink comes with hardware to fix it to the standard AMD bracket.

As is fairly clearly stated, that adapter is for bolting down to AMD boards.

This is the bolt down adapter for LGA775/1156/1366 sockets: http://www.xigmatek.com/product.php?productid=93

They should be easily available.

Or, alternatively, they're using a large hardware RAID array which makes an SSD a pointless expense. ;) Afaik you would need something like a 6+ disk RAID1 array to match the random access times of a good SSD. Talk about a pointless expense :D The SSD is probably the less expensive option if all yo...

dhanson865 wrote:When I have a >2TB SSD I'll worry about booting from a >2TB drive.

Seriously anyone that makes a storage drive their boot drive right now isn't paying attention.

Or, alternatively, they're using a large hardware RAID array which makes an SSD a pointless expense.

(Also I worry about the heat of a heat gun on the soft material of most SATA ribbons. Anyone have any insights on this?) If you're fast it's fine. It's like soldering something with plastic inserts, be quick . I know I'm getting off topic here, but what would one solder with "plastic inserts" ? Any...