i hope it's not against the rules to advertise in these side forums, but i've posted an ad in the classifieds for anyone interested. $13 per fan unfortunately an accountant urged me to increase the price, lest i get a nasty surprise come tax season.

Wrong. You didn't complain about there's no 2.26 GHz PM either (Intel fanboy?), for now . AFAIK, TDP is based on he fastest planned CPU, in this case the MT-40 running at 2.2 GHz. See my first post. woah now! remember to keep it friendly around here :) though i can see how people's moods get riled ...

AMD's TDP figures have always been a MAX for that whole range of CPUs using that codename in their roadmap. yes, however amd did a strange move and specified a separate tdp for the e-stepping 252 opteron (92 watts or so) and a lower tdp for the 250 and under e-stepping opterons (85 watts). this bro...

....... yes!

is extruded aluminum really that expensive? i know the common die sizes aren't big enough so you might have to go with a few 7" lengths joined together, but aluminum is sitting at around 90 cents per pound and an apple/dell could probably negotiate an 8 pound case-size sink for $15 or so. right? cer...

ah excellent i was searching for specs, but hit a google-jam. 2. You'll also need to think about how different HDs, even if they match the common specs, make contact with the heatskink. Most are not terribly flat on the side. not much i can do about those circumstances, except a disclaimer ("make su...

well over on xtremesystems drcrawn says his 252 opteron (e-stepping) runs much cooler than his 130nm fx-53. according to amd's tdp ratings, the 252 should be putting out more power (92 watts for 252 versus 89? watts for fx-53). as the fx-53 is a 130nm chip and is most likely chewing up 80 watts or s...

:) quoth compusa: "Note: Hard Drive not included." well i figured someone would beat me to it, i'd been flirting with a custom aluminum extrusion die for an all-in-one suspended-heatsinked-harddrive kit (2x heatsinks + 1x stretch magic, possibly a model that allows 2 hard drives to be suspended usin...

well for one thing if the entire side of the case is the heatsink, it's going to weigh a fair bit meaning the vibrations will either be extremely low frequency (right?) or non-existant. also, that side of the case could be isolated from the rest of the case by a rubber lining or attachment mechanism...

this might be the thread you're after.

i agree that anand blew it (well, they can do whatever they want in their reviews, but by having the first look at an e-stepping chip they could have gotten a lot more pageviews with some more interesting tests). one chap over at xtremesystems has a 252 arriving today , maybe he'll give us some inte...

might want to edit that last link to go to vapomicro3.jpg

the e-stepping opterons have higher tdp's because there will eventually be e-stepping opterons released that use that much power Ok, so in this case, how do you explain what I just wrote: <2.4 GHz: 85.3 W 2.6: 92.6 W Why should 85.3 W be a reservation for future faster CPU's when there's already a ...

yep, the chipsets draw very different power levels. i wouldn't be surprised if the a64's chipset was drawing 15 watts compared to 2 or 3 for the pentium-m's chipset, or an even bigger difference than that! i still think that the difference in memory speed (hypothetically, 100mhz at 2.5 volts compare...

the 3000+ 90nm d-stepping (winchester) athlon64 cpu at 1.8ghz and 1.4 volts will draw, at its absolute maximum, between 30 and 35 watts. that is what every accurate experiment i have seen has told us. the e-stepping is arriving soon, and amd is trying to phase all its lines over to it to make produc...

the e-stepping opterons have higher tdp's because there will eventually be e-stepping opterons released that use that much power :) that doesn't mean the current e-stepping chips released will use that much. in fact, given how little power the e-stepping turion chips consume i would think that you'd...

What would the result have been had you used an actual socket 939 90nm 3000+ 1.8Ghz cpu rather than the 3500+ clocked down to 1800Mhz? it would have been the same, plus or minus say 2% (due to 'hot' transistors possibly used in the 3500+ due to speed binning). more likely it'd be exactly the same. ...

cpupower is accurate in the sense that it does the best it can with the figures you give it. if you give it incorrect values (say, use the tdp instead of actual observed values) it'll give you incorrect values back. amd doesn't tell us how much power their cpus actually draw. they give us a tdp, yes...

all the power figures they quote at gamepc come from the watt-meter readings - so the idle values include all power used by the cpu, motherboard, memory, drives, vga card, etc. they didn't do any multimeter-based testing of individual components. the 90nm a64 chips use far less power than the tdp st...

oh for sure, this isn't something i'd market to modders as they'd rather do it themselves. i just think that if it performs well enough, many people would be interested enough to try suspension and lazy enough to get a cheap kit from a single vendor. interesting point about the cm/inch values! i'm o...

tom is actually pretty close there - from memory all multimeter or kill-a-watt calculations give 30-35 watts for the 90nm a64 chips. the reason for the high tdp value is to give the line of cpus headroom to expand into as faster ones are released - the 67 watt figure doesn't mean that any 90nm chips...

i've been toying with the idea of having a local extrusion shop mill up some hard drive heatsinks for resale (it'd be a minimalist kit - 2 sinks for either side plus a metre or so of 1mm stretch magic). depending on whether they can perform the cutting/notching/drilling or not, here's how i'd like i...

hm this is a quick copy/paste from the fees screen: Personal Account Premier/Business Account Open an Account Free Free Send Money Free Free Withdraw Funds Free (US accounts) Free (US accounts) Add Funds Free Free Receive Funds Free 1.9% + $0.30 USD to 2.9% + $0.30 USD i'm not going with a premier/b...

the price is another sticking point :( though i'd like to, i can't realistically charge less than $12, because they came through a reseller instead of straight from taiwan. if i got them from taiwan (friendly people at glacialtech-tw too) i could charge $8 or so, however their minimum order quantiti...

i was in touch with sapphire by email, and they said their upcoming a56 board (ati chipset, socket 939, matx) would not allow any overclocking as it will lack a clock generator capable of more than 200mhz (!) for the ht reference. the full-atx board will most likely allow overclocking, which is frus...

took a bit of a chance i know ;) but i ordered 100 of these 120mm ball-bearing fans on a hunch, and it seems to have paid off. they're very impressive imho - rebadged/resistor-aided everflow r121225bl fans, 9-bladed, 950 rpm, of the black variety spec'ed here . the only other 120mm fan i have is a b...

not sure if many here keep up with overclocking news, but here's a chap who got his hands on an e-stepping a64, rated as a 4200+, and took it through some paces. 2.6 ghz stable at 1.264 volts? not bad at all. the chip was also ran in a previous forum post (the original e-stepping leak reported over ...

you can set the ram timing from within windows (regardless of your motherboard's bios) using a64tweaker - i haven't kept up on the revisions so i don't know whether 0.31, 0.5 or 0.6 is prefered at the moment. seems this forum post suggests the author still recommends 0.31. the memory controller is a...

can't believe i forgot to check that:

ram divider = ceiling(2400 / (5/6) / 200) = 15
2400/15 = 160mhz ram

try removing 1 or 2 sticks and see what happens

it looks like it'll still function somewhat horizontally, as the semisphere at the bottom will pool the working fluid to a degree allowing contact with the heat source. i can't see it working as well as the vertical orientation however. depends on the wick performance - most modern vapor chambers us...