Uhm...

The I wrote:

You're getting it all wrong about the SATA-thing

I can only assume you are joking so I will jokingly quote:

... Did you read any of this thread?

That crazy whine stuff is unfortunately a somewhat random factor of power harmonics. I don't know if that is actually the right term but it can occur when computing. I *think* it can be alleviated with better shielding so maybe you're refurb is a little too refurbed? Given an individual's specific c...

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but 300MBps/150MBps (for SATA II and SATA I, respectively) [is] the bandwidth of the entire controller, and not per device. Frosted, I for one, believe you are correct. This is the reason why I don't understand people wanting to RAID-0 this thing: it's already...

... there is just too much heat concentrated in one place to make passive cooling viable - bar any advances in passive cooling technology - Or the other way of achieving it is if you build a computer with lower overall thermals and not top-of-the-line processing power. That way you don't have as mu...

sonofdbn wrote: Does anyone know what temp the Pentium M runs at inside a laptop? I'm just wondering because on laptops there isn't a lot of space for cooling (although there is certainly heat dissipation through the casing) and apart from the occasional fan whine I don't hear much either. To answe...

Ralf, That's pretty funny regarding optical drive power usage. I guess that's why on mini-itx forums they always caution you to use notebook-style dvd drives due to their lower power requirements. I do plan on using a spare notebook dvd-rom and have no need for a burner. This aopen board would be gr...

Temps showed maybe 1°C to 1.5°C (temp reading was bouncing back and forth) cooler under minimum power/speed settings. Too small of a difference to be meaningful. ok thanks. Yes, I already understand that the power draw of the entire system didn't change much. I was more interested in any localized ...

Not at idle it's not. I'm not pulling those power draw numbers out of my ass. They come from a Seasonic Power Angel, that my test systems are plugged into 24/7/365. I can see a drop of 2-3W under idle when going from default speed/Vcore to 600MHz @ .700V. As the CPU ramps up from idle to any sort o...

Oh yeah, Good Review!! Told me everything I ever wanted to know about that board and just how difficult it is to find a good heatsink for it...

Also, as RH already said, because SpeedStep applies only when the processor is not being worked :) I WAS talking about a 100% cpu usage scenario; I already agree that undervolting when the cpu is underworked is of little practical benefit (UNLESS it lets you get past the fanless operation threshold...

Just so you know, On the aopen support forum, a thread dated 6/14 tells us that (I'm paraphrasing 'cause I don't have time to link): ____ An Aopen Tech informed a concerned user that they now have a new updated heatsink available for the 915gm. They were then told to call customer support regarding ...

If you want to spend the dough and are not afraid of passively cooling 4 drives you can think of this: http://www.atechfabrication.com/products/mass_storage.htm the one benefit for you is since it's an external sata enclosure you'll have easier access to the hard drives than if it was in your comput...

I've been following the mcubed HFX case for a while, have even gotten some questions answered by their sales staff. I knew there was some silverstone connection due to the use of the silverstone power supply. It seems like a very interesting solution and I've also already committed to buying one to ...

Seagate announced the availability of their 160gb 2.5" Perpendicular storage hard drive: 160gb in the 2.5" form factor is pretty cool. I assume then that the perpendicular stuff allowed Seagate to increase their 2.5" platter density from 50gb to 80gb judging from their previous 2-platter high of 100...

Heh, previously posted with a few thoughts from others. Personally I don't see why this wouldn't perform about as well as a smart drive (and considering nexus' claims maybe it IS better) so it's worth a try

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... ight=nexus

Good point.

Personally I still don't know if I'm eventually buying an AMD or a P-M, the sooner I know more about certain things (like this board), the closer I'll be to finalizing a complete build

BTW, I just went onto Aopen's site and looked at their current specs on their ATX P-M board. It currently lists in the packaging that it comes with 1 CPU Cooler, similar to how they've bundled their M-ATX board with a cooler. This implies to me that it is NOT a socket 478 retention bracket; otherwis...

hmsrolst, nice link, that's a site I don't visit but they sure have a lot of useful info on the CT-479. To clarify mounting a Zalman 7000 onto a Asus CT-479 P-M adapter, the links on that site link to a german site. However, posts further down give a nice succinct description of how to mount a zalma...

Just another happy Tablet PC user and TabletPCBuzz person... Our household has three: Motion 1300 (Great form factor!!) Wife's Gateway 275 (for med school) My new work Toshiba M4 (For consulting work and gaming in the hotel room) The Motion is of course, fanless. The gateway is mostly fanless. The t...

I have aToshiba M4 with 6600 geforce go graphics. The M3 is the same model but weighs less and is not a tabletpc (the m4 is). The 6600 on the Toshibas are a bit less benchmark wise than an x700 (The Toshiba's cards are clocked slower than a "standard" mobile 6600 but I have no problem running Guild ...

An alternative to the terastation (but pricier) is this: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1819275,00.asp The discussion on it is here (includes comparison to the Terastation from the guys who make the above linked product): http://discuss.extremetech.com/n/main.asp?webtag=extremetech&nav=s...

BobDog, Regarding the Buffalo terastation, some poster on Amazon said that the Raid 5 speeds were pretty slow and upon investigation he confirmed with Buffalo that the Terastation used a software based Raid-5 and not a dedicated hardware solution. You may want to watch out for that, IIRC he was gett...

Re: Hyperdrive III.

Ok, it hasn't generated excitement 'cause it's 399 pounds sterling. So I'll quickly move back to examining the gigabyte cheapo solution

The HyperDrive III is supposed to implement ECC so that ECC memory isn't necessary. What a bizarre website (checking prices on it). I can't quite tell what the price is OR what it is you get for the price. Where did you hear about this thing??! And pretty sneaky throwing it into this thread!!! So t...

...but could somebody explain the best way to make a backup of a boot OS to a different HDD so that if it's lost it can be restored? Would you just use something like Norton Ghost

Yep. it's fairly easy with ghost or other software and their tutorials can walk you through it.

If you're talking RAID-1 mirrors, the idea should be a non-starter. You're slowing yourself down to the hard drive's speed (writes wait for both media to complete), AND wasting the space on the hard drive (it mirrors the 4gb and ignores the rest of the hard drive space). The ramdrive probably isn't ...

you are correct: you don't have to leave the computer on 24/7, but the ramdrive as you said needs to have power supplied 24/7. It actually seems like a pretty decent solution as far as supplying power goes. But since the memory must always have power I commented that ECC memory would be good for thi...

Oops,
The cenatek rocketdrive review I linked to earlier didn't link correctly.

The correct link is:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article49-page1.html

There's also cost involved. 2 gig sticks + a mobo that supports it may actually be MORE expensive than this solution (btw, where CAN you buy 2 gig sticks, quick check on newegg comes up with none). As yoda said, you should be able to boot from this drive. This opens up a lot more potential scenarios...

Also looks like it has integrated wireless? (Or what is that antenna looking thing for)