No, since CPU power measurements show that if anything Intel's TDP are more over-rated than AMD's. Could you please clarify what you meant? I read that a couple of times and came up with about 10 different interpretations. If you've seen any comparisons between AMD's new rating system and Intel's, ...

It would be interesting to see how the Athlon LE's performance compares to the Sempron LE and Celeron 400. lower TDP, 35W. Eh ... Maybe AMD's "Average CPU Power" will be more equivalent to Intel's TDP ratings. • Average CPU Power white paper (82KB PDF) • Introducing Average CPU Power • AMD's L...

NeoHEs now come under the NeoPower family, which includes a NeoPower 650 Blue with 120mm LED fan (apparently not listed for Europe although the direct URL is there).

New low-power single-core Athlons coming The two processors are scheduled to launch this quarter, but they're not based on AMD's new architecture, nor are they built around the company's 65nm process technology. Instead, X-bit labs says the CPUs are 90nm Athlon models clocked at 2.2 and 2.4GHz with...

dragmor wrote:Some of us Ozzies are even part scandinavian.

Some of us aren't ... but wouldn't mind making part-Scandinavian children

We Australians are the Scandinavians of the south

Not much else to do when we're not wrestling kangaroos and throwing shrimps on the barbie, so we silence our computers

Thanks for that in-depth explanation cmthomson.

Sorry to hear that rmask. I also bought a Phantom 500 in February this year (serial D0609003****). I've experienced no problems with mine, although on rare occasions my computer will power up when I switch the desk lamp on. (They are plugged into the same powerboard with the monitor cable immediatel...

Maybe something in Q: Heat pipes need gravity - do they work better vertically will be of help to you.

There have been some interesting recent reviews of Xigmatek products:

Xigmatek HDT-S963
• FrostyTech
• TechPowerUp

Xigmatek HDT-S1283
• Benchmark Reviews
• Modders-Inc

The Tech Report writes:

Cyril Kowaliski wrote:All three chips are single-core desktop models, and they're all designed to slip into the same AM2 sockets and motherboards as AMD's desktop CPUs.

(Although the word 'desktop' doesn't appear once in AMD's press release.)

Dan's Data looks at power consumption with a Dell 3007WFP-HC: At this minimum brightness, my new power meter reckoned my monitor was consuming only seventy-something watts, depending on what was displayed on the screen. An all-black screen was somewhere between 67 and 70 watts; an all-white one was...

It is, finally, possible to buy a cheap power consumption meter here in 230-volt-nominal Australia. (Dan's Data)

Elite Bastards have also reviewed the Auzentech X-Fi Prelude.

Thanks for the information on the Australian bulk buy. There were a couple of notes on the Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 on DailyTech . The Prelude 7.1 will have some competition in the ASUS Xonar in PCI (Xonar D2) and PCI Express (Xonar D2X) flavours. The Xonar has been reviewed by bit-tech.net , Tech...

It should be of some benefit, more so if the memory heatsinks can catch any airflow within your case.

See Chris Thomson's use of memory heatsinks to cool his motherboard VRM in Quiet DIY OC'ed Pentium D 830 System, Part Two.

You might also like to see Ask Dan: Which way up for motherboard heat pipes?

Small typo on page 5 of the review:

• In real use, at idle in most PCs in most environments, all the Corsair PSUs, the Seasonics and the Antec Trio 550 would have about the same subjective loudness. All would be percevied as very quiet.

In the case of the two Gigabyte GV-NX86S256H (GeForce 8600 GTS with Silent-Pipe 3) tested by The Tech Report , the high-pitched whine was caused by bad electrical chokes: We went through a couple of sample cards from Gigabyte, and both exhibited the same screeching under load, prompting Gigabyte to ...

Dan's Data - PFC decoded.

PC Perspective's Corsair VX450W Power Supply Review - Power on a Budget.

Legion Hardware has compared the Intel Celeron 440 vs. AMD Sempron 3600+ : On paper the Celeron 440 looks to be the superior processor and although the Sempron 3600+ dominated the memory bandwidth testing, it was the Celeron that claimed the processor performance testing ... However, once we started...

The site contradicts itself in that statement. Earlier on it's "Fan RPM Control: 60~5940rpm". I'd pay more attention to the actual output voltage, which is stated as 4-11V. That's probably a typo rather than a contradiction, but I agree with you about the output voltage. I asked about the fan speed...

If you want to go the way of the Zalman, consider their MFC2: http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=274&code=017 (3 analog, 1 PWM). Can anyone speak to the fan speed control range stated by Zalman: Jog Wheel: Used for adjusting Fan RPM. RPM can be set from 1000 to 5940RPM in units of 60R...

What about the MSI Platinum? The only thing that looks problematic on it is the Marvell controller. It isn't up to par compared to the Gigabyte but it's cheaper and doesn't produce as much heat (or runs at a much lower wattage anyway). According to The Tech Report , the Platinum's idle power consum...

DriverHeaven.net has posted a P35 Motherboard Roundup comparing the Gigabyte P35-DQ6, Abit IP35 Pro Off Limits, Asus P5K Deluxe and MSI P35 Platinum.

DailyTech's Daily Hardware Reviews - ATI Radeon HD 2600 Edition - links to 16 ATI Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400 reviews.

It's worth noting that the HD 2600XT will be available in GDDR3 and GDDR4 versions.

Huey's and your comments made me think that maybe one or both of you didn't know about the memory controller side of that equation. I'm aware that AMD processors have an on-die memory controller, but that's not relevant to my point in this discussion: This shouldn't be much of an issue for budget C...

DailyTech has posted Linus Torvalds on Core 2 Duo Errata: "Totally Insignificant":

[quote="Tom Corelis"]Linux coordinator and former Transmeta employee Linus Torvalds, thought otherwise and considers these bugs “totally insignificant.â€

This TDP issue gets mentioned a lot, but when I’ve looked at articles measuring real-world power consumption the TDP values of Intel and AMD seems to match pretty closely to power consumption for both brands. I know TDP isn’t the same as power consumption but the later is easier to determine an...