I never see SPCR on the sending or receiving end of such linking webs. Is this at all related to purchased reviews? i.e. other sites are getting paid to link to articles? Most SPCR reviews are mentioned at [H]ardOCP's Mods & Ends (a part of their news). Sadly, I've seen only a few links at other we...

I have already done major intake modifications to my Sonata. Go here for my current worklog. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=890355 Hopefully you have MikeC's permission to hotlink those pictures from SPCR. :) Esp. since your thread at [H]ard has been viewed for ~1100 times already... Che...

When the noise stopped, the message on my monitor says: "PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable. PXE-M0F: Exiting Nvidia boot agent" The message is the network adapter trying to do a network boot. BIOS can't find any drives to boot, so it tries all possible sources if configured to do so. What mo...

Great review. I had a question, though. ... What, then, are the linux programs that perform similar functions as CrystalCPUID? Unfortunately I have little experience with Linux in general. The claim for Linux support is based on this post , in which one forum member uses a "hacked cool 'n' quiet ke...

#1: It might be a good idea to include the registry entry that allows it to start at boot Having a shortcut in the Startup-dir makes it easier to temporarily disable the automatic starting -- just drag the shortcut out from the Startup-dir. A registry key requires more tinkering IMO. [One can disab...

As per request I tested the AMD's Cool 'n' Quiet driver, and it worked. It was going from 2 GHz to 1 GHz, and I did see 1.8 GHz once or twice (ThrottleWatch). Seems that either MSI has improved the board BIOS-wise, or C't has made some sort of error.

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Jan

jojo4u wrote:No, the C't states explicitely that CnQ works only with Clawhammer and Paris (=Sempron = half the Cache of Newcastle). (c't 22/04, Seite 198)

OK, I actually haven't tried AMD's Cool 'n' Quiet.

Both ClockGen/CrystalCPUID work perfectly on my MSI K8N Neo Platinum with a Newcastle 3000+.

Cheers,

Jan

The forum link at the end of the review points to a wrong thread.

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Jan

Power the Fan Mate from 5V rail; it outputs ~3.5V. Or use two Fan Mates (or a Fan Mate and another fan controller), if you need to tweak the fan between 3.5-5V. Here's how to do it.

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Jan

Paris? Did You mean Newcastle?
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Jan

First, let's do the welcome: Welcome to SPCR, tlinna! You really have to suspend the HD. The removable drive cage really amplifies the noises from the drive (both idle and seek). Here's an idea to utilize. This way it'll be in airflow path and still cool nicely (with similar mod on my Antec 1030B I ...

There was a (basic) test few years back at Tom's Hardware. IIRC there was another test with a hardware RAID unit which took two notebook drives, but I couldn't find it after 5 mins of searching.

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Jan

Original Fireball 3 drive: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/p_intag/detail?.dir=/8787&.dnm=a55f.jpg&.src=ph Comments: I was shocked at how quiet this drive is when seeking. It is virtually inaudible hardmounted inside the unit. As far as idle whine -- there is none. How come this drive gets almost no ...

Prime95 is useful as a memory tester first, a loading program 2nd. Actually, Memtest86 is a memory testing program. Prime95 is a stability testing program (amongst other things). It's better for testing your undervolts and underclocks. I'll defer to the gentleman with the exponentially higher post ...

Would it be possible to use a 2.5" hard drive in a suspended drive bay? My SLK3700 uses HDD holders that suspend the drive above the holder via rubber grommets. Do 2.5" drives have the same bottom mounting layout as 3.5" drives? Or is there an adapter I could use? You'll need an adapter to attach t...

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The reason I like the Zalman is because it can be very heavily undervolted. If can go down way below 5V without freezing up or the clicking becoming annoying. I have read that one can use 2 fanmates in series on the Zalman 7000 to take the voltage lower than 5v. Might have been you burcakb ? Me... ...

The list on page 2 of the PDF also mentions SP1212N, but there's no other information about it. That would mean one-platter sweetness...

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Jan

No, the fan is soldered to a fan controller. You have to snip the wires, or remove the fan controller and solder them off. http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/fortron1/aurora4.jpg Here's a pic of the innards (taken from the SPCR's FSP Aurora review). The fan controller is the greenish square ...

I'll chime in with the others: If the fuse is actually blown, it's normally a sign that something broke inside the PSU . All properly made PSUs have over-voltage/current protection on the main rails, and the breaker is auto-reseting (user just needs to power-cycle the PSU). I've been in a situation ...

Low power consumption on standby (<1W) What does this mean? Normally the computer uses little power even if the computer is turned off (+5VSB rail). I haven't measured it, but it's more than 1W. Or does it mean that in "standby" the PSU circuitry uses <1W to generate the necessary power for the +5V...

I just built an A64 on an MSI K8M Neo V for my father. C'n'Q works fine, lowering both GHz and Vcore. Unfortunately, there is no control of CPU fan speed. I tried both MSI's Core software and Speedfan with no luck. Otherwise, the K8M is a great board, but it would be more accurate to say it provide...

One can get better results (read: more effective underclocking) with CrystalCPUID. Sadly, not all K8 boards support multiplier/voltage change within OS.

Cheers,

Jan

The "problem" here is that the motherboard needs to "calibrate" (actually set a new offset for the reading) the temp sensor with NewCastle core. This is not required with Clawhammer core. My MSI K8N Neo Platinum had this same flaw: idle temps in Windows ~50°C, pushing with Prime95 I got to 73°C (AMD...

My SP1213N reports 35°C when idle. I guess the temp would bump 2-4°C if I'd copy the entire drive. Suspended, hanging behind an intake of Antec 1030B with no fan. Hardmounted to the drive cage I had 31°C (no fan). All SMART temps. Room temp 20-22°C. That 46°C of yours sounds like a bit too high for ...

Do you have the drives mounted in the HD trays of Sonata? That sounds like there's some intermodulation (distortion). Use the search to find out more. You have a rAID0 setup, so you can't just unplug one of the drives to see if it's making the noise. So, take one of the drives out of the case, and r...

On my Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe (NForce2) boards, I can read SMART info with hddtemp under Linux from the SP1614C (C=SATA), but not from a 7000.7 SATA (says no SMART info available). Both are connected to the on-board controller (Sil3112), and I don't use the BIOS software-raid. Sorry for the late reply,...

Maybe using XP w/ SP1(2) slipstreamed will make it possible to avoid the 128 GB barrier problem during the setup. It does. I installed an SP2 slipstream onto a virgin 160GB disk. It saw the entire disk and I was able to create partitions and format them from the XP setup. It couldn't have been easi...

NeilBlanchard wrote:I'm not sure if there are any SATA drives that support S.M.A.R.T., but most IDE drives do.

I've mentioned the problems with SATA and SMART in this post.

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Jan

Not trying to hijack this thread, but I'd like to mention that I did eventually mod my FSP350-60PN(PF) with the GlacialTech SilentBlade. It took some reasoning before I was willing to do so. But, when compared the SPCR reviews of FSP Aurora, NX-3500 and NX-4090, it's obvious that for sub-100W loads...