The fan is set to silent in EFI, but it still runs at 1000 rpm. Is this the lowest it'll go? Same thing with Asrock H61M-GS EFI's and a Freezer7 pro. It spins as low as 950rpm at idle, even if the same PWM fan would spin lower on an Asus skt775 board (I don't remember the exact value, but it was in...

I notice that there's a thread about the same issue with nVidia cards below, but maybe it's still worth posting this, since AMD cards behave slightly differently... I recently purchased an XFX Radeon HD 7770 (nice quiet card, btw), since it seemed to offer excellent performance per watt. And indeed...

I love my BQT E7-400W, it does its job, it's inaudible, and I guess nowadays it's priced under 50eur.
http://www.plugloadsolutions.com/psu_re ... Report.pdf

Eh - Plastic screwless rails as used in some cases After having swapped my OS HDD with an SSD, I can clearly hear the annoying noise coming from my HD503HI storage disk. I've always wondered what if my Thermaltake V9000A plastic rails had foam stripes on their external sides. I guess that the vibra...

Edit: Without the HD7750, the system idles at 24.2-24.5W with the screen on and 21.0-21.2W off. This doesn't seem to change. I wonder if the integrated GPU is sometimes still active with the HD7750 installed? On my H61 board (HD5670), IGP is disabled. However, HWMonitor shows a constant 0.06w IGP p...

Not yet, I'll let you know

I already tried that with my 5670 months ago, and I discovered that my power consupmtion didn't change even at 0.9v in 3d mode. Don't ask me why... I guess it's a bug in ATT.

It's a pity... I wanted to upgrade my 5670 with a 28nm 7670 at the beginning of Q3-2012.

Hi there, I wrote a thread after I built it ( link ), reporting some power consumption data... speaking in general I saw a 20w drop at idle and up to 40w under full load, compared to the older e5200 build. -100mV undervolt is all I could do, and it helps saving some 3/4w in idle, and about 7w under ...

I connected my DVI lcd to the integrated DVI port and installed the latest Intel HD graphics drivers.
It idles at 60/61w, just 3/4 watts fewer than with discrete VGA enabled. I'm perplexed...

@Abula I need to try with the IGP and see what happens. I even undervolted my ram from 1.5v to 1.35v... The PSU is probably inefficient at idle. How efficient can an old Bequiet be? If it's 60% efficient at 10% load, 38W DC would get you 64W AC. The gfx card may not idle at 13W. What's the source fo...

Thanks

Here's a pic (taken from the web) of my heatspreader, and it has only 1 cable coming from the fan and going directly to the 3pin plug.
http://www.joeteck.com/images/ACF7Pro-B.jpg

FAN: http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/articles ... 14941l.jpg I can't see any splitter

Yes it's PWM and now it spins at minimum speed according to the UEFI (900rpm).
Please can you explain me the CPU header thing?

Asrock H61M-GS Intel i3-2120 (-100mV undervolt) - AC Freezer 7 pro skt775@ 900rpm DDR3 4GB/1600Mhz Corsair 2x2GB CL9 [CMX4GX3M2B1600C9] @1333mhz CL9@1.35v Sapphire HD5670 512MB (13w at idle) (coming from e5200 build) SSD Corsair F80-A HDD 500gb 5400rpm HD503HI (coming from e5200 build) Pioneer SATA ...

Just assembled it. You'll notice a 6/7w drop both in idle and full load with a -100mV undervolt.

Thanks a lot.

I was wondering if anybody did any power consumption test with a couple of classic 2x2GB DDR3 1333/1600mhz 1.5v sticks, and a couple of "green" 1.35v ones. Was the power draw difference significant?
I'd bet no more than 2 or 3W, but that's just an impression.

Did you try to undervolt the CPU?

I wanted to build something newer than my 3 years old skt775 e5200 rig ( full specs and power consumption test ). I've just oredered: ASROCK H61M-GS CORE I3-2120 DDR3 4GB/1600Mhz Corsair 2x2GB CL9[CMX4GX3M2B1600C9] SSD CORSAIR F80 80GB (instead of 7200rpm 320gb Samsung HDD listed above in the old bu...

The second screenshoot seems like one of those I made years ago when I bought the drive. Your different HDtune benchmark makes me think that either the drivers or the sata controller is slowing down your HDD (maybe I'd also check if the BIOS is updated). I have a P43 (ICH10) chipset and the benchmar...

It's curious to see how Murdoch's newscast in Italy (Sky News) is among the best ones. There aren't any distorted point of views, Perhaps it is a less crowded market segment in Italy? I don't know the exact reason, but I'd say that it's quite crowded, with at least 10 different national newscasts a...

As with all things in life consider the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch It may frighten you to know that O'Reilly is the most sensible of that bunch. It's curious to see how Murdoch's newscast in Italy (Sky News) is among the best ones. There aren't any distorted point of views,...

You can find a hot dog, french fries and other greasy stuff stand outside the National Air and Space Museum (pretty crowded because it's close to the museums), another one should be at the beginning of the Mall, starting from Lincoln Memorial, but it seems that the hot dog stands are definitely fewe...

I don't think so, sounds like it will be heavier than a motorbike (maybe unless it's made of balsa wood), so a motorbike engine won't do the trick, but its shape is interesting and it was worth a post.

Did you see this... weird wooden car?
It is made of wood and it is powered by a motorbike engine.
photos

I mean 0.9v

I have the Powercolor version. The 3d voltage is 1.1 (instead of yours 1.15) BUT I couldn't manage to downvolt it (how did you do?), and 2d voltage is 0.9. By the way, I lowered the idle power consumption a bit by going down to 130/212, which is enough for h264 HDTV gpu acceleration and PS5. Lower f...

L3406 spec sheet says it does support ECC http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=47555 If you could give us some power readings at some point that'd be nice, and maybe some more info on the setup you've got running? Don't have a Kill-A-Watt yet. Will post as soon as I get one. Asus P7F-E motherboard ...

This question would ideally be answered by a Frenchman. In England whenever we turn on the news and see that there is a massive strike going on in France, we usually ask only 2 questions, "will it affect us" (like many of them do, on purpose I might add), and "why". Most of us dont really care why,...