A few months at the most, just as poster above writes I too reboot when an update needs it. Win 7 is the OS.

Yess now you can cook a T-bone on your computer :o I love these cards, what I usually do is strap a 92mm Nexus @5V right on the heatsink and you get wonderful temps with almost no noise at all. These are great way for non technical ppl that are normally afraid of disassembling their cards to get gr...

ascl wrote:I wish I had the room for this... living in an apartment would make it tricky!

then rent another one next to your current and place the gear in it (except for screen and keyboard). Not cheap but silent

Thanks Mike great review, glad you change your mind about this fanless baby! Great efficiency for an office build, the x-650 was an overkill for my needs. I wonder where is the best place to put it: at the bottom like in p180's or on top with a hole on the case :?: On top of course, heat rises, and...

I would go with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835191005 since I know think that Evercool fan specs are bullsh*t. Think about it, SilenX fan specs call for 18 CFM@2000 RPM while Evercool calls for 31.62 CFM@2300 RPM. It is impossible to gain almost 50% more airflow with only 1...

Could anybody give me an idea of what type of system you can run with a 400W PSU like this? E.g. could you run a quad core a single high end gfx card (perhaps not a fermi) and a 2-3 drives with it? Sure could, even with a Fermi. As a rough estimate, you could say up to 120W for the CPU/mobo/RAM and...

It's amazing how far we have come in last 5 years when it comes to PSUs. A great product Seasonic and it's nice to see you back where you belong, on top as the best PSU maker once again.
Thanks to SPCR for another interesting and usefull review.

bonestonne wrote:
Again, it depends on what you're doing with it.

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OP: are you gonna use it for HTPC/surfing or Metro 2033 ? as you see there are a lot of options so we will need more info if you want a good answer.

Nope that's not what i think at all but more along the line: more amps = more noise as fumino said that is wrong too. amps tells about how much current fan motor needs, it has absolutely nothing to do with noise at all. Jyuni seem to be sleeve bearing, so probably not suitable for horizontal mounti...

marcus_helsinki wrote: But, still there is no separate chamber for the PSU. Of course, if components and the PSU are rather cold anyway, this may not have a very large effect on temperatures.

I find very little need for a separated PSU since in this case PSU draws fresh, cool air from it's own intake on the bottom.

0.41 A for the slipstream !? Are they even serious to recommend such a fan ? For a gaming, ultra performing system maybe but for a random computer i doubt it, let alone a htpc. I just changed my psu fan today cause i found it noisy and i made some tests, it indeed was noisy, not only whining but al...

Fractal Design (same guys that made Define R2 ) have released info about Define R3. Basically a improved R2 and it looks really interesting. http://www.fractal-design.com/img_thumb/FD-CA-DEF-R3-TI_1_medium.jpg Titanium Grey http://www.fractal-design.com/img_thumb/FD-CA-DEF-R3-WH_3_medium.jpg Arctic ...

Scythe Gentle Typhoon is a great and very cheap (at least here in Sweden it is) fan that will do the job.

Without restarting windows (or whatever OS it has) this will be difficult unless the drive is set up on the motherboard as a device that can be removed. If you can remove the device, yes, you can power it on/off whenever needed to save power. If you can't "safely eject" the hardware, then it will n...

use crystal disk info. much newer and better program that will alow you to control AAM/APM on many brands too. And its free and open source.

that tiny 40mm HD fan should be shot to pieces. and 3 intakes and nothing pulling hot air out ? They just reversed rear fan to suck air in instead of blowing it out (like it does in other cases) and they call it "new cooling technology".. And what's with the 90s looks ? Sorry Arctic but this was pat...

Reachable wrote: But it got me thinking -- who is the most dangerous person in the world?

I don't have the full identity but I promise you it's a woman

flashed tens of motherboards (if not hundreds) never "bricked" anything...

Tough crowd at SPCR sheesh.... Although Air filter suggestions reminds me, could we use speaker grill covering cloth as a filter? Would make good filter for the BIG dust particles. Its a very good material for filter. So go for it. Regarding our "toughness" well, I believe that everybody above age ...

b_rubenstein wrote:Yeah, the one that's in a case that has air filters.

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what a question for gods sake OP !

I can also add: cooler that is in a case with dust filters, and where a house owner knows how to use a vacuum cleaner now and then.

porkchop wrote: (i understand that components inside the fanless units are most likely more resistant to heat- but is the difference really that great?)

yes it is.

dan wrote:My DFI and SOYO were the last motherboards that I had that were undervoltable at bios. Do these still exist for the newer core2 and core i-series cpus?

of course they do...

640GB on one side of a platter is some pretty incredible density. :shock: Wonder if there's anything stopping them from achieving that density on both sides and shipping a drive with ~1.25TB/platter. 5TB 4-platter drive anyone? Each side of the platter does not have 640GB, that's the total density ...

I wonder if one can undervolt a toilet ?

Well samsung have finally launched their F4 drives. Capacity is 320GB, SpinPoint F4 features a single 640 GB platter used on just one side and therefore with just one read head.. Performance should be 10% better then current F3 drives due to higher data density. Interesting is that they cut cache to...

I'm a little surprised now: are you saying that, all things considered, the system will be quieter using air cooling - maybe like the R2 plus an after-market CPU cooler and a that Sapphire Vapor-X version of the 5770? I though WC would get me lower noise. Yes, that is exactly my point. Decent CPU c...

next year will bring socket 1155, one pin less then current 1156 and these 2 will not be compatible nor are the CPUs. Current CPUs will not work in s1155 boards and vice versa. there are no "future proof" computers. If you want to be able to uppgrade in 1-2 years there is only one intel socket to go...

a PICO-120w will be safer. the thing is that i allready own a picopsu90 that i could use with my cpu and motherboard. 90W PicoPSU is definitely enough. Here's mine : http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af336/elpibe100/PoloRhapsodyRed-interior-topviewwit.jpg http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af336...

Man, that was a long and angry text. You should relax a bit. Have a beer or 15 of them.

JazzJackRabbit wrote:
I'd definitely be interested in reading SPCR commemorative review of a tower heatsink that started it all.

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