Hi Vicotnik. Coming back to C States issue, can you just check in Asrock BIOS whether you indeed set C6 State and C7 State to "enable" instead of "Auto" and compare power consumption? I'm curious to know the difference.

Moving from Intel DH77DF and i3-3225 to ASRock B85M-ITX and i3-4330, idle power consumption went from 13.5W to 13.9W AC. Thanks for your experiments shedding lights into low-power ITX systems. However, I just can't seem to understand why the "idle" power consumption increased from 13.5W (Ivy Bridge...

So far as I remember, you are the first in this forum who justifies the use of i7 so eloquently. I definitely think you should purchase i7 CPU. From the beginning, it might be helpful to concede that (in contrast to our intuition) it is really challenging to settle with a concrete rig configuration ...

Who makes a good stable SSD that plays nicely with Linux and Windows? If you research about SSD, it will become clear that the sweet-spots are those made by Samsung. I have used Intel SSD's due to my disliking to Samsung. I can attest to the stability of Intel SSDs. Having said that, unless you are...

Hi, Though I haven't used Scorpio Black ever, I highly suspect two of them will be the noisiest parts in your new rig. Most of the time, graphics cards are the noisiest components, which are absent in your list, and the second noisiest ones are usually PSUs and HDDs. In other words, as long as you u...

I think I can surely resist this temptation. At the same time, it strikes me that they are likely to postpone 20nm graphics cards in order not to cannibalise themselves, which is a bad news. I don't think I will be able to resist what they can deliver with 20nm.

This is a ground-shattering achievement by Nvidia, all the more because the additional enhancement to be brought about by 20nm has not even materialized. I have long been thinking that 100W-200W TDP is utterly too much for casual-gamers with keen interest in quiet PC. Unfortunately, this unprecedent...

This is too good to be true. Can anyone enlighten me as to how 150W TDP graphics card can be passively cooled without a gigantic heatsink? The heatsink does not look impressive. I have tinkered with a number of aftermarket GPU coolers and my rule of thumb is that the maximum TDP that can be passivel...

Where the CPU with box cooler maxes out at 64C with Rift, Mugen 4 drops it to 45C. The Gfx card maxes out at 61C and the fan is still down around 1050 rpm. This is a really quiet game machine :) Glad to see you signature updated! Which is noisier, WD Red HDD or GTX 760? Isn't it tempting to tread o...

Not to be nit picky, but during the anti-spam registration the question was asked who was assassinated, MLK jr or Ghandi. I put Ghandi and got it wrong, but the truth is that BOTH men were assassinated. Ghandi was assassinated? That's a revelation to me. It seems that I did not study 'world history...

I guess you will be disenchanted even with latest modern onbard graphics cards because, as far as my experience goes, they performed much worse than Nvidia GT 640, which I consider to be the minimum spec Nvidia card for gaming. By the way, I think it is a good idea to buy the latest CPU for your new...

- undervolting in UEFI: reading the manual, it looks like the G45 can set the CPU voltage offset to a negative value. Waiting for feedback. This is what moved me away from the Asrock Z87 Extreme4. The Extreme6 has it, the Extreme4 doesn't. - UEFI fan control: In general, the fewer s/w add-ons I run...

I highly suspect it is all down to acoustic acuteness. That is, most Seasonic PSUs allegedly generate high-frequency coil whining, which is not audible to all people. In fact, I sympathise those engineers working in Seasonic a little bit because Far East Asia (particularly Taiwan) is far from tranqu...

I think it's a huge joke how Asus is handling this. Even more of a joke is how SCPR describes it as "the most advanced first party fan control software". It really seems like SCPR didn't even test it and just gave it a blind stamp of approval. If the MSI had better socket placement, I'd pick one up...

PSU: +1 for Abula. As a reckless attempt to counter-balance the opinions of CA_Steve and Abula on PSU aspect, and to help you comprehend the whole landscape better, I must add that I have been tolerating constant coil whining from my Seasonic Platinum Fanless 400W (SS-400FL2) for a long time. I'm n...

micro-ATX is not an option. How am I supposed to fit CR-C95 in there? It sits about 6mm above top side of the mobo. That's why I chose that large case. Because out of the pictures in the review I saw that it has enough space above the mobo. And how I'm I supposed to instal 3 optical drives, an SSD ...

A few sketchy advice. I'd like to begin with answering your question: Yes, it will work for sure. The combination of i7-4765T and Nofan CR-95C copper seems quite promising. CPU: Intel Core i7-4765T Mobo: Intel DQ87PG RAM: KINGSTON HyperX KHX1600C9D3LK2/8GX 8GB PC12800 DDR3 (2x4GB kit) SSD: SAMSUNG 8...

I'm a bit skeptical about opting for a fanless NAS because (i) There are at least dozens of single-fan NAS products which are near to silence, albeit not dead silent; (ii) The overall noise generated by 3.5 inch HDDs, quite similar to airborne engine sound in my opionion, will dominate the rest of t...

FWIW, I can confirm that my GTX 650 and GTX 660 idle at very low power with low memory frequency with "dual" monitor settings. However, I recently found that GTX 660 does not idle properly at low memory frequency for "triple" monitor settings. I think the sweet spots these days are GTX 650 2GB, GTX ...

This is exactly where Intel's impure profit-making motive behind their less-accurate-than-desired TDP table starts to deceive the majority of non-tech-savvy people. Microprocessor industry has long evoved over the last couple of decades and there is nothing new under the sun except for the ever-clea...

To the best of my knowledge, it is a widely known fact that CPU power consumption in the full load state does indeed linearly increases with the CPU clock frequency. In plain words, if you downlock a CPU, its power consumption in full load state accordingly decreases. My i5-4430 consumes no more tha...

I'm not interested in wading through all the related websites but I found out in the following site that 8800GT is rated to be 105W TDP grachics card and the temperature in full load state is reported to be 83.2 Celsius. http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1284/ecs_geforce_8800gt_accelero_s1_512mb/inde...

I haven't read the entire thread but I once tinkered with Accelero S1 Plus on my GTX 650. It will be perhaps fine to use Accelero S1 Plus with its rather indispensable appendix, aka, Turbo Module (120mm fan) but it will be absolutely catastrophic to use it for 134W TDP graphic cards without the Turb...

It must be a defective unit. I would definitely get it RMA'd. I was so satisfied with Corsair RM650 that I even ordered Corsair RM450 for another rig of mine. Both of them are literally silent. In fact, they practically redefined the definition of silent PSU for me. Thanks for the advice. I will rep...

My i5-4430 in "full load state" consumes no more than 34W gguumdol, what's your usage like? Running any VMs, or demanding software? Once again, I will leave it to you to make the best decision. I'm only aiding in making informed decision and won't persuade anyone to buy certain products. For your i...

The PSU you chose seems fine, but the reason for it is not quite right. All those power calculators overestimate real world needs. Take a look at the power consumed by the system in our i7-4770k review : 119W DC max P95+Furmark, 78W DC TMPGEnc -- and this is with a GeForce9400 graphics card that ha...

I believe you have made the best decision about all components but if you haven't order them yet, you can agonize over decisions a bit more. I've decided to go with the i7 - mainly due to the fact that it has the same max TDP as the other i5 options. Also, the extra threads may come in handy down th...

Iff I can get away with running my apps decently on the HD4600, then I don't mind, and I will probably see some power savings (not sure here again) and can therefore go with the PicoPSU option. Just as CA_Steve mentioned, mini-ITX + DisplayPort seems to be a rare combination, consequently requiring...

- I'm sold on Haswell vs. IvyBridge and will stick to the Haswell chips. - Would you not recommend any of the Asus or Intel mobos? - What are your thoughts on the Pico PSU I mentioned in my reply above to Steve? Asus will definitely look better aesthetically. As you sound not that much picky about ...

Hi, Before everything, it is almost impossible for me to fathom out how you would like to strike a balance between "smallness" (e.g., mini-ITX), "quietness" (criteria vary with people) and "performance". If you wish to achieve absolute quietness, as I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, you'd bett...