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Take a look at this thread and especially MikeC's comment... I really don't trust this company!

Two other things you should check: If you see an option to enable ACPI 2.0 support in your BIOS, make sure it's enabled. Cool'n'Quiet requires ACPI 2.0 support to fully work. Some motherboards don't have this option in the BIOS. In this case, ACPI 2.0 is probably enabled by default. Make sure that t...

According to Clubic , this new HDD measures 40 X 30 X 5 mm, weighs 14 grams, is only 20dbA, consumes 30% less power than the previous generation, and comes with the "G-Force Protection" technology (see last picture). http://img.clubic.com/photo/000000FA00263759.jpg http://img.clubic.com/photo/000000...

Firetech wrote:Did your photo source shed any light on the HR-05's mounting clip?

No... No detail about the mounting kit or chipset compatibility. All I found is that photo.

Thermalright unveiled 3 new coolers at CeBit: the HR-05 , the Ultra-90 and the Ultra-120 . The first one is designed to cool a chipset, while the other two are CPU coolers. There's already a thread about the HR-05 on SPCR. I couldn't find anything about the Ultra-90 and the Ultra-120 on the Internet...

No detail about this new waterblock yet, but only a photo. Here it is:

There's a ON/OFF switch on the front of this power supply, I'm not sure it's a good idea! What would happen if you accidentally flipped that switch or forgot to turn on the power supply... Hmmm... At least you can quickly put your system in standby that way!

Fortron will show a VGA power supply at CeBit in march 2006. The Fortron has 25A on the +12V while this Thermaltake has 21A on the +12V. Both PSU's come with 40mm screamers and fit into a 5.25" bay. Thermaltake claims that the 40mm fan @ 2000 RPM is only 20dbA! Expect this PSU to be loud! :lol: htt...

Krazy Kommando wrote:pitty they couldnt use a nice panaflo fan or something on them tho

Hey! This reminds me of this thread...

There's already a thread about the VF900-Cu:

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=28238

454Casull wrote:Is the fan diameter 80mm?

It measures 96 x 96 x 30mm and weights 187 grams. So yes, it probably uses a 80mm fan.

59H Hardware reviewed 10 different HDD coolers, including the SilentMaxx, Scythe and Zalman solutions. The noise level and HDD temperature were measured for each cooling solution. The testing protocol is described on page 2 . I'm still wondering how they managed to get more than 60dBA with this kind...

Mine is only turned on when I'm using it. The only thing that is on 24/7 is my Reserator.

No, my system is PERFECTLY stable, it's only problem is that it's a Athlon XP 1400Mhz oc'ed to 1700Mhz and still lacking the processing power which I require - I'm doing very CPU intensive audio processing. Hmmm... I guess you're not using a K8N-E right now... This board is for socket 754, not Sock...

I have an Asus K8N-E Deluxe and it's very stable. The K8N-E is the same board, but with less features. IIRC, the chipset is the same for the two boards. I have an Athlon64 3400+ and a Radeon X800XT PE on this board, both watercooled. Never experienced any issue with this setup... Are you experiencin...

Here's another review from ExtremeMhz.

That CeraDyna fan really needs to be replaced, ARX Technology isn't making any quiet fan... The CoolIt pump is supposedly under 15dbA, but it's completely drowned by the fan noise.

Both companies make excellent drives. Most of the HDD's we're selling right now are made by Western Digital, and their return rates are pretty low. However, a few years ago (6 or 7 years IIRC), we had to stop buying Western Digital drives because a lot of them were DOA or failed within the first mon...

Tuniq is now offering a case that uses an upside-down chassis layout: The Tuniq 2 . This case is made of steel, measures 430 x 198 x 480 mm, weights 8.3 kg, is offered in two different colors and uses three 120mm fans for cooling (front, rear and VGA). They're talking of 16dbA @ 1000RMP for each fan...

MSI has 2 new passive cards... The first one is a Radeon X1600XT: The MSI RX1600XT-T2D256EZ : http://www.msi.com.tw/images/product_img/vga_img/S_V043_RX1600XT-T2D256EZ.jpg (Click on the picture for a larger view) The second one is a GeForce 6600GT: The MSI NX6600GT-TD256EZ : http://www.msi.com.tw/im...

More info on Daily Tech

The Energy Efficient Athlon 64 3800+ rated at 35W is not a typo -- AMD actually has a dual core 35W processor on the roadmap. This bodes well for dual core Turions.

35W for an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ is impressive!

From Laptop Logic : New AMD Mobile Dual Core Spotted [...] this chip runs at a maximum clock of 1.8GHz and idles at 800MHz; much like current Turion 64 chips. What is most interesting from this is the voltage that this chip is able to use at full clock: a mere 1.075V ! Current 90nm Turion 64 process...

Anandtech's article about performance, power draw and noise level of 5 different X1900 XT / XTX cards: X1900 XT/XTX Roundup: A Closer Look at the Performance Leader in Graphics All of these X1900s have very high power draws and noise levels, so if these areas are a concern for you, then the X1900 is...

Here's a picture of this Athlon 64 X2...

Hmmm... © 2001 AMD?!?!?

ZDNet has some benchmarks for the Northwood and the Prescott. In most of the tests, the Northwood is slightly faster than the Prescott, especially in gaming. The 3.2GHz Prescott Pentium 4 is slightly faster in some tests than its 3.2GHz Northwood predecessor, but mostly it is slightly slower. This ...

From c|net news : Intel shows off its quad core Clovertown, a four-core processor, will start shipping to computer manufacturers late this year and hit the market in early 2007. Clovertown will be made for dual-processor servers, which means that these servers will essentially be eight-processor ser...

From TG Daily : S3 Chrome S27 graphics cards available in US etail After having being completely absent from the US market for several years, S3 is returning to the US market with initially two graphic card models. Newegg is the first etailer to carry 128 MB and 256 MB S27 cards. The cards are price...

There's already one...

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewforum.php?f=19

Here's another X-bit labs article about power consumption of current video cards: The Grand Clash for Watts: Power Consumption of Modern Graphics Cards And the results are... http://www.mathforum.jp/gakusei/thema/gif/drum_mini.gif http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/gpu-consumption2006/premium_gpu_...

Have you tried this ? Windows XP SP2 Dual Core Performance Hot Fix Download You can now download the Windows XP SP2 dual core hot fix here. This fixes performance issues with systems running XP and using a dual core CPU with Cool 'n Quiet enabled. You must also modify the registry. Remember you patc...

According to Art Lebedev Studio, a mini-keyboard with 3 OLED keys is currently in production: The Optimus Mini Three . Price and availability The price of the keyboard is $100 until April 2, 2006. The keyboard will be available for pre-order this week. After April 2, 2006 the price will be higher. K...

Any pics/info of this? According to a thread on SilentHardware & Dirkvader Forum , the NCU-3000 will be unveiled at CeBIT in march 2006, and this is probably why no photo is available right now. The whole thread is in german, but the last post contains an answer from Scythe and this one is written ...