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- Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:30 am
- Forum: Site Feedback
- Topic: Colour coding the powersupply noise comparisons
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5556
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:40 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Promotion for Seasonic X-460, but review of X-400 ??
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7251
All I'm saying is that if 400W fanless has same guts as 650W fanned then maybe 460W fanless would have equal guts to 750W fanned unit. It would be totally weird to sell the same psu with different ratings as some of the previous posts seem to claim. I'd definitely get a fanless seasonic if I were in...
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:21 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: 80Plus Platinum (115v) finally exists
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12029
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:16 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Promotion for Seasonic X-460, but review of X-400 ??
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7251
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:07 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Promotion for Seasonic X-460, but review of X-400 ??
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7251
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:12 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Performance per watt (W)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16508
- Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:10 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Determining total dBA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5719
Because it is a logarithmic scale, doubling of sound power actually adds a constant to the original dB level. See http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-levelchange.htm . However it can even be the case that adding two sound sources gives lower noise than either one by itself, as happens with noise...
- Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:42 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Application to estimate PSU needs?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3536
Look, it's all really simple: rated max power for the brick must be larger than power drawn from it and same goes for the Pico part. However those calculators just don't give the correct numbers. Do this: build your system using an old temporary psu that you maybe have lying around or borrow or what...
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:13 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: What memory with XP in my new system??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3525
- Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:16 am
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: Hard drive enclosure power consumption for backups
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6471
- Sun Aug 29, 2010 12:25 pm
- Forum: Test Forum
- Topic: test
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2888
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- Sun Aug 29, 2010 12:19 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: What memory with XP in my new system??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3525
- Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Mad Men Computer?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16444
I understand that the idea is to build this to a specific style but did you consider a door? A solid wooden door at the front would be quieter, easier to clean, simpler to make, could be made to look very elegant and would provide good access to all front panel functions. Then a bottom vent at the f...
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:50 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Mediacenter + PicoPSU
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6569
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 1:53 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Mediacenter + PicoPSU
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6569
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:31 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Seasonic X-400 Fanless PSU
- Replies: 167
- Views: 153320
Maybe my system is not modern enough but I'm running Q9450, 8GB ram, velociraptor and another hard drive and a 460gtx 1GB @763MHz/1900MHz (stock oc) and it draws just around 200W from the wall when playing just cause 2 and about 90W idle. I don't think this psu would have any trouble with my system ...
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:44 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Are these hardware components compatible?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5649
- Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:50 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Is there a quiet 30" 2560x1600 monitor out there?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3951
Oddsilence: kind of, but you end up with worse contrast. Because display brightness is higher, black is brighter. Then when you set brightness lower from gpu side, it only makes lighter colors darker. I wouldnt use it. I've HP lp3065 (30") which does buzz when brightness is not at maximum. Otherwise...
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:20 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The World's Most Dangerous Person
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9615
- Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:17 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Cellphones...
- Replies: 45
- Views: 25728
Why did I not think of this earlier: To find out if the cause is indeed ultrasound, and if the problem is with hearing it, this could be simply tested by having earplugs on and seeing if the symptoms still come when having a powered cell phone near you! If this would be the case, then I'd recommend ...
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:29 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Cellphones...
- Replies: 45
- Views: 25728
NoiseFreeGuy: Every time you go to work or to the mall or to any gathering of people, there will be many cellphones all around you. Do you react to them? I agree on the recommendation of double blind tests . You can do it like this: Have a paper bag and ask a trusted friend to put your phone in the ...
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:19 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Growing Reallocated Sectors on HDD: how can i stop this?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2936
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:22 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Super-low-power desktop?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5730
Re: Super-low-power desktop?
You really should start with actually measuring that, and while you are at it, other stuff too.NSParadox wrote:I haven't measured idle power, although I'm guessing it's close to 100W.
Only then you can make an educated decision about what is it that you really should replace, if anything.
- Thu Jul 08, 2010 3:35 am
- Forum: Consumer Advocacy
- Topic: Frogpad gave me great service
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10458
Frogpad gave me great service
Time to have something nice on this subforum too: I wanted to share my experience ordering a frogpad wireless one-handed keyboard, which actually was already some years ago. First of all, tracking the delivery, I saw that it bounced back. Seems they had forgotten to write down the company name to th...
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:36 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Government Control of Names
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4339
Re: Government Control of Names
That's weird. It's one of the most common boy names in Finland. The finnish version of Joe Sixpack is Matti Meikäläinen.m0002a wrote: 2. Germany
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Rejected names: Matti was rejected for a boy because it didn't indicate gender.
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:16 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Converting AC to DC at the house level.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15064
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:13 pm
- Forum: Site Feedback
- Topic: Site front page is messy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3036
Site front page is messy
After Anandtech changed their site to the new layout, I've realized that SPCR front page is really messy. Please do a similar redesign as Anandtech did - reduce the clutter, a lot. Now, I realize that there probably aren't resources to do it, and can't really help either, but just stating my opinion...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:05 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: i5 + 150 PicoPsu?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5167
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:49 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Converting AC to DC at the house level.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15064
If you would keep the old cables, then resistance stays the same. Now if you go down to 12V from 120V, this happens: - To be able to deliver equal power, you need 10x the current when using 1/10th of the voltage. - The power loss is current to the second power times the resistance. This gives 100x t...
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:19 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Non-optical USB mouse?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 143432
To original poster: Sounds that are too high frequency to hear can sometimes still be felt as pain. For example, many CRT TV sets emitted a very high frequency whine, including my grandmothers. She could not hear it, but me and my gf actually felt pain from the noise when we visited her, even though...