look at http://www.tecchannel.de/tecdaten/show.php3?article=583. Seems you will not come around a G550...

Amplitude VGA (mV) = signal level
Anstieg VGA (ns) = rise time
Abfall VGA (ns) = fall time
Signalform = signal form
RGB- Deckung = rgb convergence
Wertung = end points

Planet3dnow invited a press man form Intel Germany for their theme-afternoon. Here are some snippets that are might be interesting: Intel showed a modest priced fanless P4 3Ghz design-study on IDF. It would be best if less heat is produced. Intel ist working hard on this.... Even today the semincond...

Yes, my view to hyperthreading also is that is consumes more power than it gives back as performance - at least with today's software.

i posted at least 2 messages regarding this. i am in a hurry now. try to search for my name or for "rails".

search for "power draw" in this forum

MikeC, try a graphic intensive application to increase your load. Those FX 9800 are bad suckers.

I found a simple solution for my problem. My mobo/bios has nothing against a "dead" device on the IDE bus. So when I want to use the drive under windows I switch +5V/12V on for this drive (ground already connected) an run hardware detection from windows. For switching of you simply need to deinstall...

1. Lowered frequency due to thermal limits reached. 2. Lower frequency when CPU is idling a lot. This is often refered to as speedstep technology or similar. Exists in almost 100% of laptops, but is very rare in desktops. 3. vCool etc that issues HALT command etc to the processor when idle I guess ...

My goold old Palomino also allows passive cooling while office work with vcool enabled. I hope there is also some good HLT mode implemented in the Hammer. This is more important than Cool and Qiet. But apart from this i like the idea. Since smaller manufacturing processes are resulting higher and hi...

Sometimes i hate windows. with linux it's very easy with hdparm. Under Windows there is no function provided to shutdown a harddisk immediatelly. So we need tools. I already tried HdSleep and Symbios SCSI Tools. But they do not work. Do you have any sucessfull tool for W2k/XP? ftp://ftp.eunet.cz/pub...

Rusty075 wrote:You don't have to worry about burning up the chip, it'll shut itself down before any damage happens.

Sounds good, do you have any sources?

Thank you for posting. Almost thought, nobody is interested in....

I actually have some first hand experiences:

I plugged of the fan on a Radeon 7500 and the heatsink gets only a little bit warm during idle. My Radeon 9700 with Zalman heatpipe gets very hot during idle....

http://www.computerbase.de/article.php?id=238&page=24 Pentium 4 3,00GHz (200MHz FSB QDR) Motherboard: Intel D875 PBZ mit BIOS B03 vom 15.3.2003 Arbeitsspeicher: 2*256MB Corsair XMS3000 CL2 They measure the AC power draw of the system. The figures can't be compared directly to their last test because...

Of course, more.
Like AMD Athlons without idle disconnect: They are cooler during idle but there is much more possible.
I'd like to see some advanced power saving like in mobile GPUs

Does anybody of you know if Nvidia or ATI plan to reduce the power needed during non-3d applications?
As a simple customer I am shure that both won't listen to me.
For a overview, look here: http://www.computerbase.de/article.php? ... xp_desktop

It's a Jamicon 0825S-M 0.12A.

I see nothing special in these fans. Simply a "undervolted" NGL. I would be surprised if it is more silent at the same rpm.
BTW, i replaced my PWM-controlled CPU fan with a Jamicon sleeve bearing i found in a old PSU. This one gives my air noise only and no annoying buzzing like the former Papst.

If a friend aks you for a silent cooler which would you recommend? Here is my list for AMD: <10€: Artic Cooling Copper Silent 1 (TC) - is relatively quiet but high temperatures 12$: Spire Whisper Rock OR Titan TTC-D5TB - better cooling than Artic 30$: Thermalright SK7+ - nearly as good as SLK 800 40...

It doesn't matter if he's running AMD, Intel, Via, Spark, etc, etc, if his wall outlet is only putting out 200W he's only using 200W. Uhh you missed my point. Wumpus uses a P4 system. His PSU only can deliver 18A @ 12V = 216W. On a 865/875 systems with Geforce FX5600 70% of the power goes through t...

cmcquistion, I liked your 2nd article. I would recommend it to newbies to silent computing as a good entrance point. Your method of decoupling hdd's was new to me. You only recommend what you have tried. If somebody comes and say "this one is better" you don't have to listen because you haven't trie...

[...]So that 180w from the wall, assuming an awfully optimistic 75% efficiency rating on the Enermax 365, is really only providing 135w of actual power to the components inside the Dual AMD system (at 100% load!) Heck, even my overvolted/overclocked P4 3.2c system I am typing this on, only draws 25...

However, isn´t the whole idea of the BTX-form that the air goes straight in to the cpu, therefrom to the GPU and then out the back (with small exception of the air cooling the memory and PSU), which will guarantee that cool air always hits the GPU-fan I don't like the idea of heating up the case wi...

Put speedfan in autostart folder.

German magazine C't checked a hudge number of barebones: Shuttle, MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, Elitegroup, Freetech, Lex Systems, Iwill, Noise Control A Conto, Soltek, Alternate, Gigabyte.
What brands you are interested in? I can say some words about 2-3.

CoolGav wrote:Since you're not going to do anything other than audio on this PC, then I'd suggest going with a Matrox graphics card.

This is exactly my recommendation, too.

Doomer wrote: Papst are overpriced and their quality has gone down LOT once they started to manufacture them in Hungary.

I had Papst from Hungary and Germany. They did not differ.

Doomer wrote: Papst are overpriced and their quality has gone down LOT once they started to manufacture them in Hungary.

I had Papst from Hungary and Germany. They did not differ.

Doomer wrote: Papst are overpriced and their quality has gone down LOT once they started to manufacture them in Hungary.

I had Papst from Hungary and Germany. They did not differ.

Just

I will bring some light into this topic. There are 3 processors intended for mobile use: ------- Pentium - M -- new design, needs special chipset, only available as ITX mobo for desktop use, yet ------ The following two are compatible with the Pentium 4. You can put them on every motherboard. Of cou...