flapane wrote:I couldn't manage to downvolt it (how did you do?)

It goes down when in idle automaticaly -- 1.0V from 1.15V when in 3D

Changed the stock fan, now the card is inaudible completely! (outside the case)
Silent gaming, at last!

Idle clocks are 157/300Mhz. No gain here. Well, the voltage/frequency pair is pretty ballanced out-of-the-box. On default 1.15V maximum stable for GPU is 900Mhz, and 1150 for RAM.

No need to tweak anything.

The card is also very quiet. Nice choice among other 5670s.

Hm... 0.1V drop gives 1.5W economy in idle, and 10W economy under FurMark load. Btw, 12W idle has this card.

Made some downvolting workaround... Default GPU Vcore under load is 1.150V, then I decreased it to 0.900V -- boots, but gives artifacts in FurMark. I think preferable voltage for stock 775/1000MHz is somewhere near 1.050 or so... Let's see the effect on consumption of these 0.1V. I'll try to measure...

I don't know the relation between the sites, xbit is russian IIRC and both articles have the same author. :D Ha-ha! Well, the explanation is simple. Xbitlabs is just like a RussiaToday , a proKremlin TV-channel that works for West world only (and says only good things about Russia), so is the Xbitl...

An interesting article (Russian language, use translate.google.com, pls), pretending to a precise comsumption analysis worked out (Atmel microcontroller is used, special current sencing, etc)

Found an interesting article pretending to a precise comsumption analysis worked out (Atmel microcontroller is used, special current sencing, etc) Resulting wattage table: http://www.fcenter.ru/img/article/videocards/Power_consumption/153382.png http://www.fcenter.ru/img/article/videocards/Power_con...

quest_for_silence wrote:Maybe you might get better answers

OMG, sure I know how to use google, but you are The Finder!

Thanks!

Guys, does anybody know what do mean these signs on bricks? The higher Roman numeral is better?

No problem

Efficiency was fantastic on this FSP unit, hitting as high as 89%. The FSP earns a 10 here.

Oh yes, a 19V brick! Less current = less voltage drop on output rectifiers A 12V brick hardly can be so efficient.

Joe Public

Scary.

Winmate board from electrodacus cures this

lesticx wrote: at least I can't find it :/

This one maybe? With the more detailed photo (and the opposite board side too) I can tell you for sure.

electrodacus, hi

Basing on the results of this article, ATI 5770 draws not so much. Here is exact currents analysis:

I'm using very cheap G31 board, and I'm happy with its performance running CPU at stock 2.8GHz + 4Gb RAM. Quick and chill system. Economy both for energy and money. Idle with 22W DC, with some deep undervolt. Still got no Kill-a-Watt so can't say AC wattage, but it should be ~30-35W.

To what extent does the savings pay for the cost of moving to the greener system. Dear ces , it won't be that much greener :? That's a illusion force-feeded by vendors as they must sell their goods by any means. Green is another pseudo-goodish consume reassuring trend. You buy a new hardware that i...

As for me, I don't see the point in going for a Clarkdale sitting on the Wolfdale. It won't be faster (a bit -- doesn't count), it will need a lot of cash to change the whole system (including RAM type). My current system is 22W DC idle rated, and I don't know if a Clarkdale setup will be better in ...

Half of energy goes to HDD+CPU, another half to MB -- yeah, that's a good balanced scheme. You can insert into MB things like ATI Radeon 5670. Nice twinning, electrodacus ! :D earlier you said even a few ms differential between the two causes some kind of shut down problem Let me respond, please. Th...

I'll repeat my recomendation posted in neighbour thread. A very interesting low noise competitor is Samsung NP-N220 Netbook : For hours there was not a sound from the fan. And when it did come to life, it was still so quiet that even the spinning of the 250 GB hard drive was louder. But one can hard...

Then we can say that Samsung learns from mistakes :) My girl-friend's N140 is very silent, sometimes I can't tell precisely is it On or Off. Another low noise competitor, Samsung NP-N220 Netbook For hours there was not a sound from the fan. And when it did come to life, it was still so quiet that ev...

What exactly is under the hot-cold pack? What is the impact of using the hot-cold pack: on temps and on sound? The gel inside the pack absorbs vibrations, thus doesn't allow moving parts to generate noise. It also has low temperature resistance coefficient, so the heat is transmitted to massive sur...

I will build that simple AC/DC converter. It will be a low cost project with parts from the recycling bin mostly. :) Will post a thread later and probably do some efficiency comparison with my PicoPSU + DA-2 and also with that LiteOn brick. I did already such test, and it seems, that transformer sc...

ces wrote:Surely you jest

I'm not



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I will only click on ads that are relevant to my interests AND not annoying. Well, I can't disagree with you, zombie-clicking(or even automated) isn't a solution :) But I personally don't need a one of the products that are being advertized here at SPCR. If I need something particular -- I do searc...

Hey, Mike. I use AdBlock too. Simply cause I hate excessive bothering advertisment (who likes it?), but if you need us to click some banners -- just tell us which ones, and we do a lot of clicks each time attending SPCR 8) P.S. Well, I added exclusion for silentpcreview.com in AdBlock rules )) Just ...

How about hibernate (S4)? Have you tried to measure under it?

would it be possible to use a very simple AC/DC converter with the Winmate DC-DC PSU? http://cxembl.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/im57.png Yes, it's possible. Of course, depending on the components you have. Large Vin of Winmate DC-DC here comes fitty (18-28V). But the game is not worth the candle...

speedboxx wrote:and you will waste alot of energy as heat.

A lot? Are you sure?

I'm leaning towards the Sapphire HD 5670. Is there any way to tell what kind of VRM it has and whether the voltage will be adjustable? You can drop a look on the back side of the pcb, but... Unfortunately, 5670 and 5750 reference design cards can not be supported because their UP6201 chip does not ...

Yeah, the best way to test chipset's hardware acceleration capabilities is to play a HD movie on it )

I suggest this site for everyone, very intensive heavy load 1080p trailers on the latest movie titles: http://www.hd-trailers.net/