I have 2.5" drives in my desktop box. there's no need to park heads every time drive is idle because there will be no accidental falls nor g-forces. parking/returning of hdd heads is audiable and there's (I guess) some performance hit. is it possible to "instruct" drive not to park heads every time ...

two seagate momentus sata drives in the lower hdd cage of antec p182

this is diff for 1.0 and 1.275V (kernel 2.6.20): 598a599,600 > data->powernow_table[0].index = data->powernow_table[0].index + (5 << 8); // 1.275V > data->powernow_table[1].index = data->powernow_table[1].index + (4 << 8); // 1.000V 665a668,670 > return 0; /* allow override of VID values in print_ba...

anything set in the BIOS gets lost fist time cpufreq kicks in as it reads freq:voltage pairs for specific CPU from fixed table.

I used to modify powernow-k8.c to manualy set both voltages for my Athlon64: 0.9V @1GHz and 1.175V @1.8GHz

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-24 ... rvolt.html

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-34 ... rvolt.html

so, the minimum F speed is ~800rpm?

it will stop if I set lower PWM (~30%) ?

I'm planing to put one scythe s-flex on the thermalright ultra 120 extreme. I've found that there are 3 models with 800 , 1200 and 1600 rpms marked with D , E and F . thay all have same or similar price tag. is it the best solution to get the F version and turn it off / slow it down to <500rpm by PW...

Not really that low temps, my setup idles between 28 and 35 degrees with nexus/noctua fans at below 800rpm :) there's no idle state for my WDs: 01:49:57 up 16 days, 6:35, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.26, 0.36 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr inet addr: UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metri...

protellect wrote:Thats nuts, haha.

The drive temperatures are surprisingly low. Two thumbs up.

thx.

anyway, I think we should all congratulate WD for making such a Cool'N'Quiet drive.
but, it's very fast, too.

@matt_garman

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split from http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40962 speaking about file servers, here's mine (CM GeminiII came later with one 1200rpm Noctua on it): http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5080/titanyh5.jpg it's C2D E6550 with 8GB of RAM. 8 x WD7500AAKS, some partitions in linux kernel ...

Wibla wrote:Ofcourse... switched the fans now

hello.

I've seen you had Noctua 1200 fan on your Ultra 120 eXtreme and then you switched it to Nexus.

can you tell me how big difference in CPU temperature did you get from this change?

speaking about file servers, here's mine (CM GeminiII came later with one 1200rpm Noctua on it): http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5080/titanyh5.jpg it's C2D E6550 with 8GB of RAM. 8 x WD7500AAKS, some partitions in linux kernel raid. here's the example of bonnie++ on raid5 (have no raid0 to show o...

with G0 stepping CPUs you should use coretemp 0.95.4 or newer to get valid readings.


everything else: EXCELLENT !!!

nvidia still has better graphics driver support for linux

I can solder 3-pin mobo connector to Tricool's wires. anyway, I've given test run to Tricool and it appears to be a little bit noisy. it's audiable even on low (~1200rpm) setting and it gives almost no air flow set like that. I've put it besides one Noctua 1200rpm fan and Noctua was a lot better. I'...

I realy like that enclosure, but: 1. in my country there's no scythe products at all (no fans, no cooler, nothing) :evil: 2. usualy online reselers wont ship products here :( so, I would be satisfied with some basic mounting option that would fin in 3.5" or 5.25" space in P182. guess there's no need...

hello. I'm assembling new box with these components: - p182 - c2d e6750 - ultra 120 extreme - gigabyte ga-p35-ds4 - 4x 1gb apacer ddr2 800mhz - 2x 2.5" seagate momentus 5400.3 80GB SATA - samsung sh-s203b dvd-rw - (something like) passive 7600gt - corsair hx520w the main problem: I live in area with...

great post! a lot of informations.

i'm looking forward assembling of system in P182, too. i'll have many similar components, so this reading was very usefull for me.

what is the simplest way to mount two 5400rpm 2.5" HDDs in the P182 ?

guess thay don't need to be suspended as they are quiet by default...

thx!

I've found those two cases in the local store. P182 EU is priced below 100 euro and P182 SE is over 200 euro.

what is the difference between those two cases?

is P182 EU that bad or it's made from much lower quality materials?

it seems that DS4 rev 2.0 have a lot smaller heat-pipe chipset cooler then rev 1.0

vs.

How about a WD scorpio? The seagates are not considered the most quiet laptop drives though they should still be quieter than a single 3,5 drive and easier to cool, suspend or enclose. here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html I've found that noice differece between Momentus 5400.3 a...

I've seen that the price of Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 100GB SATAII (HTS722010K9A300) is the same or higher then price of two Seagates Momentus 5400.3 80GB SATAII (ST980811AS).

is it better, performance- and sound-wise, to get one Hitachi or two Seagates and put them in RAID0?

that's the perfect box! BRAVO!

david25 wrote:This is my choice, out of the computer the idle is quite loud, although seeks are very quiet. I think my fans will mask the idle once fitted.

loud as some 3.5" drive or loud in comparaison with other 2.5" drives?

trxman wrote:any more details about that capacitors color change?

is that for better or worse?

any info?

not so actual nor interesting, but here are some of my results: Athlon64 3000+ Newcastle (s754) default: 1.0GHz @1.1V, 1.8GHz @1.4V and 2.0GHz @1.5V http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7718/newcastlekd5.png Athlon64 3000+ Winchester (s939) default: 1.0GHz @1.1V and 1.8GHz @1.4V http://img516.imagesha...