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- Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:47 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Redid my desk - Yay or Nay
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8047
- Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:42 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Athon 64 Socket 754 Recommendations - add your top pick
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4349
Anandtech's Socket-754 motherboard roundups ( part 3 , part 2 , and part 1 all review different boards) make some mention of board stability when 3 DIMM's are used. Most boards are stable, and some can keep tight memory timings. It might be a good indication of how well your memory will work. How fa...
- Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:21 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: best 6600 for fan detachment
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4832
Are you looking for an AGP card or a PCI-Express 6600? The AGP cards appear to be selling for about $150, and since the 6600GT's can be had for $200, the 6600 doesn't sound like such a good deal. Especially since they come at 300core/550mem speeds, and the AGP 6600GT's are 500core/900mem. I don't kn...
- Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:40 pm
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Limited Airflow Case - 120mm or 80mm?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2216
- Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:45 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: new FSP Green Power with 85% efficiency
- Replies: 88
- Views: 62142
- Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:38 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Quiet or easy mod'able 6600gt?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4923
MSI's AGP 6600GT has the shroud and the quoted 28dB fan. While it's quieter than many of the screamers on the market, (I've also heard the MSI 6800, wow that's loud!) it will still be the loudest component in any reasonably quiet PC. Its heatsink appears to be larger than the stock heatsink that com...
- Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:43 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Will Seasonic ST 400w be enough? Storage system power reqs..
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12686
Replace Soyo KT400 Ultra --> Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Replace 2600+ Thorough Bred --> Athlon XP-M 2400+ 35 watt version (overclock to 2200mhz) If you're going to upgrade, you might as well replace old tech with new tech. Get an Athlon 64! Search around and you'll see the outrageously low power draw peop...
- Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:32 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Will Seasonic ST 400w be enough? Storage system power reqs..
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12686
If the old PSU can do it with 14-16A on the 12V line, then the 400W Seasonic, with 22-24A, shouldn't have any trouble at all. It seems that Seasonics are conservatively rated, too: MikeC (SPCR founder) did some informal voltage-sag tests on various PSU's, and the Seasonics were able to handle intern...
- Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:33 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Mod my old ti4200 or get a new card?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7272
I think you should mod the card with a quiet or passive cooling solution. There's no warranty left to void, and if you sell the card in the future, the aftermarket cooling will make the card more valuable. I think upgrading would only be worthwhile if you really want better 3D performance, not just ...
- Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:12 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Will Seasonic ST 400w be enough? Storage system power reqs..
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12686
Are you already powering this system with your cheap generic PSU? If so, then wouldn't a 400W Seasonic cut it? Either way, with that many hard drives, "staggered spin-up" sounds like a good way to reduce boot-time power requirements. This feature should be available on many SCSI controllers, and I'v...
- Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:09 pm
- Forum: General Gallery
- Topic: Buy Diflucan
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11156
- Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:46 pm
- Forum: Cases and Damping
- Topic: EMI Problems from Cutting the Fan Grill?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3554
Look for posts by the user "bomba", he has posted several times on EMI issues. Here's a good thread . From what I gathered, EMI from the PC can sometimes cause problems, but if you don't see anything wrong with your CRT or nearby electronics, then there's nothing to worry about. If you do see interf...
- Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:31 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: A friendly hello from the Dutch Power Cows!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5882
- Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:20 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: are coolmax CR-450B very quiet?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4987
The audible noise from my coolmax falls somewhere between the noise level of my 300W Seasonic and my Fortron Source (which is quieter than average, but no where near silent). I would expect the CR-450B to fall somewhere in that same range. Just don't expect complete silence from a power supply that...
- Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:14 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Website comparing 6600GTs?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2937
- Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:07 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: More SilenX "reviews" at Overclockers.com
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3641
I thought one of the Overclockers.com editors was watching this fellow. :| He's written a review of the Seasonic Super Tornado 400W ( article here .) Notice in that review, he complains that the Tornado spins up and becomes audible under load, although he makes no mention of such spin-ups in his Sil...
- Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:34 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: E-A-R HD isolation mounts
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6738
- Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:22 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Any distributed computing projects that can run on the GPU??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3453
Huh, that's an interesting thought. I wonder if GPU's are programmable enough nowadays that a meaningful pixel shader could be programmed to generate coded graphical data? My guess is that, since GPU's are designed to blend textures together and dump geometry on the screen, it would take more CPU ti...
- Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:40 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Athlon64 system Noisy and hot. Some help needed please.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5108
I found this post by josephclemente: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?p=101392 He built a snazzy CPU duct for his Wavemaster, and it lowered system temps all-around by about 10°C. It allowed him to drop the speed of his Zalman 7000 by a whole lot, and I think in another thread he said ...
- Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:51 pm
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Athlon64 system Noisy and hot. Some help needed please.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5108
I took a look at the Wavemaster case yesterday in the store. The airflow path is good (bottom-front to back), but the top fan might do more harm than good, if it pulls air through the case without passing over the CPU heatsink. Experiment by removing the fan, and see if it adjusts temps by a degree ...
- Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:16 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Athlon64 system Noisy and hot. Some help needed please.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5108
Neil is right: for temperatures, case design and placement of fans matter as much, if not more than, having lots of high-speed fans. For example, when I was experimenting with fan ducts on my PC, I was able to change hard drive and CPU temperatures by 6°C just by flipping the direction of one of my ...
- Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:52 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: are coolmax CR-450B very quiet?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4987
ckolivas is right. Newegg user reviews have very limited value. You can't use them to compare products, and it's doubtful they can even be used as a rough quality indicator (how many dead pixels an LCD has, or how fast a certain memory will run) because the reviewers could be uncritical, exaggeratin...
- Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:04 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: Is there ANY flawless PSU out there??? Or good enough???
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5385
- Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:30 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: fanless thin heatsink for geforce 4
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1857
- Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:18 am
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: 9600 Pro Cooling Advice?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3777
Hi dfrost, Welcome to SPCR! :D I was going to mention the Zalman NB, but it looks like you already found those threads. :) You can save a few bucks by custom-mounting a larger heatsink, but all the products you mentioned are sure to work, and they're less risky than a homebrew solution. I'm pretty c...
- Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:07 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Thermaltake SilentCat 92mm + XP90 = good ? help please.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4387
Thumbs down on SilenX. Nexus fans are a good bet for 92mm and 120mm, from what I've seen here. Search around, there are literally a thousand posts on fans. With the XP-90, even a low airflow fan should keep an OC'd Athlon64 reasonably cool. Be sure to see SPCR's XP-90 review, since they test with lo...
- Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:55 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Need advice with nForce4
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2198
Hi and welcome! Make sure you read the forum comments on the Silentium T2 case review. Swapping the PSU is basically out of the question, so you either keep the PSU that comes with the case, or you get a different case. Playing with the fans might improve noise, but even that will be complicated. Th...
- Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:24 pm
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: GigE file server architecture
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4192
Take a look at this Ace's Hardware article where they compare nForce3 motherboards, and you will see what happens when you use a cheap GigE adapter. The onboard adapters in the article can get close to maxing out a top-of-the-line Athlon 64 when transferring data at high speed! I think a high-qualit...
- Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:51 am
- Forum: CPU Cooling
- Topic: Heat dissipation of nForce3/4 chipsets - any clues?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5201
Re: GlassMan's Xbit link: check page 7 for the relevant comments. At x5 HyperTransport multiplier the system remained stable till the clock generator frequency reached 237MHz. With 4x HyperTransport, we raised the frequency to 292MHz. When we dropped the HyperTransport multiplier to x3, we managed t...
- Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:39 am
- Forum: Power Supplies
- Topic: OCZ Powerstream, Antec Truepower, and Bequiet at Xbit
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4275
Hi Oleg, thanks for stopping by and explaining things! Also, thank you for explaining/examining the 110/220V efficiency. I'm very eager to read Xbit's next PSU article... You're right about my "fine" comment on the BeQuiet, it was a bad word choice. I should have said "tolerable" or "disappointing"....