If you can't under volt, then under clock (if you can). They both effect power consumption. The advantage to under clocking is no negative impact to stability.

Put the thing together first and then see what, if any, problems thee are. The reason for this is that the resonant frequencies of the different panels are rather specific, and will only be excited if your components vibrate at the right frequencies.

That's a picture of an i5-6xx (w/graphics core), not an i5-750.

Take a look at the Gentle Typhoon 1150 & 1450 numbers.

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Hi all One last thing I remember reading it's bad to coil up cords on battery charges as it can cause them to overheat. Does anyone think this would apply to a fanmate if I use a cable tie on it. No, fans don't draw enough current for the gauge wire used for a fanmate to heat the wires. I doubt tha...

Not all DVI > HDMI converters are created equal; you have to make sure that the one you get also carries the audio signals. There are also Displayport > HDMI converters that carry the audio.

I would suggest double checking the output ports on the card. For these lower end cards there are usually two variations on the ports: DVI/HDMI/VGA or DVI/HDMI/Display port.

Do a search (here and google) for HDMI handshake.

I never have your problem, but other folks do on the AVS forums.

Scythe: S-Flex, Gentle Typhoon and Kama Flex II, Arctic Cooling fans have FDB. I'm sure there are more.

Power loses due to friction are minuscule between bearing types with small bearings like this. Right now the fans with the highest operating life are the ones with FDB.

You should be able to go directly into the BIOS and set the CPU voltage as low as 0.85v. Just remember that that voltage value is for idle conditions when the CPU multiplier is x6. Undervolting will have very little effect on idle power draw. I doubt that it's possible to change the VID in the CPU. ...

IDvsEGO wrote: whats a good target to shoot for for ambient temps? also, where is a good place to put the temp probe to take the ambient temps?

The ambient temperature is the temperature of the room, or more specifically, the temperature of the air entering the PC. Any indoor/outdoor thermometer would work.

I got some doc for you to read: ball bearing vs sleeve bearing That piece dates to Apr 26, 2000, and is very general about bearing types. Today, one of the more current bearing types is Fluid Dynamic Bearings which are very quiet and have a long life. The Zalman 9500 is not a particularly quiet, or...

The minimum VID is a value programed into the CPU. All that can be set in the BIOS is Vcc (CPU voltage). There are three basic settings: Auto - BIOS determines the Vcc - tends to use higher than necessary voltage, Normal - Voltage level setting read from CPU (VID), Manually setting the Vcc. Vcc will...

The additional pins gives a greater current capacity across the connector. This is only a factor if the CPU can draw more current than a 4 pin connector can handle. This will never be an issue with the CPU you are using. It's really only a potential issue with older (pre Conroe) high power consumpti...

These latency issues are most often attributable to MB issues. The best forum for Gigabyte MBs is at Tweak Town (http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/). The bad news is that DPC Latency issues can be miserable to diagnose and fix. If you're lucky a new BIOS rev may fix it. Sometimes people just windup ge...

There isn't much point in discussing cooling solutions until there is some sort of definition of the cooling load. Really. One needs to know the hardware, applications and ambient temperature range the PC will be in to have some idea of what the thermal loads will be. Otherwise the exercise is rathe...

If there is a cooler attached to the fan, regardless of the configuration, use a high static pressure one.

OK, it makes more than no difference, but very little: 2.2% with only a fan running at 1350 RPM. As can be observed from his other graphs, and the quote you include, the effect is highly dependent on the fan's RPM. Once you get into the RPM range of fans in quiet PC's (1000 RPM, or less) there may n...

For some reason people are under the impression that this is all black and white, and it isn't. No application of fans in computers are in free air; there is always an impedance, it just ranges in magnitude. In the case of fans, there is always some degree of leakage between the fan blades and the f...

Ball bearings have small points of contact compared to sleeve bearings. As a result they don't tolerate shipping as well as to sleeve fans. Oh please! this could be the biggest load of crap you've ever posted here. Do you know anything about bearings? Ball bearings are made from precision ground, h...

Using the Typhoons for case fans is like using a chisel as a screw driver. Good chisels don't make good screw drivers. WTF are you talking about? You join this forum and on one had give all sorts of "expert advice" and then ask the most basic questions revealing a profound ignorance of almost all t...

How long does the epoxy hold for? It depends on the epoxy (there are probably 100's of different ones. It depends on the surface prep. It depends on the difference in the coefficient of expansion of the two materials that are being epoxied together, and the temperature range that the materials will...

For a given voltage, it can only draw more current if it runs at a higher frequency or does more work. From Ohm's Law (I = V/R) I goes down if the voltage goes down.

I read some of these posts and wonder if any of these people have ever been in an office aside from a Take your kid to work day

SSD's? Add in video cards? Right...

The first question to ask about all instrument readings is does it makes sense? If there is lower voltage than their should be a lower power draw. (W = V x I) If the power calculation is the same or higher with the lower voltage AND the CPU frequency is the same, the the current reading in HW Monito...

samdrong wrote:
b_rubenstein, if I do not use a form factor power supply what case would you suggest I use?

What you do want to use is a standard ATX power supply. Aside from some very small cases (mITX), you can find just about any type[/form factor] case.

If the fan is vibrating enough to shake the MB, there is something wrong with the fan. If the fan is in balance, has good bearings and is running true (no wobble) then it shouldn't vibrate much at all, even if its making a racket from spinning fast.

The 380D is the current Earthwatts model (at least here). I had a Seasonic model in my son's computer and it was very quite.

Passive water cooling probably means no pump. This is old technology know as thermosyphon: Thermosiphon (alt. thermosyphon) refers to a method of passive heat exchange based on natural convection which circulates liquid without the necessity of a mechanical pump. This circulation can either be open-...