I am game. I haven't used up all my Artic Silver 5 yet. Email sent.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=506 http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=477 So according to Western Digital, their Scorpio black drives are quieter and presumably faster than their Scorpio blue drives! I have a 3.5" WD Caviar Blue that I want to replace, and acco...

And for the Black, how would it be overkill? While I do play a lot of games, I value silence just as much. Not to derail this topic but is the Black with AAM quiet or as quite as the WD GP? I have the WD10EADS and the WD6400AAKS. The latter is quieter and much faster. The EADS is horrible as a syst...

n00dle wrote:Hi there, do you have any draw figures you would care to share regarding idles for these 2 systems? Thanks!

Yeah, I've posted those several times on this site. Search on my username...

I wont even install a different chip manufacturer without wiping the OS and starting from scratch. id be surprised if running 2 diff companies cards would even POST. I have had both drivers installed without any issues, but I haven't tested using two different cards recently (back in 2000 it didn't...

Just looking at the CPUs, the E5200 runs much cooler: ~20W max load power and idle power <5W. Unfortunately LGA775 chipsets use a lot of power. I currently have a X2 5800+/740G and a E5200/G31. The X2 system can easily idle at much lower power than the E5200/G31 even when the X2 is overclocked. Howe...

Is it easy to replace the heatsink and fan with the motherboard in the case? ... Can I just replace the fan and keep the heatsink? The stock E5200 heatsink is very small--basically worthless. I highly recommend getting a larger heatsink that can take a large fan. Some LGA775 heatsinks attach with p...

Still not as good price/performance as my $50 96-shader 9600GSO, but it should be a great deal when it gets cheaper. It's still 58% faster than the 9600GSO, and the prices on launch day doesn't really say much, they never have done and never will. Sorry, no, it isn't. My GSO is faster than a 9600 GT...

now I'm no engineer (phew!) but surely any part in the chain between silicon and air (via IHS>TIM>hs base>heatpipes>fins) is going to be at equilibrium once temperatures have stabilised? i.e., presumably the TIM can only transfer heat as fast as it can be evacuated from the base of the heatsink and...

jhhoffma wrote:Actually, it's Graphene which is at a minimum over twice as conductive as diamond. However it's a little hard to make a atom-thin layer of carbon into a paste...

I would take it in atom thick sheets.

I don't understand where you are reaching this conclusion. That review compares the TRUE to the original rev A ninja. The chart on the hr-01 plus review shows it performs 1 degree better at all fan speeds. And while this hasn't been explicitly confirmed, but I get the sense that the rev B ninja doe...

I wonder if the $135 Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition is worth the trouble over a Core 2 Duo or even a $70 Pentium Dual Core E5200. I have to say the latter is pretty quick when overclocked to 4+GHz. The Phenom II is still pretty power hungry--even with disabled core(s). I have a $55 X2 5800+ recently...

Did you try AAM? No, it is already too slow. :) It is plenty quiet when not seeking, but with a fresh Vista install it was seeking all the time. I am just very disappointed in it. If only used as a extra storage drive (i.e., less seeking) it may be fine. I am waiting for something like the 30GB OCZ...

I have this $55 X2 5800+ and was searching for another cheap AM2+ motherboard. It is running fine at 3150MHz on the Foxconn 740G but won't run any faster. While searching I noticed that Newegg had a combo deal on a Pentium Dual Core E5200 and the Gigabyte G31M-ES2L. So, I ordered those, and I also h...

Back in the day it was possible to shut down all services for avg (via msconfig..), but ever since their version 8 you can't disable it without disabling the virus scanner as well.... It should really not do anything, not even update, except when I run a scan manually. You can always just uninstall...

What maths will allow me to accurately and completely describe turbulence? Turbulence is described by rather simple equations, a lot of chaotic systems follow rather simple equations. The big thing is they are non-linear--though that isn't the only requirement. I am atheistic about the god Chance (...

Does anyone know what the speed is??? My WD10EADS is slow and loud. Get a WD6400AAKS. So you have a defective HDD. I have WD6400AAKS, WD10EACS, WD10EACS, and there is no comparison between WD6400AAKS and any Green Power drive. It seems to be getting quieter. It is the seek noise that is so annoying...

I'm sure the 430 is the most efficient chip in the list, but what about the other two? Is the newer process used in the E5200 enough to make up for its extra performance? If anyone can give me some concrete numbers, I'd really appreciate it. I could just take the easy way out and get the 430, but i...

ye searched the forums and set multiplier to 7.5 *200mhz (1.5ghz) and vcore 0.8v (removed tv card aswell). Seems to be ok, until someone here tells me otherwise! Its down to about 75/76watts idle (using lightsout so server only runs from 5pm to midnight) . Going to add two wd 1.5tb harddrives soon,...

Now this idles between 18-22w, goes up to around 30w under load. I’m looking to build a second windows system with a similar power footprint. What I’m looking at is performance on a par with the mac mini. So it needs to be 2Ghz + with either a 9400 or HD 3200 IGP. You need to find a power suppl...

Cov wrote:Couldn't we avoid the whole subject from becoming a problem in the first place, by declaring ANY kind of religion as a private matter ?

Private religion is an oxymoron. Individual's beliefs are not any kind of religion--okay, maybe a very sick kind.

Prove it works? You said it was arrogant. It is not arrogant. It is pretty well establish that religion in general has its benefits. Religion is probably unavoidable. I do not see that modern atheism as being the best religion. Generally religions are properly identified from the outside. Most thin...

Which Cooler out of these 2 would you choose as the best cooler: HR-01 Plus v Xigmatek HDT-S1283 It would be used with a low RPM fan on an AM2 3200 X2 CPU in an Antec case. 9800 GT Graphics card and 4g of DDR2 Ram. One rear case fan. I am looking to see which would be the best at cooling, using the...

There is a big blue plus sign on the card's sticker in the picture.

An extremist may argue that if you don't believe in Jesus (or whomever) then you go to hell. So one that lives off the grid in a jungle isolated from civilization and has never heard of him will go to hell? That's an example of ridiculous arrogance. Either that, or Christians have one really nasty ...

As for my one question, I dunno, I figure I'll do that I'll meet Him one day and I won't care about any of the things of this life by then anyway. Kind of like how I don't care about anything of my life when I was in school because that was a whole different time of my life. My new life is so much ...

How can not believing in something be extremist? - I don't believe in Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy either - is that extremist? Yes, I'd say so. Now it is nothing to disbeleive in any and all concepts of god(s). These are mere idols. There is no doubt however that there is something of which ...

jason80 wrote:Does anyone know what the speed is???

My WD10EADS is slow and loud. Get a WD6400AAKS.

If you're using Windows, you can undervolt using CrystalCPUID and effectively eliminate any possible differences between the chips. At default voltages, the 5050e will idle lower because the default voltage at 1GHz is 1.0V versus 1.1V for the standard X2 5600. Yes, and even my new X2 5800+ runs fin...

I wish I had bought another WD6400AAKS instead of the WD10EADS I just got. The latter seems to be the noisest drive I've had since a 7200.8. It is also horribly slow in actual use.