Re: the mc error on only nvidia systems. I think that is a false rumor. My friend who got the mc error did not have an nvidia system.

Well this sucks badly. That is excessive! Ninja, Ultra 120, these other mentioned... all of these high end coolers are the top of the top, the cream of the crop. They are in fact borderline overkill even on 3ghz Q6600s. And from those frostytech numbers, the variation between the top products is in...

The reason I'm considering positive pressure is dust control. Positive pressure doesn't imply only one fan at the front though. That one fan at the front thing is the part that doesn't make good sense. So put one fan at the front, one at the back, and tweak the speeds so that the pressure is neutra...

It's always the same story : when a new product comes up with disruptive technology, there's always a lot of activity in the forums, and there's always people ranting. Some of them are even hired by the competition to spread rumors. No joking here, it's a very serious business. I'm not talking abou...

MiKeLezZ wrote:Any advices on less-vibrating HDDs than Samsung ones?

Come on. You're posting on the forum of a website that tells you how much hard drives vibrate when they review them. Check the front page. The WD GP drives don't vibrate as much as other 3.5" drives.

So, do you people recommend me to buy new Samsung (640gb or 750gb)? I'm on Intel 975x chipset... I'm little concerned about drive failures...don't wanna lose my data :oops: If not, what is the alternative? I'm searching for fast and reliable drive... Thx! The Samsung F1 is known to have problems ri...

your point was erroneous; the difference between the Acoustifan and the Noctua is probably only 7 or 8dB, not the 17dB which the "official" figures suggest. I'm going to go out on a limb and say nothing with moving parts can produce only 8dB. It's funny, you remind me of my sister before she grew u...

Ever heard of the P150/Solo?!

I just discovered the Gigabyte 3D Aurora case on the net. You might be taking some of the antec amenities for granted. Without dampened side panels, they are more likely to rattle. Without less obstructed air flow (like by the hdd cage), stuff gets noisy or hot. Without easy to clean air filters, s...

There's an 800rpm noctua case fan about 1.5" away, there is also about 1" of the scythe slipstream 800rpm that blows through the S1, past the video card. and up on the ninja. Sweet CPU. Side topic: The Slipstream will perform better on the back of the case than the noctua S12 (and the noctua will d...

andyb wrote:Any news on the Samsung 1TB F1, I am getting one tomorrow but I cant do the SPCR testing.


Andy

Burn the image of the Samsung HUtil to a cd and boot from it to test the F1 when you get it. Hopefully your drive won't have the errors that many people are experiencing.

Thanks for the reviews! I imagine we'll be immersed in a world of wonderful SSDs in 5 years.

Bluefront wrote: I've heard of that "blow up a bag" test.....just not accurate enough.

I disagree but there is another way to get better results! http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=digital+anemometer

Just to be clear here, are you measuring performance with RPM fixed or with the noise level fixed? Because different fans produce different noise levels at the same RPM, and nobody cares about RPM, they care about the noise. So for instance, with the RPM of the Slipstream and the P12 both tweaked to...

They've improved the heat pipe distribution like they did with the Mini. But being all copper is excessive

re: high prices

Yeah unfortunately Mcmaster-carr doesn't ship to Canada, so we take what we can get :\

Holy cow that stock heatsink change is incredible. I expected them to continue using the old one. But they chopped the heatsink in half! Now they are saving metal and getting two heatsinks for the price of one!

I haven't heard of the penny trick, and when I googled it, this post was the first result!

Shaman wrote:almost like the monolith in a Space Odyssey.

Right now I think the p182 looks like a fridge. But you're right, it is pretty close to the 2001 monolith, which is... the best looking case ever.

I taped shut as much as I could and have all air input flowing through the two dust filters, yes. I did not tape up anything on the front of the case. I did snip the metal grill and toss the mini plastic doors. I have to clean the filters once a week because there is significant visible dust build up.

I may not use it but sign me up anyway!

I like the dual rear 120mms on the Antec 1200.

A+++, thanks again for the SPCR take on trade shows!

Hi, Do we have an actual power output available for the graphics card used in the test? so we could caluclate the actual C/Watt performance of this cooler and compare it with CPU coolers. If I understand correctly the S1 was keeping the GPU 10C above local ambient, which puts most CPU coolers to sh...

I've been thinking of buying some sorbothane hemispheres to attach to the sides of things that vibrate: http://stores.ebay.ca/dang-good-stuff_S ... idZ2QQtZkm

JacksonDane wrote: I don't hear the drive seeking exactly, it just idles loudly.

Can't do anything else but put it in an isolation box ( viewtopic.php?t=32509 ) or get a quieter drive like a GP or the right 2.5".

Sort by idle noise here, the other link is out of date and the wrong one to use: http://www.storagereview.com/Testbed4Compare.sr The F1 is probably down there with the best two (GP and T166). The GP doesn't vibrate much but the T166 vibrates a lot and the F1 probably does too. Especially with suspen...

I guess all of them are junk and the only real option left without faffing around in the dark trying to find one that does exactly what it says on the tin is to go for he ludicrously over priced solid states. No... http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html Sort by idle noise: http://www.st...

bkh wrote: Evidently not. Vendors would get legal liability if they listed products with specs different from what is provided by the manufacturer.

You are wrong

Why would I want to go for a 2.5" though? 2.5" drives are silent, 3.5" drives are not so silent :) If you just want a quiet drive, not a silent drive, then the WD GP, Samsung F1, and older Samsung T166 all perform well and are quiet to some degrees. The F1 is the obvious choice if you don't specifi...

> It doesn't need to be big, not even 200gb.

That is easy then, just get the fastest 2.5" laptop drive. That would be a new single platter 160gb Hitachi or Samsung. Both would work.