just wanted to mention - 7200.11 are am improvement over 7200.10 noise-wise. less vibrations and idle and seeks are more muffled. while it won't beat Samsung or Hitachi, obviously, they no longer will drive you to a suicide with all that ruckus :P . there's an interesting seagate drive out there, bt...

i have 750 quad and i like it - it's a tank of a psu. don't use it much though - as nick said - it's not too quiet and i do have more efficient psu's for the loads. the atx power cable is over 20" - it's longer than most; if not, there are extensions you can find for it. what do you need 750w for an...

p5e-vm, asus the board tries to buffer the voltages as fsb is raised but vcore droops pretty bad without mods on it. i am not particularly sure what is the default vcore on this chip. vid is 1.0500v but that's a very loose indicator from my experience. so, if it overvolts a bit, no biggie. there's s...

"Why did you need to F8 to get CoreTemp to work!" - vista 64-bit.
"Does Speedfan not read the DTS in Wolfdale?" - no, it does not appear so.

at about 67-70 at the time. i just got tired of f8-ing every time i restart so i gave up on the coretemp for now. it doesn't read the current flock of wolfdales correctly anyways so i figure - why even bother. coretemp reads tjmax at 105c and vid for the chip is 1.0500. i had to level the vdroop on ...

here's the pix:



not the around-the-clock, of course. the whole thing was getting a bit toasty and the bloody fan was at above 2000rpm. i can go around wearing earplugs only for so long...

i am getting a dif. h/s for it, i might retest then.

seems mine is doing something similar... i am keeping it though - it does 4ghz at stock vcore - so i'm good. No way. It wouldn't run a stress test like Prime95 and pass for 24 hours on stock Vcore. Just booting into windoze is not enough. Is this an E8500 or E8400? ah, right... there's no pic uploa...

seems mine is doing something similar...

i am keeping it though - it does 4ghz at stock vcore - so i'm good.

hehe, wanna see something fun then? here's what i recorded with p5e-vm and e6600 so i could have some reference numbers prior to sticking e8400 into it: orthos small p5e-vm e6600 1.3v vcore ? default in bios __________________________ 3.2 - 124w idle; 164w load idle 45-46c (700rpm) load 57-59c (2000...

actually, i noticed that it will depend on the enclosure more than anything else; i am talking from personal experience. i got the new wd 320 (forgot the name). okgear enclosure i had won't power it up via single usb. same drive in icy dock had no problem. it was mentioned earlier that not all usb p...

smilingcrow, the power draw does rise with frequency, if not as much as with voltage. on the other hand, the higher the frequency, the bigger the voltage droop so it might more or less equalize the power consumption between, say, 3.0 and 3.6. on some motherboards it's more prominent so the differenc...

if it's for gaming, m/b you should consider e8400? is dual core but it's 3Gh stock, runs at lover temps and has lower power consumption.

they are available right now if you look around.

m/b not... here's the settings if you want to check:

http://mcoleg.blogspot.com/

they are pretty nice, aren't they. they don't need an amp at all, unless you prefer the coloring one amp or another bring to the sound... mids are a bit recessed, you'll notice. it can be fixed with ES cable. shure olives without the cores fit on them, btw; not only they are more comfortable but als...

Blue, have you given a thought to 120x38 fans? they should provide more presure at the same rpms, at least theoretically. I know it's not the point of your post, so... i've got recently a pair of DFS123812-1000, at about 6-800 rpm they are pretty smooth, as far as the noise. there are higher rpm mod...

I got this board a couple of days ago; so far so good. To those who are interested in overclocking with it, here's a little something: fsb 529, the maximum I've got it to boot so far, CPUZ verified: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=298678 The cpu used is e6600 B2 stepping; video card is x8...

ah.

thanks, later on perhaps.

what RAPWare said; without enabling AAM, they are just plain loud. give it a try.

cooper absorbs the heat better than aluminum but it doesn't dissipate the heat as well as aluminum. so, actually, it might need a fan more than the usual version (at least at higher heat-loads).

Das_Saunamies wrote:a display with light-shaded edges creates less contrast for the viewer than one with dark edges. So get a "silver-lined" display if you can.

this sounds interesting. could you please elaborate on this a bit more, some links perhaps?

finally, a cheap board from via to compete with the intel's offering... not as powerful but still good enough.

there are numerous cases, Das_Saunamies; i occasionally see it on one forum or another; encountered it myself. we are basically staring at a bunch of fluorescent lights through a layer of plastic. good point about the resolution, Neil; have to keep it native. another thing - adjust the font size. ma...

tune down the brightness or better yet, if you have an access to that setting - the backlight

to over-simplify - with newer psu's it's not the total watts rating that counts but the max load on the 12v rail. that's why you had trouble with your old psu. don't believe the manuals... :P ea380 is a single rail psu that can handle more load than lots of higher watt-rated units. you are loading w...

while a wall socket in the us is rated to 15A, it's usually recommended (ask your local electrician :P ) not to load it past 13A. They get gunky, rusty, they are surrounded by paper walls and dry wood, for goodness sake. the most common cause of fires. If it's an old socket, might as well keep it ev...

browse around here, i think bluefront compared them some time ago.

what are you measuring the temps with?

also, the load temps you quote are not that bad. you will get a def. improvement lapping that cpu, of course, but 50C with a 4-core load is pretty good. idle could be better though.

BTW, Dean

if power supplies are the culprit, you could probably replace PSUs in those dells:

http://www.pcpower.com/products/power_supplies/dell/

pcp&c are not the quietest and these won't be as silent as the sprc-recommended psu's but they are ok if you are looking to improve over stock.

Methods of making it are good and nice but don't forget to try better brands. most of the teas that are sold around here are of pretty low quality, seeing as we don't really know the difference. of yah, one more things - the cup you use - tea is better served in a thin-walled cup as opposed to a thi...

can get tiresome sometimes, the iems...

i got hd25 and hd555 for those times.

as you can see, not exactly an audiophile i am


well, gl with your build; snap some pix when you get it together.