Gigabyte 3870 with S1
coil whine when fps in 3d app is greatly over 100, not just under stress.
Mildly annoying during loading of some games.

Is there a tutorial for CrystalCPUID for undervolting, etc..? I have played with it, but never seem to "get" it - the interface is REALLY confusing for me Funny, I gave up on RMClock for same exact reason. CrystalCPUID has only one page to set multipliers, voltages, time and load between changing p...

I managed to kill fan speed regulation on one of headers of asus a8r32mvp
Now I know not to hot-plug fans. One the 20th time you do it, something bad happens

undervolted wolfdale is also easy to cool passively. And it offers better performance (per watt too I believe) than any alternative.

I had one, I still use the heatsing a nd the fan from it too cool my hdd. If I remember correctly, it managed to cool Venice 3000+ without spinning fast, basically inaudible. When I switched to Manchester 3800+ and clocked it a bit, heat was too mch and the fan had to work on max rpm to cool it. So ...

tools like rmclock or crystal cpuid do not need CnQ to lower cpu frequency and voltage
I use cpuid all the time with an overclocked Opteron.
It allows me to have lower voltage and multiplier in idle than CnQ while maintaining the max overclock

And from first reviews, power consumption of p45 can surprise you. Its low.

fix the loudest part first.
When you'll get to the point where GPU cooling is audible, then you get accelero

Actually, when I took both of them out and rested them on a cheap case, they were quite on par with eachother.
And luckily, some foam + AC Silentium T2 Eco was able to cure this. So now I am a happy camper.

Yesterday received mine.
First impressions - its fast, its silent, its very cool, but...
it vibrates, no, it VIBRATES
Much worse than 501LJ

I have V1 and quite happy with it. Its excellent, except for the fan itself. It rattles as is common wit TT.
But on 300-500 rpm it cools almost as well as with 1000 rpm. And looks killer too!

In responce to "Vector is not very lightwieght", true... My setup uses 140MB ram after boot.
But there is a lighter version in beta, called (surprise) VL Light. Didn't try it, but I guess it is what it claims to be

VectorLinux is a nice Slackware-based distro - it's built for speed on old systems, and it's claimed to be just about the fastest available outside of custom builds... Second that. I use VL on my work laptop. It is 100% capable distro, without any cutbacks. The customized Xfce is very usable. And s...

Yes, the efficiency of Accelero S1 is unbelievable
And 3870 beats 8800xx 9600xx in idle power while having almost same performance.
So it was my choise too

Meanwhile http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php ... 3&pageid=1 posted a positive review. Quite impressed with silence and cooling combination. Good words about internal design while not mentioning cheap build. Not many facual numers tho.

I confirm everything af9pk said. Me too have only 4 fans in the system, 4th being cpu cooler TT V1 on low. It spins between 400 and 800 rpm depending on load and is inaudible. Loudest part is my hard drive, old 160gb samsung. The HD heatsink does make a big difference, but muffler overall not so muc...

I went for same motherboard for my new build. Supposed to work better with 45nm cpus, and hopefully easy to undervolt. Besides, I learned that one piece of hardware in computer you shouldn't save on is your motherboard. Hate to feel limited later on. I'm less ambitious (e8200, 3870) and also aiming ...

Can you confirm, when you set voltage manually and enable speedstep, it just changes multiplier?

behold the grave digger

under linux hdparm makes it very easy to manually power on and off and also set arbitrary powerdown times

What I noticed under WinXP64 tho, is that when drive powers up, everything else in system stops for a second or two - mouse, sound stutters, screen. Very annoying

Thanks for the info. Case and psu fans are inaudible, thats realy good news

Hi Saw a review on Gigabyte DES ad Asus EPU http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1348/4/page_4_test_system_setup_and_power_usage/index.html But watt numbers are way too large. X48 doesn't use 54 watss to begin with, so I fail to understand where does this energy saving (at idle no less) comes from. Eit...

Yes, but they criticize, for example, HDD placement, but fail to prove its bad either for noise or temps. Words are worth 0.

bit-tech fails to say WHAT exactly was making noise. For all I know they have a turbine on their mega-pentium. Did they hear HDD? Did arctic fans spin faster under load? Zero useful info. The other part missing is the assembled system fit pictures. Very curious about that. No word about PSU either e...