what your grandmother will be using it for? if it's not graphics or cpu -intensive, you could build her a small, quiet box around D201gly2.

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energy draw would be just about what you are looking for.

that could still be your ram or the north-bridge. relax memory timings even more and bump voltage a little on both.

even adding those won't get you above 150w actual power draw. if you overclock cpu and vid. card both, then you might. ea380 and corsair vx450 (not the vx550, it has a clicking fan as some reported) are the psu's usually recommended for similar systems. ea500 is an option if for whatever reason you ...

i have the 450 version and ended up swapping the fan for a slipstream. it's bearable now. i did hear some coil-whine but i managed to block the higher frequencies by adding a bit of foam to the case top so it's ok.

Not running yet, just building... antec p180, 4 case fans GA-P35-DS4 rev 2.0 e8400 Still debating on 3870 vs 8800gt (boards a crossfire board, so I might go ati) 320gb HD with room for a raptor 100gb later Samsung CD-DVD RW Pretty small power demands there... but I'd like to have a good supply for ...

i got tuniq and ninja-c; both are more than sufficient even with slow-rpm fans.

this is the 250Gb model that's .75 : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262 it has "410" at the end of the model number, ftr. Yep, there would be 4 250gig models and two of them are 2cm high, that's the ST3250410AS and the ST3250310AS. 410 has 16meg of cache, 310 has 8. yah...

this is the 250Gb model that's .75 :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148262

it has "410" at the end of the model number, ftr.

here's what concerns me - you'll have 3xslipstreams at 1000rpm, 2xadda in the psu's and a water pump. i am not even counting chipset cooling, which you'll need if you go with nvidia board and 2xvideo card coolers. this is not going to be anywhere close to "silent". the system i am playing with now h...

i overclock. the main power draw will come from the quad and from the vid. card. i've gtx. gt's are not as power-hungry as gtx but i could make an estimate. the cpu's draw will depend on overclock. "strongly overclocked" might mean many things but if you throw in "quiet", your clock will have certai...

they are cheap to make and the profit margin with these prices is good. that would justify making them for the manufacturers. it doesn't justify us buying them though

there's another one from tuniq as well:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835154004

that's nowhere near 400-500W so far. what do you have your quad overclocked to and at what voltage?

while 1080p via component is possible (i have monitors that do that; VGA at 1080p as well), there's no HDCP on component. blueray will down-grade the image quality even if you manage to output it.

Mike, when you talked to them, have they mentioned anything about making a 380w version of the same?

does look like fsp makes those for nexus. no so sure from the pix if the big caps are the same though.

one way or another, fsp are very descent psu's; swap a fan in them an you get a nice quiet power box.

ea380 - 2 pin

like LAThierry said, buying 10 Kill-a-Watt's and passing them around would be probably the most effective way to convince people. a while ago i was thinking of doing something like that myself but i am too lazy :P . get several of them and of a pass them around on the forums i visit. two benefits in...

component most likely is out of the question but DVI is possible. you'll have to check if your vid. card supports HDCP via DVI and if the tv supports HDCP via DVI. also, some tvs take 1080p on DVI, some don't, you gotta check on that too. if the card supports HDCP via DVI and you want to connect it ...

good find WR304; gonna try it later on.

ninja cooper fits if you remove the side-intake duct. WTF is a Ninja "Cooper"? I keep seeing this spelled wrong and it irritates me to no end (nothing personal). It's a Ninja Copper, and I wouldn't say that it fits unless you know what mobo he's working with. I also wouldn't recommend that heatsink...

just what i am planning to do, actually. i decided to try the 500 rpm model first though. considering the loads and the build of the psu, it won't need all that much cooling to begin with. also, no one has tried them in psu's, as far as i know :P i know that start-up voltages could be a problem. i d...

hehe, i thought you'd be the one to reply :P hi Mike you are right - tornado is probably too strong a word. i'd better say "an annoyance". somehow, it's the noisiest piece in the system i am playing with. here's the spread. i've got two slipstreams inside nsk3480 controlled through bios. the board i...

i've run similar system: e8400 overclocked to 4.0Ghz with about 1.23v 3870 vid card 4 gigs of ram with your setup you'll never exceed 200w even if you try. boot-up draw is not excessive with it - less than load. practically, you are looking at about 120-160w from the wall which is only aprox. 100-13...

ninja cooper fits if you remove the side-intake duct.

will depend on the motherboard as well. larger sinks might require more clearance around the socket.

i'd skip on

* Corsair VX Series 450W Power Supply

if you have a silent system, that thing is a tornado.

whiic, you sure do write a lot. my original point was -

while it won't beat Samsung or Hitachi, obviously, they no longer will drive you to a suicide.

WR304, yah, it does say something like that. smilingcrow - i thought that was the normal behavior, wasn't it? there's been talk about intel implementing voltage regulation on the chip for a while; i think that's what we are seeing. if you look around, all the big m/b manufacturers have suddenly star...

whiic, you are right. "half-height" traditionally are the 2x5.25 bays. i'd like to point though, that the term is archaic - no one uses or makes those anymore. all the regular desktop and enterprise-class hard drives right now are 1/4 height according to that; instead we use term "normal height" for...

nope, not here. it's either auto or numeric value.

i have thought, ever since these cpus were pre-viewed, that they'd need about 1.2-1.25 on load.

srsly though, what is considered a default vcore for wolfdales? anyone?

what is exactly the number i should use for vcore then? i'd give it a try.