Hi David - Earlier you made the assertion that a quad-core cpu would be overkill for music production. To my knowledge, many music production packages (Cubase,...
... though. ... . until ... This is why I mentioned SmartDrive. The suspension is a lot cheaper than SmartDrive, but, if you have money to burn for Q6600,...
Perhaps a silly question Mike, but pertinent to my current and future needs and save me a fair bit of experimentation; and ignoring for a moment the noise...
Not silly, John. I have very little patience for the bulk of extruded aluminum encasements for HDDs. Generally, they don't reduce noise or vibration -- they...
I had a problem with vibration being transmitted to the case when my drive was bolted into the cage. I got a piece of 1/2" thick styrofoam from some packing...
Thank you Mike... I will be trying to use strings + rails in a P180. I think that a variation on those aluminium U rails can easily be adapted to work in all...
Sounds like a great way to do this in a real DIY-way (which I absolutely love :) ) Would you happen to have any photo's online, or would you be able to do so? ...
... IIRC, Styrofoam is a thermic insulators, not a phonic insulator, so if the piece of styrofoam is too wide, you would be keeping the HD temperature in,...
Philip - I have the Antec P150 with the built-in elastic suspension and subjectively they do a good job of eliminating the noise via chassis vibrations. I...
It is good you have the mounting brackets attached. Drives need heatsinks. But, the foamy does restrict air flow. Top cause of drive failure is heat. So, now,...
... or just mount cooling rails like the ones recommended by Mike Chin on the SilentPCR web site. By the way, the drive is carried in a metal mount, on the...
Hi everyone, Since we all use Yahoo Groups to receive messages from this group, I thought I would let you know about a free service I found called Grouply. It...
You want me to supply my Yahoo! ID and password -- I think not. What's wrong with just having the group messages forwarded to my Yahoo email? ... thought I ......
Mike Chin. Is this an authorised send through this group? I understood it to be exclusively for peer to peer help on creating and using Silent PCs? I know it...
Hi group, I'm planning to build a new system, and this time, I'm thinking to use Core2 Duo. (Please don't start the CPU debate. I have a specific reason to use...
... Undervolting -> less consumption -> less heat -> less fan (in speed or number) -> less noise -> more silence I'm interrested in answers too... Gwenn -- ...
All Core2 Duo CPUs will run reliably at 1.05V at 6x clock. This is the EIST voltage/clock setting. Most chips can improve on this. Most ASUS, Abit and Gigabyte...
What I did was use the least expensive 45 nm Core 2 Duo I could get my hands on. Using these and under voltaging I'm almost tempted to replace the heat sink to...
... I settled on GIBABYTE EP35-DS4 (rev 2.1) 1) CPU voltage control down to 0.75V (which is what I found on the web and reason I chose this one) 2) The BIOS...
Q:> I only have one question - why undervolting? ... A: Because heat generated is a function of clockspeed and voltage, the less voltage you feed a processor...
Well, that's backwards. CPU (and any other semiconductor) power consumption is linear with the formula V*V*F, that is, the square of the voltage times the...
Why backwards I said frquency does not reduce heat as much and voltage decreases I forgot the square, but in the real world I have not seen a square reduction...
There is another reason for reducing the voltage; but it is not usually a user determined function. If you are trying to switch a transistor from "on" to "off"...
What about the 45 nm processors ("Wolfdale") now appearing? IIRC, one example is the E8300...has anyone any experience with undervolting these puppies? Since...
