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You can suspend hard drives, or at least decouple them. You would be amazed how much difference that can make. Almost totally eliminates the grinding noise. Does nothing for whine though, the only way to get rid of whine is to buy a quiet HDD. Samsung currently are the quietest desktop sized HDDs.
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Well without disabling anything I got 15 seconds on the E8400 ![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Gotta love the new 45nm chips!!!!
Ermmm..... quiet? Well I've got a fan going mental in here at the moment then but even with Orthos running I'm only peaking at 47 on one core and that's without any secondary fans kicking in!
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Gotta love the new 45nm chips!!!!
Ermmm..... quiet? Well I've got a fan going mental in here at the moment then but even with Orthos running I'm only peaking at 47 on one core and that's without any secondary fans kicking in!
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Overclocked to 3.6GHz and the time is down to 12 seconds.
Core temp stayed at 46-48C. I think I may have put too much paste on... but if it won't go over 50 I'm happy![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Core temp stayed at 46-48C. I think I may have put too much paste on... but if it won't go over 50 I'm happy
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Wheres, the f*kin thing on the page you have to D/L?
i hate pages like that which hide the program you want
WHY do they do it![Frown](images/smilies/frown.gif)
why not have a simple tab or button?
Cant be a*sed now
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i hate pages like that which hide the program you want
WHY do they do it
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why not have a simple tab or button?
Cant be a*sed now
Mart
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My e6400 (2x 2.13GHz) 2gig 667 Ram
Standard speeds 27sec:
![](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k319/SharkManisalib/normalclk.jpg)
Mild overclock (2.804GHz, 1402.2FSB, RAM at 700MHz (350.5), standard voltages, stock heat sinks). Stable, an cool, with fans at lowest audible speeds (It's a very quiet PC
): 21secs
![](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k319/SharkManisalib/overclk.jpg)
All with the usual background junk running.
Standard speeds 27sec:
![](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k319/SharkManisalib/normalclk.jpg)
Mild overclock (2.804GHz, 1402.2FSB, RAM at 700MHz (350.5), standard voltages, stock heat sinks). Stable, an cool, with fans at lowest audible speeds (It's a very quiet PC
![Wink](images/smilies/wink.gif)
![](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k319/SharkManisalib/overclk.jpg)
All with the usual background junk running.
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Seems a little slow as my ancient machine was 48s. Try it again when you are on the machine with less running in the background. I'm actually really happy with my little XP 2500+, I thought it was going to be murdered by these new fancy CPUs
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You can suspend hard drives, or at least decouple them. You would be amazed how much difference that can make. Almost totally eliminates the grinding noise. Does nothing for whine though, the only way to get rid of whine is to buy a quiet HDD. Samsung currently are the quietest desktop sized HDDs.
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Well without disabling anything I got 15 seconds on the E8400 ![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Gotta love the new 45nm chips!!!!
Ermmm..... quiet? Well I've got a fan going mental in here at the moment then but even with Orthos running I'm only peaking at 47 on one core and that's without any secondary fans kicking in!
![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Gotta love the new 45nm chips!!!!
Ermmm..... quiet? Well I've got a fan going mental in here at the moment then but even with Orthos running I'm only peaking at 47 on one core and that's without any secondary fans kicking in!
Simon
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What utilisation is there on the CPU...seeing my dual cores just clock up 50%, I bet yours is just using 25%, plus scratching its **** and picking its nose at the same time
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Anyhoo, just tried my works laptop: Toshiba Satelite Pro A120 (Intel T5500 2x 1.66GHz, 1gig 533MHz RAM).....34 seconds.
And STILL it won't go above 50% utilisation
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(should mention, all my system are Vista x64, except the laptop which is Vista 32).
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Well without disabling anything I got 15 seconds on the E8400 ![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Gotta love the new 45nm chips!!!!
Ermmm..... quiet? Well I've got a fan going mental in here at the moment then but even with Orthos running I'm only peaking at 47 on one core and that's without any secondary fans kicking in!
![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Gotta love the new 45nm chips!!!!
Ermmm..... quiet? Well I've got a fan going mental in here at the moment then but even with Orthos running I'm only peaking at 47 on one core and that's without any secondary fans kicking in!
Simon
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Ive got a 74g Raptor as my primary disk for OS and Games. In my old case it was pretty noisy (installed in standard bay horizontally). My new case has removable bays and the drive is installed vertically on rubber washers. Can hardly hear the thing now so a big difference.
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Tried a few machines with the following results. CPU, Memory & OS all included. Strange results with Vista though as it finished loop 19 way before it reported the test finished. Agree with whats been said though as it is not multi threaded, so not really a representation of modern muti-core CPU's. If it was, would be interesting to see what the results would be on the biggest machine that I have access to!
Media Centre - XP2000+ 1Gb XP MCE- 1m20s
Laptop - Core2 Duo T7600 2Gb XP Pro - 22s
Home Desktop - Core2 Duo 6600 4Gb Vista Business - 44s (Loop 19 22s)
Work Desktop - Core2 Quad 6600 4Gb Vista Ultimate - 37s (Loop 19 22s)
Work Server - Dual Xeon 5160 8Gb Server 2003 - 17s
The last 3 were on RDP sessions.
Media Centre - XP2000+ 1Gb XP MCE- 1m20s
Laptop - Core2 Duo T7600 2Gb XP Pro - 22s
Home Desktop - Core2 Duo 6600 4Gb Vista Business - 44s (Loop 19 22s)
Work Desktop - Core2 Quad 6600 4Gb Vista Ultimate - 37s (Loop 19 22s)
Work Server - Dual Xeon 5160 8Gb Server 2003 - 17s
The last 3 were on RDP sessions.
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May I ask what case it is? Most of the cases I have tried, or drive bays that use the rubber washers have not been that effective. I've gone for two foam strips to rest the HDD on. I've made sure there is airflow above and below the drive. Works really well, up until you want to move the machine ![Lol1](images/smilies/lol1.gif)
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Coolermaster RC-1000 Cosmos Silent Full Tower Case
A bit large but very well laid out. Esp front panel with on/off reset, usb, fwire, eSATA and sound ports on top in eay reach.
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Not the best app for testing performance of a box as it only ramps up one core.. and its a 32bit app.. was running it over RDP too.
4x Dual Core Opteron 8220
64Gb Ram
Windows 2003 Server R2 Enterprise Edition x64
![](http://www.wallis2000.co.uk/screen.jpg)
Anybody want to try Disk I/O and see if they can compete in IO Meter tests..
Before you accept that challenge, I can use SSD's or highend SAN's
4x Dual Core Opteron 8220
64Gb Ram
Windows 2003 Server R2 Enterprise Edition x64
![](http://www.wallis2000.co.uk/screen.jpg)
Anybody want to try Disk I/O and see if they can compete in IO Meter tests..
Before you accept that challenge, I can use SSD's or highend SAN's
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Coolermaster Cosmos:
Coolermaster RC-1000 Cosmos Silent Full Tower Case
A bit large but very well laid out. Esp front panel with on/off reset, usb, fwire, eSATA and sound ports on top in eay reach.
Simon
Coolermaster RC-1000 Cosmos Silent Full Tower Case
A bit large but very well laid out. Esp front panel with on/off reset, usb, fwire, eSATA and sound ports on top in eay reach.
Simon
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Looks nice, not sure about the handles on top, but it still looks good.
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