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Crucial Ballistix MOD Review | Super DDR 3

Posted by hardware addict - September 28, 2011 - Posted in: Memory - Permalink

It is several years since the beginning of the CPU temperature sensors very accurate and accessible to users, but as the temperature JEDEC specifications DR3 memory ECC policy (located on the main server), hyphens DR3 buffer usually works only optional. As expected, the larger companies to avoid problems. Kingston was last October when he visited their headquarters in Fountain Valley, California, sliding worry raises the possibility of detecting DR3 with temperature is accurately available in 2010.

Have made important efforts to get the job market and some kind memory design software to read the sensor to form the Ministry of Defense, or the display memory. Yes, acronym a bit forced.

You have to buy a new physical temperature sensor DR3 in their own club, and chose to launch its new and larger heatsinks very important pitch in the performance of the new Ballistix kit. Oh, no haste, crew, do not care.

Essentially say they do not charge a premium for the actual sensor, and will be presented with packets of the new wing at the time.

DR3 package does not provide that we have for the sport of cutting-edge super-fast rate, although it seems specifications memory selling very well and not too expensive, which is a bonus. I’m glad to see that not only is essential for new features in high-end Timms few can afford.

Impressions from the Ministry of Defense Software

Not too complicated, while the Ministry of Defense personnel data reading and XMP SPD module, even shows when the system actually works in real time memory.

Fundamentally, the Ministry of Defence accepted now that the software is further proof of the concept and is currently undergoing user feedback and try to work with teams from other programs.

If the method of temperature sensor works with all people as part of the JEDEC specifications open, access the data easily and freely within the software – without royalties received by staff – press the building industry to participate in the software and even other companies memory clearly worth it.

Temperature results and analysis

We have the new Ballistix modules installed on a Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3, XMP and set the timings in the BIOS. Then, we will install the software on Windows 7 Home Premium and induced him to try to mod the first 95 and Crysis for 15 minutes each, while the system remains idle temperature to a level between the back the control value.

We also have the temperature during the test in a CSV file we have set out below – especially for our own curiosity.

We compare the temperature and the temperature recorded by a third, manually between the PCB and heat sink (above the SPD chips) to see what the difference is relative.

The temperature sensor and thermal sensor response is almost concurrent with changes in temperature, so we can theorize the probe on the chip to read a little warmer due to direct contact with the circuit board underneath.

The obvious disadvantage of the sensor DIMM important is the temperature of the printed circuit board is read. Unfortunately, it’s safe to memory chips, because not only do on-die thermal sensors.

No matter how close we tried to make our guide memory chip, temperature is always one or two degrees lower than memory claim itself: it may indicate that more than compensate for his critical reading location? DR3 as the temperature dropped another monitoring system software for each part considered as the CPU, GPU and case temps, increase the benefits are obvious, but unfortunately it is better to wait for manufacturers to act DR3 .

PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB Review

Posted by hardware addict - September 26, 2011 - Posted in: Graphics Card - Permalink

PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB Review

The graphics card is much more likely to be the noisiest components in your case these days, and the use of force to a level with the current generation of hardware DirectX 11 for the option, you can see now is useful when the water to cool the graphics card CPU. The benefits are twofold – less noise (some 120 mm fans are quieter stock GTX 580 1.5GB slowly turning cold, especially in games) and better cooling, which usually means more room for overclocking.

Of course, do not buy a pump, tank, pipes, fittings and block water an enjoyable experience for your pocket. Despite dual 120mm radiator installation based on a line of £ 200, and that it has done important research in the dark art of the cooling water.

Most water-cooled graphics cards we have seen only the third in a water block PCB screw referral. Enlisted PNY But one step further and support Asetek ready to use product that should be only slightly more than graphics card that are air cooled.

The XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB pump features all-in-one water block and radiator in a circle of pre-connected to the plate. Unit to an end, without any padding, dredge, or maintenance of any kind, and beards went well during the process, although they have been grinding behind the pipe and pipe CPU cooler that also winding resistance.

Rather strange, the only water cooling the GPU block – PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB population left the area cooler than the rest of the hot spots on the PCB cold, exhausted focuses on the end of the graphics card as usual. The cooler is included half-height, with wings quite thick in width, which includes a fan 120mm PLA12025S12M PowerLogic 1700 rpm and the screw (and the radiator), set on a hill at 120 mm fan nearby. Setting our locked empty Antec Twelve Hundred case – which involves removing the cooler air from the CPU, but slow enough to install on another site as possible.

439 Pounds to PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB is £ 60 more expensive than air-cooled card – it is less than the price of all the cover water block, but will have to see how well the radiator is too thin to dealing with the overclocked GTX 580 1.5GB. Speaking ahead of overclocking, PNY has also been applied overclock monstrous PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB. The core speed is pushed to 857MHz – even faster than the MSI N580GTX-ray Xtreme Edition. The memory is also overclocked – to 4.212GHz effective – again, faster than the MSI card. This means that only the GTX 580 XLR8 some serious weight to throw around.

PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB Performance Analysis

Promoting the largest factory overclock seeing PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB is not surprising to see XLR8 GTX 580 1.5GB improve all 580s more graphics. Expanded dirt 2 1,920 x 1,080 with 4x AA, XLR8 GTX 580 OC 5 fps frame rate is higher leading to lower platinum Asus GTX580 Matrix managed 117fps. It is also a 15 fps faster than the speed of a stock GTX 580 1.5GB – a healthy increase of 14 percent.

Call of Duty: Black Ops leads to a less noticeable increase, an important advantage compared with 3 fps Asus card is the slower speed is 2560 x 1600 with 4x aa. Meanwhile ARMA II is the same decision PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB moved into second place in the table with at least 29fps frame rate – nearly 12 percent faster than the speed of the card. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 also earned a healthy income – up to 1920 x 1080, for example, increasing the speed of 7 frames per second is equivalent to approximately a 13 percent increase in the rate card stock.

The fort is also overclocking the PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB 37W draw an extra card on top of the Asus. Fortunately, the cooling system work properly, with the load delta T of 25 ° C in less than half of the cardboard and 9 ° C colder than the ASUS card. Unfortunately, this remarkable result was affected by several issues. Despite the cold and silent pump values, the 120mm recorded in PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB is too noisy and can not decline at all.

That is unfortunate, because such low temperatures will have space for noise and still cool, awe-inspiring reduction. The obvious solution would be slower with a fan or fan controller to buy, but it’s a shame that this issue is PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB sip.

More worrying is the pump and water together to block a lot of space in the fridge, so airflow is limited. If the fan speed is clearly lower, this leads to the back of the PCB to be blisteringly hot – while the main GPU to provide a good reflection wise, the same can not apply to the rest of the card . Although we had no heat-related accidents, we are concerned PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB potential to cook the long term. Our concern is also supported by using a laser, a temperature sensor that measures the back of the PCB reaches the Delta T 75 ° C, while the stock PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB is 20 ° C lower.

Overclocking is very productive, though, and we were able to push the GPU to 940MHz wonderful – and just managed Xtreme Edition MSI N580GTX more lighting. Only managed to keep the memory of 1.15GHz (4.6GHz effective) to push, but – like Asus GTX580 platinum matrix. It is enough to lower the speed to Bad Company 2 1920 x 1080 at up to 68fps, with ARMA II in both areas to see an increase of 5 fps can see.

Conclusion

Our test results are achieved polarized. On the one hand, PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB coolant is incredibly fast, highly overclockable and keep our GPU too cold. Nevertheless, cooling has a price – 120 mm from the pickup is quite noisy, partly due to the cooling points on the map in the first place. Meanwhile the rest of the refrigerator market, while quiet, is also struggling in the rest of the card cool, and PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB action.

The result is an expensive card, instead of filling the gap between the best air-cooled card and the card is completely cooled down two. As such, you should invest in one of your cold water right PNY XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580 OC 1.5GB water block with full payment, or opt for cheaper, quieter, air-cooled card

Be Quiet! CPU cooler Reviews

Posted by hardware addict - September 25, 2011 - Posted in: CPU Cooler - Permalink

Be Quiet! CPU cooler Reviews

To compete with other super fabulous coolers, Be Quiet! CPU cooler chose to have two fans, each one using a stack of fins, which cooler too big and heavy. It weighs 1178 grams and measuring 165 mm contact plate of the CPU until the end, the Black Rock Pro struggling to fit in some cases. At a depth of 147 mm, and it seems that any type of construction.

Be Quiet! CPU cooler contact plate nickel plated copper CPU, mirror smooth gloss finish and is covered by an aluminum block with mounting brackets at each feeding cooler be mocked. The center has seven U-shaped, nickel plated copper heatpipes. The fit around the heat pipe is tight and no obvious gaps in the block on the CPU, the system of quality construction cooler contact large plate.

After the arrival of each portion of the contact plate, the heatpipes then removed prior to 90 degrees up and running by Be Quiet! CPU cooler Deputy on both sides of the fin aluminum and glossy black. Each Stack contains 44 wings, fly at each step of approximately 132 x 40 mm. This means that the dark rock Pro is an excellent area of ??about 90m from where the heat dissipates.

Instead of leaving the open end of the sealed heatpipes Be Quiet! CPU cooler reached polished aluminum plate with a beautiful, on top of the heatpipes covered in individual metal lids. It is certainly looking cooler majestic whole.

With two batteries Be Quiet! CPU cooler opportunities in two of its excellent SilentWings 120mm PWM fan, arranged in a push-pull configuration. The fans are installed before the cooler by the growing power lines, saving the trouble of creating their own, but can be replaced with a 25 mm thick, 120 mm at any time. The bus project is likely to be 120 mm memory sockets, however, since it is contrary to the high memory modules, even if there is enough room for common Timms size.

Be Quiet! CPU cooler plate using a multi-socket mounting screw threaded through the back of the motherboard and the brackets are screwed onto the base of aluminum cooler change. This is a very intuitive, because Be Quiet! CPU cooler involves the screw on the backplate and the motherboard, adding rubber grommets to prevent Screws out, flip the board rather than join cooler, then flip the board again to close the Screws . As a result, more than a few expletives uttered during growth, in line with screw holes or rubber grommets, when he fell.

Although the system is increasingly difficult, at least it is not necessary to install two fans, which comes pre-installed. The cooler also connected to the motherboard and CPU, and distributes the weight of the CPU. The installation process is similar if they are able cooler AMD socket AM3 or Intel LGA1155 motherboard, the only difference is the increasing use of the hole on the right.

Be Quiet! CPU cooler Performance Analysis

In our test platform LGA1155, Be Quiet! CPU cooler doing well, with excellent idle delta T of 14 ° C, only 1 ° C warmer than the cold quickly Thermaltake noisy locations. Under load, the Be Quiet! CPU cooler only 1 ° C warmer than the cold, with its high-speed environment with a Delta T of 50 ° C. This is a great achievement considering that, unlike the Cold, with its fast installation, the Be Quiet! CPU cooler is actually very quiet.

Socket AM3 is in our team, Be Quiet! CPU cooler once again impressed us with the remaining delta T of only 2 ° C and a delta peak of 23 ° C. Although it is still 1 ° C warmer than the cold with their fans at low speed, is another excellent result given the Be Quiet! CPU cooler on the highest fan speed to lower speed Frio here .

Conclusion

The Be Quiet! CPU cooler got the Holy Grail of CPU cooling performance achieved by the introduction of cold with a lot of noise. Be Quiet! CPU cooler SilentWings PWM fan – despite the 1500 PRM run at full speed and moves 50.5cfm same – very quiet during our tests. Certainly we think the price offered by the noise 18.5dBA Be Quiet!, Because we have only the fans can hear the background hum of our laboratory. If the PWM cooler location, rather than the total use of 12 V for testing, cooler almost inaudible.

The glorious union of performance and sound brilliance cheap, however. £ 54, Be Quiet! CPU cooler is £ 10 more expensive than the Frio Thermaltake silent mode and double the price paid Tranquillo. However, it can be cool and calm Tranquillo Frio, so. If you try to convince the fastest speed of the computer when you are quiet, Be Quiet! CPU cooler is excellent.