Recent content by kater

Looks like really the right person got the card - happy for you, Igor! Enjoy it. And remember, sleep is overrated. No need for more than 3-4 hrs, seriously ;) This comes from another <50 yo gamer with a family on his back...

What you most probably have is a chocolate PCB with blue trims and heatsinks :laugh: why'd you think a black PCB expansion card would match your mobo? If you want actual black on black, then GB boards seem the best choice.

Ranting aside, I also have a trusty WD GP 640GB, one of the earlier models. Great archive/backup drive, v quiet, vibrates only a little. Compared to another WD I have, Blue 500GB, the Green is v v quiet. Performance wise - never bothered to check, as both these drives serve only to hold s***t...

WD Greens DO NOT, repeat DO NOT, change RPM on the go. They work at CONSTANT rotational speed. It varies from model to model, some are 5400, some are 5900, but for any given drive the speed is constant. They are not capable of spinning down or up. Please, read WD marketing BS carefully...

It's not an opinion. It's a fact. Now, it seems now that I've produced quite a novel here - sorry for that, but I find this topic v interesting and have been pursuing it for years. As you may know (or may not, perhaps), any PSU's performance depends to a great degree on temperature - most...

No PSU in the retail market has a load controlled fan. Only temp controlled fanned cooling systems are used. Now, how aggressive / smart this controller is and how well it manages the fan's RPM is another thing and it varies from model to model, but the general principle stays the same - a...

TPU - please focus more (as in MORE) on PSUs that are actually needed my 80-90% of users. Such as, say, 400-500 watters. In absolute terms, only a handful ppl really need 1 kW units. The fact that they are mostly purchased by ppl who would be perfectly fine with 1/3 of that doesn't really prove...

Austin, TX, so I guess in all probability you are American and hence a native speaker of English. Well, I'm not, and that's why I use a dictionary if I'm not entirely sure what a word means. And "variable" in this case does not mean what you say it means. For your definition a proper word...

On the contrary, my comprehension skills seem superior to the ones of whoever wrote this news. Contrary to the author of the piece I was able, in no time at all, to check what WD has to say on this. Well, naturally, TPU may choose its sources freely and may disregard the producer's information...

LGV, why TPU don't need to share all info about a product? I strongly believe they do! It's a respectable PC tech site, there's no other way for TPU but simply to provide reliable information. In this case it's not reliable. First, because WD info is misleading in itself, second, becasue TPU did...

CB, you either haven't read or understood the meat of my post. Whose clear purpose is to bash WD for their questionable marketing efforts. Or you forgot to use the legendary "ironic font 14 with plethora of smileys" ;) TPU fell victim to WD PRopaganda department's efforts (like so many other...

TPU, please stop spreading misinformation (aka lies). Neither this drive, nor any other WD drive, Green, Blue, Black, Pink, whichever, does NOT, repeat - DOES NOT - change its RPM during operation. They all, including Green drives, operate at constant RPM. For Green 3,5" this is always 5400 RPM...

You just don't get it, do you? Do your reading, please. Otherwise you just don't qualify as a person to talk to about cooling etc. They specifically said that to compensate for the 110 mm fan's smaller size they ran it a wee higher (10%) to match the bigger fan (10% bigger to be exact). Still...

I'll put it in simple words so that you'll have an easier time understanding this. You have 2 coolers. You compare them. To compare them fair, you make sure the conditions are equal. Hence same fan RPM / airflow / dB. You cannot test 1 cooler at 3000 RPM and another one at 1000 RPM. Got it...

It's only nonsense if you don't know what you're reading :) It's all there. See the comparison of the 3 coolers (Zalman, Scythe and Thermalright) with the fan working at the same speed, producing same/comparable noise. Zalman produces worse thermals. Period. What else is there to say? That's how...