[LAU] Any opinions on this ...

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 16 January 2009 at 0:52, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:

> I wouldn't. I don't know about whatever extra noise damping they do.

I put an Acousti-Pak (same stuff they use) in a couple home built 
computers.  It's really great stuff.  It's going in all my future 
computers.

> I can tell you that my Asus P3-PH5X is pretty darn quiet, and
> it was all stock parts bought from Newegg.

My last computer (until the CPU fan decided to get noisy when I had 
to swap out a dead motherboard) was so quiet I could only tell it was 
on by the light on the front.  That's my target for "quiet".

> The memory they're offering is on the slow side. The cpu and hd are low
> on cache memory. I think you can do better. Because I've been shopping,
> some examples from Newegg this week:
> 
> A Core 2 Duo at 3.0 Ghz with 12 Mb L2 cache: $169
> DDR3 1600 RAM around $130 for 2Gb, about half that for DDR2.
> A 1Tb Hitachi sata drive with 32Mb cache for $79 after all the rebates.
> Asus P3-PH5 for $179.

Yes, it seems I could do better.  I'm trying to stay close to $1000US.
But, it also looks like I'm building a different version of about the 
same power machine as my Athlon 64-X2.  I thought maybe upgrading to 
quad-core would be a nice upgrade.  But really, my dual-core box only 
benefits me when I compile software.  I haven't found all that much 
threading in apps yet.  It might not be the right time for me to 
upgrade.  I was trying to take advantage of the drop in computer 
prices.

> I would maximze ram and cache to optimize performance. The more you run
> from ram instead of drive based swap, the better.

Agreed.

Thanks...

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Kevin