11 Jun
2003
11 Jun
'03
9:20 a.m.
I've got dual mpx 2600+ on a 50ft chain so it can't
chew on my ears. The computer is in an old Digital
7000 case that's almost six feet tall, there's about
10 fans. I keep it in the bathroom. I'm not surprised
that people don't spend much time in that bathroom. I
think its size and noise almost give you the sense
that someone's watching. :)
ron
--- Anthony <avan(a)uwm.edu> wrote:
I have the ASUS A7M266-D with two AMD 1.0Ghz
processors. I'm quite
happy with the performance. The chips certainly are
not high end
anymore so you can get away with very very quiet CPU
fans. The real
problem is the powersupply, advertised as quiet and
at US$90. That
was a real dissapointment. Perhaps it actually is
quiet for a 400W.
I paid under $300 for the Mobo, cpus, fans. The deal
breaker was
the PS.
--ant
* Robert Jonsson <robert.jonsson(a)dataductus.se> [Jun
11 03 04:51]:
CPU speed, cooling noise
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onsdagen den 11 juni 2003 11.05 skrev Chris
Cannam:
> Steve Harris wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:19:32PM +1000,
Allan Klinbail wrote:
> >>I personally prefer the current
Intel chips
because they run at a cooler
> >>temperature so the fans required are
less
noisy...
> >
> > Yes, I think if I was building a machine
today, I'd go for PIV for
this
> > reason, at the time I bought an Athlon
XP cos
I needed to get as much FPU
> > performace for my $ as I could.
>
> I have a dual 2K Athlon and although it's a very
quick machine,
> I'm increasingly irritated by the noise
(especially as the weather
> gets hotter and cooling requirements
increase).
I've probably spent
> as much money on various largely failed
attempts
at quietening it
> through random bits of agricultural-looking
technology as I did on
> the processors.
>
> So I (rather unwillingly) have to support the
apparent consensus:
get a
single fast Intel.
Hi,
Though I'm not on the cutting edge any more wrt to has always been one of the things I hate most
about modern computers. (Oh,
what joy it once was, back in the Amiga days.)
I have long since given up trying silence the fans
(I do it a little to keep
it bearable) and it is most oftenly counter
productive to their purpose.
My solution for several years now has been to
place the computer in an
adjacent room, in this case a storage room.
I just drilled a hole in the wall, just large
enough so all the cables are
able to fit and then covered the hole as best I
could to eliminate noise
through it.
For me this has been the ideal solution, noise is
way down, close to non
audible proportions, and cooling for the computer
is also good enough.
>
> /Robert
>
>