11 Jun
2003
11 Jun
'03
9:06 a.m.
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]:
onsdagen den 11 juni 2003 11.05 skrev Chris Cannam:
Steve Harris wrote:
Hi,
Though I'm not on the cutting edge any more wrt to CPU speed, cooling noise
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
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:19:32PM +1000, Allan
Klinbail wrote:
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. 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.