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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [Jun 11 03 04:51]: > 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 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 > >
