On Saturday 12 April 2003 18:17, Paul M. Livingston uttered: > BTW, if you want to build a system with a pair of Athlon processors, you > ought to be very careful about your PSU. My recommendation would be an > Antec TruePower 430W (or better) or a PC Power and Cooling unit (400W+), > but the later will cost considerably more. One additional thought, you > might want to check around and see when (or if) there is going to be an MP > processor using the Barton core. I suspect that using a pair of processors > with Barton cores, considering the expanded cache and narrower line > geometry, could be a winner both from a performance and a thermal > management standpoint. To add to this... We use the Enermax 350W powersupplies and they work fine for dual AMD systems. We have noticed that with the newer MP cpus, you _have_ to use the retail fans that come with the CPUs. We had tried using 3'rd party fans, both from Global Win and from Vantec, but none of them were able to cool the cpus enough. The system would lockup at the bios post!! Dropped the retail fans (which don't look like much) and stability went through the roof! This is good, because your warrenty is void if you don't use the retail fan, and if you ever have to return a CPU, you have to return it with the fan. Of course, if you buy these CPUs OEM, good luck.... -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
