quiet PC

[Fraser Campbell]

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 10:09, Ladislav Svatos wrote:

> > What CPU and is the Heat Sink and FAN supplied by the manufacturere (AMD
> > or Intel)?
> >
> > Madison
>
> I have an AMD processor and the noise is not that bad. The motherboard is
> an old Asus A7V. The motherboard supports fan speed control, but it  never
> actually worked. Asus probably got it working in later versions of the MB.
> I would like to know what are the thermal solutions for new CPUs having to
> dissipate 100W of heat.

I built a system for my mother using the ASUS A7V board the thing is 
dead-quiet.  My mum turns off the monitor when she's not using it and I've 
often made the mistake of turning off the computer (thinking I was turning it 
on).

The secret is the Antec case, despite dual-fan power supply + CPU fan + GPU 
fan + 2 case fans + 2 hard drives it is virtually silent.  Not all Antec 
cases are so quiet though, I bought one for myself later without paying too 
much attention to the model and despite being quieter and cooler than the POS 
I was using before it's nowhere near as quiet as my mothers (her's may be an 
SX1135 but don't quote me on it).

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Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada                       Debian GNU/Linux

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