Re: [Sheflug] Options for a quiet system upgrade?

[Peter Humphrey <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 15 March 2009 13:49:57 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> On Sunday 15 March 2009 13:17:32 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > So now I want to investigate options for a 64bit motherboard and
> > processors but I don't know where to look for quiet ones.
>
> My domestic AMD64 machines are very quiet.  After I built the first
> one I switched it on and thought I had blown up the chip.  No noise.
> I had to get down next to the machine to hear it running.  In
> comparison my firewall box uses a Pentium II chip.  Sounds like an
> express train going past.

Ah, now I used to have a dual PII box, and it too was big, loud and clunky. 
My firewall these days is a P4, and is sits in its cupboard very quietly. 
Maybe I should get another to be a desktop ;-)

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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