[Techtalk] Asking for new PC recommended specs

[Maria Pinjanainen]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:45, Julie wrote:
> Karen Locke wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 21:59, David Merrill wrote:
> > 
> >>...
> >>I've dropped the Intel and decided to go with:
> >>
> >>MOBO: ASUS P4C800-E DELUXE 875P 800MHz FSB 8xAGP Hyper-Threading SATA
> >>
> > 
> > Just a thought, which may or may not be relevant for you:  I put a system 
> > together for myself last year after my old hard drive bit the dust and my 300 
> > MHz PII was really getting long in the tooth.  I chose AMD over Intel, since 
> > it seemed like a better deal, and got a 1.6 GHz processor -- one of the 
> > slower Athlon versions available at the time.  Put it together, fired it up, 
> > and was shocked by how _loud_ the fan is.   
> > 
> > I shopped around for a quieter fan,  but couldn't find one.  I was repeatedly 
> > told that AMDs run hot, they need bigger fans, and I'd have to live with it.  
> > And so I have... but reluctantly.  If I were building another system today, 
> > I'd think about noise as an issue.  (But otherwise, I'm really happy with my 
> > system.)
> 
> There =are= quieter fans out there (I have two or three in the box
> by my left foot), but when you have 5 or 6 case fans, 2 power
> supply fans, 2 processor fans, and a disk drive fan, it all adds
> up.  If noise is an issue you might want to look at water coolers.

Most of the noise is resonance. So if you want, you can put some
material inside the box. There are "things" like that for sale. And you
can isolate the motherboard from the chassis, too. This isolating makes
those extra fans most important, but my friends have said that this
really works. And with fans and filters your pc will be cleaner. 
I have cats, Norwegian Forest ones, and I know what is going inside
there... Uh... :-\ 
Watercoolers are a little bit "experimental", I think. You always need
the water... And if something happends... 

> And if you have any experience with them, please let me know.  I
> want to buy one ;-)