[Techtalk] Asking for new PC recommended specs

[Karen Locke]

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.)

Karen


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