[mythtv-users] Power Heat Noise

[Juha Pahkala]

;) very funny. well, i still think you sort of know what i mean. anyhow,
as pointed out by another mail in this thread, this is getting offtopic,
and if people here object to this, i rest my case. just thought that
since there seems to be lots of knowledge here i'd try my luck at
getting a piece of that.

no hard feelings, hopefully. juhis


On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 22:46, Dan Wolfgang wrote:
> I'm willing to bet serious money that your processor is not loud, and
> as such, replacing it won't make a difference. (After all, the CPU has
> no moving parts--what could make nois?)
>  
> What could be loud is the CPU fan, case fase fans, case, hard drives
> and CD/DVD-ROM drives. Look at those for the culprit!
>  
> Dan
> 
> Juha Pahkala <juhis at trinity.is-a-geek.com> wrote:
>         This is all very interesting. At the moment my pvr machine has
>         an old
>         1000 MHz AMD Thunderbird, which is quite loud so I suppose it
>         consumes a
>         lot of current. The motherboard is MSI KT7 Turbo which
>         supports 100/133
>         mhz clock. The computer is in a closet, and only connected to
>         a tv and
>         controlled via a remote, but still a humming noise can be
>         heard when
>         near the closet.
>         
>         I was wondering if I could install a XP2000+ Thorton (supposed
>         to be
>         133/266MHz) on the existing motherboard or would I need a new
>         motherboard for that prosessor? I suspect the heat produced by
>         the
>         prosessor and hence the noise could be considerably smaller?
>         
>         TIA, juhis
>         
>         On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 08:14, Tor Hovland wrote:
>         > > The Athlon XP 1800+ Thoroughbred is, more or less, the
>         coolest running
>         > > CPU in the entire AMD line and it has more than enough p!
>         ower to run a
>         > > spiffy Myth box.
>         > 
>         > The Thorton (model 10 with 256K L2 Cache) is even cooler
>         than the
>         > Thoroughbred (model 8). I'll repeat something I wrote in a
>         different thread:
>         > 
>         > > Actually, the most efficient of reasonably recent
>         AMD/Intel desktop
>         > > processors is the AMD XP with Thorton core (Model 10 with
>         256K L2 Cache).
>         > > The XP2000+ (1667 MHz) runs at 47,4 W, while the slowest
>         Celeron at 400
>         > MHz
>         > > bus, the Celeron 1.70 Ghz, runs at 63,5 W and even the
>         slowest Pentium 4,
>         > > the 1.30 GHz, runs at 48,9 W.
>         > >
>         > >
>         >
>         http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/27375.pdf
>         > 
>         > A Thoroughbred XP 2000+ runs at 54,7 W, considerably more
>         than the Thorton.
>         > However, if you can get hold of a Thoroughbred XP1700+, it
>         only requires
>         > 44,9 W.
>         > 
>         >
>         http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/25175.pdf
>         > 
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