<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:33 AM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> I have long been using AMD/Nvidia setups for my frontends, I currently have<br>
> all socket 939 X2's and am tired of dealing with the absurd heat and noise<br>
> of trying to keep them cool in a small form factor case.<br>
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</div>This is your problem. Old desktop hardware was not at all optimized<br>
for power usage although the 939 CPUs were a lot less power hungry<br>
then the P4s... Get a 45W or 65W current generation X2 AM2 processor<br>
and use powernow to have the chip use 20W or less at idle.<br>
<br>
John<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">I have been considering that also, I mostly wanted to try and intel build just as a comparison.<br>-- <br>John<br>
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