[mythtv-users] Recommendations for quiet Athlon cooling? - anyvalue to *under*clocking?

[Jeff Williams]

There wouldn't be any value to this, no.  AFAIK the 2200+ and 2000+ are the same processor family so underclocking a 2200+ would just mean you overpaid by $6 for a 2000+.

Different chip *families*, though, can run cooler and hotter... for example, you would probably get a cooler CPU in the 2500+ vs. the 2600+ than the mere "100" difference in their model numbers would suggest, since a) the 2500+ is running more than 100mhz slower than the 2600+, and b) it's supposedly also running more efficiently.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Snyder [mailto:ax763 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Recommendations for quiet Athlon 
> cooling? -
> anyvalue to *under*clocking?
> 
> 
> Is there any value to going a step or two up in rated
> CPU speed and then
> underclocking?  At NewEgg, the Athlon XP 2200 is only
> $6 more than the 2000.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Will Dormann
> > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:39 AM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Recommendations for
> quiet Athlon cooling?
> > 
> > At 08:13 AM 9/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Can anyone recommend a low noise cooling solution
> for Athlons that
> > >actually cools?  I've heard nightmares regarding
> the Zalman zero-fan
> > >solutions, so I'm hestitant to go that route.
> > 
> > Get a Zalman with a fan (I think they have 92mm fans
> which are very
> > quiet).
> > My system has an Alpha PAL8045 coupled with a PC
> Power & Cooling Silencer
> > fan that is also very quiet (20dBA)
> > 
> > 
> > -WD
> 
> 
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