[mythtv-users] Power Heat Noise

[Juha Pahkala]

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 power 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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