[mythtv-users] Underclocking...?

[Simon Kenyon]

On Sunday 16 January 2005 21:56, Søren Dalsgaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to setup a mythtv box and most bits are in place but the
> machine is somewhat noisy. I tried spraying a lubricant into the fan
> on the CPU and the fan on some chip on the motherboard and that took
> care of the worst bits.But I would prefer an even more quiet pc.
>
> My pc is an AMD Athlon 1.1GHz I've found that watching tv through the
> pvr350 requires 3-5% cpu load so cutting those 1.1GHz in 3 or 4 should
> not pose a real problem.
>
> The fan on the motherboard is a bit of a mystery to me - what does it
> cool (yes a chip, but what chip and can I remove that fan too when I
> underclock the pc)?
i have a 1G athlon and i replaced the northbridge fan (which was very loud) 
with a zalman heatsink. has worked well for me for about a year.
--
simon