Dragan Noveski wrote: >> >> And buy a power supply with a inlying fan, with a high >> diameter. I'm using a CP-420 around 15,00€. It has a 12cm fan >> The CPU is a AMD Dual-Core that just needs >> 45W. My computer is in a very simple case, but there's nearly nothing to >> hear. There is no need for a expensive case. >> > > the phenom eats 125W, that says all!
Yes and no. The Athlon X2 2,1GHz, the one I've got, needs 45W for 2 Cores. It's the same with the 2,3GHz version of the Athlon X2. The 2,3GHz version of the Phenom needs 95W. These wattages seems to be a little bit theoretical, but accurate enough to read into: 95W / 2 dual-cores = 47,5W/dual-core 2 cores need 45W for the Athlon X2, resp. 47,5W for the Phenom. The older EE (energy efficient) CPUs need 65W and they also might need less fan-speed. If yours need 95W and you use it as a DAW, the real wattage perhaps won't become higher than that of a dual-core, resp. it will reach higher values, if you are using more of the CPU resources, than a Athlon has got. I don't know, but I can imagine that a Phenom's fan will be as silent as my Athlon's fan and only in some cases, it will become as loud as an oldish CPU, while doing heavy digital processing, that my Athlon won't be able to do. But you should take care of the power supply. It's not the overall wattage you have to take care of, but the ampere of the different voltages. The best thing is to confer to someone who knows about the whole equipment. A CP-420W might be not fine with your hardware. I haven't thought about it. AMD's quiet fan technology is very good, the speed is very well controlled. I don't think that your computer will be louder than mine, but you might need a power supply with more headroom for special circumstances. The Debian 64bit port compiles with SSE2 by default, maybe some of the Phenom's features, e.g. SSE3 and SSE4a won't take effect. Cheers, Ralf
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