Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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. >
was thinking about a raptoxx-500W-professional, with an 120mm super low noise fan. cheers, doc > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
