I concur with Krunoslav -- when used with the Prescott cores, the Pundits are not "virtually silent" as ASUS or some users may claim. I have a 2.66 GHz Celeron D with a PVR 250, Seagate Barracuda, SBLive, and an 8x DVD burner in my pundit, and it is pretty noisy. When watching Live TV on myth, i use about 35% CPU, which causes the small case to go up to 48 degrees C, which bumps the CPU fan >2500 RPM CPU fan, at which point things become very noisy (especially the PSU fan).
the speed of the Celeron D is pretty amazing -- but I would much rather wait for stuff to compile/encode than have a noisy box next to my TV. So I would go with the old-school Celerons. They are 10-15 deg C cooler and have 30 W less power. Another thing you should consider is that setting up the ATI integrated graphics, sound, LAN is much more painful on a Pundit-R. Things on the open source side is getting better, but ATI is still pretty lame in terms of binary driver support. - e > Krunoslav wrote: > > You must note, that it is not quiet as I would want it to be (this > > applies to both Pundits). Don't buy too fast processor - it will be > > noisy. I have P4 2.4 and processor fans is most of the time on its > > slowest speed. When it hits constant cpu usage of more that 70% is > > goes as 2500rpm, which is definitely noticeable. My college has a > > Pundit-R with P4 3Ghz, it is from boot at a higher speed. I have > > heard that best processors for it would be old core Celerons 2.4 or > > 2.6. Case fan could be a source of some noticeable noise too > > depending of components you put in. > > I plan to use Celeron-D .. because its for the same price as old > Northwood Celerons .. and I believe the FSB of 533MHz and doubled cache > will be more than beneficial when encoding to MPEG-2 (realtime) and to > MPEG-4 (offline, in 2 passes), as I plan. > > So it means that Northwood core is cooler than Prescott one on the same > frequency? Yes.
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