On Monday, 14 February 2005, emory wrote: > 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.
I have choosen a Pentium 2.53 Northwood in my Pundit-r for this reason. Apart from that I have replaced the PSU fan with a more quiet one and added a Zalman Fan Mate to the CPU fan. CPU and MB temperature are acceptable to me and the noise is minimal. > 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. Very true. -- Niels
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