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.
Unfortunately, they seem to be impossible to get now. Resellers here offer only 2.0 GHz version as the last item with Northwood core.
Does more GHz mean more dissipated temperature, or the warmth of the CPU just depends on the usage?
I found the answer by myself, in the Intel Celeron & Celeron-D technical specification. It confirm previous statements by the list contributors and may be useful to the others:
Celeron Northwood ... thermal power varies .. 52W (2.0GHz)-68W (2.8GHz) Celeron Prescott ... thermal power fixed at 73W
It looks like Prescotts are all the same inside, just locked differently. Pitty.
Radek Svoboda
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