Patrick wrote: > It's not the Pundit-R, it's the Celeron D. I had the same > CPU (Celeron D 2.66 GHz), and it was hot and loud. I put it > in an Antec Aria case. With the case completely open and > sitting in the middle of the room, it was fairly loud. If I > did anything beyond that to restrict airflow, the noise just > increased from there. If I dared put the side panels of the > case on, it got unbearably loud.
Fwiw I have no idea of how hot mine is running (3GHz/800FSB P4) but the difference between the supplied BIOS and the latest was incredible. It went from considering watercooling it to hmmm, the laptop really is loud and can I get a quieter HD.... I've not managed yet to get fan/temp readings from within linux (but not _really_ tried either) but it was running at fan speed of 3500~+ (pre bios update) and 2500~ (post update) at idle while in the bios hardware monitor. For anyone that has a Pundit-R and hasn't updated the BIOS, (1002.006 I believe is the latest but it is contained within the 1002.003 download on the ASUS site) do it now :-) For anyone building a new system based on one I recommend installing Windows[1] first so to update the bios then blow it and install linux. Druid [1] -- Yes, well, I sense we may be straying down Tangent Boulevard here.
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