Here you can get a double-win. A fanless power supply by necessity is very efficient (the less power you waste, the less heat you generate). They are kind of pricey but worth it, I think, if you can afford the extra $100 over the super- cheap ones.
According to Johannes Becker, > In addition the power supply takes a lot power even if the CPU does > not need it. Those PSUs are so cheap made that they don't care about > reducing power if in idle. Also the losses of the PSUs are quite high > (30-40% of max power) > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:02:54 -0500, David George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/14/2005 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >When the cpu is idle it's not eatting up power anyways. > > > > > Maybe some CPUs with power saving mode (or using cpuspeed). But the > > above is dangerous as a general statement. Just as an example: ok, your > > CPU is idling and not eating power. Is it safe to remove the CPU fan > > and heatsink from it? After all not "eatting" [sic] power should mean > > that it isn't generating heat. :-) > > > > > So if that's the > > >case then there's no problem with the way it is? > > > > > It isn't the case. While CPUs may not draw as much power when idling > > the higher-end desktop processors from AMD and Intel definitely draw a > > lot of power and make a lot of heat. > > > > -- > > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- -- Tony Godshall
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