i'd be very interested in see if both those cards fit. its very tight in a pundit, you might hvae to make a small mod to fit it all.
On Apr 5, 2005 3:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Radek Svoboda wrote: > >> 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. > > I'm new to building PC but let me get this straight. > I'dbe better off buying a 2.4Ghz Celeron than a 2.8 P4? > At least in terms of noise. > How does this work in terms of processing power. > I'm planning on getting a Pundit-R > with 1GB of memory and throwing in > both a pchdtv-3000 and an pvr-500. > I want to be able to watch/record and maybe even burn > a dvd at the same time. > I see a 2.4 Celeron going for 98.00 (USD) > and a 3.0E Ghz P4 going for 180 (USD) normally my impulse is higher is > better. But if I can get the same amount of work done quieter and cheaper so > bet it > > Thanks > Mark A. X. Andal > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
