Kaare Rasmussen wrote: >> Imho, for a desktop nowadays, it comes very close to be the most >> important consideration since it is the machine's noisiness that either >> supports or distracts my mental attention. > > Doesn't it (mostly) come down to CPU heat production? (And btw. which 64 bit > CPU is using least power)? > CPU heat production: This is only part of the problem and generally the easiest one to rectify by buying a good cpu cooler with a very large (and therefore slow and quiet) fan.. The other major noise source is usually your GPU(s) and there is also your powersupply-fan(s) and eventually your harddisk(s) and optical drive(s), if you are unlucky you may also find one case fan or more.
CPU power consumption >From hardware magazines I think I understand that AMD currently only has a slight power consumption advantage when the machine is idle. At any other machine state, Intel consumes less. Well, imho it is debatable, whether a desktop does spend by far most of its life idling around. At the same time, AMD currently cannot beat Intel performancewise. Now, as I understand it, within a given CPU brand the lowest model usually consumes the least power and there are "special versions" of cpus around that consume even less. For me privately, I always go for AMD nevertheless since they are cheaper and performance is not an issue for me these days, since all of them (Intel and AMD) have far more horsepower than I can possibly use.. >From my perspective, A good start for reading on the subject could be this: http://www.silentpcreview.com/ Should you be able to read and understand german, I would definitely recommend www.silenthardware.de kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
