<DIV>I'm willing to bet serious money that your processor is not loud, and as such, replacing it won't make a difference. (After all, the CPU has no moving parts--what could make nois?)</DIV>
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<DIV>What could be loud is the CPU fan, case fase fans, case, hard drives and CD/DVD-ROM drives. Look at those for the culprit!</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Juha Pahkala <juhis@trinity.is-a-geek.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">This is all very interesting. At the moment my pvr machine has an old<BR>1000 MHz AMD Thunderbird, which is quite loud so I suppose it consumes a<BR>lot of current. The motherboard is MSI KT7 Turbo which supports 100/133<BR>mhz clock. The computer is in a closet, and only connected to a tv and<BR>controlled via a remote, but still a humming noise can be heard when<BR>near the closet.<BR><BR>I was wondering if I could install a XP2000+ Thorton (supposed to be<BR>133/266MHz) on the existing motherboard or would I need a new<BR>motherboard for that prosessor? I suspect the heat produced by the<BR>prosessor and hence the noise could be considerably smaller?<BR><BR>TIA, juhis<BR><BR>On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 08:14, Tor Hovland wrote:<BR>> > The Athlon XP 1800+ Thoroughbred is, more or less, the coolest running<BR>> > CPU in the entire AMD line and it has more than enough power to
run a<BR>> > spiffy Myth box.<BR>> <BR>> The Thorton (model 10 with 256K L2 Cache) is even cooler than the<BR>> Thoroughbred (model 8). I'll repeat something I wrote in a different thread:<BR>> <BR>> > Actually, the most efficient of reasonably recent AMD/Intel desktop<BR>> > processors is the AMD XP with Thorton core (Model 10 with 256K L2 Cache).<BR>> > The XP2000+ (1667 MHz) runs at 47,4 W, while the slowest Celeron at 400<BR>> MHz<BR>> > bus, the Celeron 1.70 Ghz, runs at 63,5 W and even the slowest Pentium 4,<BR>> > the 1.30 GHz, runs at 48,9 W.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/27375.pdf<BR>> <BR>> A Thoroughbred XP 2000+ runs at 54,7 W, considerably more than the Thorton.<BR>> However, if you can get hold of a Thoroughbred XP1700+, it only requires<BR>> 44,9 W.<BR>> <BR>>
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