IF At stock speeds use your cool and quiet specially when your computer is on 24h a day
works for me because my room temp. now since the heat wave are in to upper 80's
Temperatures
Room 29c 85F
Motherboard 35 °C (95 °F)
CPU 40 °C (104 °F)
Maxtor 6Y120P0...
Lcd monitors are the future , why go back to something bulky when you can have something better sharper image, brighter, space saving and on and on ....
Speed up acces times with partitions well i had a 120gb maxtor divided into 2 20 and about a 100 and it was kinda slow specially when working with divx large files over 2 gigs, so i got a raptor 74gb to fix that and now it feels better no more waiting to acces or preview a large files ...
Looks good but socket 939,pci-e,venice core + some ocz vx ram will much better with little added cost trust me i would do that if i had to do it again......
First sometime in 1997 paid 1700$ at comp usa with 17inch viewsonic that works till this day on my other rig , rest were builds
Pentium II 300mhz slot 1 the only pentium i had and will ....
4gig Seagate sounded like a Grinder
48mb Pc66 Ram
4 mb vid card upgraded to 16mb...
Im sure its good but not the best by any means, well it depends what you like......
xp90 , xp120 both of these are great for overclocking but if stock and noise level isnt a issue
get the box one should be fine i had stock cooler went for a zelman 7700alcu and found out that TT Sonic Tower...
Host Clock (FSB) x Multi = Core Speed
200 x 11= 2200 Clawhammer L2 1mb
200 x 12= 2400 Newcastle L2 512k
A64 3400+
If you decide on this go for the faster clocked a64 ... i would if i had to do it again...
First of all not that i like the beetle but every day i hear about a xp90,xp120
i mean c'mon guys there are other things out there that do their job just right......
Yes you have to cut some fins out and it fits perfectly , on 5v silent mode i cant even notice its there ....
As for the sonic tower got it installed and man that is some nice stuff kinda heavy but temps keep steady at idle 34c and 47c at load but i do have a 80x80x15 fan spinning at 4v...
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