Originally posted by: HuddaDudda
Originally posted by: stevty2889
Originally posted by: HuddaDudda
I am pretty stuck on ASUS because of the way they treat thier customers and thier tech support. Anytime in the past if I had a question I could call them and speak with a human, not in another county that cant understand me and gave me the answers I needed with results. Thier boards are stable and rich with features. But I am still not resolved on which combo will run cooler and quiter then the other AMD - or P4, PD or PM CPUS.
My pentium-m system is very quiet, as well as my AMD system. Pentium-4's and pentium-d's run hot. Both of my pentium-d's are water cooled, and still run warmer than my X2 and my pentium-m which are both overclocked on air cooling. My 805@3.7ghz hits 57c under full load on water cooling, my X2 hits 51c @2.618ghz on the stock AMD heatsink.
So basically your saying to go with a Pentium M or AMD? Asus does not make a PM motherboard so you need to put the CT-479 Adapter on it - I am afraid of the noise level it could produce (heatsink and fan) and I can not find any reviews either that state the db level from that fan. So I am thinking now going more towards the AMD - either a sempron , or moving my San Diego 4000+ into the new computer and upgrading mine to a dual core AMD - or something better then the Sandy I have now. I am going to check out and see where I can find the heat temps for a Sempron, Sandy and maybe just a AMD Athlon - Any ideas whats AMDs coolest running chip?
EDIT: It appears the AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 800MHz HT Socket 754 E6 Processor Model ADA3000BXBOX - draws only 51W and is probably the coolest running AMD CPU - and will work fine for my application. Top it off with a Zalman CNPS-7700 AIU quite CPU fan and I should be ok.
So here is my setup:
-ASUS K8N-VM Socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
-SILVERSTONE LASCALA SST-LC04-S Silver Aluminum Case
-ZALMAN CNPS7000B-ALCU 92mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan
-Seagate Momentus 7200.1 ST980825AS 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM
-AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 800MHz HT Socket 754 E6 Processor Model ADA3000BXBOX
-SAPPHIRE 100141L Radeon X1300 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card
I have some DDR 400 OCZ 1GB here too so I am going to toss that in there too. Should run cool, quite and enough for Vista MCE or MCE05 to play movies, DVDs and MP3's with. Thats all its for and dont need an overkill. My main focus is cool and quite which I think averall this is the best route/bang for the buck. Ok now everyone rip me to shreds!