Good catch. I thought that was a Phenom II. Thanks! On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Kyle Gonzales <[email protected]>wrote:
> Do not get a Phenom. Get a Phenom II X4... or even one with the new Phenom > II X6 six core CPU that came out this week. > > The older Phenom is slower, eats more power, and has less L3 cache. > > Kurt Guenther wrote: > > I'm leaning towards this one: > > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4360084&CatId=332 > <http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4360084&CatId=332><http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4360084&CatId=332> > > Thanks to the person that recommended TigerDirect. > > > On 4/27/2010 6:09 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 17:57 -0400, Kurt Guenther wrote: > > > I can tolerate some noise, but I prefer not to work next to hair drier > all day. > > Remember that next time you get your hair cut and comes time to tip :) > > > > I suspect many of the server fans are just "I'm a server too" > noise makers. > > I completely understand, I have lived with a very noticeable humming > sound for years. Kinda odd when the power goes out and it's silent. > Though at other times kinda nice to drown out other outside noises. For > me heat tends to be a bigger concern than noise. But ideally, silent > with no heat signature would be ideal :) > > > > It sounds like the SDD's have really come along. Their speed profiles > are very impressive. They would make a nice /usr and /var file system > under gentoo. > > Sure and run with like /tmp as a 2GB or larger ramdisk ;) > > But I doubt you can really hear a hard drive in most desktops or > anything but laptop these days. Most other things will make more noise. > If your really going all out, sure SDD. Probably better lifespan as well > with no moving parts. > > Power supply, chassis fans, and cpu/proc fan tend to be the noisiest. > Though some systems are designed without a cpu/proc fan. With a big heat > sink and adequate airflow from other fans. > > Worse case you can always see about replacing all fans, short of the > power supply after the fact. Might have to spend some $ there, but > that's where most noise will come from. Thus if you want it to be quite, > likely can't go with cheap fans, power supply, etc. > > I prefer Supermicro and Tyan stuff, but I doubt either offer anything > that would be quite. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > > > -- > Kyle Gonzales > [email protected] > GPG Key #0x566B435B > > Read My Tech Blog: > http://techiebloggiethingie.blogspot.com/ > >
