On Jan 22, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Trey Boudreau wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:42:50PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote: >> >> Nobody ever complained about having too much CPU, or RAM, I'd go for >> the best I could afford. >> > Sometimes "all the CPU you can afford" choice gets you into the "more > fan noise than you can stand" configuration.
True. There *are* quieter solutions, like liquid cooling, but I consider them a bit overkill (ever been around an old Cray when the backup cooling fans kicked in after a liquid failure? Any paper within 10 feet was flying!) > > As to RAM, you'd do well to follow my First Law of Computing: > > Thou shalt not swap. Perhaps, but if you find yourself with unused RAM you could always use it as ramdisks for your oft-accessed data. I guess when you got to where you were never waiting on disk access you would be happy, and broke. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
