Kaare Rasmussen wrote: >> Imho, for a desktop nowadays, it comes very close to be the most >> important consideration since it is the machine's noisiness that either >> supports or distracts my mental attention. > > Doesn't it (mostly) come down to CPU heat production? (And btw. which 64 bit > CPU is using least power)? > CPU heat production: This is only part of the problem and generally the easiest one to rectify. The other major noise source is usually your GPU(s) and there is also your powersupply-fan(s) and eventually your harddisk(s) and optical drive(s)
CPU power consumption >From hardware magazines I think I understand that AMD currently only has a slight power consumption advantage when the machine is idle. At any other machine state, Intel consumes less. Well, imho it is debatable, whether a desktop does spend by far most of its life idling around. At the same time, AMD currently cannot beat Intel performancewise. Now, as I understand it, within a range the lowest model usually consumes the least power and there are "special versions" of cpus around that consume even less. For me privately, I always go for AMD nevertheless since they are cheaper and performance is not an issue for me these days, since all of them have far more horsepower than I can possibly use.. >From my perspective, A good reading on the subject could be this: http://www.silentpcreview.com/ If you speak german, I would definitely recommend silenthardware.de kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
