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To: Ali Chen who wrote (126122)	1/26/2001 8:20:21 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 186894

Ali, quiet computers. My advise: get Athlon-800, and run it at 600MHz with Vcc=1.2V, maybe lower, 0.95V. No fan needed if you could find some old-style Slot-2 Xeon big heat sinks with wide-spaced fins suitable for free convection. When I upgrade my computer, I want to get a noticeable increase in speed over Dual Celeron 366/550. So I guess I will be getting either Athlon 1 or 1.2 GHz. I am thinking about getting the Kanie HedgeHog (which to me is the coolest looking heatsink: est.hi-ho.ne.jp combined with the slowest and quietest 60 mm fan. Some of these fans can be in 20 db. But anyway, before I get to entirely new system, I want to make the existing Intel systems quieter. This exercise will give me a better perspective on the gains in quietness various methods achieve. No fans is nirvana, but you would be sacrificing good deal of performance to achieve it. Joe