Why Pentium 494
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:30:35 +0200, Mxsmanic
It was very easy to build an AMD based system that was quieter than Intel w-Intel-retail sink-fan combination.
Intel's fans from the celeron and P2 era were not very quiet considering the CPUs did't produce much heat. Their P3 fans should have been deemed defective because they all started making high pitched bearing whine noise after a few months. We shelved most P3 heatsinks because of this, replaced with aftermarket 'sinks. I still have a few brand new P3 'sinks lying around too, they didn't get reused as much as most other 'sinks because of that oddball stepped base on the metal and the plastic level-clips.
They buy fans from manufacturers that make "normal" fans of high quality. These fan manufacturers spend a great deal of time (all actually, it IS their core business) engineering fans then Intel comes along and wants their own special spec which is a degraded function fan over what the manufacturer already had. Nidec and Sanyo Denki are the main two, both making good stock fans and both worse after re-spec'd.
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:11:52 +1000, "Rod Speed" I'm quite content to have you think that Rod, and plenty of people were quite happy to have a quieter fan instead. Perhaps your...
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:50:40 +0200, Mxsmanic That is a reason to more carefully scrutinize the failure...
Lots of high bandwidth memory helps it too.
Alt Computers from Newsgroups