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Talkin Horse, it depends on the location. Obviously a PC in an office =
setting, with other PCs, printers, buzzing cheap fluorescent lights, =
staffers typing, etc. will not sound as noisy as one at home. I mentione= d =
Apple because they do seem to take extra care in making sure their =
machines are quiet, with liquid cooling on the PowerMacs and voltage =
Tom, I am thinking that the Printer function may be able to work on a = USB1.0-1.1 connection, but that...
regulation on the iMac G5, although some Macusers unpleasant woman about the noise = =
from the iMac. If they only knew what I've had to go through. But Dell = is =
responding with the BTX cases and that's definitely a good thing. I read= =
somewhere that they are planning on introducing a 'premium' line of PCs = =
that will be built with quieter components and smaller form factors. =
Thanks for your comment above about the 5100c being quieter simply becau= se =
it draws less power...that's something I hadn't considered. There is an = =
"acoustic burden" imposed on the smaller 6.9 liter design, according to = =
the documents on the Intel BTX site, but that should be counteracted by = =
Kath, Since your Printer is USB2.0 compliant, you will need to make sure that = your PC's USB connections are 2.0, not USB1.0-1.1. You can check by = opening...
low power components like the slim, single optical drive, smaller, slowe= r =
hard disks, fanless video cards (which I would prefer even on the tower)= , =
etc. On the other hand, the 12.9 liter design would allow a humungous CP= U =
heat sink. I'll probably buy, but I think I'll wait for the Pentium D to= =
go into wider circulation, probably this fall. Take care.
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:11:51 -0400, Talkin Horse =
lem ted
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