Well in my case I hesitated btw the pentium M and a AMD64 but for the later only socket 754 was available in MicroATX and it was a via chip set.

On the performance side, P-M seems faster than the AMD of the same freq (at 2.2GHz super pi 1M: 37s vs 43s).

Some of things the review talks about is in fact true though for instance the lack of duel channel is a huge performance hit. Well this has yet to be proved. I believe they designed the Pentium M to work with this constrain (relatively slow memory bandwidth), hence the big cache and advanced prefet...

aidanjm2004 wrote:why so many fans? is it the graphics card that puts out so much heat?

I've just swapped mobo with a P4 2.4Ghz, no change in the cooling yet!
But yes the graphics is inevitably hot. I may remove one 92mm but I like the air flow I get now (kinda separated cpu/gfx compartments)

Here is my aopen used in a flight simulator box. http://www.pbase.com/beud4x86/fsbox It is not a silent box but fairly quiet, I'd say. 2x92mm fan at 800rpm (power supply and front exhaust) 1x80mm at 1500rpm gfx direct back exhaust 1x80mm aopen cooling fan at 1800rpm (as noisy as zalman 7000@5v) 1xsm...

Intel is heavily invested in the P4 for the desktop through at least next year. Which is why I bought my first AMD cpu. An Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester. -Ed Good choice Ed. I was hesitating between this one and the pentium M. I got the later which seem to be even faster for gaming, while consuming le...

Edwood wrote:i845 works with Pentium M?

Why does Intel continue to offer older and mediocre chipsets for the Pentium M?

-Ed

actually i845 is worst than i855...

http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/845/

I just got the Aopen + Pentium M 2 Ghz from Akihabara ! No time to set it up yet but so far, big suprise, the included heatsink is indeed very quiet : subjectively quieter than my Zalman7000 @ 5V, for a range of 5 to 12 V ! I don't think I will use the Zalman. ps: I'll use this board in my flight si...

thanks !

I use a 2.5' for my fsbox, a flight simulator dedicated machine, with great success: no performance hit (the software is not using the hard drive except at initial loading) and no noise at all. As said it really depends what you're doing. If it is video editing then forget it [/i]

I believe it is possible in theory to control the fan speed of my triplex 9800XT via some software. The problem is that I haven't found any yet... Asus has a utility to do just that but, unfortunately, it seems to be limited to Asus card only. Does anyone here would be award of software that would w...

"At submaximal, equal CPU loads, should the heat dissipation of a 2.4c, 2.6c, and 2.8c be the same (stock voltage and fsb 200)?"

Since they are the same design, they should have theoretically the same dissipation for a given task.

Just to let you know, I am running a 9800XT and P4C 2.4 off a 200W micro atx psu. The problem might not come form that. 've read here that the 9800XT draw 17W idle and 40W max. Add up the P4 TDP (2.4c - 66W) , HD and optical drive and you're still have a considerable margin. I am running rock stable...

Hi,

Does anyone know an online store that would do worldwide delivery of this micro atx psu ? I'm in Singapore and Seasonic does not have any distributor here.

Thanks!

Sure, that would solve the min quantity issue provided that we find a 3rd partener!
I am not sure how to secure transactions of that sort. You can contact me a beudycool(at)yahoo.com for further discussion.

That's a cool board! I'm trying to get a evaluation sample of the Radisys /w P-M 1.6 through my company. After one week of nego, I have got a decent quotation but a minimun order of 3 unit. I can't quite understand why they wouldn't provide an evalution board to a potential futur client... I'm still...