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Originally Posted by knutinh As I said before, I do know my bills a lot better than you =) And I pay exactly the same price for electrical heating as I do for electrical computing. In fact, my power company can`t tell if the current is flowing through a heating element or a processor =) |
:lol: I know that, i just meant that electric heating is expensive
Usually when you want to heat a room you should do so from a heat source placed in a good spot to do so. I dont think using a computer is ideal
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I am aware that most countries have more problems with cooling thier houses properly than heating it, but Norway is cold most of the yeahr, and we have plenty of waterfalls ;-) Most appartements have no other source of heat than electricity.
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Im surprised hear that electric heating is the only choice. Anyway i live in Denmark, and i spend lots of money on heating my apartment, but we use hot water for that purpose
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I am not argueing that p4 precotts are simple to cool silently. In fact, I cant remember exactly what I was argueing ;-) I think it had something to do with your bold, "eith-or" statements, when reality is always complex and faceted.
It used to be at least, that no processor could beat the p4 at running ffdshow really, really fast.
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There are some subtle performance differences between the different CPU's but looking at the overall picture its pretty even, and therefore i would definetly choose something that is easy to cool silently. I also think youll be hard pressed to find others that wouldnt strongly recommend the same for people buying a HTPC system now.
Btw, utilizing a low power CPU makes it possible to use a small fanless PSU such as the picoPSU:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article601-page1.html
this means that you can easily get away with only having only a single case fan in the entire HTPC. Such a PSU would have trouble just powering a Pentium D without any other components
There is also the matter of fitting HTPC parts in a small case, where its nice to be able to use a small passive CPU heatsink. Some guy on the silentpcreview forum posted the following pic of his core duo:
(he later removed the fan from the chipset heatsink btw).
Note how small the heatsink is, and yet it has no trouble cooling the Core Duo.
But i guess if one wants a little more performance in ffdshow at the cost of ~4 times the power usage, then you are right that one should choose to use a Pentium D
Seriously though, i didnt meant to that definite, but i have serious difficulties seeing why one would go for a pentium D based HTPC design.