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<blockquote data-quote="knutinh" data-source="post: 54446" data-attributes="member: 14776">Again, I am cooling my p4 2.8 without any percievable noise, so I will go for any solution that fits my use, wallet and competence. As a user, CPU temperature and energy use in itself is non-relevant. What is relevant to me is noise and performance. In Norway, a hypothetical 1000W computer that made no noise would make perfect sense most of the year, as the alternative is spending the same watts on electric heating =) I know that building 1000W silent computers is impossible, but my point is to isolate tech-facts and user-interest.The perfect CPU would allow a close relationship between usage and noise. Heat is part of the equation, but not interesting from a black box perspective. CnQ (and intels recent similar feature) are cool (double meaning there), but if you search the forums over at <a href="http://www.silentpcreview.com" target="_blank">www.silentpcreview.com</a> it isnt always so easy to get all the parts working properly. In theory, an integrated CPU thermistor should drive a CPU fan directly, while CPU voltage (and thereby power consumption) was driven by OS/application demand. I still believe (writing this on a CnQ AMD 3000+) that this feature needs more tweaking befori it works as good as it should.regardsKnut</blockquote>

[QUOTE="knutinh, post: 54446, member: 14776"] Again, I am cooling my p4 2.8 without any percievable noise, so I will go for any solution that fits my use, wallet and competence. As a user, CPU temperature and energy use in itself is non-relevant. What is relevant to me is noise and performance. In Norway, a hypothetical 1000W computer that made no noise would make perfect sense most of the year, as the alternative is spending the same watts on electric heating =) I know that building 1000W silent computers is impossible, but my point is to isolate tech-facts and user-interest. The perfect CPU would allow a close relationship between usage and noise. Heat is part of the equation, but not interesting from a black box perspective. CnQ (and intels recent similar feature) are cool (double meaning there), but if you search the forums over at [url]www.silentpcreview.com[/url] it isnt always so easy to get all the parts working properly. In theory, an integrated CPU thermistor should drive a CPU fan directly, while CPU voltage (and thereby power consumption) was driven by OS/application demand. I still believe (writing this on a CnQ AMD 3000+) that this feature needs more tweaking befori it works as good as it should. regards Knut [/QUOTE]

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