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Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review
Babstar writes "Discussed numerous times on Slashdot, the quiet PC is the holy grail for many, and one step in the right direction could be using a Pentium M (designed for notebooks) in a desktop machine. Here's a review of a desktop Pentium M motherboard. Surprisingly it's also a great game machine."
Does that make the iMac the holy grail?
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
borked fan ->weird electrical loads -> broken compy
Just buy a new cooler. Cheap 80x80mm ones go for like 15 bucks, and they perform just as well as your current one. In most systems, either the graphics card of the PSU/case fans ought to be the noisiest, I think.
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
I think that's mostly because they don't want their Pentium IV flagship killed by the reanimated Pentium III yet.
In Spring of 2000, my LeadTek GeForce 256 came with a fan, a noisy little bugger that failed in less than a year. Here's a picture . So did most of the other flavors (Asus, Guillemot, etc.), as a fan was specified on the nVidia reference design. I ended up taking the fan off, and attaching a large passive heatsink. End of problem.
An iPod could handle a slashdotting given enough bandwidth, as long as it was serving static pages. Dynamically generated content (such as ASP) is what burns most slashdotted servers.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Wait a minute - this is a review posted on a MANUFACTURER'S site. GamePC sells PCs, including, surprise, a Pentium M gaming system.