While the General Fan Guide is a solid piece of technical writing on its own, you may want to read the Guide to Heat Transfer that was also posted, as the two topics inter-mingle so much, it may make more sense to you.
Yes, some of the information may be more technical than needed for everyday computer enthusiasts, but that doesn't mean others aren't curious or they can't find a use for the information and theory presented in both articles.
The generalization you made isn't always true, if you read the article.
The more air not necessarily better, and the article shows that a balance is much more important than say having only 5 fans blowing air in or only 5 fans blowing out air.
It's the flow that the author is trying to get across -- among other things.
Keep in mind that not everyone is a gamer. I myself find it rare that I have time to sit down and play anything for more than a few minutes.
As a programmer and producivity user, how does your list change to offer suggestions to them? I think you will find CPU speed and SMP support to be much higher.
You may be correct that other companies have had problems with the MHz Myth in the past, so do you think AMD shouldn't try? Should they instead simply let Intel roll over them in the reatil market because most consumers are "dumb" and only see the number of MHz instead of listening to the sales people about performance?
The point is, AMD has to do something and whether or not this was their best choice has yet to be seen. But at least they are acting.
Correct. But you have to take into consideration the tests that the KT266A board came out on top. Leaving out the ZDNet tests (the SMP capability I am now investigating) the rest of them were only single processor and single threaded applications.
If you are a high-end developer, say working with Adobe software, you can see the large difference that the dual-Athlon setup gives you.
That is very true. I have a similar article soon on http://www.amdmb.com/ soon, but it will focus on all the currently available processors: Thunderbird, Duron (Spitfire), XP, Duron (Morgan), and MP. In prelim findings, running two Morgan Duron processors should offer a good value since they are so much less expensive, but the lack of L2 cache is very noticeable in certain tests. I'll let you know more when the article is posted.
Thanks for the helpful hint. Actually, there was a small bug with the ad serving software we use that caused the MySQL server to spawn about 400 processes at the same time. Took that out and we seem to he holding steady now.:)
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Yes, some of the information may be more technical than needed for everyday computer enthusiasts, but that doesn't mean others aren't curious or they can't find a use for the information and theory presented in both articles.
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The generalization you made isn't always true, if you read the article. The more air not necessarily better, and the article shows that a balance is much more important than say having only 5 fans blowing air in or only 5 fans blowing out air. It's the flow that the author is trying to get across -- among other things.
Its up now and I welcome any comments or questions!
http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID =124&PageID=6
As a programmer and producivity user, how does your list change to offer suggestions to them? I think you will find CPU speed and SMP support to be much higher.
The point is, AMD has to do something and whether or not this was their best choice has yet to be seen. But at least they are acting.
If you are a high-end developer, say working with Adobe software, you can see the large difference that the dual-Athlon setup gives you.
That is very true. I have a similar article soon on http://www.amdmb.com/ soon, but it will focus on all the currently available processors: Thunderbird, Duron (Spitfire), XP, Duron (Morgan), and MP. In prelim findings, running two Morgan Duron processors should offer a good value since they are so much less expensive, but the lack of L2 cache is very noticeable in certain tests. I'll let you know more when the article is posted.
Thanks for the helpful hint. Actually, there was a small bug with the ad serving software we use that caused the MySQL server to spawn about 400 processes at the same time. Took that out and we seem to he holding steady now. :)