Building a Mini-PC

[DirtyBird]

My good buddy Sal has just posted an article on how to build a mini-PC. Very cool and interesting read.

 

http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/654/654813p1.html

[Cujo]

wow a 3.8 in a mini pc is just asking for trouble. a guy i live with has a 3.2 and his temps hit 70c and above with the cover on. he takes it off and it wails away full fan speed.

[Guest zerodamage]

He went with the wrong CPU, otherwise it is a great little system.

 

Should have gone Athlon 64. Much less heat in such a small case.

[Cujo]

my guess is he was paid to go with intel. there's no way any gamer who knows anything about computers would build an intel box. especially a mini pc intel box.

[Guest zerodamage]

Yeah, it was a great article. I just think the choice of CPU was a bad one. They run very hot compared to the A64's, not to mention the AMD solution is cheaper.

[NOFX]

my guess is he was paid to go with intel.  there's no way any gamer who knows anything about computers would build an intel box.  especially a mini pc intel box.

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I'm a gamer and I have an intel, but at the time when Hyperthreading was in its prime. The responsiveness of multi-tasking was far superior to the AMD XP's.

 

Now if I was to buy a new CPU, AMD 64 3800+ X2 fo shizzle

 

or possibly a dual operteron setup if it would be cheaper. dual opteron's == 1Mb Cache, but a dual socket mobo may be a little expensive.