From: John Bridges (jbridges_at_peekpoke.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 01:14:52 EDT
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 12:32:22 -0700 (PDT), Steve C. wrote:
>I haven't seen one
>any faster than a 500 Mhz used successfully in a
>laptop but in a desktop they require a very large
>heatsink with a noisy fan and can heat up a small
>room.
Fans and heatsinks for Athlon are comparable to P4 (go read the reviews, like
at Tom's Hardware). The P4 includes a heatspreader ontop of the CPU, Athlon
doesn't. So the installation of the heatsink can be a bit more touchy on the
Athlon with very cheap heatsinks. In the recent heatsink/fan roundup at Tom's
hardware the Cooltech was one of the quietest rated. NewEgg sells them for $7
each. I've used several of them, all are nearly silent.
Portable Athlon has no heat or power problems, go read the reviews.
500mhz the fastest? Sony VAIO PCG-FXA63 Notebook (1.4 GHz Athlon XP 1600+,
256 MB SDRAM, 20 GB hard drive) $1400 at Amazon.
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