Spec Me A Quiet DualCore PC

supafly · 12 Mar 2006 at 20:09

I'm a webmaster and for the last year have been using my laptop.

But I now want a fast responsive dedicate pc for my webmaster work. I will be getting a nice Dell 2407 lcd when it's out hopefully sometime next week. All I need to compliment that is a near silent, but powerful pc. I don't wanna be hearing loud fans!

So please spec me a near silent small form factor and normal size pc. Processor of chocie is Opteron 165 as i've heard they overclock nicely!

fenderbass86 · 12 Mar 2006 at 20:15

What's the budget?

noxidjkram@hotm · 12 Mar 2006 at 20:17

Overclocking and silence are two fairly mutually exclusive terms.

Its not easy to produce a quiet overclocked PC unless you go down the watercooled route - and i havent seen that happen much with an SFF.

You can get fast and responsive without overclocking.

Worth having a think about whats important to you.

If the PC is for web-work then i don't see a pressing need for overclocking - is it to be used for other purposes too?

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supafly · 12 Mar 2006 at 21:00

Besides web work I like having the occassional rally on Colin Mcrae 2005.

As for budget, not really sure. Things i have decided on include 24 inch Dell lcd, Seagate 500gb hd, 2gb ram and a dual core processor.

Main thing is noise, I hate having a noisy pc, gfx card minus fan would be preferable.