I know what you mean. I'm trying to escape a 1800+ right now on an Asus
board that runs pretty hot (at least 49Celcius). A friend told me that the
P4's run a lot cooler, and hence, don't need the huge noisy heatsinks/fans.
Actually, I saw a P4 running with an undervolted stock heatsink/fan quite
comfortably. However, checking out temperature readings online, they still
seem to run above 40Celcius. That's why I thought for the extra $100 that a
P4 would cost me, I might as well buy a nice case and a Zalman 7000CU quiet
heatsink or something. Make sense?

--Jonathan


"Alan W. Blackmon" wrote in message
...
Are you wanting to build an AMD or Intel system? I have been building AMD
for several years and this last weekend built a P4 system. Wow, the
system
temps were lower and the noise so much lower.

Alan in Boise
"Mitchua" wrote in message
able.rogers.com...
I'm looking for a nice quiet case for a new quiet system I'm building.
I've
read through silentpcreview.com and all the cases they recommend are
expensive ($200+) like the Lian Li PC-6070 or have a loud PSU like the
Antec
Sonata. Has anyone encoutered a sub-$120 case that has good
construction,
sound-proofing, and comes with features like a quiet PSU or 120mm case
fans?
A front-door would be best since my DVD-ROM is as loud as a jet taking
off.

Thanks a lot,
Mitchua