HardwareBanter - View Single Post - Fanless or near fanless PC 2014 ? (sub 5 watts)

**Flasherly[_2_]** · September 17th 14, 01:20 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:27:37 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

VIA took over Cyrix and IDT, who both made x86 CPUs.
A few years later, Intel did not renew their license for socket 370.
Seemed rather petty to me, as VIA CPUs were no threat to Intel at all.

I stayed away from Intel for the longest time. Never forgave them for
sitting on an 386 market and keeping prices inflated unflinchingly
high until an alternative market, comparable to the 386, caught up.
All through 486s and 586s - AMD, Cyrix, TI - anything else, other for
an Intel, that's what I bought, always new, following through the
upgrade paths.

I only switched to an Intel Celeron D as a matter of practicality on a
change and switch, on Intel's part, for apparent pricing structures.
Oddly, I was reading just last week, that same Celeron D (Socket 478)
is exactly structured on the last processor I was running on this, my
present computer and Socket 775 MB -- 2 weeks ago, I since swapped
processors for a Conroe. Apart from a reduced cache on that former
775, they were identical. (A $10.95 Pentium D 805, two years ago, to a
E6850 for $11.95 two weeks ago.)

What goes around comes around, I guess. The E6850 sits alongside a
bunch of used Ebay $30+ quadcores, even some Xeon conversions,
(exclusively out of China, though), I can always go back to and update
once and only once more, if I want. It's kinda unique - a more robust
platform than anything I'm seeing (blows away the Pentium D) or
suspect I can get into by cost considerations in an AMD, or, over my
other computer, which is equipped with a dualcore AMD X2 4200.