With more home computers making their way into the living room, consumers are demanding quiet systems that don’t spoil the relaxed atmosphere. Trying to address this point, AOpen has produced a motherboard that should become very popular with anyone looking to build a low noise PC.
The cryptically named i855GMEm-LFS is a micro ATX motherboard based on the Intel 855GME chipset, which you would normally find in a laptop. In turn this means that the i855GMEm-LFS motherboard has to be used with a Pentium M processor.
The Pentium M is a low power chip, since it was designed for use in mobile computers. Consequently, the Pentium M produces less heat and therefore needs a smaller cooler with a relatively quiet fan. You won’t get the performance that you would from one of the latest desktop processors, but that’s a compromise you’ll have to make if you want a very quiet machine – unless you have enough money for a Hush PC. The Pentium M processors are however faster than the low clock speeds suggests, as the design is quite different from a Pentium 4.
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Jan 20, 2005, 07:32 AM
