At 08:30 PM 5/17/2005 -0700, you wrote:

>On May 17, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Peter wrote:
>
>>>I guess
>>>with a game console the sounds of gunshots will overwhelm noise of the fans?
>>
>>There are some nice new fanless coolers out there. At least one uses 
>>heatpipes and a huge case-radiator (a whole side of the case is the 
>>radiator - no need for fins at that size). Conduction cooling is pretty 
>>much standard in more serious equipment (even in camcorders and dvd 
>>players!). It is not cheap. It can easily add $100 to a machine's cost 
>>(pc level hardware).
>
>Just the sort of thing one is likely to see on a game console?!  I thought 
>that
>the fancy cooling solutions were somewhat limited in the watts they could get
>rid of.  A 3.xGHz pentium is nearly 100 watts.  And you're talking about TWO
>of them...  (Luckily, the 1.8GHz Pentium-M run stuff at nearly the same 
>overall
>speed, and a fraction of the power dissipation.)
>
>BillW

Some of the gamers now spend large sums on cooling their overclocked
machines:

http://www.bigfootcomputers.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=Bigfoot&Category_Code=510.25


>Best regards,

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