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Shantanu Sen
I bought an Antec Sonata case with 380 W PSU and will install an Athlon 64
in it. On reading up various docs in the AMD web site I saw that AMD thermal
engineers specify a PSU with bottom air intake as the desirable PSU for all
AMD processors. I have read through a lot of reviews of the Antec case - and
in some of the reviewers were running Opteron in the case - but nowhere I
could find anything regarding this.
By default the case comes with one 120 mm rear fan with the option to
attach a similar air-intake fan at the front. The 380W PSU has the air
intake opening at the end and not at the bottom as specified by the AMD
engineers. I do not plan heavy duty games and do not plan to overclock. So I
plan to run the default settings - i.e. no fan installed at the front.
Should I go for a different case with a different PSU? Or should this
suffice?
Any comments?
Thanks,
Shantanu Sen
in it. On reading up various docs in the AMD web site I saw that AMD thermal
engineers specify a PSU with bottom air intake as the desirable PSU for all
AMD processors. I have read through a lot of reviews of the Antec case - and
in some of the reviewers were running Opteron in the case - but nowhere I
could find anything regarding this.
By default the case comes with one 120 mm rear fan with the option to
attach a similar air-intake fan at the front. The 380W PSU has the air
intake opening at the end and not at the bottom as specified by the AMD
engineers. I do not plan heavy duty games and do not plan to overclock. So I
plan to run the default settings - i.e. no fan installed at the front.
Should I go for a different case with a different PSU? Or should this
suffice?
Any comments?
Thanks,
Shantanu Sen