On Sat, 15 May 2004 15:57:33 -0300, htravis{at}attglobal.net wrote:

>Old, slow, loud, large, and in the way. And, will they draw current
>from your power supply on start up. So no AMD cpus, splease.

Quite the contrary - no P4 CPUs. In AMD mainboard designs, the CPUs are
commonly fed from +5VDC, so the isolated +12VDC circuitry remains
capable to take the high spin-up currents.

Just a comment from an owner of a 5-platter, 8-headed oldie. 




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