[ringzero] general hardware question

I've been trying to get someone on /. to list this question for me as,
well, I am tired of my current hot, noisy, expensive to run Athlon 64.
A nice idea, I thought my world would change when I got it, instead,
the world is changing because we have it, glaciers are breaking away etc
etc.

Basically my question is this:

"It seems that all the advances in home computer hardware incur
expensive use of power, the more MHz the more power it drains for top
of the range equipment. Do any of the slashdot readers have any advice
for purchasing a replacement computer that is reasonably fast,
reasonably quiet and does not hurt the environment? The key point here
is for lower power use whilst maintaining reasonable performance.
Scaled up a little, this should also be good practice for business to
implement, when I take a walk around a server room, or a data center I
wonder just how much waste electricity is spent."

Since /. are probably not going to run this (it's been pending a while
now), can someone suggest an alternative to this noisy beast?

TIA.

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Regards, Ed                      :: http://www.bsdwarez.net
just another unix person
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