To help othersespecially the children, who will think of them?in living rooms everywhere avoid this tragic fate, AMD has just introduced a new CPU aimed at home theater PCs, small form factor systems, and small-footprint corporate desktops. The short answer, in my case, is that our HTPC is based on an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ processor that requires a little more relief than passive cooling or inaudibly low fan speeds will allow. Why, you ask, should a computing device be audible in one’s living room? Good question. But in the background, just above the sound of the air conditioning system forcing air through the vents, I can hear it: the ever-so-slight but unmistakable whir of the fans spinning in my home theater PC, piercing the silence like a faint whisper. Sunlight streams in through a window across the room, and every so often, I can hear the shuffle caused by my oldest child turning the page in the book he’s reading. A S I WRITE THESE words, I’m comfortably reclined in an overstuffed chair in my living room, laptop perched on my lap, sipping on a homemade cafe latte.
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