We live in New England and my Mom is one of those people who is always cold, no matter how high the heat is, from about October to April. This year, she wants to put a space heater under her desk but my Dad thinks it will short the circuit since there's already 2 comps a tv and some other stuff plugged into that outlet.
I suggested getting my Mom a comp that puts out a lot of heat and running something cpu intensive in the background to load it up (she is an email/internet/word processing PC user). This leads me to a number of questions.
First, the cpu would obviously be intel. If I run f@h or p95 or something similar in the background, will I need a dual core proc to prevent the comp from chugging? or will HT suffice? I know next to nothing about newer intel stuff, are dual core mobo's still expensive? Does nVidia's intel board support pentium d's?
Second, will it matter if it's a sff or not? I know sff's tend to get hotter then my midtowers but either option should adequately heat up the area under a desk right?
Third, what hsf and cases would you suggest? Since my Mom wants to feel hot air, I'm looking to point the exhaust air from the pc towards her feet instead of towards the wall.
Finally, what background apps would you suggest for loading the cpu with minimal memory usage and that won't completely chug the system?
TIA, any suggestions will be appreciated. I'm thinking about giving her my 9800 Pro, it's not super hot but hot enough imo then I can upgrade.
EDIT: Her current comp is an athlon tbred A 1800+ w/512 mb ram in a very old shuttle sff and it meets her needs just fine but it doesn't put out much heat at all.
I suggested getting my Mom a comp that puts out a lot of heat and running something cpu intensive in the background to load it up (she is an email/internet/word processing PC user). This leads me to a number of questions.
First, the cpu would obviously be intel. If I run f@h or p95 or something similar in the background, will I need a dual core proc to prevent the comp from chugging? or will HT suffice? I know next to nothing about newer intel stuff, are dual core mobo's still expensive? Does nVidia's intel board support pentium d's?
Second, will it matter if it's a sff or not? I know sff's tend to get hotter then my midtowers but either option should adequately heat up the area under a desk right?
Third, what hsf and cases would you suggest? Since my Mom wants to feel hot air, I'm looking to point the exhaust air from the pc towards her feet instead of towards the wall.
Finally, what background apps would you suggest for loading the cpu with minimal memory usage and that won't completely chug the system?
TIA, any suggestions will be appreciated. I'm thinking about giving her my 9800 Pro, it's not super hot but hot enough imo then I can upgrade.
EDIT: Her current comp is an athlon tbred A 1800+ w/512 mb ram in a very old shuttle sff and it meets her needs just fine but it doesn't put out much heat at all.
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