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Here's what I'm going to do: I'll use my computer at home that don't use very often (athlon xp 2000+). It should hopefully be powerful enough. I'm probably going to play with the bios settings to get the most reliable setting that produces the least heat and power consumption. . .ie, reduce the cpu speed (and maybe voltage if possible). I would think this should make it run pretty cool together with my fan it has. I used to have some heat problems with it so I installed a cooler master 15000 rpm fan with heat pipe technology and its now pretty stable. Hopefully if I reduce the speed it should remain stable in a hot car environment. Would windows xp or windows 2000 be best with this setup? I plan on using a 40 gigabyte maxtor hard drive, but I also have a few other choices. . .80 gig western digital or 80 gig ibm drive. I really want to choose the one that will be most reliable and least susceptible to heat (I live in louisiana and it gets pretty hot from May to September). I'll plan on tweaking my install so that I get the best startup time by removing anything I can think of and a fresh reinstall. I'm going to look into installing windows 2000 on a compact flash or sd card and hopefully make the installation read only. I'll have to research this, though as i've never attempted anything like this. I really like windows 2000 and xp b/c they are a lot more reliable than 98, even though 98 loads a lot faster.
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