On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 09:42 +0200, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote:
> I think (..) he meant, a larger fan produces less noise than a smaller
> one, and one larger fan produces more air-flow than several smaller
> ones.
A dead CPU fan, in a case with several fans, can be a single point of
failure. So t
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 16:38 -0700, Linda McLeod wrote:
> "Liquid cooled"..?
>
> Umm?.. thin 1/4" soft copper pipe wrapped around hot things like how
> a still is made, but not touching anything..
Heatsinks with a coolant pumped through them to external radiators.
Essentially the same sort of th
Tim:
>> But it's not just*a* fan, you have PSU fans, CPU fans, and sometimes a
>> case fan. A box with one large fan ducted to all the other heatsinks
>> makes things a lot quieter, and more reliable.
Joe Zeff:
> I don't know about anybody else on this list, but that suggestion makes
> the word
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On 09/26/2011 04:38 PM, Linda McLeod wrote:
> What if someone built a tower in a cylinder shape..?
There's a company that specializes in doing exactly that, but I think
you'll find their products to be a tad pricy: Cray.
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Re: "fans seems to work fine" & "It's not enough that they spin"...
"I've not really wanted to
get into the expense of trying a liquid cooled system. But the idea of
a silent system, one using heatpipes and massive heatsinks appeals to
me, because I miss
On 09/26/2011 03:28 AM, Tim wrote:
> But it's not just*a* fan, you have PSU fans, CPU fans, and sometimes a
> case fan. A box with one large fan ducted to all the other heatsinks
> makes things a lot quieter, and more reliable.
I don't know about anybody else on this list, but that suggestion ma
On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 10:08 -0700, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> 32-bit ARM or PowerPC systems don't need fans. If you want a quiet
> computer, buy an old PowerPC Mac used and run a PowerPC Linux distro
> on it. Doesn't Fedora support PowerPC?
I'm not in a position to get yet another compute
Joe Zeff:
> A friend of mine suggests leaving an empty slot between each two cards
> whenever possible for better ventilation.
That can help, though you can't do that with some PC, because of how the
IRQs are shared between slots, and motherboard hardware (you may need to
put certain cards in cer
32-bit ARM or PowerPC systems don't need fans. If you want a quiet
computer, buy an old PowerPC Mac used and run a PowerPC Linux distro
on it. Doesn't Fedora support PowerPC?
However 64-bit PowerPC requires fans that sound like jet engines. I
don't think there are 64-bit ARMs yet but I understa
On 09/25/2011 09:47 AM, Tim wrote:
> It needs forced cooling, yet uses a technique that is prone to failure,
> and requires maintenance by unskilled owners.
A friend of mine suggests leaving an empty slot between each two cards
whenever possible for better ventilation.
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On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 13:12 -0700, Linda McLeod wrote:
> If the tower is set near a hot air vent, the fans will pull-in heat,
> and heat what they're supposed to be cooling...
Or, even just in a location with poor circulation... Warm air already
in the room, and the computer's exhaust sucked back
Re: strange behaviour of my desktop
"yes, fans seems to work fine..."
"I'll add the obvious: It's not enough that they spin, there has to be
airflow through the heatsink that the fans blow across, and throughout
the cabinet. Also, heatsinks need to make good physical contact with
what they're
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