Quoting Cornelius Koelbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > thats great. > I also removed the HD from my freevo box. > I run the box completely with pxe-boot from a root-nfs. > > Unfortunately there is still this anoying fan in the power supply. :(
With care, you can usually replace the fan in the power supply with one that is quieter - perhaps one with an automatic speed control, or one that is just plain quiet. My Freevo system is a 2U sized rack mount chassy with two 80mm fans in the front, and 80mm fan in the power supply, and an 80mm fan over the cpu. I can't hear it at all from the couch. Why? really quiet fans. The 80mm fans in the case and ps are NMB fans i picked up quite cheaply (identical to Dell replacement parts), the cpu fan is an outrageously expensive Sanyo-Denki, but was the only decent 80x15mm fan i could find. I use an AthlonXP-Mobile at 1.4ghz and an enormous Swiftech heatsink, comprised of about a pound of copper with several aluminum screws sticking out of it. Back when i had an Athlon 800 in there, i could run it fanless with that heatsink in all but the hottest days of summer. Take care not to overheat the system, though. Quiet fans generally move less air than their louder cousins. I may only get away with the quiet fan in my HTPC because i have two intake fans feeding one exhaust fan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
