A mini ITX board with ytour chosen processor and then one of the really good cooling systems works great for "silent" HTPC building. I built one that was smaller by buying a very basic watercooling system from online and mounted the really small radiator in the back with a 120mm fan that was running on 9 volts instead of 12. Cant hear it run, processor is nice and cold even at full load. Now to find Hard drive coolers that are silent and the fans last more than 2 months. A small fan blowing on the bottom of a Hard drive makes an enormous difference. Also PSU's that do not have the fan in back but on the side and only a grille in back tend to be quiet because of the muffler effect of the parts in the power supply.
Honestly though, even a noisy computer is not noticable when in use unless you like the volume way down low. the fans on my 42" plasma make more noise than a normal PC does. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Chris Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Rid you Freevo of all noise: >> >> 1. Buy a fanless epia >> 2. Buy a fanless psu, http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.222/.f?category=13 >> 3. Net boot or boot off of a cf card or usb drive >> >> > > I'll pass on the EPIA. the fanless boards are unbelievably slow, and i > prefer to be able to play things like H.264 on my Freevo system. Even > the en-fanned, very loud EPIA boards are really, really slow. > > I've also personally seen 3 EPIA-M10000's die right on my desk at work. > > I am not a fan of VIA boards after having worked at a company that > shipped a few thousand of them. > > I think the division of VIA that makes the EPIA just doesn't get it. > They want to position the board for multimedia, embedded, and > industrial use - but it's multimedia capabilities are sub par at best, > they're not reliable enough for embedded use, and they don't keep a > board on the market long enough for anyone to trust it as an industrial > solution. > > I am also not a fan of the power supplies that you end up using in > mini-itx cases. Not all power supplies work well with all boards, and > the quality control can be somewhat lacking. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
