On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:41:42PM +0100, Stefan Krah wrote: > Imre Oolberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am thinking of setting up for myself a noiseless workstation ie > > without moving parts or at least with minimal amount of them. The > > intension is to make it an X-terminal booting from local network, > > preferable root-over-nfs thru pxe since i am most familiar with it > > compared to flash memory disks etc. > > Have a look at: > > http://www.silentpcreview.com/ > > If you don't live in a very quiet area, you might be able to get below > ambient noise with a good Seasonic power supply and one of the top > CPU coolers. Matrox G550 and some Nvidia Quadro cards are fanless.
I've also been looking at case cooling methods such as: http://atechfabrication.com/HTPC_cases.htm Solid, thick case with fins, and heatpipes to thermally connect CPU/GPU to the case. Anybody use anything like this before? -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
