Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-02 Thread Clint Pachl
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:16:49PM +0200, Imre Oolberg wrote: As an operating system my first choice would OpenBSD and second is Linux. In fact at the moment i run such a kind of setup using Linux but i feel need to upgrade my hardware, i have old 700 MHz Celeron,

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-02 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Martin Schrvder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And where do you get a PCI graphics card with DVI capable of doing 1920x1200? Matrox Millennium P690 PCI. X.org doesn't have a driver for it, though. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-02 Thread Siegbert Marschall
2008/2/1, Zbigniew Baniewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can use old Pentium II 400 MHz - there are still many of them available, which doesn't need any cooler, its radiator will do. Such way the only And where do you get a PCI graphics card with DVI capable of doing 1920x1200? Everywhere ? ATI

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2008-02-02 Thread Imre Oolberg
regards, Imre Original Message Subject: setting up a noiseless workstation Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:16:49 +0200 From: Imre Oolberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Hallo! I am thinking of setting up for myself a noiseless workstation ie without moving parts or at least

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: setting up a noiseless workstation]]

2008-02-02 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:23:08AM +0200, Imre Oolberg wrote: But I am surprised people aint using much VIA low-power offerings like C3, Eden or C7 in a form of mini-itx motherboard. I was using during almost 2 years VIA C3-700 - and this one didn't need any cooler (the stronger ones

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: setting up a noiseless workstation]]

2008-02-02 Thread scott
in VIA platforms. -Original Message- From: Imre Oolberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: setting up a noiseless workstation]] Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:23:08 +0200 But I am surprised people aint using much VIA low-power offerings like C3, Eden or C7 in a form

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:16:49PM +0200, Imre Oolberg wrote: As an operating system my first choice would OpenBSD and second is Linux. In fact at the moment i run such a kind of setup using Linux but i feel need to upgrade my hardware, i have old 700 MHz Celeron, 19 monitor (1024x768) and

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Henning Brauer
* Imre Oolberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-01 19:17]: I am thinking of setting up for myself a noiseless workstation I have that - easily. It is in another room. with DVI and USB it is easy to get 10m and a wall between you and the machine. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Stefan Krah
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

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:13:07PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: * Imre Oolberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-01 19:17]: I am thinking of setting up for myself a noiseless workstation I have that - easily. It is in another room. with DVI and USB it is easy to get 10m and a wall between you and

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Henning Brauer
* Jussi Peltola [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-01 20:56]: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:13:07PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: * Imre Oolberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-01 19:17]: I am thinking of setting up for myself a noiseless workstation I have that - easily. It is in another room. with

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
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

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:09:07PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: You can use old Pentium II 400 MHz - there are still many of them available, which doesn't need any cooler, its radiator will do. Such way the only moving part would be PS-fan, which you can slow down a little, using a

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread ropers
On 01/02/2008, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? That (

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:58:59PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: i have no CRTs in regular use any more :) Mine keep coming out from the garage when it's too cold in the winter and getting replaced with LCDs again when the AC fails to keep it cool enough in the summer... Good (and nowadays very

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/2/1, Zbigniew Baniewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can use old Pentium II 400 MHz - there are still many of them available, which doesn't need any cooler, its radiator will do. Such way the only And where do you get a PCI graphics card with DVI capable of doing 1920x1200? Best Martin

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Tasmanian Devil
Hello! but i am not sure it is the best chioce to build on. As an operating system my first choice would OpenBSD and second is Linux. In fact at the moment i run such a kind of setup using Linux but i feel need to upgrade my hardware, i have old 700 MHz Celeron, 19 monitor (1024x768) and

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:32:59PM +0100, Martin Schrvder wrote: You can use old Pentium II 400 MHz - there are still many of them available, which doesn't need any cooler, its radiator will do. Such way the only And where do you get a PCI graphics card with DVI capable of doing