Re: Silent HA PC

[Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you go for a mini itx mobo .. they have some nice fanless solutions.

My only other idea is to go water-cooled.

Which I am seriously looking into.

After my exams I will be sourcing a 19" rack and creating a
water-cooled
node 0 ...

Since I will gain 3/4 of my life back I will have to find something to
occupy it!

Ho yin

At 14:27 12/05/2004, you wrote:
>I'm after an (ideally) silent PC for use as:
>
>p2p file sharing,
>possible audio/video server,
>HA - haven't decided how/what, but with a PC on 24/7 it would be
criminal
>not to put it to HA use.
>Outward facing web-interface to possibly TiVo, security cameras,
Comfort,
>...?
>Remote display for occasional use in the kitchen (on-line food
shopping,
>etc)
>
>Whilst I'm quite capable of spec'ing a machine to do these tasks, my
>knowledge dries up when looking for a "fanless" solution.  I
think that an
>EPIA mobo will struggle with serving multiple audio/video/whatever, so
I've
>started looking at a "Shuttle" sized unit.  May have to go
bigger to
>comfortably fit/keep cool a couple of 160GB drives...?
>
>I presume Intel run cooler than AMD?  Any recommendations for cases
that can
>be easily modded to provide passive cooling on everything?
>
>I've checked out www.quietpc.com but even their "fanless CPU
coolers" rely
>on the PSU fan to maintain airflow :o(
>
>TIA,
>Tony
>
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