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100%hound_dog
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I'm hoping to build a completely quiet computer, no fans except for the power supply, using a slow 1.0ghz duron, passive cpu cooler and ATA flash card instead of a whirling hard drive. Is this feasible? I really am tired of computer fan, harddrive noise!  Performance is not so much an issue in that I just want to use it to ssh into my other computers locked away in a closet.
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pjp
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Moved from Other Things Gentoo.
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shakti
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i would use a via cpu/mb with zalman fanless cooler and seagate HD with rubbermounts(i cant hear mine). Use 12 V ATX adaptor, run of carbatterie with charger and have no noise, not even PSU.
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Malakin
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Seagate HD is very quiet, flash card would be very slow.
Via has several fanless motherboards with integrated cpu's.
http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_cl_spec.jsp?motherboardId=161
| Quote: | | Use 12 V ATX adaptor, run of carbatterie with charger and have no noise, not even PSU. |
The power supply supplies 3.3, 5.0 and 12 volts. |
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timfreeman
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timfreeman
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| shakti wrote: | | Use 12 V ATX adaptor, run of carbatterie with charger and have no noise, not even PSU. |
I think if the draw is low enough there are a couple totally fanless PSUs out there (and several more "fan once in a while" PSUs).
This is one of them:
http://www.siliconacoustics.com/silpc.html
Do you really use carbatteries? Even though the lunchbox cluster is plugged in, that kind of brings to mind the linuxbios cluster DQ  |
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100%hound_dog
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Wow, thanks for the good ideas. I didn't realize the abundance of choices I could make. I really like that via motherboard/chipset and also the fanless power supply. Although running off of a car battery and converter would seem to kill two birds with one stone (power supply & ups), except for shutdown I guess. My harddrive makes a whine that I'm convinced is a health hazard.
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