Processors looking for a good home

[Tyler Aviss]

How fast does it need to be? Perhaps you'd care to try a fanless via
C7 CPU, DC-DC power supply with brick, and either booting from a large
CF card or (if you want "quiet" but not quite "silent") a laptop hard
drive.

You can get Jetway boards with 1.2Ghz C7's for a decent price. I use
the fan'ed variety for mini-servers since they're very low on power
consumption for the always-on systems.



On 9/17/07, Kareem Shehata <kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Tyler
> > Aviss
> > Sent: Monday 17 September 2007 11:15
> > To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> > Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Processors looking for a good home
> >
> > One thing I used to hate about my Athlon XP (2500) was that the thing
> > was terrible for heat. I still have it, and it still runs, but it
> > requires a noisy "volcano" fan to keep cool. I think it's one of the
> > earlier revisions though, since latter chips were supposed to be
> > cooler.
>
> Hmmm... mine had a fairly simple heatsink on it, and ran for days and weeks
> at a time.  It wasn't small, but not giant either and it did the job.  In
> any case, they come as a pair.
>
> That said, I would love to build a silent computer one day.  Even my tablet
> isn't quiet enough for me, so I'm not sure it's possible to build a decent
> PC that would be truly silent.
>
> -kms
>
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