Processors looking for a good home

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:20:59AM -0400, Kareem Shehata wrote:
> 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.

How quiet does it have to be?

Last time I fixed something on my sisters machine, I turned it on,
waited a moment, and then looked down to make sure I had turned it on by
checking the power light.

Given it has 2 case fans and the fan in the power supply and on the cpu,
and a pair of harddisks in raid1, it sure doesn't seem to want to make
enough noise to actually be heard from a few feet away.  You just have
to be willing to pay a bit more for the case and power supply to get the
right stuff.  Oh and avoid high end graphics cards. :)

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