I am evaluating various silent PC's, but have not been able to find many independent reviews of these models. Considering there are few standards for...
ksnyder@...
Apr 3, 2001 8:10 pm
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Hi all, I'm embarking upon building an ultra-quiet PC for an audio application. I already have the SilentDrive enclosure around the Seagate U Series 5, and ...
Tom Browne
Tbrowne@...
Apr 8, 2001 11:59 pm
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I dont currently have a DVD-ROM, but was thinking about getting one. Are USB DVD-ROM drives available? At least that way you could switch it off when not in...
Menno M Jansz
menno@...
Apr 9, 2001 11:49 am
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It doesn't matter if it's turned on or not, the noise starts once you insert the dvd-disk and it spins up. I wonder though if an external drive couldn't be ...
Johann O Jokulsson
joj@...
Apr 9, 2001 11:56 am
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Hi Tom, Remember, 8X in DVD terms is not the same as 8X in CD-ROM terms. Personally, I only use my CD-ROM for loading new software, audio CDs and DVDs. 8X...
mark@...
Apr 9, 2001 6:03 pm
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... It is worth remembering that transferring data to and from USB devices takes a lot of CPU power which is needed to decoding the data you are receiving....
Simon Murcott
simon@...
Apr 9, 2001 9:22 pm
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I have an external drive you can also get a Firewire cable for (as well as USB, parallel, PCMCIA, I use PCMCIA). I would think Firewire would work, since they...
cjjohans@...
Apr 10, 2001 5:08 pm
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Hiya, ... Yep... it's not what you want in an audio product... wish I'd known beforehand! A list member kindly sent me some speed reduction software, but it...
Tom Browne
Tbrowne@...
Apr 10, 2001 7:31 pm
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How about a pointer to the software. I have been looking for something just like that. Can you still pick up a single speed DVD drive? That should be quiet. ...
Bob Kimball
rkimball@...
Apr 10, 2001 7:51 pm
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http://home.t-online.de/home/Joern.Fiebelkorn/cdbremse.htm, Even if you could get your hands on a single speed DVD-ROM drive, it would be a first generation...
Tom Browne
Tbrowne@...
Apr 11, 2001 6:52 pm
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... Unless your reason for wanting a DVD drive was so that you could read DVDs, as unlikely as that may sound.. ;) You're more likely to have trouble with more...
John Dalton
John.Dalton@...
Apr 11, 2001 11:41 pm
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... issue. Not ... difficult. ... One variation on this could be to have a silent "thin client" (cheap laptop or whatever) accessing the main machine in the...
cjjohans@...
Apr 13, 2001 9:27 am
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... I have considered this a few times, but there are too many issues. ... It isn't really that much more convenient, and as you point out, not much use for...
Tom Browne
Tbrowne@...
Apr 13, 2001 10:27 am
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Hi group, Based on some info I found here at Silent-PC I made a Sound absorbing cupboard for 4 PCs. See : ...
hans@...
Apr 13, 2001 1:34 pm
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Hi Hans, Nice project! How does it work? Mark M....
mark@...
Apr 13, 2001 3:37 pm
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... The most irritating noise were made by the harddrives, I barely hear them now :) I do still hear the fans though, but much more quiet than before :) ...
hans@...
Apr 14, 2001 8:33 pm
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Hi ! An old computer has got a front fan and I'd like to make it running in function of the processor's temperature. How can I do ? Where can I find the ...
stephascoet@...
Apr 17, 2001 7:49 am
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Here is a site with all the details: http://www.virtualhideout.net/guides/temp_controlled_fan/index.shtml...
Tom Simpson
tom@...
Apr 17, 2001 11:21 am
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In browsing through some old notebooks the other day, I found references to the Ergo Brick and to Swan computers, both of which were fanless machines. The...
David O'Heare
djoheare@...
Apr 18, 2001 5:02 pm
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I would seriously consider taking a look at the Zalman Flower processor heatsink/fan combination. You can get more information at www.zalman.co.kr. I would...
mark@...
Apr 18, 2001 9:14 pm
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any idea where we can get these salmon fans in the US?? :)...
Conroy Lee
conroy@...
Apr 19, 2001 12:55 pm
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Hi Dave, Convection is being experimented with by Apple, the cube, and they are finding that the processors are still too hot and that the lamination on the ...
John Jensen
John@...
Apr 19, 2001 4:25 pm
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Try http://myhome.netsgo.com/wesleycrushr/WDSoft/index.html Click on Products, then Hardware. Mark M. ... at ... processor...
mark@...
Apr 19, 2001 4:35 pm
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John: ... True enough. I'd have thought, though, that a steel or aluminum case shouldn't suffer from delamination. Well, not at temperatures that I'd want...
David O'Heare
djoheare@...
Apr 19, 2001 5:16 pm
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Ran into this watercooled case from Koolance: http://www.koolance.com/ It comes with watercooled power supply, video, hdd and cpu. Sounds like something that...
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joj@...
Apr 20, 2001 11:27 am
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Hello list members, I'm coming out of lurk mode here.. With all the discussions about various fan species, I guess many of you have been missing this solution...
ally@...
Apr 20, 2001 2:39 pm
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... Jocelyn, Thanks for your kind words! With your note as a nudge, I'll try to find some time to update my page with my latest research, but here's a preview:...
Terry Gray
gray+silent@...
Apr 20, 2001 4:43 pm
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... A few years ago, I ran Linux without a HD, mounted root from NFS and booted from a floppy. It isn't a mainstream choice, I had to read some HOWTOs and...
Karl Anderson
kra@...
Apr 20, 2001 6:39 pm
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Thanks Karl; good input. Re Solid State Drives: I looked into flash-based SSDs that emulate regular IDE/ATA drives, and learned that flash should be considered...
Terry Gray
gray+silent@...
Apr 20, 2001 6:53 pm
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... And you can always (with linux) get lots of RAM, reserve some as a ramdisk, write the most-used part of your HD to that, and mount the ramdisk over that,...
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