RE: Silent HA PC

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I'm using a little Shuttle XPC now (SK41G?) as my main server, with a 2GHz
Athlon (ADXA=cooler) processor. With a lightly loaded processor the
standard
box is almost silent as it automatically runs on the slowest fan speed.
However I insist on running the UnitedDevices anti-cancer client, which
effectively means the processor is 100% loaded ALL the time. This makes the
fan spin at max speed which, while not loud, isn't silent. I replaced the
standard fan with a Panflo fan (off eBay) and set the BIOS to run the fan
at
max speed all the time.
The box is perhaps a little louder than it was with the original fan at
slow
rpm, but is still almost silent and blasts along all day at a steady 44'C
at
max load, doing most of the stuff you mentioned below, including the
MisterHouse home automation software.
One thing to note, is that when the rest of the PC gets this quiet you can
hear the hard drives, even quiet ones like the Seagate Barracuda I use, so
I
went for one large drive and put an extra one in my desktop box, to run the
backups to over the lan...




-----Original Message-----
From: Bricknell, Tony [mailto:tony.bricknell@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 May 2004 14:28
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Silent HA PC


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Content preview:  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) [...]