From: Darrin Chandler (dwchandlerstilyagin.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 13:59:42 CST

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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:41:42PM +0100, Stefan Krah wrote:
> Imre Oolberg <imreauul.pri.ee> wrote:
> > I am thinking of setting up for myself a noiseless workstation ie
> > without moving parts or at least with minimal amount of them. The
> > intension is to make it an X-terminal booting from local network,
> > preferable root-over-nfs thru pxe since i am most familiar with it
> > compared to flash memory disks etc.
>
> Have a look at:
>
> http://www.silentpcreview.com/
>
> If you don't live in a very quiet area, you might be able to get below
> ambient noise with a good Seasonic power supply and one of the top
> CPU coolers. Matrox G550 and some Nvidia Quadro cards are fanless.

I've also been looking at case cooling methods such as:
http://atechfabrication.com/HTPC_cases.htm

Solid, thick case with fins, and heatpipes to thermally connect CPU/GPU
to the case. Anybody use anything like this before?

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