I have put a few together for engineers where I work. The low power single core units were expensive, but made a huge difference. I used a Quiet PC power supply and case fan, a large Chenbro tower case, and two of the Zalman 7000 (?) CPU sinks. Almost silent except for, yes, the SCSI drive noise. I will probably be doing a few dual core units in the next month and I will be using the new Zalman 9000-something cooler and essentially the same setup. I can list the specific part numbers later today if anyone is curious, but the low noise case fan, power supply, and CPU sinks were key, and the low power (HE, I think) CPUs made all of that possible by not forcing me to move a ton of air.
Brendan Todd Corkery -----Original Message----- From: Paul Brook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:57 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Peter A. H. Peterson Subject: Re: quiet dual dual-core opteron > Does anyone have experience with a working dual, dual-core opteron > system that is less than full-tower size and relatively quiet? Or even > a quiet-but-full-tower machine? I've got a largeish EATX thermaltake xaser3 case (next size up from standard midi towers), Tagan PSU, Zalman CPU coolers and a Tyan S2885 motherboard (though the S2895 is probably a better bet for new systems). The CPU fans are temperature controlled by the motherboard (and rarely get above 50% speed) and the case fans are on a fixed 40% speed controller. It's not totally silent, but it is quiet even under heavy load. Like a low purr rather than the roar generated by most PCs. The noisiest bit is the harddrives clicking when accesses. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
