On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:05:32AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > > My little ASUS $300 thingy has a CPU cooler that sounds like the flight > > deck of a carrier and a pretty capible 80mm fan as well. But it was > > designed to be cheap, not fast. > > Your "little ASUS $300 thingy" is a SFF PC, right? One of the rules > of thumb of quiet computing is that bigger boxes allow slower airflow. > My quiet PCs are midtowers for that reason.
Reasonably small. it uses a non-ATX board and moves the PSU to the front of the machine rather than putting it above the mainboard. The thing I would use for BYO PVR is a midtower, but I'm not so sure the components in it are worth trying to use for the purpose. They'll work, of that I'm sure, but I question reliability for the long term. I'm also reasonably sure that I want my PVR to be very stable. One of the reasons my TiVo is a replacement candidate is that there are some annoying glitches with encoding that happen once in awhile, and though this has been fixed in newer TiVos, my Sony isn't a newer TiVo. By any stretch of the imagination. > > The alternative is to display to a 17" LCD, which might be useful > > sometimes, but is not what I'd watch TV on most often. > > If you're still living in a dorm room, you'd probably like to minimize > the number of screens in your room, just to save space. I happen to already need the two. The 17" LCD has three video inputs (two VGA and a DVI) and there's a KVM which I use with it now and then as well. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
