Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > How about your Linksys router? No fan. > How about your cellphone, Palm, Treo, etc? No fan. > How about your laptop? Minimal fan, and people complain when it runs. > > The majority trend is toward trying to eliminate the mechanical moving > bits, not increase them. >
Things seem to be going in both directions at once. The simple things which do not require much computing power are staying simple or getting more so and not needing fans. The desktop PC's and servers however are needing more and more fans. The new servers we got at work have 4 fans in the front that each spin at 14k rpm according to the BIOS RPM monitor. If these servers were liquid cooled those four fans in front, the cpu fan, and the power supply fan could all be replaced by a much quieter and probably better cooling pump. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
