I have a mini-ITX at home. It is the C3 based 800MHz EPIA-800. It has a fan, and the fan is noisy. I have a seagate Barracuda IV hard drive which is almost silent.
At work we have an EPIA-V 500MHz, which has a fanless CPU. We have an CF-IDE adaptor with 128Mb Flash. It is silent. The VIA BIOS supports PXE so you can boot off the network and not need a hard drive at all. I think even the 500MHz VIA processor is adequate for web-surfing, email and wordprocessing, and they're not expensive either. The 800MHz mini-ITX I have at home is my main PC, running Debian, and I use a 200MHz Pentium laptop to VNC into it a lot of the time. Once you get solid state, silent components, the only problem you will have is mains hum... Have fun, Andy On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:39, you wrote: > do you want to try out one of those ncd exploras I have, they make an ok > X terminal. Worth a try anyway! maybe we can set one up with the aid of > a bottle on wine one evening? > > > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:54:37 +1200 > > Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now that my wifes destop has been comandeered for the IPCop box, I need > > to organise a replacement. I am aiming for a silent or fanless option > > since it lives in the bedroom - PC or X terminal are both options. > > I haven't time at present to get into an exotic case modding silent > > project with exotic parts so something more or less off the shelf > > would be ideal. > > Silent box / LCD display. > > > > Any leads / pointers appreciated. > > > > : ) > > > > /chris.b
