On 3/2/06, Markus Schatzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:33:21PM -0500, marrandy wrote: > > Has anyone tried VIA Eden fanless at 1GHz yet or the new Eden-N or NL (Luke > > series) yet ? If so, how did they perform. > > I used to have one of them with a HD plugged. > > They perform quite well, as long as you keep them cool enough > under high load (which you cannot do passively). In fact I was > building the userland on a VIA Eden 1 GHz and this melted the > plastic plugs which keep the cooler in touch with the processor. > > Building it with some cooling aggregates on top (yes, the one > from the fridge you normally use for cooling your beer while > travelling) even allowed me to build the jdk-stuff without a > single poweroff caused by overheating ;) You see, not quite what > it promises. > > If you don't expect high loads and put the board in a suitable > chassis, you will be quite happy with that. Otherwise, don't > waste your money. > > All the best, > /Markus > >
hi I've got a Via card powered by a Eden N 1GHz I've removed the fan and replaced it with a zalman ZM-NB47J cooler http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=71&code=014 Running ok, the box has been a firewall, a mailserver and is now a file server. -- Thom/ange http://ange.librium.org
