I picked this case. http://www.ahanix.com/dvine5.html
Running a pentium 1.8 with a zalman 6800 and you cannot hear the machine. If it does any heavy lifting, it spins up fans. I have only had that happen when upgrading the system. Dan On 6/7/05, PAUL WILLIAMSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a couple different cases. > > Original - IBM NetVista with a 5200. Black, sits right > under the TV, and most people don't event realize it's > there. I took out the HD, replaced the CPU fan, and > the 5200 has a giant heat sink on it. The thing is so > quiet I hear the buzz of my TV speakers in my family > room during low passages in Holst's "The Planets." > > Newest - Pretty sweet case, mobo supports PXE, so the > only thing I had to worry about was a video card. > Got another 5200 with a huge heat sink and picked up > a Zalman CPU cooler and a silent PSU. When I put my > ear right up to the unit with the case off, it's hard to > tell it is on. I just ordered a pvr250 to put into this > and finally figure out how to get it controlling the > digital cable box I have so I have access to my other > 100 premium channels...so I guess technically > it will be a diskless frontend and backend as well. > > 2 mvpmcs - ultimate in quiet and netbooting too. > Now that liveTV is working, I can do wireless live > digital cable to my outdoor patio! Woohoo! > > Paul > > >>> "A JM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/07/05 4:22 PM >>> > So, what kind of cases are you guy's using? if it's diskless and > fanless as in the VIA EPIA ME6000 or SP8000E (I'm not sure what this > is HD Commell LV-667) you'll need video card height in order to use > decoding on a card correct? So, are they mostly beastly ugly PC's or > something more attractive? > > My backend is running an XP3200 with 512meg and a couple of 200gig > drives in a LVM so I'm assuming it could handle the front end? > > I'm currently finishing off an XBOX front end and although it's not > unattractive I'd like something attractive and quite. > > Thanks for all the great information and feedback. > > AJM, > > > > On 6/7/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Carland wrote: > > > > > One idea if PXE doesn't work, or you don't have PXE, and you still > > > want a silent machine, would be to boot from flash (or even > floppy). I > > > have a CompactFlash to IDE adapter, that can be used to load a > kernel, > > > and the rest could be loaded from network. If the motherboard > supports > > > booting from a USB drive, this would do the same thing. You could > even > > > load the kernel from a floppy, although when I used to do this the > > > same floppy sitting in the same drive for months on end would need > to > > > be replaced once or twice a year. Not exactly diskless in that > case, > > > but other than 30 seconds at boot, there is no drive noise. > > > > Or, throw in a DVD drive and boot from CD/DVD, and you can play > DVD's > > with the frontend, also. > > > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
