On Jan 13, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Mishka wrote:
0. (biggest offendre) Quiet power supply (Antec 420W is quiet enough)
The PSU fan is what's making most of the noise and is where I'm concentrating my efforts. I am intending to relocate the box at some point, but I will need to install phone and network cabling first.
I thought about relocating it into my office, to give me an incentive to find somewhere better and/or work some more on silencing it :)
1. (important) Zalman CPU cooler
Don't need it - I have a big passive heatsink.
I didn't mention that it's only a Pentium-133 I'm talking about, with a whopping 64Mb of RAM. It runs my home network extremely well. I have considered upgrades for various reasons but have resisted so far.
2. (optional) Quiet HDDs
The HDD is pretty quiet as-is so no problems there.
I actually have a spare Compaq P2-400 machine here which is very small and very quiet. I almost set it up as a replacement server, getting as far as installing Linux but I stopped when I thought about the fact that there was no way I'd be able to get a CD writer into it. Which reminds me, I'd better do some backups.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
