On 01/05/12 22:43, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
That one looks interesting. There are some other (more monolithic) blocks with
larger fans.
The reason for looking to large diameter fans is to move the same amount of
air with much reduced noise. There are some very detailed explanations of why
this
Hi,
On Tue, May 01 at 10:17, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
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of fitting an aftermarket CPU cooler, has anyone got any experience with
the Zalman type fan such as this:
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=164
Do they really make a difference?
That'll help, then go after the
For anyone using thin clients, I've had great success with FreeNX in the past -
it puts VNC to shame.
http://nomachine.com/
It's basically X over SSH, only the X protocol is compressed up to 1000x in
places. It's truly impressive, e.g watching YouTube (with sound) over 2 ADSL
connections.
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For anyone using thin clients, I've had great success with FreeNX in the
past - it puts VNC to shame.
http://nomachine.com/
Bear in mind that NX is no longer Free Software. The older versions were,
but they've moved the current release to a proprietary licence.
Older versions are still
On Tue, 1 May 2012 22:17:40 +0100
Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Imran,
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=164
Do they really make a difference?
Yes, but;
No-one has mentioned water cooling. Very quiet indeed. Can be a scary
prospect for some, but it
Last year whilst rebuilding my PC* I bought a PSU with a huge fan
(Maplins); I am very pleased with the resulting peace.
The fan is controlled and in very hot weather can run a little faster;
there are no case fans and no rhs side-cover.
The PC is in front of my shins so the quiet is very
FWIW, there are a number of quite impressive coolers around (at a price).
The heat-pipe types are particularly effective, and yes, the Zalman's
are good.
These people have a wide range, including both heat-pipe and water coolers.
I have a couple of nicely configured servers running in my home office
at the moment.
No 1: AMD 6 core Bulldozer underclocked plus a stonking great Zalman
Heatsink. I run 4-6 VMWare VM's on this at a time
Big Case Fans
Fanless Graphics card.
No 2: Intel i7 Quad core
10% CPU load that machine sounds beastly lol have you over locked it?
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On 2 May 2012, at 13:25, Stephen Davies
stephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.uk wrote:
I have a couple of nicely configured servers running in my home office at the
moment.
No 1: AMD 6 core Bulldozer
Ally,
Have I overclocked it? nope. The stock CPU speed is perfectly adequate.
The demands on the systems are more related to RAM than CPU.
The actual data rates aren't all that high.
There are peaks though. These are mainly when the flight schedules for
the next day are loaded. Then it goes up
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 09:31:02 Brad Rogers wrote:
No-one has mentioned water cooling. Very quiet indeed. Can be a scary
prospect for some, but it does work. AS has been mentioned though, once
you've eliminated the loudest noise (usually the CPU fan), you start
hearing other things; GPU
Hi,
Mid-week reminder of our LUG meeting this Saturday 10:00-14:00 (note
shorternerd hours). If you need WiFi access please send your MAC address to
Richard Oliver:
rjo2g10 at ecs [dot] soton (dot) ac {dot} uk
Two people have volunteered talks, but there is still space for
Stephen,
If you get a chance to run the Byte unix benchmark on those machines (for 1 to
n cores in sequence) I'd love to know the results.
Cheers,
Tim B.
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