Re: [Sheflug] Options for a quiet system upgrade?

[Andy Halsall <andyhalsall@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 15 March 2009 20:15:45 Simon Brown wrote:
> On 15/03/09 14:17:16, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Ah, now I used to have a dual PII box, and it too was big, loud and
> > clunky.
> > My firewall these days is a P4, and is sits in its cupboard very
> > quietly.
> > Maybe I should get another to be a desktop ;-)
>
> I'll confess to having two ridiculously loud computers on my desk, a
> Compaq XP1000 with 4 disks and a SGI Octane. With them both on I feel
> obliged to leave the room, before I answer my phone.
>
I can top that.  To the right of my desk is a Sunfire v100 and a four 
processor Sun enterprise 420R.  When starting, the latter sounds somewhat like 
a jet engine starting up, the former (together with the switch that is sat on 
top of it) give pleasant continuous hum and nice breeze...

Andy.

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