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

[John Beaumont <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:17:32 +0000
Peter Humphrey <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sorry if this is off-topic here, but I'd like to know where to go to find an 
> answer to this - if someone can point me in the right direction I'll leave 
> you all in peace!
> 
> For the last five years I've been running a beast of an Armari machine, with 
> two Opteron 246s, 4GB of RAM, several disks and so on. Even with sound 
> deadening it's horribly noisy, at the risk of domestic disharmony if I'm 
> not careful, and I was dismayed to find recently that it consumes something 
> like 250W. The excessiveness of this was reinforced when I bought a 
> Thinkpad T61 and found that it can do most things faster than the Opteron 
> box, and virtually silently too.
> 
> So now I want to investigate options for a 64bit motherboard and processors 
> but I don't know where to look for quiet ones.
> 
> -- 
> Rgds
> Peter

My main desktop runs passively with no fans except for a large PSU fan modded down to 5volts. The CPU is an Athlon XP underclocked and undervolted. My guess is the whole machine consumes around 30watts full load, meaning I can leave it running 24/7. The sacrifice for all this silence and efficiency is performance, but Xubuntu runs surprisingly swiftly.
-- 
John Beaumont <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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